The Feds just raided Diddy’s home in Miami, according to the Miami Herald.Federal agents raided the Miami area home of rap mogul Sean Combs, better known as Diddy, reports say. Diddy owns a residence at 1 Star Island, which was previously owned by Gloria and Emilio Estefan and Diddy purchased for $35 million
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"Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism."
That’s the title of Justice Breyer’s new book, and he’s making the rounds promoting it. This morning he was on Meet The Press. Here’s the NBC report:Former Justice Stephen Breyer described the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade as “unfortunate” and sidestepped questions about whether justices had …
Guest Post by Mark Royero – McElrath v. Georgia (2024)
What's going on with Judge Cannon's law clerks? (UPDATED)
UPDATE — David Lat’s original post has a number of updates and he has written “an epic” follow-up post about Cannon and her clerks here. The legal community is abuzz with this David Lat report that two of Judge Cannon’s law clerks have resigned:Judge Cannon has had at least two law clerks quit …
BREAKING — Detra Shaw-Wilder nominated to district bench
CONGRATULATIONS.Here’s the WH Press Release:Detra Shaw-Wilder has been an attorney in private practice at Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton in Coral Gables, Florida since 1994, rising from associate to partner. From 2015 to 2017, Ms. Shaw-Wilder was managing partner of the firm and has served as general counsel for the firm since 2017. …
A New Hope
You may remember the case of Irfan Khan. He was indicted back in 2011 to a lot of publicity about terrorism charges (mostly as a result of numerous press conferences that the U.S. Attorney’s office held). His lawyers, the great Michael Caruso and wonderful Sowmya Bharathi, repeatedly said he was innocent. And yet he…
Trump sues ABC and George Stephanopoulos
The Complaint is available at this link. The case has been assigned to Chief Judge Altonaga. Lisa Willis, from the DBR, covers the lawsuit here:Former President Donald Trump sued ABC and network host George Stephanopoulos on Monday in Miami federal court after Stephanopoulos said on the air the former U.S. president had …
Missing Justice Scalia
SCOTUS ruled that “and” means “or.” It’s pretty wild.The 11th Circuit, apparently more honest and less conservative than SCOTUS, previously held that and means and.The Supreme Court case is Pulsifer and it demonstrates that today’s Court is one of the most prosecution friendly in a long long time. I’m sure Scalia would have…
Federal Judges, including Altman and Scola, head to Israel
Looks like it’s an amazing trip. The Jerusalem Post covers it here:A delegation of 14 US federal judges arrived in Israel on Sunday for a week-long educational tour on the impact of the October 7 massacre and its challenges to the Israeli legal system and the laws of war.The delegation, facilitated with the …
What should happen to prosecutors who commit misconduct?
The blog has addressed this question a bunch of times and it’s time to ask it again in light of what happened before Judge Wolfson in state court. Here’s the AP coverage, and Rumpole covers it here. Although it is an epidemic in both systems, my sense is that prosecutorial misconduct happens less frequently…