Votebeat’s August 24 report details the mechanics of the Supreme Court’s order lifting a stay on Trump’s executive order directing the U.S. Postal Service to restrict mail ballot handling for the 2026 midterms. Although a second injunction kept the order from taking immediate effect, the ruling narrowed the judicial constraints on the directive and left …
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson publicly accused the Supreme Court’s conservative majority of injecting “chaos and uncertainty” into the 2026 midterm elections after the Court, on its emergency docket, lifted one of two injunctions blocking President Trump’s executive order restricting mail voting. Jackson’s central objection was procedural as much as substantive: the Court allowed the administration …
On August 26, Rep. Jamie Raskin, ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, sent letters to the top federal prosecutors in five districts — the District of Columbia, Minnesota, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and the Northern District of Illinois — opening an inquiry into what he characterized as a pattern of Justice Department attorneys misleading …
In January 2025, a group of researchers who would later become part of LADD gathered at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington for Lawyers as Agents for Change in Countries Facing Distress, a two-day symposium co-sponsored by LADD and hosted by the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies. The event was organized …
The Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) announced on August 21 that it will file criminal complaints against prison administrators and guards after its members documented evidence of physical abuse during visits to detainees in Antalya. The association says prisoners were beaten on August 13 after objecting to a routine count order, dragged along the ground, and …
Justice Department lawyers filed notice on a Friday evening, “after the courts were closed,” that the U.S. Postal Service had transmitted a final rule to the Federal Register for August 26 publication with a retroactive effective date of August 21 — despite standing injunctions from U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani barring implementation of Section 3 …
A divided Second Circuit panel held on August 21 that John Sarcone III was not lawfully serving as acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, invalidating subpoenas he issued to New York Attorney General Letitia James. Judge Guido Calabresi wrote that delegating the office’s full duties …
In this PBS NewsHour segment, justice correspondent Ali Rogin interviews two federal judges about the surge in threats against the judiciary. The U.S. Marshals Service reports that security incidents of significant concern jumped nearly 60 percent in fiscal year 2025 and are on pace to climb further. Chief Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island describes …
Turkish police detained lawyer Alişan İnci on August 21, the second defense lawyer for government critic and Islamic preacher Alparslan Kuytul taken into custody within three days. Bilal İpek, another of Kuytul’s lawyers, was detained on August 19 and had his phone seized, reportedly after commenting on a social media post by a presidential aide …
Democracy Docket reported on August 21 that David Michael Levin — a Florida attorney who pleaded guilty after using SQL-injection attacks to breach the Lee County Supervisor of Elections and Florida Division of Elections websites in 2016 — appears to have joined the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Levin was photographed at Assistant Attorney General …