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12 Jan 2022, 7:36 am
She noticed it seemed like Rogers was everywhere, from 1932 all that way up to 1946, and that the chairs of the committees were deferring to him. [read post]
8 May 2018, 1:30 pm
Joining us as co-counsel are the law firm of Relman, Dane & Colfax; the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; the Poverty & Race Research Action Council; and Public Citizen Litigation Group. [read post]
21 Jun 2023, 8:15 am
The PRA is a civil-law statute to provide guidance for the archiving of presidential records. [read post]
19 May 2023, 11:15 am
” Burgess Everett of Politico reports that “Controversial judicial pick asks Biden to withdraw after failing to win Dem support; Several Judiciary Committee Democrats were resisting supporting Michael Delaney, in part because of his past work defending a school in a civil lawsuit over sexual assault. [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 5:17 pm
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has the story here and there is an interesting post on the Unruly of Law Blog. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 1:00 pm
Then, just before lunch, I enjoyed attending Professor Phil Heymann’s class on “Decision Making and Leadership in the Public Sector,” which right now is examining how government lawyers in leadership roles are constrained but also empowered by the public’s insistence on compliance with law. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 10:58 am
Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts clarified that the law only criminalizes speech “under the direction of, or in coordination with foreign groups,” leaving “independent advocacy” on the right side of the law. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 4:00 am
Without both, I fear that the momentum toward change encouraged by the work of the Action Committee on Access to Civil and Family Justice and the CBA’s Access to Justice Committee will be lost and the status quo will prevail until change is rudely forced upon us. [read post]
9 Dec 2019, 12:05 pm
Background: Democracy is increasingly under strain. [read post]
6 May 2019, 7:50 am
Cross, Policy Analyst, Frontier Group Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Joshua Rivera, Policy Advisor, University of Michigan, Poverty Solutions James Lynch, Chief Actuary, Vice President of Research and Education, Insurance Information Institute [read post]
21 Feb 2023, 5:16 am
Like most other parts of the government apparatus in Israel, government lawyers are civil servants appointed through public tenders. [read post]
23 May 2022, 5:57 am
” As a former federal civil rights prosecutor who investigated and tried police abuse cases under the onerous “willfulness” standard for many years, I have a more optimistic view of the Justice Department’s (DOJ’s) prospects for successfully prosecuting Trump. [read post]
18 Nov 2021, 8:03 am
” Because the PRMPA preserved Nixon’s right to assert executive privilege as to specific documents prior to their release, the court found no merit to the suggestion that the law on its face violated the former president’s constitutional rights. [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 8:54 am
In the words of the Advocates for Human Rights report, endorsed by dozens of national and state organizations from Human Rights First to the UFCW Local 789, "International law recognizes that while the United States has the right to control immigration that right is tempered by its obligations to respect the fundamental human rights of all persons. [read post]
21 May 2019, 2:30 am
He and other Republicans see the law as a model for weakening civil service protections across the federal government. [read post]
25 Mar 2019, 4:52 pm
A few principled or poorly-lawyered small platforms may gamble on that approach. [read post]
15 Oct 2017, 7:09 pm
The mandatory payment of fees under the Rand formula was a claimed violation of his s. 2(b) rights. [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 9:10 am
On so many of the biggest questions in constitutional law—from voting rights, to the powers of the federal government, to access to courts, to the protection of fundamental rights and equality under the law—the Constitution’s text and history favor progressives. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 7:20 am
” (Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law) “Brilliantly captures the pervasiveness of efforts to suppress the vote of minority populations in the US. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 4:18 am
The participants will include persons with disabilities, their families, civil society groups of persons with disabilities as well as advocates for disability law reform, lawyers, policy makers and policy analysts and others. [read post]
