By: Claudio Simione, Staff Writer If you are outside the realm of accounting or tax law, you may be unaware of the impending sunsetting of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in 2025. The TCJA, signed into law by President Donald Trump on Jan. 1, 2018, served as […]
By: Claude Ngatchou, Staff Writer On February 15, during a news conference in the White House Rose Garden, President Trump announced that he would sign a spending bill to prevent another government shutdown and declared a national emergency to fund construction of a wall along the southern border.[1] […]
By: Margaret Potter, Staff Writer Two years after taking office, the Trump administration enforced quotas on immigration judges in 2018 requiring each judge “…to clear seven hundred cases a year or get docked points on their performance evaluations.”[1] In addition to this burden on immigration judges, then Attorney General […]
By Samantha Cook, Feature Editor “Jerusalem’s political standing has long been, and remains, one of the most sensitive issues in American foreign policy, and indeed it is one of the most delicate issues in current international affairs.”[1] In his opinion in Zivotofsky v. Kerry, Justice Kennedy delicately handled the complexities […]
By: David Zvirman, Staff Writer Recently, the Twenty-Fifth Amendment has been getting a lot of attention in the media in relation to the presidency of Donald Trump,[1] but where did the Twenty-Fifth Amendment come from, what is it, and what does it even do? This article will take […]
By Samantha Cook, Feature Editor When asked to write a post on the topic of a conflict nation, I started to think about the nature of conflict. We typically think of war as an armed conflict between countries’ governments over some geographical, economic, political, or religious dispute. When that […]
By Wilson R. Huhn,* Professor of Law Introduction On Oct. 28, 2016, 11 days before the 2016 presidential election, Stephanie Clifford signed a non-disclosure agreement pursuant to which Ms. Clifford was paid $130,000 in exchange for her promise not to disclose any information about her alleged affair with Donald Trump.[1] […]
By Amber McGee, Staff Writer Introduction The Statue of Liberty stands as a symbol to all Americans. She is the iconic gatekeeper to the “American Dream,” greeting thousands hopeful of finding a better life in America. She has welcomed them with the words, “Give me your tired, your poor, / […]
By Brandon Schall, Staff Writer Banking and business groups got a big “win” after President Trump signed the repeal of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (“CFPB”) rule on forced arbitration.[1] The CFPB had been working on rules for more than four years to make it easier for consumers to file […]
By Brandon Schall, Staff Writer Currently, there are 144 vacancies on the federal judicial bench and 45 pending judicial nominations waiting for a vote by the Senate.[1] The Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution gives the President the power to nominate an individual to fill an open federal judgeship, […]