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Trump’s second term will be more lawless than the last
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Trump’s second term will be more lawless than the last

Slate  

Each week, Dahlia Lithwick welcomes you to the show by saying “Amicus is Slate’s podcast about the courts, the law and the Supreme Court.” Sometimes that list includes the rule of law, sometimes democracy. In the wake of the election, Amicus and Slate’s jurisprudence team have been wrangling some big questions around what we do and how we do it. …

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Trump’s mass deportation promise is based on a dangerous law that is still on the books.
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump’s mass deportation promise is based on a dangerous law that is still on the books.

Slate  

It’s easy to dismiss nativist rhetoric as mere Trumpy “locker room talk.” But when it comes to immigration, deportation, and even detention, rhetoric about foreigners and violent invaders is actually a legal long game. Toward the end of the summer of 2023, Katherine Yon Ebright, counsel in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, noticed that right-wing anti-immigration groups …

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s dangerous myth-making: The origins of originalism.
7 months, 2 weeks ago

The U.S. Supreme Court’s dangerous myth-making: The origins of originalism.

Slate  

In this, the first part of a special series on Amicus and at Slate.com, we are lifting the lid on an old-timey sounding method of constitutional interpretation that has unleashed a revolution in our courts, and an assault on our rights. But originalism’s origins are much more recent than you suppose, and its effects much more widespread than the constitutional …

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Amicus Live: How Originalism Captured The Court
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Amicus Live: How Originalism Captured The Court

Slate  

Date: May 14, 2024 7:00 PM EDT Location: Sixth & I, 600 I St NW, Washington, DC Tickets: $15-$80 JUST ANNOUNCED: We are thrilled to announce the addition of Congressman Jamie Raskin to tomorrow’s event. At this live taping, Dahlia Lithwick, Mark Joseph Stern, and special guests civil rights lawyer and scholar Sherrilyn Ifill, Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins, …

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IIT KGP Student Death | Law Doesn't Envisage Appointment Of Amicus Curiae To Assist Experts/ Investigating Officers: Calcutta High Court
1 year, 4 months ago

IIT KGP Student Death | Law Doesn't Envisage Appointment Of Amicus Curiae To Assist Experts/ Investigating Officers: Calcutta High Court

Live Law  

The Calcutta High Court today, partly allowed the appeals moved by the State of West Bengal and IIT Kharagpur, in a case pertaining to the death of a student under allegedly suspicious circumstances at the IIT. Single-judge also appointed an amicus curiae to assist the officer who carried out the second post-mortem and gave liberty to the new investigation team …

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How the Supreme Court laid the groundwork for the all-out assault on trans rights.
1 year, 6 months ago

How the Supreme Court laid the groundwork for the all-out assault on trans rights.

Slate  

This episode is a part of Opinionpalooza! The sheer number and breadth of proposed new laws targeting trans people is breathtaking, and they are coming from some familiar quarters if you follow the Supreme Court and abortion law. This conversation helps to set the stage for the end of the Supreme Court’s term by looking beyond the cases being decided …

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Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill on how arguments are going down at this Supreme Court.
2 years ago

Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill on how arguments are going down at this Supreme Court.

Slate  

The highest court in the land has ignored the need for standing, the trial record, and of course precedent this past year—and it matters. Host Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Sherrilyn Ifill, former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and a senior fellow at the Ford Foundation. They discuss Sherrilyn’s thought-provoking piece this month in …

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Book Review | Jaunty campus novel full of college jokes
2 years, 2 months ago

Book Review | Jaunty campus novel full of college jokes

Deccan Chronicle  

Campus novels are almost always young, fun, and fizzy — just like those cola ads in the 1980s. Banaras Talkies lives up to its genre, and you will chuckle your way through it, even though the jokes are mostly cliches on ragging, bunking classes, getting canteen honours, falling in love, lurking around girls’ hostels, etc. Besides, they have fellow hostelite …

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BCI May Allow Persons With Other Jobs To Provisionally Enrol As Advocates On Undertaking To Resign From Job Within 6 Months After Clearing AIBE : Supreme Court
2 years, 8 months ago

BCI May Allow Persons With Other Jobs To Provisionally Enrol As Advocates On Undertaking To Resign From Job Within 6 Months After Clearing AIBE : Supreme Court

Live Law  

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, accepted the suggestion made by Amicus Curiae Senior Advocate KV Vishwanathan that persons engaged in other employments can be permitted to provisionally enrol with the concerned Bar Council and to appear in the All India Bar Examination, and that upon clearing the AIBE, they can be given a period of 6 months to decide whether …

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Counsel/Amicus Curiae Who Appeared For Deceased-Appellant Cannot Be Treated As 'Near Relative' For Continuance Of Appeal U/Sec 394 CrPC : Supreme Court
2 years, 9 months ago

Counsel/Amicus Curiae Who Appeared For Deceased-Appellant Cannot Be Treated As 'Near Relative' For Continuance Of Appeal U/Sec 394 CrPC : Supreme Court

Live Law  

The Supreme Court observed that an amicus curiae who was appearing for deceased appellant cannot be treated as 'near relative' under Section 394 CrPC for the purpose of continuance of appeal.The bench comprising Justices Vineet Saran and Aniruddha Bose noted that a criminal appeal filed by a convict will abate on his death if no application for leave to continue …

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Marital rape: Sex worker has right to say no, why not married woman, asks Delhi HC
2 years, 11 months ago

Marital rape: Sex worker has right to say no, why not married woman, asks Delhi HC

Firstpost  

Senior advocate Raj Shekhar Rao, who is appointed as an amicus curiae to assist the court, argued that husband and wife are “two equals before the law” and there is no reason “why husband’s desire to have sex trump the wife’s desire not to” New Delhi: The Centre Thursday told the Delhi High Court that it was considering a “constructive …

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Criminal Appeal Cannot Be Dismissed Merely For Non-Representation Or Default Of Accused' Advocate, Reiterates Supreme Court
3 years, 4 months ago

Criminal Appeal Cannot Be Dismissed Merely For Non-Representation Or Default Of Accused' Advocate, Reiterates Supreme Court

Live Law  

The Supreme Court observed that a court cannot dismiss the appeal filed by an accused merely because of non-representation or default of the advocate for the accused.if the accused does not appear through counsel appointed by him/her, the Court is obliged to proceed with the hearing of the case only after appointing an amicus curiae, the bench of Justices AM …

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Solicitor General urges Supreme Court to demarcate role of amicus curiae
3 years, 9 months ago

Solicitor General urges Supreme Court to demarcate role of amicus curiae

The Hindu  

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Wednesday made a strong appeal to the Supreme Court to frame guidelines to rein in lawyers appointed as the court’s amici curiae in various cases, especially sensitive ones. Appearing before a Bench led by Justice N.V. Ramana, Mr. Mehta voiced indignation at the manner in which court-appointed amici curiae tended to even interfere in the …

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