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17 Feb 2023, 11:47 am
After being refused, Lewis and other former slaves banded together to buy land and build a town in southern Alabama named Africatown.Benjamin Sterling Turner, a former enslaved person and the first Black American from Alabama to serve in Congress, was one of the first U.S. members of Congress to call for reparations in the 1870’s.In 1883 John Wayne Niles campaigned for reparations and even persuaded an Ohio Senator to petition the U.S. [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 6:11 am
” Amici argue that algorithms currently deployed by Internet platforms such as YouTube in fact do the opposite of what Congress wanted and take away users’ ability to control what information they receive online. [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 5:58 am
The last Congress delivered a big win for atrocity accountability by passing the Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law in January of this year. [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 5:16 am
(While many observers are arguing for a reevaluation of the classification process, at least one former government official has argued that current and former government officials have a responsibility to protect information designated as classified, whether that information is properly classified or not.) [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 3:00 am
Pence is set to argue that his former role as president of the Senate – therefore a member of the legislative branch – shields him from certain Justice Department demands. [read post]
13 Feb 2023, 7:54 am
Thus, Trump will almost certainly lose the lawsuit as it is currently framed. [read post]
13 Feb 2023, 7:28 am
A noticeable feature of this Congress’s first foray into capital formation is how no member of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets worried aloud about there being too few IPOs, although Subcommittee Ranking Member Brad Sherman (D-Calif) noted that a few dozen large private companies might be “encouraged” to go public. [read post]
13 Feb 2023, 6:11 am
Congress to shield American service members and citizens from the ICC’s jurisdiction. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 4:09 am
Treasury Department to be members of the Russian-based cybercriminal group Trickbot. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 3:00 am
Still, the state of ethics enforcement in the current Congress remains somewhat uncertain. [read post]
9 Feb 2023, 8:37 am
Currently, the bipartisan False Claims Amendment Act of 2021 remains pending before Congress. [read post]
9 Feb 2023, 5:01 am
Citizenship Act, S. 348, 117th Cong. (2021). 11 An Act to incorporate the Columbia College in the District of Columbia, 6 Stat. 255, 16th Congress (1821). [read post]
8 Feb 2023, 12:04 pm
Larson, a democrat, taking over the role of ranking member on the committee. [read post]
8 Feb 2023, 5:16 am
” Juror Seven had heard something about the group “storming the Capitol”; Juror Eight remembered its members as having been “down on the Mall that day and making trouble. [read post]
6 Feb 2023, 5:59 am
This blog post was co-authored by Jim Martin and Jennifer González, with input from current and former colleagues in the Library of Congress. [read post]
6 Feb 2023, 5:30 am
Former U.S. [read post]
3 Feb 2023, 5:01 am
While TikTok is at the center of current media coverage of U.S. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 9:37 pm
Perry’s appeal sets the stage for a constitutional test over the scope of immunity held by members of Congress from criminal investigation by the Justice Department under the Constitution’s “speech or debate clause,” which protects legislative work from executive branch interference. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 5:55 am
Former director of the U.S. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 5:01 am
§ 1512, obstruction of an official proceeding—in this case, Congress’s certification of the election.) [read post]
