Andrew Kent was quoted in a Times of Israel article about acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s take on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation. Recently, Whitaker drew criticism over his denial of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 US presidential elections. Experts said he has the power to block Mueller from chasing investigative leads and issuing significant subpoenas — of Trump for example — and indictments. “Starting yesterday, it would have been possible that Whitaker could have been saying, ‘No, you can’t indict Donald Trump Jr. or whoever,’” no matter how strong the evidence, said Fordham University Law School Professor…
Author: Newsroom
Visiting Professor Corey Brettschneider wrote an op-ed for NBC News regarding The Special Counsel and Integrity Act, a bill that would protect special counsel Robert Mueller and the Trump-Russia investigation. Mere hours after Democrats retook the House, President Donald Trump announced the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as the acting attorney general. Whitaker, formerly the Department of Justice’s chief of staff, has expressed skepticism about special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s probe, leading to renewed concerns that Mueller’s job is in jeopardy. Given the available information, these concerns seem justified. But there is a…
Dora Galacatos was quoted in a Crains New York article about the recent donation of $170K by class action lawyers to the Civil Legal Advice and Resource Office (CLARO), a collection of clinics that last year provided free assistance to almost 6,000 New Yorkers sued by debt collectors. Debt collectors in New York hit upon a big idea last decade: They would buy defaulted credit-card or health-care bills, sue debtors without notifying them and then falsely state they had been properly served. Defendants, often poor minorities, didn’t show up in court. … During the Obama administration the Consumer Financial Protection…
Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security, was interviewed by KJZZ 91.5 radio about the absence of domestic terrorism laws in the United States. We have been in this predictive, or attempt to be predictive, period since 9/11. Whether it’s about Islamist terrorism or something else, all of these algorithms—who do we think might prove to be an attacker, who can we divert, who do we need to try to intervene with ahead of time. There’s no magic solution. All of these cases are individual, and that’s really the problem. Listen to the full podcast.
Adjunct Professor Matt Gold was quoted in a Lakeland Observer (MN) article about the Trump administration’s plan to renegotiate NAFTA. Renegotiating NAFTA is part of the administration’s plan to restore a chunk of the 7 million factory jobs America has lost since US manufacturing employment peaked in 1979. NAFTA lured many manufacturers to Mexico to capitalize on cheaper labor. But Matthew Gold, a former US trade official who teaches at Fordham University’s School of Law, says robots and competition from China have played a bigger role in wiping out American factory jobs. “Nothing in the NAFTA renegotiation will bring back…
Adjunct Professor Jerry Goldfeder wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Law Journal about the importance of attorneys helping elect voter-friendly state politicians. “The states regulate our elections, including those for president and Congress, and their legislatures impose the very restrictive procedures that we seek to address on Election Day. Thus, in addition to providing after-the-fact palliative care, attorneys should also train their efforts on thwarting voter suppression by helping to elect voter-friendly state legislatures, secretaries of state and governors. After all, it is the outcome of state races that determine how easy or difficult it is…
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed for Reuters regarding the recent midterm election results. Only a handful of true autocrats were ever likely to be among those eager to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the American president or celebrate what he called “a tremendous success” in Tuesday’s vote. Many world leaders had likely hoped to be assessing how wounded he might have been. Now they are probably trying to assess what their next steps should be. There are efforts everywhere to draw some positive outcome from what Trump was celebrating:…
Alumnus Howard Cotton ’83 joins BakerHostetler’s litigation group. BakerHostetler has boosted its New York office with the addition of two Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP trial attorneys who have worked together for more than two decades in areas including real estate, hospitality, media and financial services. Howard Cotton and Michael Gordon said in a recent statement that they had joined BakerHostetler’s litigation group because the firm is a leader in new areas of the law and offers a solid platform to represent clients both in the U.S. and abroad. … Cotton earned his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his…
Adjunct Professor Matt Gold was quoted in a New American article about NAFTA renegotiation under the Trump administration. The night the text of USMCA was released on the USTR website, Heyman reviewed various portions and chapters of the agreement, only to discover that they were identical to those in the TPP. Ironically, Trump has repeatedly lambasted the TPP as the worst trade deal ever negotiated. “[From] some of the reads I got over night, two-thirds of this agreement is essentially going back to TPP,” Heyman explained. “All they did was take so much of the language of TPP and implement…
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed for CNN about how President Trump’s positioning regarding the recent disappearance of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi may impact U.S. foreign relations. If there is one foreign policy objective to which Donald Trump is unalterably committed, it is bringing the Iranian theocracy to its knees — or at least thwarting its nuclear ambitions. This is the reason the President, against the advice of all of America’s leading allies, has clamped new and potentially existential sanctions on Iran for violating a treaty that the…