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Trump Chooses Neil Gorsuch, Ivy League Conservative, for Supreme Court

In choosing Neil Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court, President Trump opted for a candidate with traditional credentials shared by most modern-day justices. A Colorado native with a degree from Harvard Law School, Gorsuch clerked for Justice Byron White and Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. "In our legal order, it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives," Gorsuch said at the White House.
11 minute read

New York Law Journal

Voters to Decide on Pulling Corrupt Officials' Pensions

By | January 31, 2017
Voters in New York state will decide this fall on a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow a judge to strip or reduce the pensions of public officials convicted of corruption.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Trump's Sister, 'High' on Hardiman for SCOTUS, Doesn't Always Agree With Him

Donald Trump's sister, federal appeals Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, might be "high" on her colleague Thomas Hardiman as a potential U.S. Supreme Court justice. But Barry and Hardiman are hardly ideological soulmates. By no means an exhaustive search, here are some highlights from cases in which Hardiman and Barry found common ground—and from those disputes where they didn't see eye to eye.
11 minute read

National Law Journal

Donald Trump Promises a 'Big Number on Dodd-Frank'

After meeting with small business leaders Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to require federal agencies to propose deleting two regulations for each new one they issue, and also said his administration plans to do a "big number" on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
10 minute read

National Law Journal

Diane Sykes Once Questioned Pence's 'Evolving' Refugee Policy

Federal appeals Judge Diane Sykes, one of President Donald Trump's potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees, had a chance a few months ago to think about Syrian refugees. The outcome of a dispute—over funding from Indiana to a private nonprofit resettlement agency—didn't turn out well for then-Gov. Mike Pence, now vice president. The three-judge panel upheld a preliminary injunction blocking Indiana's move to restrict funding.
8 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Immigrant Advocates Plot 'Beginning of Legal Resistance' to Trump

More than 4,000 lawyers had signed up to volunteer legal services across the country by Sunday in response to the Trump administration's swift move to restrict immigration travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries. President Donald Trump's executive action Friday brought nationwide confusion—and mass protests—as lawyers, major airlines and national companies struggled to assess the scope of the travel bans.
9 minute read

National Law Journal

Jeff Sessions Says He'll Review 'Effectiveness' of DOJ's Marijuana Guidance

Amid the tension between state and federal law, the cannabis industry has struggled to access banking and insurance services widely available to most U.S. businesses. Donald Trump's nomination of Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general was widely seen as a potential setback to the industry as companies and their lawyers navigate new regulatory schemes on the state level—and keep an eye on federal authorities. Sessions has long been critical of the drug. The nominee opened up about marijuana enforcement, and white-collar matters, in questions he submitted to senators weighing his nomination.
13 minute read

National Law Journal

Top Democrats, Advocacy Groups Join Defense of CFPB in DC Circuit

Citing the Trump administration's threat to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a coalition of consumer advocacy groups and the top Democrats on the U.S. Senate and House banking committees on Thursday moved to defend the agency and its leadership. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Rep. Maxine Waters of California, moving to intervene in a federal appeals court case, said the Trump administration cannot be counted on to defend the independence of the agency's single-director structure.
11 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Trio of Millionaires Tops Trump SCOTUS Shortlist

The financial disclosure reports filed in 2015 by Neil Gorsuch, William Pryor Jr., and Thomas Hardiman reflect that each judge holds investments valued at more than $1 million.
10 minute read

National Law Journal

Trump Wants to Cut Regulations by 75 Percent. Former Agency Lawyers Are Skeptical.

President Donald Trump has vowed to cut federal regulations by 75 percent to drive business growth, boasting about that number—"maybe more," he said—at a White House meeting this week with chief executives of a dozen U.S. companies, including Ford Motor Co. and Dell Technologies Inc. Lawyers who served in top positions at federal agencies during the Barack Obama and George W. Bush administrations, however, are skeptical.
14 minute read

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