Tag Archives: Congress

Not All Free Law is Created Equal

Posted on 21 February 2012 by

Following is a tale that, at the end, contains an embarrassingly basic lesson, but one worth remembering. I’m taking an employment law course this final semester of law school. In class recently we were discussing some of the changes that … Continue reading →

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What I’m Reading — Jan. 8

Posted on 8 January 2012 by

More of a “what I’ve been reading” list, as this is a selection of what I’ve been reading while I was free from law school finals (and actually, the new semester starts tomorrow). Why Obama Can’t Close Guantanamo — This essay … Continue reading →

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Administration appeals Alabama immigration law decision

Posted on 12 October 2011 by

The Justice Department on Friday appealed the decision of a federal district court judge in Alabama, Sharon Lovelace Blackburn, who enjoined several sections of Alabama’s new state immigration law after the Justice Department had sued the State of Alabama, challenging … Continue reading →

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What I’m Reading — Sept. 28

Posted on 28 September 2011 by

SCOTUS for law students: Health-care litigation — The redesigned SCOTUSblog has debuted this feature that focuses on “cases and hot topics at the Court with a special focus on how they relate to what law students are learning in their classes.” … Continue reading →

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Immigrant visas for the right price: the immigration tariff Idea

Posted on 1 September 2011 by

The idea to dramatically reform American immigration law and replace it with an “immigration tariff” has generated a fair amount of discussion in recent weeks. Noticed by Alex Nowrasteh, and first proposed by the Nobel Prize in Economics-winning Gary Becker, … Continue reading →

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John F. Kennedy’s A Nation of Immigrants

Posted on 11 August 2011 by

The other day I obtained A Nation of Immigrants by John F. Kennedy, from my university’s wonderfully large main library. First written in the 1950s when he was still a senator, it contains a short history of immigration in America (including … Continue reading →

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What I’m Reading — August 11

Posted on 11 August 2011 by

How Rep. Austin Scott betrayed his Tea Party roots — Dana Milbank, whose smugness I normally avoid, has a column on a one-sentence House bill that would abolish the Legal Services Corporation, filed in response to an EEOC determination that … Continue reading →

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What I’m Reading — July 28

Posted on 28 July 2011 by

So many starred items to share from my Google Reader account, so little time: HALT the Insanity: New Hyperpartisan Bill Tries to Handcuff the President – Marshall Fitz, the director of immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, has this … Continue reading →

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NY Times Room for Debate focuses on asylum adjudication

Posted on 14 July 2011 by

The New York Times posted one of its Room for Debate features on asylum adjudication in the wake of an article about falsified asylum claims. These claims got more attention after the revelation that the accuser of Dominique Strauss-Kahn falsified … Continue reading →

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Obama: Concerns about War Powers Resolution merely a “cause célèbre”

Posted on 30 June 2011 by

President Obama’s press conference yesterday featured an easily evaded question by Chuck Todd of NBC News about Libya and the War Powers Resolution. President Obama’s response (pasted below), if you think the terms of the War Powers Resolution should be … Continue reading →

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