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Trump’s effort to make Federal Death Penalty Great Again
The DOJ in Donald Trump’s second term is looking around the country for opportunities to bring federal capital charges. Massachusetts may at some point present such an opportunity.
Will ‘Slaughter’ end independent agencies at federal level?
A New Deal era precedent was on the chopping block when the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument on Dec. 8 in Trump v. Slaughter, in which the Trump administration challenged a provision in the Federal Trade Commission Act providing that commissioners can be removed only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.”
It’s simple: ‘Chevron’ must go
A few weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court held three hours of oral argument about what to do with the statutory interpretation rule arising out of the now 40-year-old Chevron v. NRDC decision, 467 U.S. 837 (1984).
It’s time to change the law of self-defense
Self-defense has featured prominently in two recent widely publicized trials in Wisconsin and Georgia. The Rittenhouse trial led me to question what I knew about the law of this defense. […]
Changing the way we elect a president
The presidential election receives deservedly intense media coverage, but the one thing you won’t find covered is how the race is proceeding here. That is because in Massachusetts and three-quarters […]
Lawyer ventures far afield to dig for answers
It used to be that lawyers took the summer off. Now most of us take a week or two break from depositions or deal-making by going to the Cape, the […]
