Joyce Vance
Joyce White Vance is an MSNBC columnist and NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst. She is a law professor at the University of Alabama School of Law and a former U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Alabama.
Joyce White Vance is an MSNBC columnist and NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst. She is a law professor at the University of Alabama School of Law and a former U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Alabama.
Latest from Joyce Vance
Britney Spears finally won the right to pick her own lawyer. Here's why that matters
In some ways, a defendant in a criminal case enjoys more protection of their rights than Spears has had.
What Biden's speech defending voting rights was missing
A crisis of this level deserves more than a speech — even a very good one.
Britney Spears' IUD testimony was disturbing — and connects to a larger societal pattern
Concocted mental health claims have been used throughout history, including in proceedings that carry the imprimatur of the courts, to sideline inconvenient women.
Garland's Trump defamation lawsuit decision might be legally defensible. It's also wrong.
DOJ's course of action is bad for Carroll, obviously, but it’s also bad for efforts to restore people’s faith in our legal system.
Matt Gaetz, Donald Trump and why obstruction of justice matters
Interfering with justice cannot become the new norm. And we cannot tolerate any more efforts by our politicians to hold themselves above the law.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson's Barr rebuke opens the door to DOJ accountability
There are four possibilities for holding an attorney general accountable if evidence suggests he did abuse his office to protect a president.
How the George Floyd Policing Act could bring us closer to actual justice
Policing must be transformed, or these killings won't stop.
Why Chauvin trial's verdict may hinge on Judge Cahill's jury instructions
The prosecution and defense have made their cases. Now it is up to the jury — and the judge — to do the hard part.
Biden's first 11 federal judge nominees highlight a highly nuanced diversity
By 2019, the ratio of former prosecutors to former criminal defense attorneys (including public defenders) on the federal bench was 4 to 1.
The GOP has enlisted the Supreme Court in its anti-voting rights crusade
Republican lies about voter fraud are giving way to naked grasping for power.
Trump acquitted in Senate impeachment trial that hinged on free speech fallacy
The senators who bought Trump’s First Amendment defense have given future presidents permission to try to succeed where Trump failed.
