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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

SCOTUSBlog

After growing up in the segregated South, Drew Days attended Yale Law School, worked as a civil rights lawyer alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., Before becoming clerk of the Supreme Court, Stevas was the clerk of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and worked as an assistant U.S. Drew Saunders Days III.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson to Join SCOTUS as First Black Female Justice

Constitutional Law Reporter

Like many of her peers on the Supreme Court, Jackson attended a prestigious law school, graduating from Harvard Law School in 1996. She also served as a Supreme Court law clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer. Sentencing Commission, Jackson is intimately familiar with the inner workings of the criminal justice system.

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Fani Willis Fights for a Mass Trial As the Georgia Defendants Scatter

JonathanTurley

Trump potentially faces four major prosecutions in the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia and New York before the 2024 election. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has already indicated that the court will not treat Trump differently because he is running for office. In Washington, U.S.

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Trump’s Surprise Witness: Rep. Waters Becomes A Possible Witness Against Her Own Lawsuit

JonathanTurley

Moreover, they would fail under a lower standard of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard in criminal law. Such a result would eviscerate the claim that Trump was guilty of criminal incitement in his speech. He should be criminally indicted for inciting insurrection against our democracy.”

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“Without any Doubt, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Beyond any Doubt”: Tribe Declares Trump Committed Attempted Murder

JonathanTurley

You don’t have to go to law school to know that there’s something seriously criminal about that. After the riot, District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announced that he was considering arresting Trump, Donald Trump Jr., There are other crimes that have been proven. Those are plenty to start with.”.

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Profile of a potential nominee: Leondra Kruger

SCOTUSBlog

After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2002 to 2003.

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Why Has Trump Not Been Charged With Criminal Incitement?

JonathanTurley

Said CNN legal analyst Elie Honig: “As a prosecutor I’d gladly show a jury Trump’s own inflammatory statements and argue they cross the line to criminality.” Richard Ashby Wilson, associate law school dean at the University of Connecticut, said “Trump crossed the Rubicon and incited a mob to attack the U.S.

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