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8 Nov 2017, 1:22 pm by Ed. Microjuris.com Puerto Rico
Cruz had traveled to Washington, D.C. last week to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee, only to have the hearing canceled; that was the second time that a Congressional Committee has canceled a hearing where the Mayor was to testify. [read post]
1 Nov 2017, 12:05 pm by Ed. Microjuris.com Puerto Rico
The Mayor had already boarded the plane for D.C. when she heard the hearing was cancelled. [read post]
11 Sep 2017, 12:55 pm by Andrew Weber, OCIO Web Services
I had left Detroit during the recession of the mid-2000s and moved back to Washington, D.C., to be closer to family. [read post]
15 Aug 2017, 8:00 am by Shannon Togawa Mercer
Residents of Guam carry U.S. passports and can enlist in the military, but, like residents of Washington, D.C., Guamanians have no voting representative in Congress. [read post]
11 Aug 2017, 6:53 am by Jennifer Davis
The State of Maryland has laws prohibiting noxious weeds, as does the Commonwealth of Virginia. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 12:45 pm by Sasha Volokh
One contributing factor that can save a delegation is if there are “procedural mechanisms that serve to limit or prevent the arbitrary and capricious exercise of delegated power” — that, too, is a factor present in federal doctrine, though, similarly to what I’ve argued before (see this Supreme Court amicus brief and this D.C. [read post]
12 Jun 2017, 2:04 pm by Katlin Newman, J.D.
Voters chose between remaining a commonwealth, becoming a state, or gaining sovereignty with an official affiliation with the United States. [read post]
9 Jun 2017, 3:29 am by Scott Bomboy
A Sunday vote in Puerto Rico could result in the commonwealth using an obscure process to seek statehood status in Washington. [read post]
8 Jun 2017, 10:36 am by John Elwood
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to be going; there’s a bar in D.C. that’s giving free drinks anytime anyone uses the #AppellateTwitter hashtag. [read post]
1 Jun 2017, 11:49 am by Jack Sharman
We are heading into what appears to be a summer of investigations along the Potomac, some of them in the House and Senate. [read post]
11 May 2017, 2:30 am by Jon Katz
The Washington, D.C., area is one of the major five metropolitan areas in the nation and is the least populated and polluted of them all. [read post]
3 May 2017, 3:00 am by Walter Olson
[AP] No one is really fooled by Maryland legislature’s pledge to reform redistricting if five (5) nearby states all agree to enact exactly the same reforms [Nancy Soreng and Jennifer Bevan-Dangel, Washington Post; Rachel Baye/WYPR and related audio, legislation] D.C. should concentrate on deregulating hotel and apartment provision, rather than try to choke off AirBnB. [read post]
15 Apr 2017, 7:10 am by Ed. Microjuris.com Puerto Rico
It was included in the federal legislation used to help Washington, D.C., with its fiscal crisis in 1995. [read post]
27 Mar 2017, 9:33 am by Jordan Brunner
Qualifications The applicant must be a fully qualified attorney/graduate of an accredited law school and active member, in good standing, of the bar of the highest Court of a State, US Commonwealth, US Territory, or the District of Columbia. [read post]
20 Mar 2017, 11:03 am by Jordan Brunner
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Tuesday, March 21st at 8:30am: The Atlantic Council will convene a meeting on Capitol Hill to discuss Crimea: Reflecting On Three Years of Russia Occupation, featuring keynote addresses by Rep. [read post]
Department of Justice The Outrageous Fee Award-  Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services The Dehumanization Award - New Orleans City Marshall The Lethal Redaction Award - States of Texas and Arizona The Poor Note-taker Award - Secretary of the Massachusetts Commonwealth The Make America Opaque Again Award President Donald Trump A commitment to public transparency should start at the top. [read post]
7 Oct 2016, 7:00 am by Jenny Gesley
I am also fascinated by Washington D.C. as the nexus of the creation of law and public policy. [read post]