Monday, December 10, 2018

William Barr to be Trump's Attorney General

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Out with the old and in with the old. Although Trump is calling for criminal justice reform and even pushed McConnell on Twitter for a vot...
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Thursday, December 06, 2018

“Alexander Acosta is being unfairly criticized for his handling of Epstein’s plea deal”

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That’s the title of my op-ed in the Miami Herald this morning.  It starts like this: Alexander Acosta is arguably President Trump’s most...
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Monday, December 03, 2018

Federal Courts in SDFLA are closed on Wednesday 12/5

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The notice is here .

Big Double Jeopardy case in Supreme Court this week

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It’s Gamble v. U.S.  and it comes out of the 11th Circuit ( a 3-page unpublished opinion! ). The issue is whether the Court should overrule ...
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Thursday, November 29, 2018

Witnesses do not belong to one side or the other

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I use the current situation with Mueller, Manafort, and Trump as a vehicle to discuss the issue this morning in The Hill : There has been ...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

"Mueller should not get to decide whether Manafort is lying"

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That's the title of my latest piece in The Hill .  The intro: Prosecutors call them cooperating witnesses. The rest of the criminal j...
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Monday, November 26, 2018

Trump bashes 9th Circuit for reversal rate...

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...but you know which Circuit is reversed more often? That's right, the 11th Circuit. (82% for the 11th vs. 80% for the 9th over the ...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Gorsuch and Sotomayor channel Justice Scalia

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From ScotusBlog: But one criminal case on which they did act today, involving the Sixth Amendment right to confront the prosecution’s witne...