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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be introduced at her Senate confirmation hearing Monday by a former D.C. circuit court judge and a University of Pennsylvania law school professor. The Senate Judiciary Committee announced Sunday that Judge Thomas Griffith and professor Lisa Fairfax will each have five minutes to introduce Jackson, who will then have ten minutes for her own opening statement. ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A University of Florida law student is fighting to bring his brother back home to the U.S. from Ukraine, but his brother's dual citizenship is making it difficult for him to leave and now the U.S. State Department is trying to find a solution. It's now been almost a month since Russia's invasion of Ukraine and destruction can be felt across the country. "It was the loudest...

New ‘Talking Seniors’ podcast episode features care consultant Joan Nimmo of the Alzheimer’s Association Hudson Valley Chapter Somers, N.Y. (March 17, 2022) – Westchester County elder law attorney Anthony J. Enea, Esq., member of Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano, LLP in Somers and White Plains, N.Y., recently welcomed Joan Nimmo, LCSW, care consultant and director of professional education for t...

Mary Ann Laws, 92, of Holiday Shores, died on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, at her home with family at her side. Funeral services will be conducted Monday, March 21, beginning at 10 a.m. at Paynic Home of Funerals in East Alton. Burial will follow at Rose Lawn Memory Gardens in Bethalto, where she will be laid to rest next to her husband. Mrs. Laws was born Feb. 12, 1930, in Hillsboro, to Alexan...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. closed for hours as law enforcement investigatedMarch 20, 2022CONNECTING... Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. was closed in Fort Myers. This is happened between Ortiz Ave. and Michigan Ave. The road has since reopened. WINK News estimates that it was closed for nearly five hours. Both Fort Myers police and Lee County deputies were on scene. There were a few tow...

File photo: Voters leaves a polling site in a fire station in Hoboken, N.J., Tuesday, June 7, 2016. (Seth Wenig/AP) About 100 advocacy groups in New Jersey are calling on state lawmakers to pass a measure that allows people to register to vote and cast a ballot on the same day, including on Election Day. If enacted before November, the change would be in effect for this year’s midterm electi...

Jude Law is known for his hugely successful film career, but many may not know that his acting path began in the theater. After his first Academy Award nomination, Law’s film career really took off, and he stayed busy working with some of the most talented directors in the business. His work continued to garner him critical acclaim and, at some point, he established himself as one of the most...

Students at Yale Law School recently disrupted speakers in an example of cancel culture that is common on so many university campuses these days. Now comes a senior federal judge advising his judicial colleagues against hiring the protesting students for clerkships. The March 10 panel was intended as a debate over civil liberties. It was hosted by the Yale Federalist Society and featured Moni...

Congresswoman Nanette Barragán was at the White House, in the Oval Office, as President Joseph R. Biden signed her John Lewis National Institutes on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Endowment Revitalization Act into law. In April 2021, the Congresswoman’s bill passed the House of Representatives on voice vote. Prior to that, in March 2021, the Senate version of her bill, led by...

Vincent Doffont Vincent Doffont spent much of his life serving and protecting his country as a U.S. Marine and, later, his community in Hudson County as a sheriff's officer, police officer and firefighter. Doffont, 37, died suddenly this weekend, leaving those who knew him in shock and profound grief. "He was one of the hardest men I have ever met," wrote friend Blake Upton. "I always tho...