Election and Political Law

  • National Law Journal

    Meet the Kirkland Partner in Line to Shepherd Trump's Judicial Nominees

    By Marcia Coyle | June 28, 2017

    If President Donald Trump gets to fill another U.S. Supreme Court seat, he will have an experienced hand in Kirkland & Ellis partner Beth Williams guiding any nominee through confirmation. Williams is Trump's pick to head the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy. Here are six things to know about Williams, whose nomination was considered Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

  • National Law Journal

    Littler Mendelson's William Emanuel Gets Trump Nod for NLRB

    By Erin Mulvaney | June 27, 2017

    William Emanuel, a Los Angeles-based management-side attorney, will be President Donald Trump's second pick for the National Labor Relations Board, a move that would give the long incomplete five-member panel a Republican majority poised to adopt pro-employer stances.

  • National Law Journal

    Law Firms Straddle Virginia General Election Races

    By Katelyn Polantz | June 27, 2017

    Venable's Justin Fairfax and McGuireWoods' John Adams are both on statewide ballots this year. What does that mean for their firms?

  • National Law Journal

    Mueller Bolsters Russia Team's Appellate Readiness in New Hire

    By Marcia Coyle | June 22, 2017

    Adam Jed, a 2008 Harvard Law School graduate and former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, has joined Special Counsel Robert Mueller III's legal team in the investigation of Russia's interference with the U.S. presidential election. At the DOJ, Jed defended the Affordable Care Act and helped implement the Supreme Court's DOMA ruling.

  • National Law Journal

    What Labor Lawyers Are Saying About Marvin Kaplan, Trump's First NLRB Pick

    By Erin Mulvaney | June 20, 2017

    Long-time public sector attorney Marvin Kaplan was tapped Monday by President Donald Trump for a vacancy on the National Labor Relations Board, moving the agency tasked with ruling on major disputes between businesses and unions one step closer to a Republican majority for the first time in nearly a decade.

  • National Law Journal

    Trump's DOJ Switches Sides in Key Labor Case, Now Fights Class Actions

    By Marcia Coyle | June 16, 2017

    The U.S. Justice Department on Friday reversed its position in a key labor case, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that workplace agreements that ban class actions do not run afoul of federal labor law.

  • National Law Journal

    Who Is Rachel Brand? What to Know About Main Justice's No. 3.

    By Cogan Schneier and C. Ryan Barber | June 16, 2017

    Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein faced mounting pressure Friday to recuse himself from overseeing the investigation of Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election. His recusal could push Rachel Brand, the No. 3 in command at Main Justice, into a greater national spotlight. Brand was the first woman to ever serve as associate attorney general. Here are highlights from her career, which includes stints in Big Law at Wilmer Hale, and running the SCOTUS murder boards for Justices John Roberts Jr. and Samuel Alito Jr.

  • National Law Journal

    Slideshow: Trump Drops by SCOTUS for Gorsuch Ceremony

    By Marcia Coyle | June 15, 2017

    With President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump watching, Justice Neil Gorsuch on Thursday was officially invested as the 101st associate justice of the United States in a brief, formal ceremony in the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • National Law Journal

    When a Boss 'Hopes,' Employees Know Exactly What That Means

    By Marcia Coyle | June 9, 2017

    James Comey said he knew what Donald Trump meant when he reportedly said he hoped the then-FBI director would drop the Michael Flynn investigation. That got New York labor lawyer Andrew Strom thinking with colleagues on Friday. Has the NLRB ever addressed "hope" in a case? Yes, the board has.

  • National Law Journal

    Anti-Pot States Can't Touch Colorado's Marijuana Law, Court Says

    By Cheryl Miller and Marcia Coyle | June 7, 2017

    A federal appellate panel on Wednesday blocked the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma from challenging Colorado's marijuana legalization law, saying their claims should be directed to the U.S. Supreme Court—a venue that has already refused to hear their fight.

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