Editor’s note: Nicole is taking some much-deserved time off around her birthday...

Republicans used their Senate majority to block vote on Merrick Garland’s nomination after the 2012 death of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

Critics say scrapping of plans, which aimed to increase judge-alone trials to deliver swifter justice, leaves court system and victims vulnerable Ministers have scrapped plans that would have slashed the number of jury trials in England and Wales and replaced them with a judge sitting alone. The proposals had sparked a fierce backlash from lawyers, who have welcomed the U-turn. But the victims’ commissioner expressed concern about the abandonment of measures drawn up by the then justice secretary, David Lammy, under Keir Starmer’s government, to tackle the record backlog in the courts. Continue reading...

“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.

The University is now exploring alternatives to the plagiarism detection service, according to the SU

“This is death by a thousand cuts,” one voting rights advocate told Democracy Docket. “It’s why you move voting sites, it’s why you have fewer hours, it’s why our absentee mailing ballots are so compl...