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Jack Rives in 2010 became executive director of the ABA, the nation’s largest voluntary bar association, overseeing an operation that now has 166,000 dues-paying members and a staff of more than 1,000. The ABA said deputy executive director Alpha Brady will take over temporarily from Rives while it seeks a permanent replacement. He also eliminated $42 million in annual expenses by restricting the ABA staff and reducing other operating expenses, it said. The group lost about 56,000 dues-paying members between 2009 and 2019, prompting it to overhaul its membership structure that year in a bid to make it less complex, more affordable, and more appealing to lawyers. Attracting members remains a top priority, Rives told the ABA’s House of Delegates when it met in August.

Among the provisions being challenged is one that gives a preference to Native Americans seeking to foster or adopt Native American children, which those challenging the law say discriminates on the basis of race. The challengers are led by Chad and Jennifer Brackeen — a white evangelical Christian couple who sought to adopt a Native American boy — as well as the states of Texas, Indiana and Louisiana. Tribes have also warned that a ruling striking down provisions of the law on racial discrimination grounds would threaten centuries of law that treat Native American tribes as distinct entities. Both sides appealed to the Supreme Court after the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. The Supreme Court has been closely divided in two major recent cases on Native American issues.

Data for September was revised higher to show 315,000 jobs created instead of the previously reported 263,000, but the unemployment rate ticked up to 3.7% from 3.5%. "And I think the implication of that is probably a slower rate of pace of rate increases, a longer pace of rate increases and potentially a higher end point." The Fed's key policy rate currently sits in a 3.75%-4.00% range. "I had interest rates in September peaking at around 4.9% in the March-April (2023) kind of time frame," Kashkari said. Reporting by Lindsay Dunsmuir, Michael S. Derby, Dan Burns and Ann Saphir; Editing by Paul SimaoOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ U.S. jobs picture mixed as Fed policymakers ponder rate-hike pivot
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Lindsay Dunsmuir | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The United States added 261,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said in its closely watched employment report, well above the 200,000 gain expected by economists in a Reuters poll. "The data are still showing strong positive momentum in the labor market, which is not yet showing much adjustment in response to a rapid tightening of monetary policy. These data will keep the Fed on track to keep raising rates into restrictive territory," said Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics. Friday's employment report offered some indications of progress, most notably the slowdown of job gains in some sectors. Annual wage growth also appears to have peaked even as average hourly earnings rose more than expected in October on a monthly basis to the highest reading since July.

☆ Where Abortion Is Legal and Where It Loses Protections Without Roe v. Wade
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Kara Dapena | Jennifer Calfas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established the constitutional right to an abortion. The majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization upends nearly five decades of precedent and allows stronger state restrictions to take effect—including total abortion bans. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been preparing for the shift for years, bringing laws forward that further restrict or assert protections for abortion.

☆ SCOTUS has a legitimacy problem: People don't think it represents them, and want to see term limits, polling finds
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

People don't think the Supreme Court represents them well, a Morning Consult/Insider poll found. 70% or more of each age group also said Supreme Court justices should have term limits. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan warned about the court's standing with the American populace at an event in September. Term limits for Supreme Court justices is an idea that also appeals to members of both parties, the survey found. Despite the nation's wish for term limits on Supreme Court justices, it's unlikely to happen anytime soon.

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