A big challenge in the opioid crisis is getting overdose patients from emergency rooms into treatment. In an aggressive proposal, Massachusetts authorities want to allow hospital staff to send overdose patients to treatment centers against their will for up to three days. The goal is...
For the most part judges serve as a critical link in the ordinary flow of administration. Whether criminal law or civil, the main task of judges (and lawyers, as officers of the courts) is the routine administration of law. Judges serve, in the main, as...
In the five years since 20 school children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Ct., a new school has been built, and the gunman’s house has been razed. How the community marks the grim occasion hasn’t changed: quietly and...
At The Federalist, Margot Cleveland notes that although the justices denied cert this week in Evans v. Georgia Regional Hospital, which asks whether federal law prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, “[t]he Supreme Court … will need to eventually resolve the circuit split and...
Amid rising Republican criticism of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, members of Congress and former prosecutors say the Justice Department has amped up the pressure by putting out information bolstering claims that the investigation is unfairly biased against President Trump. Through what Politico calls...
Important (for good or evil) as Brexit may be to the future of Britain, it is not without its importance for the European Union. Indeed, it was always essential for the Union that Britain’s departure should be an economic disaster for Britain: for if it...