Jordan S. Rubin
Reporter at MSNBC
Author of BIZARRO: The Surreal Saga of America’s Secret War on Synthetic Drugs and the Florida Kingpins It Captured. Now @MSNBC. Former prosecutor @ManhattanDA.
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5 days ago |
msnbc.com | Jordan S. Rubin
Supreme Court Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented from their colleagues’ refusal to hear a race discrimination case Monday, in a dispute that also tells a bigger story about the current state of the high court. The rejected petition came from adult entertainer Chanel Nicholson, who performed at clubs in Houston. She brought a lawsuit claiming that the clubs had engaged in race discrimination.
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5 days ago |
yahoo.com | Jordan S. Rubin
Supreme Court Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented from their colleagues’ refusal to hear a race discrimination case Monday, in a dispute that also tells a bigger story about the current state of the high court. The rejected petition came from adult entertainer Chanel Nicholson, who performed at clubs in Houston. She brought a lawsuit claiming that the clubs had engaged in race discrimination.
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5 days ago |
msnbc.com | Jordan S. Rubin
The Supreme Court refused to take up what would’ve been its next big gun case on Monday, declining to weigh in on Maryland’s ban on certain so-called assault weapons. But three justices objected and a fourth wrote that the court “should and presumably will address the AR–15 issue soon, in the next Term or two.”That unusually specific statement came from Justice Brett Kavanaugh. He didn’t go as far as his three Republican-appointed colleagues, who said they wanted to decide the matter now.
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1 week ago |
msnbc.com | Jordan S. Rubin
Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. There’s a new legal process in America. It used to be that a guilty verdict or plea was followed by years of appeals and, perhaps years after that, a prayerful pardon application. This week showcased a new playbook: skirt your tax obligations by millions of dollars to fund a lavish lifestyle, plead guilty and, instead of going to prison or paying restitution, have your mom raise money for the president and then get pardoned.
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1 week ago |
msnbc.com | Jordan S. Rubin
“Why are you ignoring the intent of the 14th Amendment, which was to give citizenship to freed slaves and their progeny? Jurisdiction means allegiance to a country, which illegal aliens do not have.”It’s true that the 14th Amendment repudiated the infamous Dred Scott ruling, which had denied citizenship to people of African descent. But it doesn’t follow from that premise to say that U.S.-born babies today aren’t citizens because their parents were here unlawfully.
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RT @lawofruby: Another potential issue, as flagged by my colleague @Jordan_S_Rubin? The Federal Tort Claims Act expressly disallows punitiv…
RT @HamiltonMorris: The Federal Analogue Act is one of the most confusing laws in the history of American drug policy and @Jordan_S_Rubin w…
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