December 15, 2025 | Catherine Cruz | Hawaiʻi Public Radio Monday is Bill of Rights Day, marking 234 years since the United States ratified the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. A nonpartisan group called Keep Our Republic chose this…
December 15, 2025 | Mitch Perry | Florida Phoenix Former FL Supreme Court justice speaks out for an independent judiciary Name-calling against individual judges undermines the rule of law, says Barbara Pariente. At a time of attacks on the judicial…
December 15, 2025 | Mitch Perry | News From the States At a time of attacks on the judicial system, a coalition of former state chief justices around the country has organized to educate the country about the role of…
November 29, 2025 | Sudhin Thanawala | Associated Press Two planes carrying Venezuelan migrants out of the U.S. were midair on March 15 when a federal judge in Washington ordered the Trump administration to turn them around. Instead, the planes…
Nov. 17, 2025 | Renee Knake Jefferson | Above the Law University of Houston law professor Renee Knake Jefferson provides a tour of recent headlines related to lawyer and judicial ethics. Read More
November 17, 2025 | Steve Vladeck | One First Substack Deputy Attorney General Blanche’s attack on lower courts is an impressive combination of light on substance; shamelessly hypocritical; and profoundly dangerous. More people should be condemning it. Read more
November 16, 2025 | John E. Jones III | Penn Live When the second-highest official at the Department of Justice calls for a “war” on federal judges, every American, regardless of party, should be alarmed. At a recent gathering of…
November 14, 2025 | Breanne Deppisch | Fox News A group of former federal judges sharply criticized a top Justice Department official this week for characterizing the court fights playing out in President Donald Trump’s second term as a “war”…
November 14, 2025 | June Grasso | Bloomberg Podcasts Federal judge John E. Jones III, formerly of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, discusses the second-in-command at the Justice Department, Todd Blanche, saying the department is…
November 13, 2025 | Rose Krebs | Law 360 A group of former federal judges on Thursday condemned what they called “inflammatory remarks” last week by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche detailing the U.S. Department of Justice’s “war” with……