It wasn’t one of the civil-rights cases activists were clamoring for, but AMP v. Myriad Genetics may prove to to be one of this Supreme Court term’s most consequential rulings.
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Justice after the Fact
The Supreme Court decides in Peugh v. United States that defendants cannot be sentenced with punishments that did not exist at the time of the crime.
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How All Three Branches Conspired to Threaten Your Privacy
Checks and balances have not worked in the way the framers envisioned.
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The Verizon Data Order and Why It Matters
Creating “national security” exemptions to the Fourth Amendment in the context of an open-ended conflict where the whole world is the battlefield and the conflict has no clear end point is very dangerous.
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Scalia Gets It Right
In Maryland v. King, the Supreme Court has ruled that DNA information can be used from someone arrested for but not convicted of an offense.
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Shorting the D.C. Circuit
Even if his three simultaneous judicial nominees are blocked, it’s a win-win situation for the president that just might mean the beginning of the end for the filibuster.
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Three Questions Obama Needs to Answer in His Speech
The president is giving a major counterterrorism speech today. Here are some things we’d like to know.
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The DOJ’s Freedom of Speech Breach
The seizure of AP’s phone records is legal, but that doesn’t make it an acceptable course of action for the Justice Department to take.
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D.C. Circuit v. Worker Rights
The latest example of the federal court bending over backward to defend business interests is yet another reminder of why judicial appointments matter.
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The House Takes Mass Incarceration to Task
Will the Over-Criminalization Task Force be able to put a dent in our soaring rates of incarceration, or will it fall into the same rancor that defines every D.C. debate?