Cert Alert! Rivers v. Lumpkin

Habeas. It’s a twisted procedural maze. It feels like there is no escape. And a second or successive petition is even harder (nigh impossible) to win. But when is a petition successive and when is it an amendment to an original petition? If a petitioner amends the...
The Russell Report

The Russell Report

The Russell Building has a new tenant.  B.J. Pak is the new United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.  Pak was confirmed a month ago.  As I read back through the press coverage of Pak’s nomination this summer, I found one memorable zinger. ...