Brian Leiter

1 week ago | leiterreports.typepad.com | Brian Leiter

Good for him for using his big platform to say this: This whole Trump II administration is a cruel farce. Trump ran for another term not because he had any clue how to transform America for the 21st century. He ran in order to stay out of jail and to get revenge on those who, with real evidence, had tried to hold him accountable to the law.....

1 week ago | leiterlawschool.typepad.com | Brian Leiter

Contract Production in M&A Markets, 171 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1881-1924 (2023), Choi, Stephen J; Gulati, Mitu; Jennejohn, Mathew; Scott, Robert E. Corporate Racial Responsibility, 124 Colum. L. Rev. 361-430 (2024), Fletcher, Gina-Gail S; Lovelace, H. Timothy Jr. Gender and the Social Structure of Exclusion in U.S. Corporate Law, 90 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1819-1888 (2023), Afsharipour, Afra; Jennejohn, Mathew Paying for Performance? Attorneys’ Fees in Fraud Class Actions, 21 J. Empirical Legal Stud.

1 week ago | leiterreports.typepad.com | Brian Leiter

...because of his lawful political speech. A court has already ordered the government to keep the victim in Vermont, where he was attending a citizenship interview. We will see how this court order fares.

1 week ago | leiterreports.typepad.com | Brian Leiter

The Associated Press was still barred from a Trump press conference, despite a court order  Just to be clear: if  Trump does not obey the courts, the courts do have some options. But when those options are exhausted, then the rule of law is officially over, and the United States is officially a dictatorship. Courts are the last bulwark for civil society. Harvard, after all, can't get its federal monies back by sending its militia to DC to seize it.

1 week ago | leiterreports.typepad.com | Brian Leiter

...regarding a man wrongfully deported to El Salvodor.  The district judge handling this case needs to hold the lawyers in contempt, and then jail them and/or fine them personally until they comply. (The tinpot dictator of El Salvador is now just doing the bidding of the wannabe tinpot dictator of America. No one doubts that if Trump told El Salvodor to deliver the victim for return to the US, El Salvodor would instantly comply.)