In this NBC News report, Fordham Law Professor Jennifer Gordon anticipates significant legal pushback against Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to jail U.S. citizens in El Salvador. Three legal and immigration experts who spoke with NBC News raised questions about the legality of such actions and anticipated significant legal pushback on any effort to deport incarcerated U.S. nationals to another country. “The U.S. can’t deport one of its own citizens. Deportation is for noncitizens only,” said Jennifer Gordon, a law professor at Fordham Law School. “But that’s not the end of the story. There’s a second set of questions about…
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In the wake of the Trump administration’s announcement to curb diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices, Susan Scafidi, founder and director of Fordham Law’s Fashion Law Institute, predicted to Women’s Wear Daily that a retail industry-wide evolution in DEI language will likely happen. Susan Scafidi, founder and director at the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School, said Trump seems to be looking to make examples of some larger organizations and assuming the smaller ones will fall in line. “DEI in its current form may die, but…we’re likely to see an evolution in language and form,” Scafidi said. “Employers can define ‘merit,…
Fordham Law Professor Julie Suk was quoted in a FactCheck.org article, written by Saranac Hale Spencer, about whether former President Joe Biden issued a statement saying he thought the Equal Rights Amendment should be considered part of the U.S. Constitution. Julie Suk, a professor at Fordham University’s School of Law who has written a book on the ERA, made the same point in an email to us. She also said, “Constitutional law experts have reasonable disagreements about whether or not the ERA’s unique and unprecedented ratification trajectory makes it a valid amendment under Article V.” … Even if the ERA is…
In this National Law Journal article, James Keyte, director of the Fordham Competition Law Institute, weighed in on the proposed One Agency Act, a legislative effort to consolidate federal antitrust enforcement under the U.S. Department of Justice. Read “’Incredibly Complicated’? Antitrust Litigators Identify Pros and Cons of Proposed One Agency Act” in National Law Journal.
In a co-authored op-ed for Law360, Fordham Law Professor Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, explains why the firing of special counsel Jack Smith’s team “is in fact a true threat to the rule of law.” Acting Attorney General James McHenry recently fired the prosecutors who worked with special counsel Jack Smith on the federal criminal cases against President Donald Trump. McHenry reportedly told them in an emailed memo, As President Trump declared on his first day back in office, “[t]he American people have witnessed the previous administration engage in a systematic campaign against its perceived political opponents, weaponizing…
As tech titans seem to eagerly embrace President Donald Trump, Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout provided her expert opinion to Al Jazeera on the new role for out-of-power Democrats on Big Tech. Teachout is the author of “Break ‘Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money.” Zephyr Teachout, a lawyer, author and associate professor of law at Fordham University, says Big Tech leaders were not aligned with the Democrats, though, and that has become even more clear than it was recently. “Tech leaders were never with Democrats. They have always been aligned with power,” says…
Following the Trump administration’s announcement to curb diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, Fordham Law Professor Atinuke Adediran—who researches corporate disclosures on diversity—spoke with Bloomberg Law about the role of 10-K financial statements moving forward. Companies that have pointed to diversity programs for years as a crux of their business are unlikely to end that refrain, said Atinuke Adediran, an associate professor at Fordham University School of Law who researches corporate disclosures on diversity. “It’s really hard for you to just erase everything you’ve been saying for the past three years and just get rid of it—I think that’s very bizarre,”…
The Trump administration issued an executive order Jan. 20 aimed at ending birthright citizenship in the United States. Fordham Law Professor Jennifer Gordon spoke to Fordham Now, sharing her insights on the likely legal road ahead for the executive order. Fordham Now: In your opinion, how likely is the Trump administration to successfully end birthright citizenship? Jennifer Gordon: It’s unlikely the administration will succeed. The 14th Amendment of the Constitution established birthright citizenship, and Supreme Court cases interpreting the law have upheld the right for over 125 years. The federal judge who heard the case that was brought last week…
Former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison after being convicted of 16 counts of bribery, extortion, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader appeared on CBS News New York’s breaking news report to offer analysis on what this means for the trial. “I think the judge was very disturbed by how Sen. Menendez wielded this great power, particularly on the Foreign Relations Committee. The judge was disturbed that [Menendez] would compromise his interests and literally line his pockets and his boots with cash and gold bars, and I think the…
President Donald Trump says he plans to use Guantánamo Bay as a migrant detention facility. Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, appeared on ABC News Live to speak on the conditions at Guantánamo Bay. Pres. Trump says he plans to use Guantanamo Bay as a migrant detention facility. Karen Greenberg, the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, speaks on conditions at Guantanamo Bay. pic.twitter.com/XtgrbjDCoe — ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) January 30, 2025 Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law, told…