SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Share In the midst of a national opioid crisis that claimed more than 100,000 lives in this country over the past year, the Supreme Court will hear a case on Tuesday about the relevance of doctors’ subjective intentions in criminal prosecutions for unlawful distribution of controlled substances. While on the surface, the case, Ruan v.

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JURIST

APRIL 15, 2024

Gijs de Bra is a JURIST Assistant Editor and SCOTUS special correspondent, and a 2L at Cornell Law School. That question kept Colleen Sinzdak, counsel for the US government, busy for almost all of her argument before the US Supreme Court earlier today. This case asks the Supreme Court to decide whether 18 U.S.C. § United States.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Experts like Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe have previously declared Trump’s felonies were shown “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt, and the crimes are obvious.” That is a far cry from evidence showing mens rea — “guilty mind.” At 4:17 p.m., In Brandenburg v.

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