The Latest Breaking News from James Ho

The Biden administration is defending a federal law that disarms Americans based on "boilerplate language" in orders that judges routinely grant.

Judge James Ho concurs, adding "I write separately to point out that our Founders firmly believed in the fundamental role of government in protecting citizens against violence, as well as the individual right to keep and bear arms—and that these two principles are not inconsistent but entirely compatible with one…

As a general matter, lawyers tend to be conservative. Not in the sense that they are right-of-center. Indeed, lawyers skew left. Rather, attorneys favor stability: support ideas they know, approved by people they trust, that are communicated through established channels. That preference for the status quo can be altered in…

Even when there's good reason to criticize universities, we should keep the students out of our battles.

[This is a guest post by Prof. Jack Goldsmith of the Harvard Law School.]

Thoughts in response to Judge Ho's recent announcement.

A surprising (to me) controversy.

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for a lawsuit to proceed against guards and officials at a privately run north Louisiana jail where an inmate died with a fractured skull in 2015

An interesting concurrence by Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho.