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Peters Report Finds that DOGE Continues to Operate Unchecked, Likely Violating Federal Privacy and Security Laws, and Putting the Safety of Americans’ Personal Information in Danger. “U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a report revealing that the Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is …
Follow up to Epstein Files Are Out. The Coverup is Worse Than You Think, See Also – “Democrats on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released partial records from the third batch of documents produced by the Jeffrey Epstein Estate, which includes phone message logs, copies of flight logs and manifests for aircrafts, copies …
Law Dork: “A 90-year-old precedent meant nothing to the majority allowing Trump to fire an FTC commissioner during litigation. This is no way to run a court, let alone a country. The U.S. Supreme Court’s Republican appointees on Monday issued an order allowing President Donald Trump’s purported firing of Rebecca Slaughter as a Democratic commissioner …
TNR / The New Republic – [no paywall] “…The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and more corrupt than it was 20 years ago, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court’s rulings. By that standard, the Roberts court has failed. The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and …
404 Media: “On Monday 404 Media filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demanding the agency publish its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware that can remotely break into mobile phones without the target even clicking a link. The sale of the spyware to ICE has activists and …
CRS Legal Sidebar – Privacy Act Lawsuits and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) September 17, 2025. On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order reorganizing and renaming the U.S. Digital Service as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The Executive Order tasked DOGE with “modernizing Federal technology and software to maximize governmental …
Chermak, S. et al., 2024. What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism, National Institute of Justice. United States of America. Retrieved from https://coilink.org/20.500.12592/gf1vpg0 on 23 Sep 2025. COI: 20.500.12592/gf1vpg0. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. This article discusses the findings of …
Detailed statistical tables address the work of the U.S. courts of appeals, district courts and bankruptcy courts, as well as the federal probation and pretrial services system. The Judicial Caseload Indicators table compares data for the current 12-month period to that for the same period 1, 5, and 10 years earlier. Last updated: June 30, …
LawSites: “Has there ever been a time since the advent of legal reporting systems when citations have been under greater attack? Driven by their unwitting reliance on AI to generate legal briefs, lawyers seem to have forgotten everything they ever learned in law school about how to research and cite the law. Standing as a …
“The American Bar Association Women Trailblazers in the Law Project today announced the release of the oral history of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Justice Ginsburg’s oral history memorializes her personal and professional life in her own words, preserving her experiences, observations …
Fernandez, Ben, Legal Writing I & II: Legal Research and Writing & Introduction to Litigation Practice, 172 pages. (2d ed.) (August 11, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5387465 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5387465 Legal Writing I & II; Legal Research and Writing & Introduction to Litigation Practice contains a brief discussion of all of the topics covered in law …
The Atlantic – ICE won’t say. [gift article] “In Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s telling, citizenship checks by ICE officers are as straightforward and frictionless as presenting yourself at the entrance to a Costco. Just show a membership card, and you’ll be on your merry way. Kavanaugh wrote an opinion this week, concurring with the Court’s majority, …
