Media Mentions

The Eighth Amendment. What is cruel and unusual punishment? Who gets to define and decide its boundaries? And how did the Constitution’s authors imagine it…

An op-ed by Jack Goldsmith: Donald Trump enters his second presidency, as he did his first, pledging to wield executive power in novel and aggressive…

An op-ed by Noah Feldman: The pardon power is evolving before our very eyes — and not in a good way. First outgoing President Joe…

President Trump is moving to restructure the nation’s energy future to block any transition away from fossil fuels. And he is testing the boundaries of…

An article co-written by Laurence Tribe: With three days left in his presidency, Joseph R. Biden ensured that the United States Constitution, the oldest on…

Prosecutors can still question possible jurors about the “CSI effect,” the theory that jury members who have watched crime-based fictional television shows are less likely…

President Joe Biden will leave office with a sweeping environmental and climate record that includes protecting more public lands and waters — roughly 670 million…

Prominent Democratic lawyer Marc Elias’ firm is seeing four lawyers exit after requiring employees to sign mandatory arbitration agreements. The exits follow a Dec. 19…

An essay by Jeannie Suk Gersen: In the weeks before a President’s Inauguration, it’s common to see a rush of policy activity from the outgoing…

The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that the much-maligned red dye No. 3 will be banned in the United States because it has been…

One thing is certain following news that KPMG is poised to obtain a license to operate an Arizona-based law firm: Here comes another fear cycle.

For weeks after Ricardo Gómez Garcia was arrested at his textile job in the largest workplace raid in modern Massachusetts history, his autistic 4-year-old son…

KPMG is poised to become the first of the Big Four accounting firms to open a law firm in the United States, taking advantage of…

The clock appears to be winding down on TikTok’s future in the U.S. Beijing-based ByteDance, the firm behind the popular video-sharing website in the U.S.,…

An op-ed by Noah Feldman: Twenty years ago, the Supreme Court held 5-4 that the government couldn’t block minors from accessing pornography by requiring websites…

Devastating wildfires are entering their second week in southern California. They have killed at least 23 people, forced more than 190,000 to evacuate, destroyed more…

An op-ed by Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs: Given the Republican Party’s track record on worker and union issues, and President-elect Donald Trump’s anti-union first…

County jails may be able to improve access to medical care and lower death rates behind bars through healthcare accreditation, according to new research by…

An op-ed by Leah Plunkett: Chloe Joy Sexton is busy. She is raising three children, owns a bakery, is author of a cookbook, and is…

A big economic package, mass deportations, maybe even some invasions of other countries. Oh, and one more item. “I’ll do my little thing tomorrow,” a…

McDonald’s just announced that it is revising its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) program, claiming its previous DEI policy has achieved its goals. In a…