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Deferred Action, Supervised Enforcement Discretion, And The Rule Of Law Basis For Executive Action On Immigration, Anil Kalhan
Deferred Action, Supervised Enforcement Discretion, And The Rule Of Law Basis For Executive Action On Immigration, Anil Kalhan
Anil Kalhan
In November 2014, the Obama administration announced the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) initiative, which built upon a program instituted two years earlier, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative. As mechanisms to channel the government’s scarce resources toward its enforcement priorities more efficiently and effectively, both DACA and DAPA permit certain individuals falling outside those priorities to seek “deferred action,” which provides its recipients with time-limited, nonbinding, and revocable notification that officials have exercised prosecutorial discretion to deprioritize their removal. While deferred action thereby facilitates a highly tenuous form of quasi-legal recognition …
Whither The Canaries: On The Exclusion Of Poor People From Equal Constitutional Protection, Julie Nice
Whither The Canaries: On The Exclusion Of Poor People From Equal Constitutional Protection, Julie Nice
Julie A. Nice
While neoliberal orthodoxy posits that a rising tide of economic growth will lift all boats, a sea change began in the United States around 1970 that marked the end of our social commitment to shared prosperity and the beginning of the steady widening of income inequality to its current historic level. In response, poor people might have been expected to turn to the courts for protection against the perennially pervasive prejudice against them, especially considering their relative—if not absolute—lack of political clout. But the Supreme Court had virtually closed the courthouse door in Dandridge v. Williams, affording to poor people …
Conflict Of Interest That Led To The Gulf Oil Disaster, Peter J. Honigsberg
Conflict Of Interest That Led To The Gulf Oil Disaster, Peter J. Honigsberg
Peter J Honigsberg
On April 20, 2010, British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, killing eleven people and spilling billions of gallons of oil into the gulf. In the days and weeks that followed, the media pointed to the Minerals Management Services (MMS), the regulatory agency responsible for managing offshore drilling, as being complicit with BP. The MMS issued permits for deepwater drilling in violation of its regulations; provided hundreds of exemptions to the regulations; maintained lax monitoring and enforcement procedures; allowed the companies to draft regulations that suited their interests and objectives; and engaged in inappropriate relationships …