After President Donald Trump threatened to seize federal control of New York City if mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani is elected this fall, Fordham Law Professor Aaron Saiger clarifies in this Newsday article the powers—and limits—should Trump intervene. It’s unclear the extent to which courts would restrict Trump’s authority to broaden his power over the city, said Aaron Saiger, a professor at Fordham law school and director of its Urban Law Center. “The president does not have authority to do many of these things, and I expect them to stop him,” Saiger said of the courts, but he’s not 100% confident they…
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Fordham Law Professor John Pfaff‘s expert opinion was quoted in The Independent, as he commented on the possibility of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) trying to fix its hiring challenges by expanding the 287(g) program. ICE could try to get around its hiring problems by expanding the 287(g) program, which effectively deputizes local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws. The federal government currently has more than 800 such agreements in place. But the program requires local buy-in. Democratic-led cities such as New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles, home to millions of immigrants, are unlikely to participate. “That could…
In this op-ed for MSNBC, Fordham Law Professor John Pfaff explains that President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” will not solve the problem of recruiting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, though it allocates billions of dollars to do so. The repercussions of the sprawling bill President Donald Trump signed into law last week will be felt for decades. Of immediate concern to many critics is approximately $170 billion the law gives to the Department of Homeland Security, including almost $30 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whose agents have been at the forefront of Trump’s aggressive mass deportation efforts. While the original House version of the bill set a specific hiring…
Artificial intelligence has crossed a new threshold, becoming true “virtual companions.” But what happens when these artificial relationships affect our most fragile emotions? Fordham Law Professor Olivier Sylvain appeared on “The Ways of AI”—an original franceinfo podcast, in partnership with the Artificial Intelligence Observatory of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and Sorbonne TV—to discuss the case involving a Florida mother who filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Character.AI and Google after her 14-year-old son died by suicide. Sylvain is working alongside the teenager’s mother on this case. The segment starts at the 13-minute mark. Read and listen to “Deepfakes, quand l’IA…
In the first episode of ‘Looking Back, Moving Forward’—a new podcast from Ms. Studios hosted by Carmen Rios—experts in gender and politics, including Fordham Law Professor Julie C. Suk, examine the promise of a truly representative democracy—and what it will take for feminists to build one. Suk is the author of We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (Skyhorse Publishing, 2020). Julie Suk: The point that we’ve reached is a crisis, but it’s a crisis for, perhaps, different reasons than is often assumed. The problem is that we have a constitutional system that sets up representative institutions that…
On this Fourth of July holiday, Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jerry H. Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, explains the major role John Adams played in Independence Day, in this op-ed for Dan’s Papers (see page 204 / page 276 in PDF). Dan’s Papers July 4, 2025 Publish at Calameo Read “Op-Ed | Democracy Defender: John Adams: Birth and Death on July 4th” in the July 4, 2025 edition of Dan’s Papers.
Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article discussing what’s next for Sean “Diddy” Combs, following his acquittal on serious criminal charges. Read “What’s Next for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs?” in The Wall Street Journal.
In this op-ed for New York Law Journal, Fordham Law Adjunct Professor Jerry H. Goldfeder, director of Fordham Law School’s Voting Rights and Democracy Project, explores New York’s election laws, particularly the strict deadlines for candidates to withdraw from races. It highlights recent legal efforts to allow late withdrawals in special cases and describes a workaround called the “candidate switcheroo,” where candidates run for multiple offices to bypass withdrawal rules. Read “Dropping Out Is Hard to Do” in New York Law Journal. Read PDF version of the article. This article was picked up by CityLand.
Fordham Law Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández shares with Beacon Broadside, a project of Beacon Press, what the Fourth of July holiday means to her. As an AfroLatina person of color born a US citizen, I have always had a complicated relationship with each July Fourth Independence Day celebration. The complication arises from wanting to celebrate the promise of our Declaration of Independence, assurance that “all [men] are created equal,” while living in a nation riddled with inequality. I am surely not alone in feeling this ambivalence, for as early as 1852, Frederick Douglass expressed the same dualism. What, to the American slave, is…
Lauren Jones, legal and policy director at the National Center for Access at Fordham Law School, explains why she believes President Donald Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ “will make the immigration court mess even worse,” in this The Hill op-ed. Read “Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ will make the immigration court mess even worse” in The Hill.