Adjunct Professor Matt Gold appeared on SiriusXM’s show Knowledge@Wharton where he discussed Trump’s NAFTA re-negotiation. There is an impasse and no one has any particular hope if that impasse is going to be broken by the weekend. Listen to the full podcast.
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Fordham Law students were interviewed by NBC about the Kavanaugh hearings. “I am in a clinic here…we represent clients and individuals with pressing matters and a lot of us put that aside and wanted to watch and understand what was going on…” Watch full video.
Howard Erichson was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article about a consumer class-action case involving Home Depot USA Inc. Defense attorneys called the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the Home Depot case “welcome news” because it highlights yet another procedural strategy used by plaintiffs’ attorneys to try and avoid having their suits moved to federal court. “This is a loophole that plaintiffs’ lawyers seek to exploit with some frequency: Plaintiffs’ lawyers routinely identify consumers who are sued in ordinary debt-collection proceedings in state court in order to bring class action lawsuits against a third-party company,” Archis Parasharami, partner at Mayer…
Jed Shugerman’s op-ed in Slate about the presidential pardon power was mentioned in a City and State NY article. The Supreme Court will hear a case in the upcoming term that could bar New York from prosecuting crimes that already have been tried at the federal level. This issue was raised most recently by Natasha Bertrand, a staff writer at The Atlantic, and it’s previously been written about by Fordham University Law Professor Jed Shugerman in Slate, among others. The case is Gamble v. United States, and the issue at hand, as SCOTUSblog writes, is “whether the Supreme Court should…
Fordham Law students were quoted in a CNN article about the Brett Kavanaugh hearing. Across the city at Fordham University’s School of Law, some two dozen students sat watching Ford’s testimony on C-SPAN in a darkened conference room off the school’s library. During a break in the testimony, Rebecca Rubin, 25, a second-year law student and member of the group, told CNN she was impressed by Ford. “I can’t imagine having that kind of conversation in public, much less on a nationally televised platform,” Rubin said. “It definitely feels like a big moment in our country.” Rubin’s classmate and co-organizer…
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed for CNN about U.S. foreign relations under the Trump administration. There is a belief, only reinforced after his speech to the United Nations on Tuesday, that President Donald Trump is positioning the globe for hurtling toward nuclear proliferation, courting disaster. Trump’s defiant messaging — given Iran’s steadfast adherence to a nuclear deal that the United States wants desperately to kill — is powerful evidence of looming troubles. Playing to an American audience and voters in the November midterm elections, Trump began his half-hour…
Adjunct Professor Jerry Goldfeder was quoted in Gothamist regarding an incident in Brooklyn involving a suspicious mailer that requested a proxy vote for an upcoming election. Jerry Goldfeder, an election attorney and professor of election law at Fordham Law School, said it would be up to the enforcement counsel at the New York State Board of Elections to investigate the mailer or complaints about it, if any were made. Read full article.
Jed Shugerman was cited in The Atlantic about the presidential pardon power. Within the context of the Mueller probe, legal observers have seen the dual-sovereignty doctrine as a check on President Donald Trump’s power: It could discourage him from trying to shut down the Mueller investigation or pardon anyone caught up in the probe, because the pardon wouldn’t be applied to state charges. Under settled law, if Trump were to pardon his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, for example—he was convicted last month in federal court on eight counts of tax and bank fraud—both New York and Virginia state prosecutors…
John Pfaff was quoted in a VOA News article about current crime rates in the United States. But criminologists noted that the federal government’s role in fighting crime is limited and that the decline in the violent crime rate over the past year has been driven largely by local factors. “The feds play at best a minimal role in crime policy,” said John Pfaff, a professor at Fordham Law School. “There are more police officers in the New York Police Department than the entire FBI.” Read full article.
Adjunct Professor Matt Gold appeared on SiriusXM’s show Knowledge@Wharton where he discussed Trump’s NAFTA re-negotiation with Canada. There was always a question from the very beginning of this negotiation where was the United States going to get the leverage to get Canada to concede on those two points… Watch full video.