Todd Ruger

March 17, 2014 | National Law Journal

The Senate had just voted to block the nomination of veteran voting-rights lawyer Debo Adegbile to lead the nation's federal civil rights enforcement when the president of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police wrote a thank-you note to the group's members.

By Todd Ruger

6 minute read

March 14, 2014 | National Law Journal

The latest release of previously secret documents from the Clinton White House offered a behind-the-scenes look into how the administration handled a U.S. Supreme Court decision and a billion-dollar fraud lawsuit against major tobacco companies. Here are those and some other high points from about 4,000 pages of documents—released Friday by The National Archives—that includes correspondence between Bill and Hillary Clinton and their aides.

By Todd Ruger and Zoe Tillman

6 minute read

March 14, 2014 | Law.com

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill Thursday that would protect funding at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, since Congress has diverted more than $1.1 billion from the office's user fees for other purposes in the past 20 years.

By Todd Ruger

2 minute read

March 13, 2014 | National Law Journal

Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. voiced his strong support today for a proposed change to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines to reduce prison sentences for less serious drug trafficking crimes—and has instructed prosecutors not to object if defendants want those new rules applied to them now.

By Todd Ruger

2 minute read

March 13, 2014 | National Law Journal

Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. voiced his strong support today for a proposed change to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines to reduce prison sentences for less serious drug trafficking crimes—and has instructed prosecutors not to object if defendants want those new rules applied to them now.

By Todd Ruger

2 minute read

March 11, 2014 | National Law Journal

Businesses think the forecast for tax reform in Congress this year is murky, according to an annual survey released today from Miller & Chevalier and the National Foreign Trade Council. Not one of the 129 business tax executives who responded to the 2014 Tax Policy Forecast Survey predicted tax reform would be enacted in 2014, and three out of four believe that there will be little or no tax legislation this year.

By Todd Ruger

3 minute read

March 11, 2014 | National Law Journal

A round-up of news from ALM affiliated publications and news outlets around the country: Law schools ranked, Rails to Trails in trouble, and conflicting rulings on the National Security Agency telephone data collection program.

By Todd Ruger

2 minute read

March 10, 2014 | National Law Journal

President Obama's proposed 2015 budget would boost criminal justice reforms and authorize the hiring of dozens of civil rights and immigration lawyers, while also increasing support for the federal courts, the nation's civil legal aid providers and enforcement activities at federal regulatory agencies.

By Todd Ruger and Jenna Greene

5 minute read

March 06, 2014 | National Law Journal

Former White House advisor Ed Pagano has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, where he said he will lobby Congress on issues such as immigration and patent reform.

By Todd Ruger

2 minute read

March 06, 2014 | National Law Journal

The Senate Judiciary Committee today advanced the nomination of veteran white-collar defender Leslie Caldwell to lead the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.

By Todd Ruger

2 minute read