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26 May 2020, 11:25 am by Elliot Setzer
Often assume the lead role in individual cases, subject to the supervision of the Legal Director and Executive Director. [read post]
17 Jan 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The majority made the case that political spending from independent actors, even from powerful companies, was not a corrupting influence on those in office. [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 11:41 am by Jonathan Shaub
Under well-established principles underlying the U.S. judicial system, by analogy, a motion to dismiss should address only questions of law, not questions of fact—in this case, the question of whether the actions the president is alleged to have committed rise to the level of a high crime and misdemeanor. [read post]
23 Sep 2019, 11:27 am by Margaret Taylor
Porter and Dearborn: “Testimonial Immunity” Letters provided by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) to the White House the day before the hearing assert that both Dearborn and Porter are “absolutely immune” from any compelled congressional testimony in their capacities as former advisers to the president, meaning that the two do not even have to show up at a hearing. [read post]
19 Sep 2019, 1:52 pm by Bob Bauer
The role is complicated by the counsel’s obligation to represent the president only in an official and not personal capacity. [read post]
2 Aug 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Iran is far from the only nation that has the capacity to wage Russian-style influence operations in the U.S. ahead of next year’s election. [read post]
26 Jul 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The EPA’s inspector general is looking at Wehrum’s interactions with his former law firm as well as several of its clients, who rank among the nation’s major emitters of greenhouse gases linked to climate change, according to two individuals who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter. [read post]
21 Jun 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Democrats and others bracing for potential pardons by Trump of individuals [read post]
17 Jun 2019, 12:07 pm by Vishnu Kannan
Bartles, Junior Analyst and Russian Linguist at FMSO; Jeff Mankoff, Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program at CSIS; and Michael Kofman, Senior Research Scientist in the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses. [read post]
24 May 2019, 8:20 am by Garrett Hinck, Tim Maurer
In contrast, all indictments to date have named individual defendants—for instance, in October 2018, the Justice Department charged seven GRU officers as the perpetrators of a hacking scheme against the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the World Anti-Doping Agency. [read post]
2 May 2019, 9:01 pm by Dean Falvy
The report is an exercise in bureaucratic restraint, wherein lies its weakness as well as its power.Did it have to be this way? [read post]
27 Apr 2019, 7:00 am by Jonathan Shaub
As a career attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the Department of Justice, I focused primarily on these somewhat arcane constitutional issues, working with career officials at the department and officials at the White House Counsel’s offices and agency counsels’ offices in during the Obama administration and, more briefly, the Trump administration. [read post]
The Mueller team examined the reported contacts between campaign members, including Jared Kushner and Jeff Sessions, with Sergey Kislyak at the Mayflower Hotel in April 2016 and found that the conversations were brief and nonsubstantive, and took place in public. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 12:41 pm by Lev Sugarman
In July 2016, Campaign foreign policy advisor Carter Page traveled in his personal capacity to Moscow and gave the keynote address at the New Economic School. [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 10:51 am
The field of corporate and securities law has grown with the expansion of economic activity beyond the state, as well as with the explosion of self regulatory mechanisms at the local and international level, all of which have transformed notions of legal risk (which consequentially becomes more interesting for the legal academic). [read post]
7 Dec 2018, 11:41 am by Victoria Clark
Under the FVRA, if an officer of an executive agency “dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to perform the functions and duties of the office” then the president has three options for the officer’s replacement: (1) the first assistant to the office of such officer shall perform the functions and duties of the office temporarily in an acting capacity. (2) notwithstanding paragraph (1), the President (and only the… [read post]
14 Nov 2018, 9:47 am by Preston Lim, Rachel Brown
” DRAM chips are used in many electronics to provide high-capacity storage at relatively low cost. [read post]