Hints and tips:
...He is “much more of a finance mind than a legal mind”, says Robert Jackson, professor at the New York University School of Law and a former SEC commissioner....
...Electoral justice is under attack,” the supreme court judge had said earlier....
...In practice, this means the former president may find himself jetting from rallies, town halls and debates in key states to court appearances in New York, Washington, Miami, and possibly Atlanta — forcing...
...Jeffrey Toobin, another Supreme Court reporter, provided a further reason for Thomas’s quiet profile: “The truth is that [former chief justice William] Rehnquist and Roberts never trusted Thomas to write...
...Eduardo Bolsonaro “had a good opportunity to talk to people who were involved”, says Tom Shannon, a former top US state department official....
...For years, Samuel Alito has been overshadowed in the public eye by Supreme Court conservative stalwarts such as Clarence Thomas and the late Antonin Scalia, a fellow Italian-American with a similar judicial...
...Court justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas....
...Acting on an order from Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes, who also heads the country’s electoral court, federal police yesterday launched a search operation in eight premises in five states, including...
...The Justice Department has moved slowly but almost certainly we will see indictments there. We know in New York that they've basically taken over his business....
...I am no Supreme Court expert....
...US attorney for the eastern district of New York....
...Alison Taylor, executive director of ethical systems at New York University Stern School of Business, sees this as a seismic shift....
...RedBird also has stakes in the XFL American football competition, and the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Nets regional sports network, YES....
...The Department of Justice convinced a federal judge, and then an appellate court, to block the deal on competition grounds in early 2017....
...Mr Vance could also pass his findings to the New York state attorney-general, Letitia James....
...William Taft, former president and chief justice, described the US judiciary in general as “high-priest[s] in the temple of justice”....
...“Personnel at the bank allowed this scheme to proceed by overlooking or ignoring a number of clear red flags,” said Brian Rabbitt, the acting head of the US Department of Justice’s criminal division....
...Mr Donoghue is a long-serving New York prosecutor, with a stint in the private sector as a corporate counsel....
...Actually, a lot of people do want to talk about judicial appointments, as we saw in the circus around the confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh, the new Supreme Court judge....
...Lord Neuberger, former head of the UK Supreme Court, acknowledged as much when he said in one 2017 speech: “It is all very well for us to sing the praises of our legal systems, to congratulate ourselves...
...Mr Trump as a Supreme Court justice, when he said in a recent speech: “In our legal system judges wear robes, not capes.”...
...“All of a sudden, we really knew it was quite serious,” says Justin Antonipillai, the former acting undersecretary for economic affairs at the US department of commerce....
...control Congress, the presidency and nearly two-thirds of state governors....
...A US lawyer and former Justice Department official was expelled from Russia earlier this month after he apparently refused to co-operate with Russia’s domestic spy agency....
...In depressed states, such as Michigan, it is as high as 30 per cent. About one-third of male veterans aged 20 to 24 are jobless....
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