Week News

• The Guardian view on legal aid: cuts have caused chaos and must be reversed

• Federal judge appointed by Trump rejects challenge to Mueller’s authority

• The right age to die? For some, science outpaces the Supreme Court on juveniles, death penalty

• What’s your advice for someone deciding whether to apply to law school?

• New trial motion says lawyer’s insults and ‘incurable character assassinations’ prejudiced the jury

• We underestimate the threat of facial recognition technology at our peril

• Jurors in Paul Manafort trial ask for new definition of reasonable doubt

Month News

• Democrats want to know whether Kavanaugh had any role in torture and detainee policies under GW Bush

• Indicted Russian company cites Kavanaugh opinion on campaign finance in bid to get charge tossed

• Government expects to reunite many but not all immigrant families by deadline

• Presidents of Arizona Summit and Cooley Law are leaving their positions

• ABA resolution urges federal government to immediately cease separating immigrant families

• Executed Tennessee man coughed and gasped before dying; Sotomayor had warned of ‘torturous pain’

Year News

• Labour-backed report calls for more generous legal aid system

• ‘The future is now,’ says ABA president at Stanford CodeX conference

• The Guardian view on tackling sexual violence: when victims suffer twice

• Legal challenge says ‘right to rent’ rules discriminate against non-UK nationals

• Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court’s swing justice, announces his retirement