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KPMG Says Big Four US Moves Would Displace Some Law Firm Service
February 19, 2025
A top KPMG executive predicts US corporations will increasingly turn to accounting’s Big Four for legal work because they have better technology to handle matters…
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Why Didn’t Trump Just Pardon Adams Like the Jan. 6 Rioters?
February 19, 2025
An op-ed by Noah Feldman: Here’s the most important yet overlooked fact about seven Justice Department prosecutors who resigned rather than drop charges against New…
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What the UN’s ruling on abortion in Ecuador and Nicaragua means for the rest of the world
February 19, 2025
The United Nations Human Rights Committee issued a ruling last month with the potential to expand reproductive rights in Ecuador and Nicaragua. Although it’s unclear…
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Battle Against Trump-DOGE Overhaul to Play Out in Select Courts
February 18, 2025
Lawsuits against the Trump administration have put four US courts with a majority of Democrat-appointed judges at the center of fights over the onslaught of…
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How Food Waste Deterrence Policies Redirect Surplus Food from Landfills to Those in Need
February 18, 2025
About $1 trillion per year worth of food is either wasted at the retail or consumer level or lost before reaching either of those destinations.
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“A Hostile Takeover of the US Government” — Trump’s Legal Maneuvers with Laurence Tribe
February 18, 2025
Are we in the midst of a constitutional crisis? Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe joins Katie Couric to break down the shocking legal maneuvers of…
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Utah Bans Collective Bargaining for Public Workers
February 18, 2025
A new law signed by Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah prohibits unions from negotiating wages and other terms for teachers, firefighters, police officers and all…
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Elon Musk Is Leading a ‘Hostile Takeover of the Federal Government’
February 18, 2025
President Trump has empowered Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world, to fire government employees, eliminate federal agencies and run roughshod over…
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A unit of Harvard University’s Law Library says it is releasing an archive of more than 300,000 government data sets, aiming to protect vital public…
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Why DOGE is unconstitutional
February 14, 2025
An op-ed by Alan Charles Raul: President Donald Trump, his appointees, acting officials and quasi-official outsiders are in the midst of a radical restructuring or…
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The White House has said that a review of federal funding is necessary to ensure that spending aligns with the president’s agenda. But it also…
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Toledo Municipal Court program to be studied by Harvard Law School
February 14, 2025
On Wednesday morning, Judge Kuhlman was joined by Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz, others within his administration, Toledo police officers, and various members of Toledo City…
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The Trump Crisis Deepens
February 14, 2025
Finally, the Supreme Court decision in Marbury v. Madison, which established the principle of judicial review — the power of the Supreme Court to definitively…
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Laurence Tribe: God Save This Dishonorable Court
February 14, 2025
Constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe joins the “Impolitic with John Heilemann” Podcast to discuss the radical challenge to the prevailing legal order by Donald Trump’s actions…
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How Trump Uses Language to Attack the Idea of Transgender Identity
February 14, 2025
On his first day back in office, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order declaring that there are only two sexes, male and female,…
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Vance Says ‘Judges Aren’t Allowed to Control’ Trump’s ‘Legitimate Power’
February 14, 2025
Vice President JD Vance declared on Sunday that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” delivering a warning shot to the federal judiciary…
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President Trump’s Campaign of ‘Structural Deregulation’
February 14, 2025
An op-ed by Jody Freeman: A few years ago, we published an article in the Harvard Law Review describing how a determined president could…
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The Harvard Law School Library says it is releasing an archive of more than 300,000 government data sets, aiming to protect vital public information at…
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Trump moves to shutter environmental offices across the government
February 6, 2025
In a little over two weeks, the Trump administration has taken unprecedented steps to shutter or remake federal offices focused on the environment, causing turmoil…
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Whole Foods says Trump’s actions make union win moot
February 6, 2025
Amazon-owned Whole Foods asked regulators to dismiss the results of a union election at a Philadelphia store, citing President Donald Trump’s firing of two leaders…
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The high price of scrapping the social cost of carbon
February 5, 2025
An op-ed by Cass Sunstein: With the deluge of executive orders in the initial weeks of the second Trump administration, an important directive flew under…