Via Sarah Pierce @SarahPierceEsq Policy Analyst/Immigration Attorney “In a memo to ICE attorneys, @DHSgov says it intends to reopen ALL immigration cases that were administratively closed. That is over 355,000 cases. This is a result of Sessions’ decision in Castro-Tum, that judges do not have the authority to admin close.” https://www.dropbox.com/s/9h1k4942zcomwku/Castro%20Tum%20OPLA%20guidance.pdf?dl=0 Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: July 2018
Half Of U.S. Voters Say Russians Have Something On Trump, Quinnipiac University National Poll
Half Of U.S. Voters Say Russians Have Something On Trump, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; But Voters Say Both Sides At Fault For Bad Relations PDF format Trend Information Sample and Methodology detail “American voters believe 51 – 35 percent “that the Russian government has compromising information about President Trump,” according to a Quinnipiac University… Continue Reading
Another article identifies why public libraries are amazing
Current Affairs: “…It’s worth appreciating just how extraordinary libraries are, why they matter, and what they can tell us about the kinds of institutions we should build. They’re spaces of absolute equality, where anyone can come, regardless of financial resources, to study, learn, and hang out. You don’t have to purchase anything in order to… Continue Reading
State Constitutions in the Era of a Shifting Supreme Cour
“The Rockefeller Institute of Government and the Government Law Center at Albany Law School recently hosted “How Can State Constitutions Respond to a Shifting Supreme Court?” to examine the role state constitutions can play if the Supreme Court begins to roll back federal protections. With the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and the… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Web Guide for the New Economy 2018
Via LLRX – Web Guide for the New Economy 2018 – This new comprehensive guide to reliable and wide ranging resources on the New Economy by Marcus Zillman provides researchers who focus on law, finance and business sectors with many options from which to choose specific to sources of data, analytical information, statistics and knowledge… Continue Reading
Gun Law TrendWatch 2018 Mid-Year Review
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence: “In 2018, a new wave of youth-led activism has spurred sweeping gun safety reforms across the nation. Mass shootings, far too common in our country, are often the catalysts for safer gun laws. After a gunman used a bump stock to kill 58 people and wound hundreds of… Continue Reading
American Airlines, TSA Testing New State-of-the-Art Screening Technology in New York
American Airlines Newsroom: “Research and development efforts have shown that CT is the most consequential technology available today for airport checkpoints worldwide. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), working collaboratively with American Airlines, is demonstrating a new computed tomography (CT) scanner at the Terminal 8 security checkpoint at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK).… Continue Reading
Former WH Stenographer reminds us – With No Official Transcript, Trump Can Muddle The Truth
NPR: “…Beck Dorey-Stein was Barack Obama’s…White House stenographer…part of a team responsible for going anywhere the president went, recording his every public utterance and then transcribing it for posterity. “Especially whenever he spoke with press, he made sure, just like the previous presidents did, that there was a stenographer in the room so that there… Continue Reading
Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate Questionnaire released to the public
BuzzFeed News: “On June 27, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his plan to retire from the US Supreme Court around midday. Later that same afternoon, White House counsel Don McGahn called Judge Brett Kavanaugh about replacing him. That’s according to the timeline that Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Kennedy, laid out in a Senate… Continue Reading
DOJ Report of the Attorney General’s Cyber Digital Task Force
United States Department of Justice, Office of the Deputy Attorney General, Cyber-Digital Task Force Report. July 2, 2018. “In February 2018, the Attorney General established a Cyber-Digital Task Force within the Department and directed the Task Force to answer two basic, foundational questions: How is the Department responding to cyber threats? And how can federal… Continue Reading
GAO – Only One-Quarter of Agencies Publishing Timely, Accurate Spending Data
NextGov: “Eight agencies submitted financial data that was more than 75 percent wrong. Nearly three-quarters of federal agencies failed to meet internal auditors’ quality standards when publishing financial data, according to a congressional watchdog. Under the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act, agencies must use a standard framework when submitting quarterly spending data to the Treasury… Continue Reading
New book – It’s not that economists didn’t see a crash coming – they just didn’t see the crash that happened
The Prospect August 2018 issue – review by Duncan Weldon – How economists predicted the wrong financial crisis. “As the 10th anniversary of the fall of Lehman Brothers approaches, many books on the financial crisis will be published. Few are likely to match Adam Tooze’s Crashed in scope, ambition or rigour. This is truly contemporary… Continue Reading
