SCOTUS

March 8, 2017 (Fault Lines) – The United States Supreme Court ruled on a major federal sentencing guidelines case this week. For the last decade plus, since the Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Booker, the guidelines...

March 7, 2017 (Fault Lines) –Protests have become a regular thing in the time of Trump. While many remain peaceful, others turn into violent events where trash cans burn, Starbucks gets looted, and necks get yanked....

March 3, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Justice Ginsburg reminds me of my grandmother. My grandmother would have been almost the same age as Justice Ginsburg. She was a first-generation American, born and raised in Manhattan. So,...

February 28, 2017 (Fault Lines) — Ed. Note: Colorado Senior District Court Judge John Kane was asked his thoughts about Tenth Circuit Judge and Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. I read a great many appellate opinions...

February 3, 2017 (Fault Lines) —  It really didn’t matter who Trump appointed. There was going to be some sort of knee-jerk opposition. And that opposition was going to be based more on how unfair it...

February 2, 2017 (Fault Lines) — President Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch has led to the expected opposition. This has less to do with Gorsuch’s qualifications or character, and more to do with the fact that...

January 24, 2017 (Fault Lines) — For the most part, assuming someone is actually impaired, the best advice a criminal defense lawyer can give someone who has been stopped under suspicion of driving under the influence...

January 20, 2017 (Fault Lines) — William Baude wrote a recent, enjoyable law review article about the dubious provenance of “qualified immunity,” a doctrine that shields public officials from liability for violating constitutional rights when those...

January 18, 2017 (Fault Lines) — The question presented might sound boring. It’s not about abortion or affirmative action or anything that the media will bother to write “think-pieces” about. But in Weaver v. Massachusetts, the...

January 12, 2017 (Fault Lines) – Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple, once remarked in a commencement speech that “ou can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.”  It’s a...