by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jul 1, 2022 | Blog, Max Alter
Many Americans can tell you that Congress has been unable to pass laws because Republicans and Democrats disagree on the issues. For a bill to pass in the Senate, effectively 60 out of the 100 Senators must vote in favor of it because of a procedure called the...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jun 24, 2022 | Blog, Kyle Atwood
Photo: Widener Library, Harvard University Should courts defer to a university’s decision to base admissions decisions on the race of applicants? That issue is likely to be addressed in the upcoming Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and University of...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jun 20, 2022 | Blog, Brian Rosner
Photo: Nina Jankowicz, Former Executive Director of the Disinformation Governance Board, at the U.S. Embassy Vienna, October 10, 2019 So, she is gone. The Minister of Disinformation has resigned. Whether any factor alone could have done her in—what apparatchik...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jun 10, 2022 | Blog, Kara Rollins
Photo: The Apex Building, headquarters of the Federal Trade Commission, on Constitution Avenue and 7th Streets in Washington, D.C. A little over a year ago, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in AMG Capital Management, LLC v. Federal Trade...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jun 6, 2022 | Blog, Richard Samp
Photo: Adam Fagen Defenders of the administrative state have long contended that the Government runs much more smoothly when professional bureaucrats are granted free rein to act in “the public interest,” unconstrained by political forces that they fear are, all too...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | May 13, 2022 | Blog, Richard Samp
The federal Food and Drug Administration for several years has been attempting to prevent a state-licensed healthcare facility in Massachusetts from continuing to provide treatment to severely disabled patients. Last year, the federal appeals court in...