Tag: Court

While it obviously doesn’t change what happened to her, I’m glad that she’s getting some semblance of justice and closure that she deserves, and I wish her nothing but all the best moving forward. Obviously, I also can’t help wondering what this means for Donald Trump in t...

He went back to private practice in 2001, starting his own law firm Kampala Associated Advocates. In 2005, Katureebe was appointed chairman, board of directors, New Vision Printing and Publishing Company Limited. He also served as a director at Standard Chartered bank and National Insurance Corpo...

Let’s ignore enabling religious bigots, declaring the rights of a fetus to be superior to that of a woman, and telling college grads with crushing debt to pound salt. Hah! Impossible. But let’s not think about those things for a moment. The Supreme Court actually got one right. ...

1. No Right to Strike for Government Employees In the case of T.K. Rangarajan v. Government of Tamil Nadu and Others (the Tamil Nadu Government Employees Case), Justice M.B. Shah, speaking for a Bench of the Supreme Court consisting of himself and Justice A.R. Lakshmanan, said...

The latest Originalist stupidity is United States v. Rahimi. Rahimi’s lawyers argue the Second Amendment gives all American criminals a right to own guns. Police took Zackey Rahimi’s guns because he assaulted his girlfriend, shot at people in the streets, shot at other dri...

Today Sandra Day O’Connor died at age 93. The pioneering woman was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court, by then President Ronald Reagan. She is also the only Supreme Court member I ever actually met. I do not wish to overstate this, the meeting was accidental and very brief, but I w...

On October 31, the US Supreme Court will hear two cases that will determine the future of race-conscious affirmative action. The most likely outcome is that the court will decide to outlaw the consideration of race in college admissions. There has long been disagreement about affirmative action&r...

udge Robert Reed, who dismissed the lawsuit against the newspaper and the journalists in May, asserted that Trump’s legal action against his niece for sharing the tax records is still ongoing. Reed deemed the legal fees incurred by Trump, totaling $392,638, as reasonable, emphasizing the compl...