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3 Mar 2021, 9:13 am by Sarah Libowsky, Krista Oehlke
The United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) is but one example. [read post]
3 Mar 2021, 5:01 am by Julia Spiegel
It also suggests steps that the Biden-Harris administration could take to advance this agenda, including announcing a federalism czar, ideally under Vice President Harris’s purview, to spearhead a whole-of-government approach to local-federal cooperation; directing the Justice Department and the Office of the Solicitor General to consider moderating and/or rolling back their state preemption arguments in the foreign affairs arena; tasking the U.S. [read post]
11 Feb 2021, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
That is why the Solicitor General sometimes “confesses error” in the Court, that is, admits that the lower court erred (even if in the direction of the United States) such that the Court should remand the case to fix the mistake. [read post]
10 Feb 2021, 12:48 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
Earlier today, Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler sent a letter informing the Supreme Court that the Department of Justice has reconsidered its position on the constitutionality of the mandate-sans-penalty and the severability of the mandate from the remainder of the Act. [read post]
10 Feb 2021, 12:43 pm by Josh Blackman
Today, Deputy Solicitor General Kneedler filed a letter with the Supreme Court taking that action. [read post]
2 Feb 2021, 6:00 am by Josh Blackman
"The position that the United States is advancing today is different from the position that the United States previously advanced," he told a lawyer in the solicitor general's office, the elite unit of the Justice Department that represents the federal government in the Supreme Court. [read post]
29 Jan 2021, 5:01 am by Jonathan Shaub
The most famous case on executive privilege is United States v. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 11:27 am by Will Baude
Because the Justice Department's position in a variety of ways violated so many legal norms, "the case for informing the court that the Justice Department no longer stands behind those briefs, I think is stronger than it would be for a lot of cases," says Case Western University law professor Jonathan Adler. [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
Unlike with the president, there is no Justice Department policy shielding members of Congress from legal accountability while in office. [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 12:54 pm by John Elwood
In briefs in both cases last month, the outgoing acting solicitor general, Jeffrey Wall, urged the justices to grant cert and vacate the court of appeals’ decisions (both of which went against Trump) under United States v. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 3:15 pm by Patricia Hughes
Even in decentralized countries, however, the centralized government plays a major role (one might compare the federal response in Canada to the federal response in the United States, for example). [read post]
13 Jan 2021, 7:21 am by Patrick McDonnell
In 2012, the FHFA and the Treasury Department came to a new arrangement, which became the source of the current challenge. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 10:19 am by Jeremy Gordon
Additionally, the United States filed an amicus brief in the case. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 10:19 am by Coleman Saunders
The subsequent summary of the oral arguments proceeds in three parts, as the solicitor general’s office argued in support of the Federal Republic of Germany. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 10:18 am by Gabriel Chin
That is a position the United States did not otherwise advance, that no circuit has taken and that none of the justices pursued at argument. [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 6:29 pm by James Romoser
Before his stint as solicitor general, Days also worked in the Carter administration, becoming the first Black person to head the civil rights division of the Justice Department. [read post]
27 Dec 2020, 9:06 pm by Series of Essays
COVID-19 and Access to Medical Care in the United States May 26, 2020 | Allison K. [read post]
18 Dec 2020, 11:00 am by Amy Howe
But in July 2020, President Donald Trump departed from that practice, announcing that the total population used to calculate the number of representatives for each state would not include people who are living in the United States without authorization. [read post]