Migrant family separations under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policies began in the summer of 2017. Then Homeland Security chief John Kelly was actually one of the original architects of the family separation policy that began percolating in March…
Category: Corruption
2019
Category: Corruption | Crimes Against Children | Criminal Justice Reform
The Flores Settlement Agreement is a 1997 court settlement that places limits on the length of time in which migrant children can be held in detention and defines the conditions under which these children are incarcerated.
President Trump’s administration…
2019
Category: Constitutional Law | Corruption
Congress’s authority to conduct oversight, and its corollary power to investigate, the executive branch of government (and all of its agencies) are not explicitly stated in Article 1, Section 1 of the United States Constitution. But from the very first…
2019
In early April, House and Ways Committee Chairman Richard Neal requested six years of President Donald Trump’s tax returns and tax information. Chairman Neal has the legal authority under the Revenue Act of 1924 to request the president’s tax information.…
2019
Category: Constitutional Law | Corruption
The current President of these United States of America, Donald John Trump, has imposed upon all law-abiding Americans during his first two years and four months in office a reign of lawlessness, abuse of executive powers, official corruption, and pathological…
2019
Category: Corruption | Federal Criminal Law
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has completed his 22-month investigation into whether the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump conspired with representatives of the Russian government in a coordinated effort to secure the presidency for Trump.
Reputable media outlets…
2019
Category: Corruption | Federal Criminal Law
After a 22-month investigation into whether the Russians interfered with this nation’s 2016 presidential election and whether President Trump’s campaign colluded or coordinated with that foreign interference, the Special Counsel’s Report (“Mueller Report”) was delivered to U.S. Attorney General William…
2019
Category: Corruption | Criminal Justice Reform
In an excellent October 18, 2018 piece published in the Texas Observer and written for Harper’s Magazine, Melissa del Bosque, a Lanman Reporting Fellow with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, delivered a message of just how powerful the…
2019
Category: Appeals | Corruption | Criminal Law
Open meetings laws are often referred to as “sunshine laws.” These laws require that meetings, decisions and records, with some exceptions, of state and federal agencies and regulatory bodies be open and readily available to the public.
The public…
2019
Category: Corruption | Sex Crimes Against Children | Sex Trafficking | Sexual Abuse
U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth A. Marra recently issued a ruling that federal prosecutors who negotiated a 2008 plea deal with billionaire Jeffery Epstein violated the federal Crime Victims’ Rights Act of 2004 (“CVRA”). Judge Marra ruled that the…