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Hundreds of employees within the federal public defender system could be laid off under funding levels proposed by the House and Senate, according to judiciary officials who say the system has imposed a hiring freeze as uncertainty looms over the appropriation figure (…

Twenty-three Democratic U.S. senators on Friday urged congressional appropriators to increase spending on federal public defenders beyond what is proposed in pending spending legislation or risk significant job cuts (…

Seventh Circuit pro tip to the defense bar: If your client is facing fifty years for cocaine possession, you really should…

District court in 2018 sentences carjacking defendant to 195 months' imprisonment. Defendant on appeal: The district court wrongly factored in a bunch of my previous arrests, even though those arrests were not convictions. Gov't: Dude's right. First Circuit (2019): He sure is. Sentence vacated…

The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered all judges to address people in court by the pronouns they use or by “other respectful means” (access full article).  

The…

As a Supreme Court justice with a large and devoted fan base, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a cultural and judicial phenomenon (access full article).  

And now the influential justice will adorn cards,…

A day before the federal government executed a Texas man for the killing of an Iowa couple when he was 18, celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz pleaded with then-President Donald Trump — a former client — to call the execution off (…

The Supreme Court opens its new 9-month term today with arguments in a case that considers what the meaning of the word “and” is in a provision of the First Step Act, an esoteric English lesson with real-world…

In en banc news, the Fifth Circuit will reconsider its opinion holding that Mississippi's felon-disenfranchisement law…

Yesterday, the United States Sentencing Commission released a new 30-page report titled Federal Escape Offenses, available here. This report provides the…