Campaign finance spending from Big Law firms and lawyers; state and federal judicial nominations
By Amanda Bronstad | May 16, 2018
Christopher Wylie, a research director at Cambridge Analytica from 2013 to 2014, told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee that the firm, co-founded by Steve Bannon, who was campaign manager and later a top White House strategist for President Donald Trump, came up with phrases like “drain the swamp” that became key campaign themes and slogans.
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By Colby Hamilton | May 16, 2018
The payment appears to represent Trump's reimbursement of funds his attorney Michael Cohen paid an adult film actress to keep her from going public about an alleged affair.
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By MP McQueen | May 16, 2018
Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas was indicted Wednesday by a Westchester County grand jury on charges that he stole from his campaign and inaugural committees. Thomas is represented by Boies Schiller Flexner.
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By Tony Mauro | May 16, 2018
Thurgood Marshall's message was clear, and shared by most justices before and since: life-tenured Supreme Court justices don't like to be told when to retire or move on. If anything, hinting that it is time to go seems to stiffen justices' resolve to stay. But presidents and others keep trying.
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 15, 2018
Richard Fields talks about Wednesday's hearing and its potential impact on the Facebook litigation.
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By Jerry H. Goldfeder and Myrna Pérez | May 15, 2018
In their Government and Election Law column, Jerry H. Goldfeder and Myrna Pérez discuss Automatic Voter Registration. As the name suggests, it requires state agencies to register those who, for example, obtain or renew a driver's license, and the presumption shifts—a voter must now opt out from registering rather than opt in to vote.
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By C. Ryan Barber | May 14, 2018
Reed Smith, representing the Russian entity Concord Management and Consulting, said in a new court filing: "A foreign corporation with no presence in the United States is indicted in an unprecedented case of a type never before brought by the DOJ for conspiring to defraud the United States purportedly by not complying with certain regulatory requirements that are unknown even to most Americans."
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By Law Journal Editorial Board | May 14, 2018
China, Russia and Iran have used all available technical means to block and punish the circulation of objectionable content, with considerable success. European governments with firsthand experience of fascism seem to be comfortable controlling online expression that they deem socially dangerous. For the United States, with its robust tradition of unfettered speech, it is a much tougher issue.
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By Mike Scarcella | May 11, 2018
The senior lawyers for the plaintiffs were Neil Steiner, a Dechert white-collar partner in New York; Dale Ho, director of the ACLU Voting Project; and Stephen Bonney, former legal director of the Kansas ACLU. Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, has appealed a judge's contempt ruling.
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By Tony Mauro | May 10, 2018
Rachel Kovner, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia in 2007 and 2008 and earlier for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
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