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A man walks at an empty campus green at Georgetown University in Washington, U.S., April 3, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (Reuters) - The dean of Georgetown University Law Center on Thursday condemned a new faculty member's Twitter posts questioning the qualifications of any Black woman that President Joe Biden may nominate to replace retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. “The tw...

BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) – It’s a problem Spanish Fort Police Chief John Barber saw first-hand last year, now in 2022 he’s still finding it tough to recruit good help. “I think you know about the National narrative. There’s a lot of negativity that’s been portrayed around policing in general,” said Barber Thursday. On top of those challenges, Barber said the COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t helped...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday signed into law an 18-month delay of the state’s new long-term care program that creates a defined benefit to help offset the costs of such care. His signature comes a day after lawmakers gave final approval to the move amid concerns about the program’s solvency and criticisms about elements of the underlying law, including people c...

TALLAHASSEE — A Florida House committee on Thursday advanced a stripped-down version of a bill designed to make apartment complexes safer following the murder of Orlando college student Miya Marcano, deleting parts of a measure that her family thinks would help avoid a similar tragedy in the future. Even though legislators removed a requirement that landlords conduct a national background che...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A man walking on Interstate 65 in Nashville has been shot and killed by law enforcement Metro police said MNPD officers, Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers and an off-duty Mt. Juliet officer shot at the 37-year-old man, killing him. According to the THP, a trooper stopped a man walking on the interstate with possibly a box cutter on Thursday around 2 p.m. I-65 before ...

The University of Akron and Cleveland State University have ended discussions on a possible merger of their law schools. In a joint statement Thursday, the universities said the working group examining the possibility of a law school merger was nixing the idea based on stakeholder feedback. "Many alumni, students, faculty, and others shared with us their strong feelings of pride in both law...

Kobre & Kim offices in Washington, D.C. April 9, 2015. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL. Lawyers at Kobre & Kim have accused Seychelles’ anti-corruption authority of intimidation in a blistering condemnation of the African archipelago’s legal system. Kobre & Kim said the Anti-Corruption Commission of Seychelles (ACCS) had attempted to “intimidate and disqualif...

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 14.5 million Americans are getting private health insurance for this year under the Obama-era health law, thanks to help from the Biden administration. “Health care should be a right, not a privilege, for all Americans,” President Joe Biden said Thursday in a statement announcing the numbers. “We are making that right a reality for a record number of people, bringin...

“America’s Ever-Expanding Criminal Code” (Review & Outlook, Jan. 22) brings James Madison to mind. “It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice,” Madison wrote, “if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” Alan Sechrest Mission Viejo, Calif. Copyright ©2022 Dow Jones & Company,...

West Virginia Rep. David McKinley meets with local law enforcement officials  WV News