Law & Government
Brickbat: Bad Santa
Home security video revealed a babysitter funded by the New York City Administration for Children's Services abusing three young boys in her care. The video shows La'keysha Jackson beating the boys—brothers aged 2,…
DOJ brings Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. after insisting it couldn’t
Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to the U.S. to appear in court on Friday, more than two months after being deported to a prison in El Salvador, the country of his birth. No matter how the trial shakes out, it's just the…
Politicians are abandoning due process, a core American value
The U.S. is a nation of symbols: the bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty, baseball, apple pie. One symbol, however, has taken a beating lately, though it represents the core of the American project. Lady Justice predates the…
Police blew up Texas woman’s home and sent her the bill. A judge says she’s owed $60,000.
Years after a SWAT team in Texas destroyed an innocent woman's home while trying to apprehend a fugitive, the local government will have to pay her $60,000 in damages plus interest, a federal judge ruled Thursday. That…
Unanimous Supreme Court ruling affirms that there is no ‘good’ discrimination
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that plaintiffs in "majority" groups cannot be forced to clear a higher bar to prove they were discriminated against than minority plaintiffs. The case originated…
Is the Supreme Court really that divided? The facts say no.
Of all the ink spilled and soundbites recorded railing into the current iteration of the Supreme Court, nothing quite epitomizes the spirit of the prevailing critique than a July cover of The New Yorker. Posed for a portrait,…
Overruling Trump’s tariffs should be an easy decision for SCOTUS
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Injustice System, a newsletter about law, politics, and history. Thanks for reading! Let's talk tariffs. Specifically, let's talk about why overruling President Donald Trump's…
Brickbat: Road Hard
Oakland residents, fed up with dangerous late-night sideshows where cars do stunts, built their own speed bumps on East 21st Street and 19th Avenue after the city ignored four years of pleas for help. Costing $3,000, these…
Female nude spa in Washington can’t bar transgender clients, federal court rules
A female nude spa in Washington state cannot bar preoperative transgender women, a federal court ruled last week, rejecting the claim that forcing the business to serve customers with male genitalia violated its First…
Trump’s Federalist Society attack is a bad omen for originalism
President Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own MAGA image. Will he now do the same to the conservative legal movement? During his first term, Trump benefited immeasurably from his association with Leonard Leo,…
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