Somehow this (strangely written) press release, about the “record numbers” of “self-represented” litigants in U.S. courts, got lost in my backlog. These statistics are not really news, but we ought to note that the release comes from a debt-counseling/”educational” firm called “Credit Card Rest in Peace.” Is it disturbing that the nonlawyer private […]

I’ve posted about government public legal education (PLE) programs (”govPLE,” which can be too cautious, to the point of being unhelpful). And I’ve written, indirectly, about bar PLE when I posted about pro bono (although there’s more to say on “barPLE,” and I’ll get to that in the coming weeks). For now, though, here’s […]

Via this blog over here, pointing to this one over here, both pointing to this thread in the Texas District and County Attorneys Association’s online forums, we learn that prosecutors are now getting written agreements to the destruction of DNA evidence as part of plea bargains. As Wretched of the Earth puts it, “Want […]

S. 1172 showed up in the Idaho Senate today. It is the second attempt to make English Idaho’s official language (S. 1469 in 2002, which died in committee, was the first). This year’s version, co-sponsored by 18 Republican members of Idaho’s 105-member legislature, would require all government meetings and transactions to be solely in […]

The overall quality of congresspeople’s and congressional committees’ websites is “disappointing” according to a new report from the Congressional Management Foundation. Idaho Senator Larry Craig’s website got a “Silver Mouse Award,” though. Still, for keeping track of the federal legislative branch I didn’t think anything could beat GovTrack—and then yesterday brought OpenCongress, and the […]