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6 days ago | 
verdict.justia.com | Austin Sarat
Among Yale Law students and alums, there is a familiar, loving question. Does anyone learn anything about the law at YLS?
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1 week ago | 
verdict.justia.com | Michael C. Dorf
President Ronald Reagan proposed a space-based missile defense system—officially called the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) but more commonly known as Star Wars—in 1983.
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2 weeks ago | 
verdict.justia.com | Austin Sarat
On May 15, Florida carried out its fifth execution of 2025, the most of any state so far this year. On that date, it put Glen Rogers to death by lethal injection. Rogers was executed for murdering Tina Marie Cribbs in 1995.
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3 weeks ago | 
verdict.justia.com | Michael C. Dorf
Over the course of two and a half hours of oral argument yesterday, the Supreme Court considered whether to grant the Trump administration’s request to cut back on three federal district court rulings invalidating the President’s executive order denying United States citizenship to children born in the U.S. to parents who are either undocumented or legally in this country temporarily.
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3 weeks ago | 
verdict.justia.com | Michael C. Dorf
When President George H.W. Bush nominated David H. Souter to the U.S. Supreme Court, his Chief of Staff John Sununu boasted that the nominee was a “home run” for the conservative legal movement. Sununu based that assessment on the recommendation of his fellow New Hampshire native, Republican Senator Warren Rudman. But Rudman himself had no real basis for such a judgment.
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1 month ago | 
verdict.justia.com | Austin Sarat
Let’s face it. Lawyers and the legal profession are unlikely to win any popularity contests in the United States.
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1 month ago | 
verdict.justia.com | Austin Sarat
On April 28, the Trump administration announced it was investigating Harvard Law Review. I should not have been surprised after all that has happened since January 20. But I was. The country is in chaos. Every day, or so it seems, another court rules against the Trump administration, prices rise, and uncertainty reigns. So, who has time for Harvard Law Review? Criticizing the review has long been fashionable in conservative circles.
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1 month ago | 
verdict.justia.com | Austin Sarat
President Donald Trump seems determined to undo as much of the legacy of Joe Biden as he can as fast as he can. Even before he took office for his second term, Trump took aim at one part of that legacy, the former president’s mass clemency of the sentences of people on the federal death row.
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1 month ago | 
verdict.justia.com | Michael C. Dorf
For many years, the makers of Trident sugarless chewing gum ran an advertisement that included the line, “four out of five dentists recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum.” That boast led to much comedy. Did twenty percent of dentists really recommend that patients chew gum with sugar instead? If so, was that because they wanted the extra business generated by the extra cavities? As with teeth, so with democracy.
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1 month ago | 
verdict.justia.com | Michael C. Dorf |Laurence H. Tribe |Michael Morrison |Jesse Choper
It has been difficult to find much to laugh about in the economic news of the last couple of weeks, as President Donald Trump single-handedly caused a generally downward roller-coaster ride for world financial markets, but Elon Musk’s dunking on Trump tariff guru Peter Navarro did provide one bright spot. Musk called Navarro “truly a moron,” “dumber than a sack of bricks,” and used a slur to further insult Navarro’s intelligence.