I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
A Detroit Free Press reporter has invoked the 5th amendment protections against self-incrimination in his latest attempt to avoid being forced to testify and reveal his sources to a federal court in a lawsuit filed by a former U.S. Attorney against the Department of Justice.
The New York Times reports that major shifts in policy and emphasis are expected at the Justice Department as Obama’s people take over and Bush’s people leave town. Most of those changes are good ones, particularly the focus on restoring the rule of law on torture, FISA and other matters. But then I see this [...]
Politico reports that Obama is going to nominate David Barron of Harvard Law School to be the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel. He will be the chief deputy for Dawn Johnsen, tabbed to head the OLC. Ben Smith says that the pick “suggests that the legal advisory office’s leaders [...]
Kate Klonick, new team member covering the U.S. Department of Justice for our sister site, The Washington Independent, covered the release today of two key reports: • U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility report, entitled, “An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring and Other Improper Personnel Actions in the Civil [...]
President-elect Barack Obama has released the names of several nominees for key positions in the Department of Justice. The most prominent is Elena Kagan, current dean of Harvard Law School, to replace Paul Clement as Solicitor General. I don’t know much about Kagan as an actual courtroom advocate, but she certainly has all the credentials [...]
Politico has an article about the American Constitution Society and how Obama’s election has brought this group to the forefront. The ACS is the liberal answer to the Federalist Society, which was founded by conservative law professors and scholars to help train the next generation of attorneys and influence the public debate over legal issues. [...]
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