by Noah Feldman You don’t need a legal expert to tell you that Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision striking down the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel to investigate former President Donald Trump is terribly wrong. What’s less obvious is that Cannon’s opinion isn’t ...
by Noah Feldman It’s hard to imagine a clearer violation of journalistic ethics than pretending to hold beliefs you don’t, asking Supreme Court justices if they agree, and surreptitiously recording their answers at a no-media dinner. The novelty of the stunt, however, shouldn’t ...
by Noah Feldman Martha-Ann Alito lets her freak flag fly. And her husband, Justice Samuel Alito, can’t do much about it, according to a letter he sent to two senators explaining why he won’t recuse himself from cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, when a mob ...
by Peter Jensen When I entered the world of professional journalism more than four decades ago, I quickly discovered that certain colleagues felt so strongly about the mere appearance of political bias that they abstained from voting. This is not true of most reporters, but you can ...
by Will Bunch So it turns out that a huge number of voters actually do understand that it’s essential for a functioning democracy to have a fair and uncompromised judiciary, even when the rules needed to make that happen tend to be arcane and unsexy. They finally get it ... in ...
In its May 7 cold opening, Saturday Night Live took a jab at Justice Samuel Alito’s reference to a Dark Ages legal treatise. Host Benedict Cumberbatch, playing a man of some authority with a Medieval bowl cut, proposed eliminating abortion. The chatter among the skit’s characters — ...