After multiple states sued to stop President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order earlier this week, Fordham Law Professor Jennifer Gordon spoke to Asbury Park Press, predicting that the Trump administration will try to deny the granting of citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants. The steady stream of immigrants during the past five years has given New Jersey the strongest population growth in the Northeast. And while President Donald Trump has moved quickly to crack down on immigration, experts say the influx has helped the state’s economy by adding to the labor force and sparking new businesses. “Immigrants at all levels are…
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Fordham Law Professor Olivier Sylvain spoke with NPR’s Steve Inskeep on today’s episode of Morning Edition to discuss the legality of President Donald Trump’s executive order lifting the TikTok ban in the U.S. and whether the president is violating the oath of office. Listen to the full segment, “Is Trump’s order to allow TikTok to continue operating in the U.S. even legal?”, on NPR Morning Edition’s January 23, 2025 episode.
Benjamin C. Zipursky, Fordham Law Interim Associate Dean for Research, joined “They Stand Corrected” podcast host Josh Levs to explain why a recent lawsuit involving The New York Times and Hollywood figures Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni could affect what the media is allowed to say about anyone, including you. Listen to the complete Jan. 22, 2025 episode, “Episode 41: False Light, Trump and Hollywood.”
Eleven months after Idaho failed to execute a prisoner for the first time ever using lethal injection, a Republican lawmaker introduced a bill that would adopt a firing squad as the state’s primary execution method—which would make Idaho the only U.S. state to give preference to a firing squad, if passed. Fordham Law Professor Deborah W. Denno, death penalty expert and founding director of the Neuroscience and Law Center, explains to The Spokesman-Review why Idaho adopting a firing squad as its primary execution method “would be a move in a positive direction.” Utah from 1980 to 1982 had the firing…
Fordham Law Professor Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article discussing KPMG wanting to become the first Big Four accounting firm to practice law in the U.S.—leveraging a novel Arizona program that allows non-lawyers to own law firms. Bruce Green, a law and ethics professor at Fordham University, said it isn’t black and white what kinds of law work KPMG’s legal operation can do outside of Arizona’s borders. “The problem arises when the firm does work everywhere,” he said. Read “KPMG Wants to Be the First Accounting Giant to Own…
Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, spoke with Georgia Public Broadcasting about why former President Joe Biden’s Guantánamo Bay legacy, and the story of Guantánamo itself, has “always been one step forward, several steps backwards.” When Biden first came into office, “there was a sense of aggressive movement” on working to shutter the prison and resolve its remaining legal cases, “and then it just sort of dissipated,” said Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and author of the book The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days.…
Fordham Law Professor Andrew Kent was quoted in an article by The Associated Press about Merrick Garland’s exit as U.S. attorney general, the nation’s top law enforcement official. “Merrick Garland has not, I think, been a very effective public defender of the integrity and impartiality of the Department of Justice,” Andrew Kent, a Fordham University law school professor, said in an email. Given the issues the department faced, Garland needed “to explain to the public more frequently and more specifically how the Department’s actions are consistent with a commitment to nonpartisan and impartial justice.” Read “Merrick Garland exits with his…
The law requiring TikTok to sell to a non-Chinese buyer or be banned isn’t about free speech, said Fordham Law Professor Olivier Sylvain. In a breaking news Spectrum News NY1 appearance, he explained that in backing the law, the Supreme Court’s focus was on data harvesting of consumer information. He also talked about the possible repercussions for other social media applications, and how President-elect Donald Trump might try to block the ban—noting that an executive order might be Trump’s only real option to prevent enforcement. “The court is careful to say that it’s limited to the circumstances in this case.…
For decades, China’s reform and opening-up era brought economic growth, political stability, and greater openness to both ideas and investment from the outside world. But in recent years, the country has shifted into what Carl Minzner, Fordham Law professor and National Committee Public Intellectuals Program Fellow, describes as an “age of counterreform.” In an interview recorded on November 21, 2024, Professor Minzner joins the National Committee to discuss the evolution of political norms, the future challenges China will face, and the return to centralized party control under Xi Jinping’s leadership. Watch and read “From Reform to Control: What Lies Ahead…
Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, appeared on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show to analyze the confirmation hearings for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary. Listen to the full segment “Special Coverage: Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation Hearing Continues” on The Brian Lehrer Show‘s January 14, 2025 episode.