By Roger Bennet Adler | February 27, 2024
Beyond dealing a major rebuke to New York City Council leadership, the Appellate Division, Second Department's recent ruling that a local law giving noncitizens the right to vote protects the rights of other minorities who played by the rules and would have had their votes diluted by the votes of noncitizens, a Law Journal columnist writes.
By Kate Brumback and Alanna Durkin Richer | The Associated Press | February 27, 2024
Special prosecutor Nathan Wade's former law partner and onetime divorce attorney, Terrence Bradley, cited attorney-client privilege in refusing to answer most questions during an extraordinary two-day evidentiary hearing earlier this month that thrust the prosecutors' private lives into the spotlight. But Judge Scott McAfee said some of Bradley's communications with Wade were not subject to privilege, according to multiple attorneys.
By Ellen Bardash | February 23, 2024
The matter involves a group of consolidated actions brought by members of the U.S. Congress against Trump, Rudy Giuliani, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, alleging their actions on Jan. 6, 2021, aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election violated the Ku Klux Klan Act.
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press | February 23, 2024
Location data—disclosed in a court filing by former President Donald Trump's attorneys—shows prosecutor Nathan Wade had visited the neighborhood south of Atlanta where DA Fani Willis lived at least 35 times during the first 11 months of 2021, an investigator said. Wade had testified that he had been there fewer than 10 times before he was hired as special prosecutor in November 2021.
By Andrew Denney | February 22, 2024
The law has been blocked from taking effect since the beginning of 2022 when a group of Republican voters and elected officials filed a legal challenge that blocked its implementation.
By Adolfo Pesquera | February 22, 2024
Justice Dennise Garcia, currently in Place 8 on the Dallas Court of Appeals, is in a contentious contest for chief justice of the court with Staci Williams, a district court judge.
By Adolfo Pesquera | February 22, 2024
Harris County 127th District Judge R.K. Sandill is running for reelection in the Democratic primary against Denise Brown, an experienced solo practitioner in civil law.
By Adolfo Pesquera | February 22, 2024
Two very experienced civil law attorneys, Kim Bailey and Tracie Michelle Shelby, are in the Democratic primary. The winner will challenge Judge Ashley Wysocki.
By Adolfo Pesquera | February 22, 2024
Harris County's 164th District Court is on the ballot in a Democratic Party primary contest between incumbent Cheryl Elliott Thornton and challenger Joy Dawson Thomas.
By Adolfo Pesquera | February 21, 2024
Third Court of Appeals incumbent Tomas J. Baker is being challenged in the Democratic primary by Travis County 250th District Court Judge Karin Crump.
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