Jacob Becker

Jun 3, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Alison Somin |Jeffrey Bilbro |Jacob Becker |Keith E. Whittington

The Biden administration recently published a comprehensive Title IX rule that constricts due process protections for students accused of sexual misconduct and reinterprets sex discrimination to reach sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination. Many in the media have portrayed the controversy over this rule as a conflict between cultural conservatives and progressives. That story is true, but there is another story as well.

Oct 16, 2023 | thedispatch.com | Jacob Becker

“Many lines have been written since the close of World War II about Hitler and his immediate subordinates. … The impression most commonly left by commentators is that the responsibility for Germany’s tragic years could be laid solely at the feet of these leaders and their immediate associates. This is a misconception.” This is how the preeminent lawyer and power broker Leon Jaworski began his account of the prosecution of German war crimes in his book, After Fifteen Years (1961).

Jun 27, 2023 | thedispatch.com | Jacob Becker

Today marks one year since the Supreme Court handed down Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, last term’s seminal decision on prayer in school. At the time, some legal and lay commentators lamented the court’s holding, but a year of lower-court rulings suggests their fears were unwarranted.

Apr 26, 2023 | thedispatch.com | Jacob Becker

Upon taking office as the 37th District Attorney for New York County (Manhattan), Alvin Bragg wasted no time signaling his agenda. His famous “Day One” memorandum laid out new policies and procedures governing the prosecution of crimes. It declared Manhattan’s prosecutors would not enforce several provisions of the New York Penal Code and, in some cases, would charge defendants with lesser crimes when the evidence supported a more severe charge, subject to harsher sentencing. .

Feb 23, 2023 | thedispatch.com | Jacob Becker

On September 9, 1944, mere days after the liberation of Paris by Allied forces in World War II, one of the most revered English minds of the 20th century penned a warning that looked beyond the immediate conflict toward the unthinkable—a third world war.