Chris Geidner
About 150 Florida Death Row Inmates Expected To Get Re-Sentencing Under Court Ruling
Florida's death sentencing law has been unconstitutional since 2002, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Chris Geidner
The Anti-Trump Electoral College Effort Is Only The Beginning
Although the hopes for #HamiltonElectors to upend Monday’s Electoral College vote for president likely will not materialize, the move is likely only the first step in an effort to undermine Trump’s presidency before it begins.
Chris Geidner
Transgender Student Can Continue To Use Girls' Bathroom, Federal Appeals Court Rules
"Doe, a vulnerable eleven year old with special needs, will suffer irreparable harm if prohibited from using the girls' restroom," the court held.
Chris Geidner
Delaware's Current Death Row Inmates Will Now Get Life Sentences, State High Court Rules
Death row inmates will get life without the possibility of parole instead, under a Thursday ruling from the court. The court did so by holding that an August decision that the state's death sentencing law is unconstitutional applies retroactively to those previously sentenced to death.
Chris Geidner
Federal Judge Criticizes Death Penalty — But Concludes Only Supreme Court Can End It
"Has actual experience borne out the promise for a more reliable system of capital punishment" since 1976? A federal judge in Vermont says no — but says the final decision must come from the US Supreme Court.
Chris Geidner
Alabama Executes Inmate After Split Supreme Court Allows It To Proceed
The Supreme Court declined to halt the execution of Ronald Smith Jr. for a 1994 murder. A jury had recommended life imprisonment, but a judge nonetheless sentenced Smith to death.
Tasneem Nashrulla
Jill Stein Changes Plans, Aims To Take Pennsylvania Recount Request To Federal Court
Update: After deciding Saturday afternoon to end their state-court request for a statewide recount in Pennsylvania, Jill Stein's campaign announced late Saturday night that they plan to take the issue to federal court on Monday.
Chris Geidner
Why Xavier Becerra Becoming California's Attorney General Is A Key Tactical Move For Democrats
With Republicans controlling all of the power centers in Washington, the state attorneys general could provide Democrats with some of their key paths to fight back.
Chris Geidner
Federal Ethics Office Encourages Trump To Divest His Business Interests
The US Office of Government Ethics sent nine tweets on Wednesday discussing the president-elect's business interests.
Chris Geidner
Supreme Court Skeptical Of Texas Standards For Intellectual Disability In Death Cases
In Bobby James Moore's case, the Supreme Court is examining how Texas has applied the high court's ban on the execution of intellectually disabled people.
Chris Geidner
Coalition Calls On Obama Administration For Expedited Clemency Review
The letter is a last-ditch, very public effort from some of the top names in liberal and progressive criminal justice circles to press Obama to act before Donald Trump takes office.
Chris Geidner
Florida Supreme Court Signals Possible Upheaval For State's Death Row
"At a minimum, we're looking at dozens of re-sentencings, if not hundreds," the head of the Death Penalty Information Center says of the potential effect of a Wednesday ruling from the Florida Supreme Court.
Chris Geidner
A Trump Adviser Was Photographed Holding A Plan To Question Immigrants About "Sharia Law"
Kris Kobach's plan also includes reducing the intake of Syrian immigrants to zero.
Mary Ann Georgantopoulos
Conservative Lawyers Take Up The Unexpected Opportunity Of Trump's Win
At the Federalist Society convention, a look back at Justice Antonin Scalia's life became a look ahead at unified Republican governance — and a revived conservative trajectory for the Supreme Court.
Chris Geidner
Ivanka Trump, Expected To Run Father's Business, Also Met With Japanese Prime Minister
Ivanka Trump — who Donald Trump has said will help run his businesses while he is president — appears, per a photo provided by the Japanese government, to have at least been present for part of Thursday's meeting with Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe.
Chris Geidner
Advocates Look To Obama For "Unprecedented" Action On Federal Prison Sentences
“[I]f President Obama believes these sentences are unjust, it is his constitutional responsibility to fix them," a law professor who is a member of the US Sentencing Commission, Rachel Barkow, says.
Chris Geidner
Former GOP Rep. Aaron Schock Indicted On Spending Allegations
A federal grand jury had been considering the matter since shortly after Schock resigned from Congress in March 2015.
Chris Geidner
How Donald Trump Could Revitalize The Death Penalty
Trump could have a serious impact on the death penalty if he wanted to. Here's how.
Chris McDaniel
The Election Changed The Politics Of The Supreme Court
Overnight, Donald Trump stopped the law's leftward shift.
Chris Geidner
Faced With A Trump Presidency, Could A State Actually Secede?
How "united" are the states of America, really?
Chris Geidner
