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Next Generation Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Law: Renewing 702, William C. Banks
Next Generation Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Law: Renewing 702, William C. Banks
University of Richmond Law Review
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Confirming Judge Restrepo To The Third Circuit, Carl W. Tobias
Confirming Judge Restrepo To The Third Circuit, Carl W. Tobias
Law Faculty Publications
From the moment that the Grand Old Party (GOP) won the Senate in November 2014, Republicans have directly and incessantly vowed to establish “regular order” in the upper chamber again. Lawmakers employed this phrase to depict the purported restoration of strictures that prevailed until Democrats subverted them. In January 2015, when the 114th Congress began, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the Majority Leader, proclaimed, “[w]e need to return to regular order,” while the legislator has dutifully recited that mantra ever since. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, espoused analogous concepts. Illustrative was his January 2015 pledge …
Combating The Ninth Circuit Judicial Vacancy Crisis, Carl W. Tobias
Combating The Ninth Circuit Judicial Vacancy Crisis, Carl W. Tobias
Law Faculty Publications
When Donald Trump became President, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had four judicial vacancies that the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO) identified as “judicial emergencies.” The court also faces a larger caseload than all the other regional circuits, and has frequently decided appeals the least swiftly. The 2016 election returns indicate that more confirmations will be necessary due to additional court members’ probable retirement or assumption of senior status during President Trump’s administration. Striking politicization could frustrate this effort, however. Soon after the inauguration, President Trump signed a novel executive order proscribing U.S. …