DC Dicta
Legal news and developments primarily on the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress and federal agencies in Washington, D.C.
Author: Lawyers USA staffer Kimberly Atkins, a lawyer/journalist who works in the newspaper’s Washington, D.C. bureau, writes the blog. Atkins is a former litigation and appellate lawyer. She practiced in Boston.
Blawg Related Categories: Executive Branch • Legislation & Lobbying • U.S. Supreme Court • States • District of Columbia • Legal News Publication
Recent Posts from DC Dicta
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Most deportation defendants go without lawyers
More than half - 58 percent - of defendants facing deportation hearings in immigration courts do not have legal representation, according to the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which oversees the courts, as reported by…
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Gonzales mishandled government secrets, DOJ report says
Alberto Gonzales should not have taken his work home with him. At least not the way he did it. That was the conclusion of a Justice Department report released yesterday that the former attorney general…
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Palin’s selection injects Roe v. Wade into election discourse
Even before yesterday’s revelation about the pregnancy of her 17-year-old daughter, the selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be the GOP vice presidential candidate almost instantly thrust the issue of Supreme Court appointments -…
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Friday morning docket: The privileged edition
As the nation’s presidential focus shifts from Sen. Barack Obama to Sen. John McCain, back in Washington, federal officials are focusing again on the attorney-client privilege: The Department of Justice said yesterday that waiver of…
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Biden calls Court a Supreme campaign issue
Hours before speaking at the Democratic convention last night, vice presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden called the selection of Supreme Court justices a main campaign issue. “Other than ending the war in Iraq, the single…
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Ledbetter calls on Dems to pass equal pay act
Lilly Ledbetter, the plaintiff who claimed 19 years of unequal pay based on her gender and won a jury award which was later thrown out by the Supreme Court as time-barred, took the podium at…
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Judge: No delay for Miers
White House officials seeking to avoid testifying before Congress on matters they say are privileged are running out of options, as a federal judge yesterday declined to delay his order that former White House counsel…
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Supreme Court connections at DNC
While the headliner tonight at the Democratic National Convention in Denver will be Sen. Hillary Clinton, some other speakers tonight have connections to the U.S. Supreme Court. Lilly Ledbetter, the former tire plant worker who…
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Monday status conference: Conventional games edition
The Olympics are done, but the games are just beginning for the Democrats as they officially unveil their Double J.D. presidential ticket (Obama, Harvard ‘91; Biden, Syracuse ‘68 ) in Denver this week. There is…
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Friday morning docket: The big (Ivy) League edition
While Harvard undergrad alums celebrate being alone at the top of the U.S. News & World report rankings for the first time in more than a decade, here’s a look at legal news in and…