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Since the 2016 presidential election, the term “fake news” has resurfaced in the vocabulary describing our current media landscape. False stories about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton spread across social media leading up to the election, with over 30 million shares of stories favoring Trump and 8 million shares of stories favoring Clinton on Facebook.…
Life is not getting any easier for those seeking compensation using an already hairy legal system. Even as his administration supports legislation designed to reduce or relax regulations across the board, what Trump is really doing is making it more difficult for plaintiffs to seek and obtain justice. Even though it is mostly accepted that…
Arkansas’ controversial plan to execute eight death row inmates in just 11 days because a key lethal injection drug is expiring has resulted in chaos due to a flurry of legal action in both state and federal courts. The state’s packed schedule of lethal injections encountered two new legal setbacks on Wednesday evening. In a…
Neil M. Gorsuch took two oaths of office on Monday to be sworn in as the nation’s 113th Supreme Court justice. Chief Justice John G. Roberts presided over a private ceremony in the justices’ conference room, two hours before a public oath-taking in the White House Rose Garden. The ceremony marked a win for President…
The spiraling investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election continues to claim victims and has sent at least one former top official scrambling for legal cover. On March 30, Michael T. Flynn offered to testify to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees in exchange for prosecutorial immunity. After just three weeks as…
Republicans in Congress faced a growing backlash after voting to repeal an FCC rule that would have prohibited Internet service providers from selling customers’ personal data such as their browsing history.
On March 22, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing to review the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s use of facial recognition technology and other programs. Facial recognition technology uses an algorithm to analyze a subject’s facial features, such as length and width of a person’s nose, eyes and ears. Law enforcement…
President Donald Trump experienced a significant setback on Friday, March 24, when Republicans were compelled to withdraw their repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from the House floor. Following weeks of antagonistic negotiations regarding the American Health Care Act (AHCA), Republicans were forced to concede defeat when they were unable to obtain adequate support…
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