Karen Greenberg was quoted in an NBC News article about the refugee vetting process under President Trump’s administration. The administration denies it is intentionally obstructing refugee resettlement, and maintains that it has merely introduced new security vetting that takes more time but keeps Americans safe. However, former officials, including senior intelligence officers, say the Trump administration has consistently overstated the potential security threat posed by refugees, and conflated the issue with illegal immigration and those seeking asylum. “There is no evidence of a significant threat from refugees as a group,” said Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security…
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Bruce Green was quoted in an NBC News article about crowdfunding campaigns to help Trump opponents with their legal fees. It’s fairly common for political or public interest groups to appeal to the public and set up legal defense funds to pay lawyers’ fees in connection with their causes. Until recently, it was not as common to see individuals able to raise the amounts of money seen in former Trump associates’ crowdfunding campaigns. “If you’re talking about individuals who are in trouble with the law, not that many are so sympathetic that they can raise tens and hundreds of thousands…
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed for CNN about about foreign affairs under President Trump’s administration. Major negotiations were set to take place on Wednesday in Washington on President Donald Trump’s efforts to jawbone China and Mexico into trade pacts substantially more favorable to the United States. But suddenly, a deeply wounded president may be ill-equipped to hold any feet to the fire in critical crises of his own making on three continents. Initial media reaction across Europe and Asia overnight suggest a world somewhat stunned by the legal dramas Tuesday…
Thomas Durkin, fellow at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, was quoted in a Chicago Tribune article about Samantha Marie Elhassani, a former Indiana woman who has been accused of aiding ISIS. Attorney Thomas Durkin, of Chicago, was appointed to represent Elhassani. The Wall Street Journal wrote an article titled “A terror suspect’s best hope in court” about Durkin in 2016 after his client, who admitted to trying to join the Islamic State, received 40 months in prison. “These charges are incredibly wrongheaded and cruel,” Durkin said Thursday. “Samantha is a victim of her jihadist husband. She…
Jed Shugerman was cited in a Newsday article about the presidential pardon power. [T]wo legal experts — Albany Law School professor Vincent Bonventre and Jed Shugerman, a professor of law at Fordham University’s School of Law — say that proposal would only be needed in some cases to allow state prosecution. For example, Cohen and Manafort are accused of several violations of state law not matched in the federal charges and no pardon can stop those prosecutions, the legal experts said. Read full article.
Bruce Green was quoted in an Atlantic article about what might happen if President Trump orders Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut down the investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Trump could order Attorney General Jeff Sessions to shut down the Southern District’s investigation, but every legal expert I talked to said it was unlikely Sessions would follow such an order. “In a corrupt, bizarre universe, in theory it could happen,” said Bruce Green, a law professor at Fordham University and a former associate counsel in the Iran-Contra affair. “This attorney general is…
Adjunct Professor Lawrence Brennan was quoted in a Navy Times article about the legal battle involving collisions of the USS Fitzgerald and the USS John S. McCain. A year after 10 sailors died when the destroyer John S. McCain lurched left into a commercial vessel outside Singapore, a legal battle rages over who was responsible for the collision and who should pay for it. So far, 48 McCain sailors and families of the fallen have filed personal injury and wrongful death claims against the owner of the Alnic MC, a hulking oil tanker that collided with the warship inside the bustling Malacca…
Alumna Noga Rosenthal ’02 has been appointed chief privacy officer and general counsel by NCC Media, a national television and video advertising sales, marketing, and technology company. NCC Media, the national television and video advertising sales, marketing and technology company owned by Comcast Corporation, Charter Communications, Inc. and Cox Communications, announced today it has named Noga Rosenthal as chief privacy officer and general counsel. A longtime board member of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), Rosenthal brings deep expertise in the development and implementation of comprehensive privacy programs to the role where she will be responsible for guiding NCC’s privacy and…
John Feerick was quoted in the National Law Journal about the presidential pardon power. Michael Cohen, the former lawyer and friend of President Donald Trump who pleaded guilty Tuesday in a hush-money scheme, would not accept a pardon from Trump if offered, according to Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis. But there may be a hitch: it is not clear that the beneficiary of a presidential pardon can refuse. … Fordham University School of Law professor John Feerick, who wrote a 1975 article on the subject, said Wednesday, “If a president makes a decision to grant a pardon, I have a hard…
Professor Catherine Powell co-authored a Council on Foreign Relations blog post about former secretary-general of the UN Kofi Annan following his death. On August 18th, Kofi Annan—the seventh secretary-general of the UN—passed away. He should be remembered not only for his work to fight poverty, eliminate HIV/AIDS, and promote economic development, but also for his efforts to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security, which was adopted unanimously during Annan’s first term as secretary-general in October 2000. … [E]mpirical evidence suggests that involving women in peace processes is at least correlated with more favorable results, and…