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...A conservative lawyer and former Supreme Court clerk who joined the Trump camp after the November election, Eastman was once described by Pence’s counsel as “a serpent in the ear of the president of the...
...In September, the Western District of Texas followed along, enjoining the CFTC — “pending consideration of the merits of the claims in this case” — from taking any action against PredictIt....
...in the city’s downtown South of Market district....
...I’m still ambivalent about turning 40, but I’d do it all over again for a two-star dinner in Ilimanaq....
...San Francisco’s city budget this year is $14bn — almost twice the budget for the entire state of New Hampshire — for about 810,000 residents....
...Elsewhere, it’s thin gruel for earnings news, as you’d expect in the run-up to a long weekend holiday....
...“This may be the one chance we have in the next 50 years to fix this,” Robert Yaro, the former president of the Regional Plan Association, an urban planning group dedicated to the New York metropolitan area...
...The risk is that another term in office for Maduro could open the prospect of Venezuela remaining an authoritarian state with a failing economy for years to come, reminiscent of Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe...
...Under that proposal, plaintiffs could no longer file in Waco simply because the defendant has established a retail store somewhere else in the Western District, for example....
...“They are the ones, alongside the United States, that plotted it,” he told me. “The United States has a very short, weak memory, and 1961 is too far behind us now.”...
...Many regard their clerks as a kind of extended family, and Sentelle was no exception. Vermeule “had among the best memories for cases of any clerk I have ever had”, Sentelle says....
...Jackson’s career has spanned roles in private practice as well as a position at the Supreme Court, as a former clerk to Breyer....
...The Southern District of New York, where Purdue Pharma automatically got Judge Robert Drain in Westchester county, has just agreed to randomise selection across all nine of its bankruptcy judges....
...for other participants in the United States securities markets”....
...As plumes of smoke drifted across an industrial district in Abu Dhabi after an explosion killed three people, and a fire smouldered at a construction site at the international airport in the United Arab...
...In 1979, a group of activists who’d rediscovered the neglected Art Deco buildings and formed the Miami Design Preservation League succeeded in having the Art Deco District listed in the National Register...
...On day 344, the Supreme Court upheld the district court’s decision, but it took more than a month for the actual desegregation order to reach Montgomery....
...“We fought for 40 years so that Angola would be good for everyone,” says the psychologist in Zona Verde 3, a district of unpaved streets where tin-roofed houses have little electricity and no running water...
...“If they vote for a candidate suggested by smart voting in their local district, then they definitely won’t vote for United Russia on the party line. And on the party line every per cent counts.”...
...But Texas will win either way Outside the Permian and the Gulf Coast’s refining hub, you’d be forgiven for thinking Texas was more of a clean energy state than an oil and gas superpower....
...Robert Contee, chief of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police, said “you can expect to see somewhere upwards of 20,000” National Guard members in Washington for the inauguration....
...Signees include Leon Panetta, former secretary of defense (someone I’ve always respected for his understanding of the security implications of economic justice); John Kasich, former Ohio governor; Bob Rubin...
...Craig Stewart, former chief counsel to the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, has rejoined Arnold & Porter’s white collar defence and investigations practice....
...other western country....
...It is not often that we cheer advances for liberal democracy nowadays. Three of the world’s largest democracies — India, the United States and Brazil —are all heading in illiberal directions....
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