The first Tuesday in November is election day. As the media focus has primarily been on the 2020 presidential election, you may not have thought a lot about this year’s election. However, many districts have something on the ballot this …
Can Katie Hill Do Anything About Revenge Porn Used Against Her?
This last weekend marked another sad chapter in Washington, D.C.’s ? and America’s ? obsession with sex scandals. This time, it was Rep. Katie Hill, D-Calif., who was felled by salacious allegations and pictures. The 32-year-old married freshman lawmaker, viewed as …
Why Are So Many Dems Attacking Warren’s Wealth Tax Plan?
All of the remaining Democratic presidential candidates favor increasing taxes on wealthy people. So why, then, do most of them seem to think that the "wealth tax" plans espoused by Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont …
Does Trump Have to Comply With the Impeachment Inquiry?
Most people expected the impeachment inquiry against President Trump underway in the House of Representatives to be a knock-down, drag-out affair. But even those expectations fell short, as last week the White House announced that it will not cooperate in …
Can Performers Do Anything About People Recording Them?
It’s become an epidemic. If you’ve been to a musical festival lately, you’ve probably had your view of the stage blocked by a veritable forest of arms holding cellphones aloft to record the show. Or maybe you are a patron …
Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Landmark Gay, Transgender Employment Cases
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits workplace discrimination based on sex. Over the past decade, the question for employers and the courts has been whether those protections apply to gay, bisexual, or transgender employees. Different courts have …
Do DNA Advances Mean Long-Ago Sperm Donors Can Sue?
When Bryce Cleary was a first-year medical student who donated sperm to his school’s fertility clinic in 1989, internet genealogy sites and mail-in DNA tests didn’t exist. Now they do, of course, and so there are tools to not only …
Is Google Translate Good Enough for Immigration Decisions?
Google Translate is a great little tool. It can help you figure out what those weird words on restaurant menus mean while traveling abroad. Or explain those esoteric references in classic poetry. It’s even been known to "listen" to someone …
Is the Trump Administration Trying to End All Refugee Immigration?
As the story goes, many of America’s first immigrants were fleeing persecution in their home countries. The United States didn’t pass its first immigration restrictions until almost 300 years later, after which some 50 million people had come into the country. Many …
New DHS Rule Poses Threat to Religious Workers and Organizations
Many religious organizations benefit from immigrants who come to the U.S. and work for little or no pay, many of them having taken vows of poverty. A recently published rule by the Department of Homeland Security, however, threatens to make …