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Uncured: Federal Judge Dismisses Trump Challenge In Pennsylvania

JonathanTurley

District Court Judge Matthew Brann dismissed the challenge filed by the Trump campaign to stop the certification of the vote in Pennsylvania. The scathing order described the argument of Trump counsel Rudy Giuliani as a “Frankenstein monster” composed of disparate parts of different legal claims.

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Biden to create bipartisan commission on Supreme Court reform

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The other 34 members of the commission include lawyers, think-tank scholars, law professors and retired judges. A full list of commission members is below: Michelle Adams, professor of law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Kate Andrias, professor of law at the University of Michigan. Guy-Uriel E. Cristina M.

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Justices take up cases on veterans’ education benefits and 16th Amendment

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The issue came to the court in a dispute arising from environmental contamination from a wood-treatment plant operated by Kerr-McGee in Avoca, Pennsylvania. The law firm moved the case to a federal court in Pennsylvania, arguing that the proceeding “arose in” and was “related to” the ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. 18, 1983, a 31-year-old lawyer with a ponytail stood at the Supreme Court lectern. It was there that she met the civil-rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall.

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Police Suggest Possible Charges for Those Who Filmed Rape on Train

JonathanTurley

The recent rape of a woman on a train in Pennsylvania has shocked and disgusted the nation, particularly after passengers did nothing to help the woman as she was allegedly attacked by Fiston Ngoy, 35. I am unaware of such a law in Pennsylvania, but these laws are rarely enforced. The charge was later dismissed.

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Justice or Just Desserts? Trump, Cosby and Georgia cases show rising cost of political litigation

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Below is my column in the Hill on a series of cases that appear propelled by political rather than legal considerations. The costs to the legal system, the public, or victims in such cases are often overlooked but they are considerable. Nor is he alone in pursuing a case driven more by political than legal considerations.

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Court Rules Democrats Engaged in “Extreme Partisan Gerrymander” in Maryland

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It is important to note that Republicans have also had courts rule against them in states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania). However, weeks after the election, journalists discovered that the Clinton campaign hid payments for the dossier made to a research firm, Fusion GPS, as “legal fees” among the $5.6