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☆ Biden urges stricter gun control after spate of holiday weekend shootings
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

President Joe Biden on Tuesday again called for stricter gun control, including a ban on semi-automatic rifles, after several deadly "tragic and senseless shootings" leading up to the July Fourth holiday. At least 10 people were killed in mass shootings in Baltimore Philadelphia, and Fort Worth, Texas. A string of shootings in Chicago over the holiday weekend killed five and left at least 30 more wounded, NBC Chicago reports. His comments come one year after a mass shooting at a Highland Park, Illinois, Fourth of July parade that killed seven people and wounded nearly 50 others. There have been 346 mass shootings so far this year in the U.S., according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people are shot or killed, excluding the shooter.

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☆ Opinion: Supreme Court drops the H-bomb and D-bomb
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. Graduates of Harvard and other Ivy League schools earn significantly more than most college graduates –— the credential opens doors. Maybe the best confirmation of that is that eight out of the nine Supreme Court justices went to law school at either Harvard or its Ivy rival, Yale. “The court’s decision Thursday is consistent with its view that race-based preferences should and would have a limited shelf life. And the Supreme Court has just guaranteed that this will be the case for many years to come.”“The court made the right decision,” wrote Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University.

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☆ Biden says he's working on a new path to student loan forgiveness after Supreme Court decision
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Annie Nova | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

US President Joe Biden speaks about the US Supreme Court's decision overruling student debt forgiveness, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 30, 2023. President Joe Biden suggested on Friday that he was looking for another avenue to deliver student debt relief after the Supreme Court rejected his forgiveness plan. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court's conservative majority struck down Biden's plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt for tens of millions of Americans. The high court said the president didn't have the authority to instruct his Education secretary to cancel such a large amount of consumer debt without authorization from Congress. Please check back for updates.

Persons: Joe Biden, didn't Organizations: White Locations: Washington ,

June 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, effectively prohibiting affirmative action policies long used to raise the number of Black, Hispanic and other underrepresented minority students on campuses. "Harvard and UNC admissions programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause," Roberts wrote, referring to the constitutional provision. Affirmative action had withstood Supreme Court scrutiny for decades, most recently in a 2016 ruling involving a white student, backed by Blum, who sued the University of Texas after being rejected for admission. Jackson did not participate in the Harvard case because of her past affiliation with the university. The ruling did not explicitly say it was overruling landmark precedent upholding affirmative action.

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☆ Biden slams Supreme Court affirmative action ruling
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBiden slams Supreme Court affirmative action rulingCNBC's Emily Wilkins joins 'The Exchange' to discuss the Supreme Court decision overruling Affirmative Action in colleges, and President Biden's upset about the ruling.

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Lower court judges are bound by Supreme Court precedent, but they have some tools at their disposal. They can also give the historically permissive “rational basis” standard of review from the Dobbs opinion some teeth by more closely assessing abortion restrictions and the state’s purported rationales. Lawyers will need to bring cases raising novel issues so that judges can protect abortion rights in new ways. Even if cases and briefs in federal courts lose in the short term, having abortion cases in the pipeline is essential. The Supreme Court will not always look as it does today.

Persons: Biden, Dobbs, Roe Organizations: eventual Locations: Dobbs

☆ Opinion: Trump’s case is a crucial test for justice in America
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Opinion Jill Filipovic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

This is the first time a former American president has been arraigned on federal charges. Jill Filipovic Courtesy of Jill FilipovicFormer President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to all 37 federal charges at a federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday afternoon. The indictment says that Trump willfully retained national security information, violated the Espionage Act more than 30 times, and conspired to obstruct justice, among other crimes. What is clear, though, is that this case will be a test of the US justice system and the strength of national institutions in a (for now) post-Trump America. Any president who is found to have used national security documents for bragging rights and flouted American law must be held accountable.

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☆ Supreme Court Criticism
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Many Republicans view the recent criticism as unhinged and damaging to American democracy. According to this view, the liberals criticizing the court are sore losers trying to subvert legitimate court decisions with which they disagree. Republicans and the judges they appointed have decided to use hardball tactics to shape the law, including the stonewalling of Obama’s last court nominee and the aggressive rulings of the current court. Roosevelt failed to pass his so-called court packing bill, but his criticism of the court — and his popularity — nonetheless seemed to influence the justices: They reversed course in his second term and stopped overruling major New Deal programs. But the harsh recent criticism is intended to be an early step in a long campaign to constrain the court.

☆ Health Plan Coverage of Abortion and Related Services
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Practical Law Employee Benefits | Executive Compensation | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +36 min

The Dobbs ruling, which returned the regulation of abortion to the individual states, has led to legislation that restricts abortion, including medication abortion, in many states. In response to the rapidly changing post-Dobbs legal landscape, this article addresses health plan coverage of abortion, medication abortion coverage and litigation, abortion-related travel benefits, and related Practical Law resources concerning these topics. The insurer in a fully insured health plan, health maintenance organization (HMO), or similar arrangement:Assumes the risk of providing health coverage for insured events by paying medical costs for eligible claims incurred under the plan. Self-Funded Health PlansBy contrast, employers with self-funded arrangements may have more discretion in providing coverage for abortion and related services. Changes to plan coverage of medication abortion will likely require plan administrators to:(For more on coverage of medication abortion, see Newly Launched, ReproductiveRights.gov Website Addresses Access to Medication Abortion (Mifepristone) Using Telehealth on Practical Law.)

☆ Alito Says He Has ‘Pretty Good Idea’ Who Leaked Abortion Ruling
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Adam Liptak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., the author of the majority opinion that overruled Roe v. Wade last June, told The Wall Street Journal’s opinion pages that he had “a pretty good idea who is responsible” for leaking a draft of his opinion to Politico. Justice Alito added that he did not have “the level of proof that is needed to name somebody.” That echoed language in the Supreme Court’s report on its investigation of the leak, which said that “investigators have been unable to determine at this time, using a preponderance of the evidence standard, the identity of the person(s) who disclosed the draft majority opinion.”The interview, which was conducted on April 13 and published on Friday, was as interesting for its existence and forum as for its substance, which was mostly familiar. A few days before the Politico bombshell last May, an editorial in The Journal provided hints about tensions at the court that appeared to be based on inside knowledge. The editorial expressed concern that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was trying to undermine a five-justice majority by trying to persuade Justices Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett to join him in upholding a Mississippi law that banned most abortions after 15 weeks but to stop short of overruling Roe outright.

☆ DeSantis’s Gamble on Abortion
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ron DeSantis ’s decision to sign a new Florida law that bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy is a political gamble that Democrats are eager to attack. The Governor’s obligation now is to explain and defend it if he wants to win the White House. Though Democrats will never admit it, the current abortion debate vindicates Justice Samuel Alito ’s majority opinion in Dobbs last year overruling Roe v. Wade. “The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion,” he wrote. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives.”

☆ Supreme Court Faces Swift New Abortion Test With Mifepristone Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Jess Bravin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The mifepristone case is the latest aftershock of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overruling Roe v. Wade. WASHINGTON—The Biden administration was expected as soon as Friday to ask the Supreme Court to restore full access to the abortion pill mifepristone after lower courts restricted use of the medication, which the Food and Drug Administration first approved in 2000 and since 2016 relaxed special regulations for its prescription. A late Wednesday order from the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans rolled back mifepristone access to the pre-2016 regulations, which limited its use to women pregnant for seven or fewer weeks, required three in-person doctor visits to receive and barred sending to patients through the mail.

☆ These US port cities are fighting to restrict cruise ships. It's easier said than done.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Hannah Towey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The pandemic offered coastal communities across the US a taste of life without cruise ships. Now, port cities in Florida, Maine, Alaska, and California are fighting to limit or ban the vessels. A few weeks prior, Juneau, Alaska's city assembly voted to cap the number of cruise ships visiting the capital's downtown port at five per day. According to one study commissioned by Stand.earth, an environmental organization, found that cruise passengers visiting Victoria, a major Canadian cruise port, were responsible for less than 2% of tourism spending. Do you live or work near a US cruise port?

☆ Judge halts Voyager Digital's $1.3 bln sale to Binance.US
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

March 27 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday temporarily stopped bankrupt Voyager Digital (VYGVQ.PK) from completing a proposed $1.3 billion sale to crypto exchange Binance.US, allowing the U.S. government more time to pursue appeals that challenge the legality of the deal. Trustee, the Department of Justice's (DOJ) bankruptcy watchdog, filed appeals in early March over a bankruptcy court's approval of the sale. Binance.US has agreed to pay $20 million in cash to Voyager, and take on crypto assets deposited by Voyager customers. Those assets, valued at $1.3 billion in February, account for the bulk of the deal's valuation, according to Voyager. Binance.US maintains publicly that it is entirely independent of Binance.com, operating as the "U.S. partner" to the world's biggest crypto exchange.

☆ US government appeals approval of Voyager sale to Binance.US
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Dietrich Knauth | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Trustee, the Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog, filed a notice of appeal late Thursday in U.S. bankruptcy court in Manhattan. Voyager, Binance.US and the DOJ did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the appeal. Wiles disagreed, saying that Voyager and its employees should not be penalized for carrying out a court-approved sale to Binance.US. In approving the plan, Wiles had also overruled an objection from the SEC, saying that it attempted to cast doubt on the legality of the sale without presenting any evidence that Voyager or Binance.US had violated securities laws. Binance.US has agreed to pay $20 million in cash to Voyager, and to take on crypto assets deposited by Voyager customers.

☆ These 14 Democratic senators broke with Biden and voted against striking down the DC criminal code
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Most Democratic senators voted for a GOP-led resolution overruling recent changes to DC's criminal code. The 14 who voted against the resolution framed it in part as a show of support for DC statehood. Just 14 Democratic senators voted against the resolution. Ahead of the vote, DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson even attempted to withdraw the criminal reform legislation in an attempt to prevent a Senate vote. Here are the 14 Democratic senators who voted against the resolution:

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Wiles approved Voyager's restructuring plan, which is built around the Binance.US acquisition, at a hearing in New York. Binance has agreed to pay $20 million in cash to Voyager, and to take on crypto assets deposited by Voyager customers. The customers' crypto assets, valued at $1.3 billion in February, account for the bulk of the deal's valuation, according to Voyager. Wiles approval of Voyager's plan allows it to begin transferring customer accounts to Binance, but Voyager could still walk away from the deal. Palo Alto-based Binance.US has said it is "fully independent" of its international parent company Binance, which is owned by Chinese-born and Singapore-based Changpeng Zhao.

☆ Overruling the District of Columbia on Crime
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Republicans in the new Congress are heading for their first big victory. President Biden said Thursday that he won’t veto a resolution to overturn a District of Columbia law that eases sentences on carjackings, burglaries and other felonies if it passes the Senate. The House passed the resolution last month, 250-173, with 31 Democrats joining the GOP majority. Senate Democrats have been debating how to handle the resolution, and blocking it became harder when West Virginia’s Joe Manchin said he’d vote for it. We were wrong last month when we suggested the resolution would need to overcome a 60-vote filibuster.

☆ Biden, Democrats Face Hard Choices on GOP Push to Overturn D.C. Crime Law
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Natalie Andrews | Annie Linskey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

D.C. has seen an increase in homicides and auto thefts, according to local police data. WASHINGTON—The Senate is moving closer to a vote to block changes to the District of Columbia’s revised criminal code over concerns about softened penalties for lawbreakers, flexing its oversight muscles just as the capital city is experiencing a surge in crime. Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Bill Hagerty (R., Tenn.), plan to force a vote as early as next week to repeal the law, saying the changes to the D.C. code make residents and visitors less safe. Defenders of the law say Congress is improperly nosing into city affairs and effectively overruling the will of voters to make a political point.

☆ D.C. Crime Law Forces Tough Choices for Biden, Democrats
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Natalie Andrews | Annie Linskey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SummarySummary Law firms Laid-off workers can't sign away labor rights, board saysDecision overrules Trump-era precedentFeb 22 - The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that laid-off workers cannot be required to sign agreements that contain confidentiality clauses and other provisions that could deter them from exercising their rights under federal labor law in exchange for receiving severance. The board in a 3-1 decision on Tuesday overturned a pair of Trump-era rulings that said severance agreements only violate federal labor law when employers engage in other unlawful conduct when asking workers to sign them. The NLRB's Democratic majority said those rulings were misguided and "granted employers carte blanche to offer employees severance agreements that include unlawful provisions." The board said it was illegal for the company to offer the workers severance agreements that included confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions because they could be discouraged from filing complaints with the NLRB or publicizing labor disputes. He said there was no evidence that the decisions tossed out by the majority had led the board to uphold illegal severance agreements.

☆ Overruling the District of Crazy
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in her response to the State of the Union address last week that voters face a choice between common sense and “crazy.” An example of the latter was on display last week when the House of Representatives rejected a pair of laws passed by the District of Columbia City Council. In votes Thursday, the House overturned a rewrite of the criminal code passed by the City Council last year and a new law that granted noncitizens the right to vote in local elections. Congress has oversight over the district under the U.S. Constitution, and the votes were significantly bipartisan.

☆ Supreme Court Hasn’t Identified Who Leaked Draft of Opinion Overruling Roe v. Wade
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Jess Bravin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The leak at the Supreme Court was an extraordinary breach of protocol at a court that tightly controls access to its deliberations. WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court said Thursday that a monthslong investigation has so far failed to identify who leaked in May the draft of the opinion overruling Roe v. Wade, the first public statement since Chief Justice John Roberts announced the probe a day after Justice Samuel Alito ’s draft opinion was published. “The team has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence,” the court’s unsigned statement said, using the legal term for the lowest standard of proof in a case.

☆ Judge in FTX bankruptcy case rejects motion to remove elite NYC lawyers
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —One of America’s elite white-collar law firms has emerged as a contentious figure in the complex FTX saga. A judge ruled that the bankrupt crypto platform could retain Sullivan & Cromwell as legal counsel, overruling objections from FTX customers who accused the firm of conflicts of interest. Then FTX’s former top lawyer supported the motion in a court filing, which included additional allegations that one of his former colleagues improperly funneled FTX business to Sullivan & Cromwell. Friedberg alleged that that lawyer funneled business to Sullivan & Cromwell, hoping to curry favor with the firm to which he hoped to eventually return. Earlier this month, a group of US senators also raised objections to Sullivan & Cromwell’s participation in the FTX bankruptcy.

☆ Supreme Court Hasn’t Identified Who Leaked Draft Opinion in Abortion Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Jess Bravin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The leak at the U.S. Supreme Court, while not necessarily unlawful, was an extraordinary breach of protocol at a court that tightly controls access to its deliberations. WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court said Thursday that a monthslong investigation has so far failed to identify who leaked in May the draft opinion overruling Roe v. Wade, the first public statement since Chief Justice John Roberts announced the probe a day after Justice Samuel Alito ’s draft opinion was published. “The team has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence,” the court’s unsigned statement said, using the legal term for the lowest standard of proof in a case.

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