Several cases currently in the federal court pipeline could present themselves before the court and a new justice in the near future that test the limits of Obama-era regulation, according to UVA environmental law professor Jonathan Cannon.
The plenary power doctrine has ebbed over time, according to some legal experts. Kerry Abrams, a UVA law professor, says the courts have begun to approach it more skeptically, weighing the civil liberties of individuals against the interests of the government.
According to Doug Laycock, a professor at the UVA School of Law, the likelihood that we would see fines or jail time even if a contempt order did come down is very slim – in large part because neither the judge, nor the government, has any interest in having the situation devolve to that point.
President Donald Trump's decision Monday to fire an insubordinate acting attorney general was not unprecedented, but it is a rare occurrence in presidential history. Since President Harry Truman began his first presidential term in 1945, only 35 presidential appointees have been fired, according to a report compiled by Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, and published by Politico.
In a 2015 paper titled “Corruption in India: Bridging Research Evidence and Policy Options,” Sandip Sukhtankar, UVA associate professor of economics, and a colleague point out how political parties in India circumvent the law to receive anonymous cash donations just below the Rs 20,000 threshold to escape scrutiny.
Perriello sent out a fundraising blast Tuesday, urging Democrats to donate to his fledging 2017 campaign as a way of rejecting Trump. Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’s Center for Politics, said attacking Trump is smart politics with the Democratic Party electorate because neither candidate is well-known and voters are itching for confrontation.
(Co-written by Chris Lu, senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center) As former political appointees in the Obama administration’s Labor Department, we can think of few areas where we are in agreement with Donald Trump. Yet we share his belief that government needs to do more to lift up American workers. If the new president is interested in delivering on his promise of creating jobs and growing wages for workers, there’s an executive order already in place that he should support.
Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters announced Tuesday it has formed an alliance with the UVA Children’s Hospital to improve the CHKD heart surgery program.
The Charlottesville area is growing by leaps and bounds. New estimates released by UVA’s Weldon Cooper Center show it is the third-fastest-growing area in Virginia.
Schönberg and Boublil will be artists-in-residence at the University of Virginia from Feb. 22 to 24, sharing their experience and creative insights with students, faculty, staff and the Charlottesville community.
Ryan McFadden was in his early 30s when he found his life’s calling. Today, McFadden is a pediatric nurse at the UVA Children’s Hospital, thanks in part to the financial assistance he received under the Conway Scholarship, which allowed him to attend UVA’s School of Nursing.
Two of the UVA’s major student political organizations have issued a joint statement condemning President Trump’s 90-day travel ban on citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries. The statement from the University Democrats and College Republicans said the order “raises a number of ethical, humanitarian and legal concerns.”
The “one-in, two-out” approach has been tossed around for several years, but it hasn't been adopted because many believe it's not a well-targeted approach to reducing regulatory burden, said Michael Livermore, a UVA law professor who specializes in regulation and cost-benefit analysis. It maintains the status quo, which isn't necessarily something a new administration wants to do.
(By Kerry Abrams, professor of law at the UVA School of Law, and Brandon L. Garrett, Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law at the UVA School of Law) President Donald Trump’s executive order on refugees and noncitizens states that one of its purposes is to ensure that people admitted to the country “support the Constitution.” It’s clear from the rest of the order, which runs afoul of a number of constitutional provisions, that the president does not.
Snowstorms may leave more than a big mess in their wake: New research shows a sharp spike in hospital admissions for heart trouble two days after these weather events. UVA cardiologist Dr. Ellen Keeley, who wasn't involved in the study, said the results are consistent with other smaller, single-center studies. It "highlights the importance of the real association between snowstorms and cardiac events," she said.
Under intense questioning from Democrats during her Jan. 17 confirmation hearing, DeVos suggested that states should be able to decide whether schools must follow the law. She later said she may have been confused about IDEA’s requirements. The hearing prompted Robert Pianta, dean of UVA’s Curry School of Education, to write that he was “was deeply dismayed by her performance” in the hearing. “It was, in a word, disqualifying,” he wrote in The Washington Post last week.
(Co-written by Saikrishna Prakash, a fellow at the Miller Center and UVA law professor) This week, President Trump will exercise one of the president’s most important powers: nominating someone to fill an empty seat on the Supreme Court. Many conservatives made peace with Trump because he promised to appoint “judges very much in the mold of Justice [Antonin] Scalia.” But will he have the mettle to keep his word or will he be cowed by Democratic Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer’s vow to only approve a “bipartisan” or “mainstream” nominee?
Annotations by David A. Martin, the Warner-Booker Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Virginia.
Fauquier’s population growth has slowed to about one-half of 1 percent annually, according to Virginia’s leading demographers. An estimated 67,898 people lived in the county last July 1, the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service Demographics Research Group reported Monday.
The theme of this year’s round of community Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations is “Silence as Betrayal,” and perhaps no one is more befitting of that premise than the woman who famously broke against the culture of silence in sexual harassment 25 year ago.