By NEO Law Group
Notable Events of the Week: United Airlines forcibly removed a paying senior citizen passenger from his seat, allowing him to be knocked out and dragged out by his arms (without administering immediate first aid), because the airline prioritized getting one of its employees without a booked seat to the...
Notable Events of the Week: The U.S. launched a missile attack on Syria in response to Syrian President Assad’s poison gas attack on its citizens. Senate Republicans changed longstanding rules to allow them to bypass a Democratic filibuster and confirm Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the...
Notable Events of the Week: House Republicans pulled legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act. President Trump signed an executive order curbing enforcement of climate regulations, motivated by corporate funds over public health. March 29 marked Brexit Day (official notification by the U.K. of its intention to leave the European...
Notable Events of the Week: FBI Director James Comey testified before the House Intelligence Committee, asserting that the FBI was investigating the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia and repudiating President Trump’s unsubstantiated and seemingly unhinged allegation that the Obama administration had wiretapped his New York offices. The Associated Press reported that President Trump’s former campaign manager,...
Notable Events of the Week: House and the Senate Intelligence Committees’ reports finding no evidence supporting President Trump‘s claim that President Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump. A federal judge’s order blocking President Trump’s revised travel (Muslim) ban. A resolution sponsored by, among others, several House Republicans recognizing human activities’ contribution to climate change...
The past week was marked by President Trump‘s diversionary, unsubstantiated, and seemingly unhinged claim that President Obama wiretapped him followed by reports that James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, had asked the Justice Department to refute this claim; a revised but still highly controversial and very possibly unconstitutional travel ban; release of the House...
The past week was marked by the discovery of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Session‘s highly suspicious meetings with the Russian ambassador to the United States “at the height of what U.S. intelligence officials say was a Russian cyber campaign to upend the U.S. presidential race” and his failure to disclose such meetings during his confirmation...
This past week was marked by the Day of Remembrance (and the 75th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 leading to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese-Americans) and the current administration’s announcement of its plans for aggressive enforcement of immigration laws, including a potentially massive expansion of the number of...
The past week was marked by the resignation of President Trump’s national security adviser Michael Flynn under the cloud of highly suspicious and likely unlawful communications, as a private citizen, with the Russians regarding U.S. sanctions on Russia; and the Grammy Awards, which also found itself under a cloud,...
The past week was marked by the confirmation of an unqualified Secretary of Education (“but only with the help of a historic tiebreaking vote from Vice President Mike Pence”) and an Attorney General with a history of alleged racist comments and sexist statements and actions. But it will also be known for the...