NEWS: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued a dissent in Kevin Johnson's death penalty case, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, explaining why she would have granted him a stay of execution. The stay was denied on Tuesday, and Missouri killed Johnson. lawdork.com/p/missouri-wan…
Regarding the Missouri statute that allowed the special prosecutor to review Johnson's case, Jackson writes: "The Missouri Supreme Court turned this straightforward procedural statute on its head."
Justice Jackson writes that what happened to Kevin Johnson was "so fundamentally flawed, and so at odds with basic due process principles, that Johnson was likely to succeed in establishing ... a Fourteenth Amendment violation."
11th Cir: “we are faced with a choice: apply our usual test; drastically expand the availability of equitable jurisdiction for every subject of a search warrant; or carve out an unprecedented exception in our law for former presidents. We choose the first option.” 🤭
tfw your judicial appointees are drafting your indictment
Please don't RT clout guys! People who don't do any reporting, and instead, just take other people's work for RTs. Most of them have been shamed into eventually giving credit, but they'll do it as an aside or as a follow-up tweet — which gets a small percentage of the engagement.
Yes, there are lots of problems that make journalism difficult as a financially sustainable endeavor, but few things get more under my skin than the fact that a new one of these clout-chasing guys appears here every year and just becomes the clout-monster-du-jour.
Last night, a reporter broke a story. His main tweet has 6K likes. A clout guy basically copy-and-pasted the author's tweet (incl the "New"), put the author's @ at the end, & it has 7K likes. Another clout guy did the 2nd-tweet credit thing. First tweet: No story or @, 51K likes.
Missouri officials want to kill Kevin Johnson tomorrow — despite a special prosecutor finding that racism affected the prosecution & sentencing. He and Johnson are seeking a stay of execution from the Missouri Supreme Court. Arguments were today. Law Dork: lawdork.com/p/missouri-wan…
BREAKING: Missouri Supreme Court REJECTS, on a 5-2 vote, motions for stay of execution for Kevin Johnson. The state supreme court will not stop Tuesday's scheduled execution based on the special prosecutor's request in the case.
Here's the majority opinion, which is per curiam, but joined by five justices. scribd.com/document/61096…
i’m not leaving (yet), but i am noting that we’ve gone from bad to worse over the past week. and whatever’s happening this holiday weekend is even worse.