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U.S. President Donald Trump attacked U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Thursday for not cutting interest rates and said he could fire him if he wanted to, renewing a threat from his first term that could spark a major legal showdown over the issue of the central bank’s long-standing political independence.”If I want him out, he’ll be out of there real fast, believe me,” Trump said in the Oval Office while taking questions from reporters during a visit with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. “I’m not happy with him.”Trump’s comments followed a posting on his social media site in…
OPINION ANALYSIS By Ronald Mann on Apr 17, 2025 at 6:15 pm Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a unanimous court on Thursday. (Katie Barlow) Cunningham v. Cornell University will not go into the history books as one of the most important 30 decisions of the 2024-25 term. The case involves a technical problem about pleading standards under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and the court’s resolution of the problem was, in a word, technical. ERISA establishes a series of detailed rules to deal with retirement plans, much of which tracks traditional rules of trust law. Among those rules, not…
Home Columns ABA Day 2025: Your voice, your advocacy,… Report from Governmental Affairs April 9, 2025, 6:00 am CDT The ABA community will come together like never before for ABA Day 2025, uniting legal professionals from across the country to advocate for justice, fairness, and the rule of law. (Image from Shutterstock) The ABA community will come together like never before for ABA Day 2025, uniting legal professionals from across the country to advocate for justice, fairness, and the rule of law. ABA Day is more than an event—it is a chance for the legal profession to show its commitment…
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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. A Wisconsin teenager accused of murdering two family members and plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump was inspired by Terrorgram, a white supremacist network that operated on the Telegram messaging and social media platform for half a decade, according to federal court records. The Terrorgram community, which has been linked to around three dozen criminal cases around the globe, including at least three mass shootings, was profiled last month in stories and a documentary produced by ProPublica and…
Getty ImagesHarvard President Alan Garber has flatly rejected the White House’s sweeping list of demands The US government has threatened to ban Harvard University from enrolling foreign students – after the institution said it would not bow to demands from President Donald Trump’s administration and was hit with a funding freeze.The White House has demanded the oldest university in the US make changes to hiring, admissions and teaching practices – to help fight antisemitism on campus.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has asked for records on what she called the “illegal and violent” activities of its foreign student visa-holders. Harvard earlier…
As the trade war between the U.S. and China escalates, the biggest questions are which side has more leverage and which is willing to tolerate more pain.China exported more than $400 billion US to the United States last year, much more than American companies sold to China. That’s why the Trump administration claims it has all the leverage.”The ball is in China’s court. China needs to make a deal with us. We don’t have to make a deal with them,” said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday.”China wants what we have; every country wants what we have: the…
LIVE By SCOTUSblog on Apr 17, 2025 at 12:00 am On Thursday, April 17, we will be live blogging as the court releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list of FAQs about opinion announcements. Recommended Citation: SCOTUSblog , Announcement of opinions for Thursday, April 17, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 17, 2025, 12:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/announcement-of-opinions-for-thursday-april-17/ Source link
Home The Modern Law Library ‘Patenting Life’ shares tales from a career… The Modern Law Library ‘Patenting Life’ shares tales from a career on the cutting edge of science and the law By Lee Rawles April 9, 2025, 8:45 am CDT Jorge Goldstein was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his family had fled to escape the Holocaust in Germany. Jorge Goldstein entered the fields of science and law at a time of immense change for them both. In the 1970s, huge strides were being made in biogenetics and microbiology. And in the 1980s, the intellectual property community was being…
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