
Sick and Aging Prisoners: A Look Into Compassionate Release
The New York Times examines the federal compassionate release program, a program designed to permit the release of sick, dying and elderly prisoners who are the least likely to re-offend and the most expensive to house.
Ethics Agency Finds Hatch Act Violation
The Office of Special Counsel found that President Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway violated the Hatch Act, which bars federal employees from using their office for partisan politics, after she advocated for Republican Roy Moore in Alabama’s recent Senate election during live television interviews broadcast from the White House lawn.
Tribal Soveringty
Reporters Matthew Fletcher and Wenona Singel discuss Tribal Sovereignty.
Liability Insurance – Long Tail Claims
Project Reporter Kyle D. Logue discusses Long Tail Claims.
N.J. Legislation Follows Foreign Relations Law Restatement on Judgments
Signed into law in January, the new law relates to foreign judgments (except for taxes, fines, or domestic relations) and protects against monetary judgments entered in nations whose courts fail to provide due process.
Congressional Power and Sovereignty in Indian Affairs
The doctrine of inherent tribal sovereignty — that tribes retain aboriginal sovereign governing power over people and territory — is under perpetual assault. Despite two centuries of precedential foundation, the doctrine must be defended afresh with each attack. Opponents of the doctrine of tribal sovereignty express skepticism of the doctrine, suggesting that tribal sovereignty is a nullity because it is not unfettered. Some pay lip service to the doctrine while undermining tribes in their exercise of inherent sovereignty.
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