The first "opinion" of the current Supreme Court Term was handed down as a curious little per curiam ruling in Hamm v. Smith after a recond number of relists. As dicussed in this post from early ...

I have been on the road for most of January, leading me to see a lot of intriguing press pieces from a variety of sources that I have not had time to flag on the blog. (Also, all sorts of football has ...

As reported in this New York Times piece, "President Biden pardoned five activists and public servants on Sunday, including a posthumous grant of clemency to the civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, who ...

This proclamation ends a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years and begins a process of national reconciliation. Acting pursuant to the ...

At the local level, sheriffs ofer have responsibilities for jails. At the national level, the President has ultimate reponsibility for federal prisons. And, with a new President, we get some new ...

As well summarized in this AP article, "President Donald Trump signed a sweeping execution order Monday on the death penalty." Here is more: Trump’s order, coming just hours after he returned to the ...

In this post four years ago as Prez Biden took over from Prez Trump, I noted that, on the the first full day of the new Biden Administration (January 21, 2021), the federal Bureau of Prisons then ...

Given his many notable clemency actions before his last day in office, I had a feeling out-going Prez Joe Biden was going to keep using his clemency pen up to the very last monment. These various ...

I only had a chance to listen to a small portion of the hearings today in the Senate Judiciary Committee involving Prez-Elect Trump's nominee for Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi. What ...

Via this new substack post by Chris Geidner, I see that Attorney General Merrick Garland sent this letter to the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to order rescinding the the federal execution ...

After a notably modest use of his clemency powers prior to the latest election, Prez Biden is on a historic clemency tear over the last eight weeks. Today's actiona are set forth in this "Statement ...

The US Supreme Court this afternoon granted cert in five cases this afternoon via this order list. Only one of the five involves criminal matters, Bowe v. United States, No. 24-5438, but this one may ...