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Enlarge (credit: DEFCAD) DEFCAD, the world’s best-known online repository for 3D-printed gun files went dark on Tuesday evening, in the wake of a decision by a federal judge in Seattle, who granted a temporary restraining order hours earlier. “If an injunction is not issued and the status quo alters at midnight tonight, the proliferation of […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The brewing war over President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees turned hot again. This time, it involves the “blue slip” process and a Wisconsin judicial nominee. The Senate battle over the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees turned hot again this week as Democrats went after Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, accusing […]
(credit: Adam Jones, Ph.D.) In 2016, ProPublica caused a stir when it evaluated the performance of software that’s used in criminal justice proceedings. The software, which is used to evaluate a defendant’s chance of committing further crimes, turned out to produce different results when evaluating black people and caucasians. The significance of that discrepancy is […]
Screenshot via Twitter Matthew Spencer Petersen, one of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, struggled to answer basic legal questions during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week. Video of a portion of his testimony went viral Thursday night. Petersen was nominated in September to be US District Judge for the District of Columbia. The Trump […]
One of President Donald Trump’s controversial judicial nominees, Brett Talley, has offered to withdraw his nomination, a source close to the situation told BuzzFeed News. The White House had not announced any change in Talley’s status as of Tuesday evening. Talley communicated his offer of withdrawal to the White House last week, according to the […]
Published time: 26 Nov, 2017 21:19 Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Romania’s capital city of Bucharest on Sunday, as well as several other major cities, to protest the plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary. The demonstrators chanted, “Thieves, thieves,” branding the ruling Social Democrat (PSD) party the “red plague.” The proposed amendments, […]
Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday told The New York Times that he thinks the “blue slip” practice should be scrapped for circuit court nominations, a move that would eliminate Democrats’ only leverage against President Donald Trump’s picks to the nation’s second-highest courts. “My personal view is that the blue slip, with regard […]
Published time: 29 Jul, 2017 12:36 Edited time: 29 Jul, 2017 12:37 The European Commission has launched legal action against Poland over its new law giving the government more control over judges. The procedure could result in Poland losing its voting rights in the bloc. The decision to start the so-called “infringement procedure” against Warsaw […]
Enlarge / The René C. Davidson Courthouse, at 1225 Fallon Street, in Oakland, hosts the Alameda County Superior Court. (credit: Wally Gobetz / Flickr) The public defender’s office in Alameda County, California, has recently appealed a local judge’s recent rejection of its demands to fix an upgraded court software. That software led to the unconstitutional […]
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