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The U.S. Department of Justice has picked a deputy associate attorney general who previously served as a Los Angeles public defender to lead its revamped Office for Access to Justice that was shuttered under the Trump administration.
The U.S. Supreme Court officer charged with investigating how a draft opinion potentially overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked is a career military attorney and only the second woman to hold the job, and probably the first to receive this much attention.
A California federal judge will not step aside from a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration's vaccine mandates for federal workers and contractors, ruling that her husband's employment by a company that has no connection to the case does not cast doubt on her impartiality.
Several of the U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday picked apart the state of Georgia's argument that a condemned prisoner is barred from challenging the method of his execution because he is actually challenging the death sentence itself.
Having Congress mandate ethics rules for the U.S. Supreme Court, as some have urged, could do more harm than good, so the justices would be well served to do a better job of policing themselves, according to experts speaking at a Tuesday panel discussion.