A prominent civil rights organization is warning that behind the basics of a recent Supreme Court opinion is a new door for prosecutors to get around the double jeopardy restrictions in U.S. law.
The Senate Judiciary Committee stalled the nomination of a lawyer that fought to keep abortion the law of the land during the Dobbs decision for the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals over concerns regarding her objectivity on the bench.
A public-interest law team is warning that the U.S. Supreme Court has gone into dangerous territory – now denying defendants in criminal cases their constitutional right to a 12-person jury trial.