Some personal news in Publishers Marketplace on my new book with @nyupress.bsky.social: Georgetown Law Professor Cliff Sloan's THE COURT AND THE QUAGMIRE: THE SUPREME COURT, VIETNAM, AND THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM THAT SHAPED AMERICA, to Clara Platter at NYU Press, for publication in 2028 (world).
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This month is the 50th anniversary of Justice John Paul Stevens joining the Supreme Court. He was a truly great Justice and a truly wonderful person. Thanks to the Supreme Court Historical Society and Jim Duff for hosting me and Justice Leondra Kruger.
Thank you, @brfarley.bsky.social!
Thanks very much!
Text of a letter addressed "to the Students of Georgetown Law."
Honored to be one of 91 members of the Georgetown Law faculty to sign this letter to (and for) our students:
Letter in support of the rule of law from GULC professors
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I am enormously grateful to the 91 Georgetown Law professors for their decision to speak directly to students in support of the rule of law, and a special thank you to Professors Buzbee, Lopez, Sloan, Feinerman, Butler, Spann, and Wishnick, all of whom I've been privileged to learn from at GULC.
My thoughts on the saga of three former Justices and the death penalty, and its importance today, in @washingtonmonthly.com
I appreciated the opportunity to discuss the Supreme Court's recent Glossip decision with June Grasso of Bloomberg Law.
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The U.S. military sent 11 Yemeni prisoners at Guantánamo Bay to Oman, leaving the population at the detention center at its lowest number in its history.
Here's my op-ed recounting Mitsuye Endo's heroism. The White House announced today that President Biden is honoring her with the Presidential Citizens Medal.
Terrific news that President Biden is awarding the Presidential Citizens Medal to Mitsuye Endo. As I recounted in my Washington Post op-ed (and in THE COURT AT WAR), she was a courageous hero whose Supreme Court case helped end the shameful incarceration of Japanese-American citizens in WW II.
Looking forward to reading it!
Today, 21 former federal judges delivered a letter to @POTUS urging him to commute all federal death sentences. The judges, appointed by 6 different Presidents, Republican & Democrat, hail from district courts & appellate circuits across the US. More here: tinyurl.com/4sp8awyt
December 11, 2024 President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Biden: We are former federal judges who are deeply committed to the rule of law. While we may have different views on various issues related to the death penalty, we are united in our view that it is appropriate and important for you to commute all federal death sentences to life in prison without parole. Based on our experience and understanding, the administration of the federal death penalty has been rife with fundamental problems, including race discrimination in trial and sentencing, intellectual disability of defendants, and appallingly poor legal representation. Accordingly, federal executions should not proceed. We urge you to use your constitutional commutation power. We greatly appreciate your attention to this issue.
NEW: Twenty-one former federal judges, including multiple former appeals court judges, urge President Biden to clear the federal death row. They include David Tatel (D.C. Cir.) and Diane Wood (7th Cir.), both of whom left the bench earlier this year. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
JUDGE AMIR ALI!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Just confirmed by the Senate!!!!)
It was a delight to talk with the great Judge David Tatel about his terrific memoir, Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice
www.law.georgetown.edu/news/judge-d...
I appreciate this thoughtful review by Judge Jed Rakoff of THE COURT AT WAR in The New York Review of Books. @nybooks.com
Jed Rakoff on FDR and the Supreme Court https://buff.ly/3AHSvJu
