Bucks County saved $400,000 in legal fees to outside law firms last year, county Solicitor Joe Khan reported to the county commissioners last week.
Appointed in January 2020, Khan said that he was given a directive by the newly elected, Democrat-controlled commissioner board to bring down the legal fees that the county was paying to outside law firms.
When he was hired as solicitor last year from his work as a Philadelphia and federal prosecutor, the choice seemed puzzling. Weren t there enough lawyers in Bucks from which the newly installed Democrats could choose? But Khan, an adjunct professor at Penn Law, has brought legal skills he himself learned from a young law professor who would go on to do some serious service for the country.
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How dare you : Kentucky Democrats lash out over bill criminalizing police insults, but bill passes state Senate Joe Sonka and Kala Kachmar, Louisville Courier Journal
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FRANKFORT, Kentucky – The Kentucky state Senate passed a bill Thursday evening to enhance penalties for crimes related to rioting after more than an hour of heated debate, including criticism that it would criminalize insulting police officers and chill protected free speech.
Sen. Danny Carroll, R-Benton, a retired police officer, said his Senate Bill 211 would crack down on and send a message to those who tried to destroy the city of Louisville in the civil unrest last year.
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Imposing term limits on justices who sit on the U.S. Supreme Court could bring significant changes to the nation’s highest court, suggests a forthcoming paper from two Washington University in St. Louis law professors.
“Our results reveal that term limits are likely to produce dramatic changes in the ideological composition of the court,” wrote Daniel Epps and Kyle Rozema, associate professors of law and co-authors of the paper “Designing Supreme Court Term Limits,” forthcoming in the Southern California Law Review.
“Most significantly, the Supreme Court had extreme ideological imbalance for 60% of the time since President Franklin Roosevelt’s effort to pack the court (in 1937), but any of the major term-limit proposals would have reduced the amount of time with extreme imbalance by almost half,” the authors wrote.
In defending a gun conviction involving a discredited officer, a federal prosecutor asserted to an appellate court that untruthful testimony was presented to the grand jury investigating the corruption involving the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force.