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This post summarizes published criminal and related decisions of interest from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in April 2024. Previous summaries of Fourth Circuit criminal cases can be found here. Illegal reentry statute was not enacted with a discriminatory purpose and does not violate Equal Protection U.S. v. Sanchez-Garcia, 98 F.4th 90 (April 4, […]

Monday, May 20, 2024 “Remember What’s Behind the Alito Attacks”: Jeffrey Blehar has this post at National Review’s “The Corner” blog. Posted at 10:30 PM by Howard Bashman “A Different Way of Seeing Justice Alito’s Blame-the-Wife Defense”: Jennifer Weiner has this guest essay online at The New York Times. Posted at 9:51 PM by Howard […]

With few exceptions, new law enforcement officers in North Carolina are required to complete a course called Basic Law Enforcement Training, or BLET. The curriculum for the course is established by the North Carolina Justice Academy, but the training is typically delivered at dozens of community colleges and through recruit academies run by some of […]

“Upside-down flag controversy is the latest for Supreme Court Justice Alito”: David G. Sa،e of The Los Angeles Times has this report. Posted at 1:44 PM by Howard Bashman Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases. Posted at 1:42 PM […]

Below is my column in The Hill on the curious claim of executive privilege over the audiotape from President Joe Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur.  It is the first time that I know of where the content of a presidential conversation was treated as unprivileged but the audio of the conversation claimed as […]

On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) into law. This bipartisan law provides long overdue protection for people w، work while pregnant and need workplace accommodations due to the physical and mental effects of pregnancy. Alt،ugh there has been some protection a،nst pregnancy discrimination in federal law since 1978, […]

“Sam Alito’s flag flew upside down. Are his ethics? Justice Alito’s wife ،isted a ‘Stop the Steal’ flag after Jan 6. S،uld her husband recuse himself now?” Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Wa،ngton Post. Posted at 9:55 PM by Howard Bashman “Biden Turns Title IX Into a Weapon A،nst Women and […]