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14 Apr 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Appeals Court Upholds ‘Obstruction’ Charge Used Against Hundreds of Jan. 6 Rioters, for Now ABC News – Ryan Reilly | Published: 4/7/2023 A federal appeals court panel affirmed the government’s use of an obstruction charge used against hundreds of defendants arrested in connection with the attack on the U.S. [read post]
11 Apr 2023, 5:55 am by Michael Dreeben
Israel’s Supreme Court instead created its power to invalidate laws passed by its legislature through a “constitutional revolution” accomplished using its own decisions. [read post]
4 Apr 2023, 7:22 am by Dan Harris
Corbett’s comment was as follows: You have as much control [when doing business with China] as you would playing poker in someone else’s house, based on their house rules, using their credit line, their dealer, and their cards. [read post]
29 Mar 2023, 1:36 pm by Rick Hasen
House, Protect Democracy and Unite America examine a 1967 statute enacted by Congress—the Uniform Congressional District Act (UCDA)—that mandates the use of single-member districts for House elections; how the… Continue reading The post “Towards Proportional Representation for the U.S. [read post]
26 Mar 2023, 9:05 pm by Jasmine Harris
Congress should revisit the dispute resolution process by creating a private right of action for aggrieved individuals under the ACAA, as proposed in the Air Carrier Access Amendments Act of 2021 (ACAAA) and its companion bill, H.R. 1696; in fact, lawmakers recently reintroduced the ACAAA in the House, and companion legislation is expected in the Senate in the coming weeks. [read post]
24 Mar 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
US Lawmakers Resume Globetrotting Paid by Special Interests Yahoo News – Billy House (Bloomberg) | Published: 3/18/2023 Members of Congress and their staffers rebounded from pandemic travel anxiety in 2022, accepting more than $6.6 million worth of airline tickets, hotel rooms, and meals paid for by special-interest groups. [read post]
22 Mar 2023, 1:05 pm by Dani Selby
(Image: Library of Congress) In 1931, Jane Bolin became the first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law School. [read post]
19 Mar 2023, 5:09 pm by David Super
     A second question about the end of these enhancements is one of representation. [read post]
21 Feb 2023, 6:41 am by Andy Wright
’ Until Lyndon Johnson got an office on the White House grounds in the Executive Office Building, the only official office for use by the Vice President was in the Capitol building, and it was not until Walter Mondale that the Vice President had an office in the West Wing of the White House. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 10:59 am by Arianna Morseau
Our fast-paced Office provides legal services related to homelessness prevention through community education, advice and consultation, representation without litigation, direct representation of tenants in Unlawful Detainer (eviction) proceedings in state court, and affirmative litigation on behalf of tenants against unlawful housing actions by landlords. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 6:30 am by John Mikhail
Countless books, articles, and judicial opinions tell us what “the framers” believed or assumed about thes [read post]
1 Feb 2023, 7:30 am by ACLU
Deprived of the basics of democracy, compelled to abide by racial segregation, and denied representation in Congress, my hometown prepared me to look to the First Amendment for change. [read post]
27 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
   Asserting Congress’s power under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment to enact statutory disparate impact standards. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
  To be sure, Congress can overrule a presidential veto, but, over our entire history, presidents have been successful in sustaining their vetoes roughly 95% of the time. [read post]
26 Jan 2023, 5:01 am by Matt Perault, Samm Sacks
USDS will house TikTok teams that access U.S. user data, access TikTok’s software code and back-end systems, or moderate content on the platform. [read post]
25 Jan 2023, 8:00 am by Mark Graber
 State equality in the Senate constrains persons who believe in representation by population, configures politics by enabling low population states to receive far more than their fair share of federal funds, and constitutes politics when people assume that equal state representation is a natural feature of governance in the United States. [read post]
23 Jan 2023, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
By mechanically separating the cotton fiber from the sticky seeds, which formerly had to be done by hand, the plantation farming of cotton using slave labor became enormously profitable. [read post]
20 Jan 2023, 2:43 pm by Arianna Morseau
  Standing Rock Sioux Tribe In-House Attorney. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 6:12 am by Dan Bressler
Bankman-Fried is currently under house arrest at his parents’ California home as he faces federal fraud charges. [read post]