"Judge Spencer deserves credit for shutting down the defense's early attempts to politicize the charges," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. He thought the defense efforts were aimed at encouraging any Republicans on the jury to reject the prosecutors' case as merely a Democratic attack on a GOP politician."Only one juror, if he or she hangs tough, can cause a mistrial after all," he said.But Sabato said, "This long-suffering jury deserves the benefit of the doubt. They have endured a major disruption in their lives, carefully listene...
And that, in turn, means Republicans may end up spending millions of dollars on a Senate race that they once thought was a lock.“That primary really damaged Roberts,” said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia. “You never bet against a Republican in Kansas,” he added. “But it’s going to force the national Republicans to divert substantial resources to Kansas.”
Attempts to tighten voter identification laws have drawn political praise and criticism, said Geoff Skelley, of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.“Studies indicate that strict voter ID rules are most likely to inhibit elderly indigent minority voters,” Skelley said in an email. “There is debate on the significance of the impact of such laws, but at the end of the day, at least some citizens will have a harder time exercising the right to vote because they lack a common form of ID such as a driver’s license.”
Mark Martin ’98 (LL.M.), a UNC-Chapel Hill law school grad with a master of laws degree from University of Virginia and 22 years judicial experience, has been selected N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice. But to keep the seat, Martin must win public election.
Why do bedbugs keep showing up in the greatest city in the world? It turns out that human error is as much to blame as the resilience of the six-legged critters.Recent bedbug discoveries in New York City's subway system and in the midtown Manhattan offices of Pacific Investment Management are only the latest chapters in a long, creepy story for Gotham residents. And even if recent incidents don't approach the worst of the city's infamous bedbug invasion of 2010, New Yorkers and the city's many annual visitors can reasonably ask why the nighttime menace cannot be eradicated.A bi...
Andrew V. McLaglen, a British-born director whose work in American westerns on television and in the movies starred such notable screen cowpokes, gunslingers and lawmen as John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, James Arness and James Stewart, died on Saturday at his home in Friday Harbor, Wash. He was 94. ... He graduated from what is now the Cate School, near Santa Barbara, where he made his first amateur movies, and spent a year at the University of Virginia.
Creating a campus culture that draws clear lines in the sand regarding appropriate sexual behavior requires the combined efforts of students and the administration. It is good that students are spearheading some of the efforts to call attention to sexual assault, its danger and its prevention. But we also want students to know that relying on campus adjudication procedures for something as serious as this is not necessarily the best option.
Some student groups are acting on their own. One in Four, a national non-profit targeting campus sexual assault, now has chapters at more than than a dozen colleges and universities, including the U.S. Naval Academy, The University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Virginia. Their programs are directed at both male and female students.
Seven Society: Founded around 1905, this University of Virginia secret society is extremely secretive and its members are only revealed after their death. However, its presence is clear, with multiple markings of the number seven throughout the campus. It is also known for its philanthropic efforts benefiting the university.
Research has indicated that people are more likely to take a more in-depth approach to learning when they’re trying to answer questions they’ve come to regard as important, he noted. That was true with his Northwestern student, and with Emma Murphy, whose experience at the University of Virginia he noted as well.The instructor of a Russian literature class arranged for Murphy and her classmates to go into a juvenile correctional facility and talk with the boys there about Tolstoy’s short stories, which address such issues as individual commitment to higher goals and the purpo...
In the latest of a string of stops at campuses across the state, U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner on Wednesday pitched proposals to ease student debt.The former governor spoke to about 100 students at the University of Virginia, where tuition has been a hot topic both on Grounds and on the school’s Board of Visitors.“People get crushed in their ability to open a business, start a family, buy a house, and that ripples throughout the whole economy,” Warner said.
Senator Mark Warner visited the University of Virginia Wednesday to address the national student debt crisis. Student debt in the United States is surpassing credit card debt at $1.2 trillion, and 2014 graduates this spring became the most indebted class ever.
Kevin Spacey is taking center stage at the University of Virginia this fall.The acclaimed actor will be in Charlottesville on Oct. 18 at the second annual President's Speaker Series for the Arts. The university says more than 5,000 people are expected to attend.
Douglas Laycock, one of Holt’s lawyers, said Supreme Court briefs should meet a higher standard of factual accuracy. “This kind of flat misrepresentation to the court, however it happened,” he said, “doesn’t happen very often.” ... In addition to Laycock, who teaches law at the University of Virginia, Holt is represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which also represented Hobby Lobby, the chain of crafts stores that won last term’s religious liberty case.
About 4,000 health caregivers in the country are set to benefit from a yearlong training exercise to be conducted by a visiting team of specialists, nurses, and health managers from 23 US universities. The 116 experts in various medical fields started work at their respective postings across the country yesterday.They are in the country under the auspices of Human Resources for Health (HRH) programme, a seven-year partnership between Rwanda and the US and institutions such as Global Fund and Clinton Foundation, which started in 2012. ... "We are here not only to share knowledge and experi...
Have you heard the old joke about the difference between God and a federal court judge? The punchline is that God doesn’t think he’s a judge – implying, of course, that federal judges have a perhaps inflated perception of their omnipotence. ... Judge Sullivan wanted to hear from a less interested party, so he appointed University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett to submit an amicus brief.
As Ukraine's battle against separatists along the border with Russia intensifies, the conflict threatens to bleed the government's coffers dry. ... Ashley Deeks, a former State Department lawyer now at the University of Virginia's School of Law, said the Obama administration has yet to articulate the legal basis for bombing in Syria. But she said the self-defense justification is most likely what it will cite, what she called "anticipatory self-defense," that is, countering an imminent threat against American citizens.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said the announcement of Cantor’s Wall Street job was “as predictable as the sunrise.”“We just didn’t know the name of the firm Cantor would join,” Sabato said.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said the Perry indictment might even give Abbot "a bit of a boost since Republicans are so angry that it happened." ... "Media hype does not produce votes most of the time," Sabato said. "Wendy Davis received enormous amounts of state and national coverage, but the Democratic base in Texas is nowhere near a majority of the electorate."
Director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics Dr. Larry Sabato was on with Brian and they discussed the Mid-term elections and what to expect. The Republicans are going to run against the Democrats on their inaction in the Middle East and the stagnant economy. Dr. Sabato explained that the rebounding economy isn’t going to help the Democratic Party.