O governo federal desobedeceu a uma ordem do ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) Flávio Dino e liberou, no final de 2024, R$ 479 milhões em emendas suspensas para comprar tratores e retroescavadeiras. Os maquinários teriam como finalidade atender demandas de construção de obras em estradas vicinais.  A emenda foi suspensa devido à falta de transparência sobre quem fez as indicações do destino do dinheiro. O Ministério da Agricultura e Pecuária (Mapa), sob o comando do ministro Carlos […]

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The attack on the Capitol. January 6, 2021. (Probal Rashid/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom)   Today is the fourth anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, and – ironically – also the date Congress certifies Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election. As I have previously written, widespread voter ignorance and bias in evaluating political information played a major role in both causing the attack, and facilitating Trump’s subsequent political comeback. I wrote about the role of ignorance and […]

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I was looking at a list of law journal articles published since 1990 that were most heavily cited by courts (generated using HeinOnline), and saw that #10 on the list was a student-written Note, Powers of Congress and the Court Regarding the Availability and Scope of Review (Harv. L. Rev. 2001), cited by over 100 cases. As with many heavily cited articles, this one got many follow-on cites stemming from some early appellate court cites; but that itself […]

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From yesterday’s N.Y. intermediate appellate court decision in Smartmatic USA Corp. v. Fox Corp., by Judges Peter Moulton, Barbara Kapnick, Saliann Scarpulla, Manuel Mendez, and Kelly O’Neill Levy: In our prior decision in this matter, we modified the motion court’s order to, among other things, dismiss the causes of action asserted against Fox Corporation without prejudice to repleading. With respect to Fox Corporation, we found that “the complaint does not adequately allege that any Fox Corporation employee played […]

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