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4 Oct 2018, 1:43 am by Immigration Prof
Citizenship and the Census by Justin Levitt, Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming On March 26, 2018, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross determined that the federal government would use the 2020 decennial Census to ask every person in the country about their... [read post]
3 Oct 2018, 1:11 pm by Amy Howe
The federal government went to the Supreme Court today, requesting a halt to the depositions of two senior Trump administration officials – Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and John Gore, the acting head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division – in a challenge to Ross’ decision to bring back a question about citizenship on the 2020 census. [read post]
20 Sep 2018, 9:30 pm by Bobby Chen
The Justice Department had initially refused a request from the Commerce Department to add the question to the 2020 census, contrary to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross’s testimony before the U.S. [read post]
19 Sep 2018, 9:45 am by David Stanton, Wenqing Zhao
Chris Smith, co-chairs of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, wrote to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in May to ask whether his department’s Bureau of Industry and Security was monitoring exports of technologies used to repress Xinjiang’s population, and a bipartisan group of 16 senators and representatives wrote to the White House in late August to encourage sanctions. [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 9:27 am by Ashley Deeks
Chris Smith sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, asking whether U.S. companies were selling surveillance and crime control technology to Chinese security forces for use against the Uighur population. [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 11:46 am by David Stanton, Wenqing Zhao
Its operations will closely observed by Roscoe Howard, a former federal prosecutor who Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross appointed in late August to ensure ZTE’s compliance with the terms of the sanction reprieve. [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 11:46 am by David Stanton, Wenqing Zhao
Its operations will closely observed by Roscoe Howard, a former federal prosecutor who Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross appointed in late August to ensure ZTE’s compliance with the terms of the sanction reprieve. [read post]
2 Sep 2018, 11:31 am by Hayley Evans, Shannon Togawa Mercer
In a letter dated July 26, EU commissioner for justice Věra Jourová wagered to U.S. commerce secretary Wilbur Ross that suspension of the EU-U.S. [read post]
31 Aug 2018, 1:00 am by Cyrus Farivar
Enlarge / Senate Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) makes an opening statement during a hearing on current and proposed tariff actions with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in Washington, DC, on June 20, 2018. [read post]
24 Aug 2018, 3:11 pm by Lovechilde
  Maybe the facts will be so damning and the liability to Trump, his family and his businesses so serious that he would resign -- take his ball and go home with some self-deluded justification that he and his cult could get behind.Paul Waldman provides a handy list of what a Democratic House could do:Use their control of the Ways and Means Committee to obtain and release Trump’s tax returns so that we finally learn what he has been hiding.Hold hearings on the ways Trump is… [read post]
22 Aug 2018, 9:20 am by David Stanton, Wenqing Zhao
-China trade dialogue since early June, when discussions between Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Chinese Vice Premier and economic czar Liu He broke down in Beijing. [read post]
11 Aug 2018, 7:01 am by Embajador Microjuris al Día
Un juez federal en Manhattan dictaminó que la cláusula de enumeración de poderes del Congreso (Constitución de Estados Unidos) otorga al Secretario de Comercio Wilbur Ross la autoridad para agregar una pregunta sobre ciudadanía al censo de 2020, aunque podría haber una violación igual de protección si la decisión está motivada por propósitos discriminatorios. [read post]
8 Aug 2018, 2:13 pm by Environmental Law Prof
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross just released a statement directing NOAA to "facilitate" water use to respond to California's wildfires (the statement follows several tweets in which President Trump implied that the cause of California's wildfires was the state's ill-advised... [read post]
5 Aug 2018, 8:00 am by Kathleen Claussen
In a July 18 letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, a bipartisan group of 149 House members argued that any action on autos and auto parts would hinder, rather than improve, economic security. [read post]
27 Jul 2018, 3:00 pm
  Documents uncovered in our case have revealed that attacking immigrant communities is, in fact, the administration’s goal, spearheaded by two of President Trump’s most prominent anti-immigrant ideologues, and that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross lied to Congress in an attempt to cover up this fact. [read post]
26 Jul 2018, 7:17 am by Jim Sedor
Democrats Are Bracing. by Alexander Burns (New York Times) for MSN Ethics National: Federal Judge Allows Emoluments Case Against Trump to Proceed by Ann Marimow, Jonathan O’Connell, and David Fahrenthold (Washington Post) for MSN National: Wilbur Ross Actively Pushed to Add Citizenship Question to 2020 Census, Documents Show by Tara Bahrampour (Washington Post) for San Francisco Chronicle Illinois: Lawmakers Question Possible Conflicts of Interest in Tollway Contracts by Mary… [read post]
25 Jul 2018, 10:30 am by David Stanton, Wenqing Zhao
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross promised that his department would “remain vigilant” in monitoring ZTE’s compliance through “three-interlocking elements”--a suspended denial order, $400 million deposited by ZTE in escrow, and a compliance team chosen by, and reporting to, the U.S. [read post]
5 Jul 2018, 9:30 pm by Bobby Chen
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the reinstatement of the question in March, claiming that such a question had historical precedents and that it was necessary to make the census more accurate. [read post]
5 Jul 2018, 12:44 pm by Todd N. Tucker
Indeed, Trump’s proclamations have deviated from Secretary Wilbur Ross’s recommendations—initially exempting allies and to this day applying a 25 percent tariff, moves that are respectively much less and slightly more restrictive than what the Commerce Department recommended if steel capacity was to be corrected. [read post]
29 Jun 2018, 7:58 am by Mark Astarita
Three top Democrats asked the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission to open an insider trading investigation into Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in a letter sent Wednesday, nine days after Forbes first reported a suspicious transaction involving a company with ties to Vladimir Putin.More at Forbes.com [read post]