Landmark Cases:   C-SPAN is doing a series of broadcasts on landmark U.S. Supreme  Court cases.  Yesterday, the focus of the program was the 1976 decision in Gregg v. Georgia, which reinstated the death penalty after abolishing it in Furman four years earlier.  Participating in the program were Harvard Law Professor Carol Steiker and CJLF Legal Director Kent Scheidegger.  The link to the program page is here or go directly to the video here. 

New York Attorney General Resigns:  Hours after a story in the New Yorker Monday reported that four women had come forward accusing him of physical assaults, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced his resignation.  Danny Hakim and Vivian Wang of the New York Times report that Scheiderman, who has played a prominent role in the "Me Too" movement, even filing a lawsuit against a company once run by Harvey Weinstein, said in a statement that the allegations would "prevent me from leading the office's work at this critical time."  The resignation came after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo publicly asked him to step down.  Two of the four women claiming abuse by Schneiderman did so openly, recounting beatings and abuse during romantic relationships with him.  All four recounted similar incidents that they insisted were not consensual.  Scheiderman has long been regarded as a rising star in the progressive movement, filing several lawsuits against Trump enterprises and the current administration.  The National Organization of Women praised his "unmatched work" in "protecting women who are victims of domestic abuse."