It wasn’t an actual plan, the government claimed before the court as more than 400 trees were cut down over the weekend despite Judge Ana Reyes telling the government not to take action without providing the court and plaintiffs advance
Simple Justice is a blog authored by Scott H. Greenfield, a New York criminal defense attorney. The blog focuses on issues related to criminal defense, including state and federal criminal investigations, trials, and appeals. It covers topics such as law enforcement practices, prosecutorial conduct, constitutional rights, privacy concerns, and high-profile legal controversies. The blog also discusses government policies affecting criminal justice, legal ethics, and the impact of political dynamics on legal proceedings. It provides commentary on current events involving criminal law and the justice system, often highlighting procedural and substantive legal issues from a defense perspective.
It wasn’t an actual plan, the government claimed before the court as more than 400 trees were cut down over the weekend despite Judge Ana Reyes telling the government not to take action without providing the court and plaintiffs advance…
In the past few days, the United States stopped sharing intelligence about Russian attacks with Ukraine. The military throttled StarShield so Ukraine’s drones are directionless. Ukraine has run out of Patriot interceptors to defend itself against Russian attacks. Announced an…
DC District Court Judge Ana Reyes should have known better. After what happened with Chief Judge James Boasberg, it was clear that the Trump administration was unconcerned about ignoring the orders of the court. More importantly for a judge, it…
Morality is a personal matter. Priests (and priestesses) have their beliefs about it, and others turn to them for guidance. That’s the nature of religion, whether organized or informal. Sure, some moral lines are so clear and universally accepted that…
Of all the people who should be executed, few would defend Nidal Malik Hasan. But regardless of your views on capital punishment, which seemed on the verge of being mercifully ended a decade ago, turning his execution into a public…
“Son of a bitch,” muttered Sheriff Roy Templeton.
Two days prior, he’d gotten a text from Nana Wentzel—who’d stopped by the Sheriff’s residence to clean as part of a new business she’d started—mentioning something about a possible leaky toilet in…
Three days before New York Attorney General Tish James was appointed by Governor Kathy Hochul to supersede Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten in the investigation and potential prosecution of former Cornell Chi Phi students, she took to the…
Alabama did what Congress did not. It passed a law, HB2, requiring all state and local entities, and their employees, to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
(1) Refer to the body of water that borders…
Among the various shenanigans employed by the Trump administration to circumvent the law is the firing of United States Attorneys appointed by the judges of a district after the 120-day period of an interim appointee lapsed without Senate confirmation of…
One of the hardest things to swallow for people who are friendly toward Free Speech is that the people you dislike are entitled to it as much as you are. Sure, they may be wrong, even lie, whereas of course…