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Standing Up for Accessibility: The Supreme Court and the Americans with Disabilities Act
In our world of partisanship and vitriol, it is hard to remember that most cases decided by the Supreme Court are not divided by party lines. It is clear from…
Stop…Everybody Look
The Prohibited Personnel Practices (PPP) in the 1978 civil service reform law provide predictability through identifying unacceptable governance behaviors consistent with American institutional values. The focus of this column is…
Congressional Staff Legal Changes: Harassment Outrage and Intern Pay Pushes Improvements for Congressional Staff
Two Congressional staffing issues particularly under a contentious public spotlight concern harassment and intern pay. A review of both issues follows and may suggest a strained but budding bipartisanship toward…
The Relation of Terrorism and Immigration
Many constituents do not approve of the Trump Administration or their stance on immigration and border control. With that being said, the recent decisions made to secure the American borders…
The U.S. Supreme Court: It’s Your Last Job – or is it?
To keep your appointment alive and well, according to the Constitution, you just need to demonstrate good behavior once you become a justice. I believe that the framers of the…
Public Administration – The Tip of the Iceberg
What we read in the press or see on TV is just the tip of the iceberg of what is really going on in government. For example, on September 21,…
Can Supreme Court Decisions Be Wrong?
In my mind, no amount of footnotes, detailed recitation of facts or legal analysis can make a decision like the one in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller…
Get Off the Omnibus!
Bundling is a current problem in the legislative branch. This is an exercise in consolidation; putting many small bills together as one so that smaller earmarks and pork bills can…
Undoing National Monuments
Environmentalists were outraged this past December when President Trump announced he was reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah: Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante. These were big…
“Y’all can’t do nothing to me”
Those words were uttered on March 2, 2017 by charged offender Markeith Loyd in an Orlando courtroom when Chief Judge Frederick J. Lauten of the 9th Judicial Circuit read first…
The Affordable Care Act, 5-4 and the Legacy of the Roberts Court: Part II
In Part I of this series, I discuss the 5-4 decision by the Supreme Court, which upheld the ACA, with the Chief Justice John Roberts delivering the decision. …
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