Jimmy Hoover

July 17, 2024 | National Law Journal

Texas, Alaska and South Carolina seek an emergency order blocking the president's plan to reduce the percentage of discretionary income borrowers must spend on student debt repayment.

By Jimmy Hoover

3 minute read

July 17, 2024 | National Law Journal

Ruben Gutierrez has been fighting to obtain DNA testing to show the murder was committed by his accomplices and that he should therefore be spared the death penalty.

By Jimmy Hoover

3 minute read

July 16, 2024 | National Law Journal

"We definitely disagree with the NRA on most everything. But we agree that they have the same First Amendment rights as we do or as anyone else does," David Cole said.

By Jimmy Hoover

9 minute read

July 15, 2024 | National Law Journal

"Mr. Smith is a private citizen exercising the full power of a United States Attorney, and with very little oversight or supervision," U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon wrote.

By Jimmy Hoover

5 minute read

July 12, 2024 | National Law Journal

Throughout the October 2023 term, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. reminded court watchers that, despite his reputation as an "institutionalist" who prizes consensus and moderation, he also holds strong conservative convictions.

By Jimmy Hoover

8 minute read

July 11, 2024 | National Law Journal

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, said the decision has "upended our constitutional landscape."

By Jimmy Hoover

3 minute read

July 10, 2024 | National Law Journal

The allegations in the impeachment articles largely track reporting by ProPublica, The New York Times and other outlets about the justices' conduct away from the Supreme Court, which is now on summer recess after another monumental term in which Alito and Thomas played an important role.

By Jimmy Hoover

4 minute read

July 09, 2024 | National Law Journal

June requests for review include challenges to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Department of Homeland Security and the "Feres" doctrine.

By Jimmy Hoover

8 minute read

July 03, 2024 | National Law Journal

While the justices take a break from the daily grind of opinion writing, the country is still reeling from a Supreme Court term that delivered politically charged decisions on issues from abortion to guns to fundamental questions about the separation of powers.

By Jimmy Hoover

12 minute read

July 02, 2024 | National Law Journal

The high court will decide whether a defendant convicted and sentenced before the First Step Act, but then resentenced after the criminal justice reform law went into effect, is eligible for its sentencing relief provisions.

By Jimmy Hoover

5 minute read