"Obviously, the president wants his approval to be as high as possible in advance of his reelection bid next year," Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball from the University of Virginia, wrote in an email. "A 46/50 approval/disapproval split would be mediocre at best for most presidents, but it’s among the better approval polls the president has gotten from any major nonpartisan pollster while he’s been in office given that he’s spent virtually his entire presidency with underwater approval ratings. The -4 gap between approval and disapproval is different than other recent poll...
In an op-ed in Politico Magazine published on Saturday, University of Virginia law professor George Yin, who has researched the law governing Neal’s request, wrote that the chairman would be better off suing Mnuchin to enforce his request rather than issuing a subpoena.
Experts tend to side with Neal, since the plain language of the 1924 statute appears clear. Not only is there “no wiggle room” in the statue’s “shall furnish” and “any return” language, the legislative history of the law appears to be on Neal’s side as well, said George K. Yin, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and former chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation.
Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, said the state “arguably” started turning blue when it voted for Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. Virginia had backed Republicans in the 10 previous presidential elections, beginning in 1968.
A number of legal experts have said the law clearly states Mnuchin must release the president's tax returns upon request from Congress. "The statute is very clear and seems like very strong support for what Mr. Neal is trying to do," George K. Yin, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law and former chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, said last month. "I think [Mnuchin] obviously needs to think very seriously about that; now he might not care if he gets fired, but I think he would care if he gets sent to jail."
It was 1924, and at the center of the anger and suspicion — fueled by government dysfunction and wealth inequality as gaping as it is in 2019 — were two millionaires. One was the treasury secretary, Andrew W. Mellon, a financier and philanthropist and forerunner of Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs executive who became President Trump’s treasury secretary. Mnuchin is now the face of the administration’s quest to keep Trump’s tax returns from Congress. Ensuring that Congress had equal access to the information was a way to address a perceived imbalance between the two branches, as George K...
(Commentary) A study from economists Dr. Christopher Ruhm and Dr. Charles Baum from the University of Virginia and Middle Tennessee State University found teenagers who had part-time jobs as teenagers had annual earnings that were roughly seven times higher compared to their classmates who did not have jobs.
The University of Virginia’s Faculty Senate on Wednesday approved the skeleton structure of a future School of Data Science. This spring, a Faculty Senate committee has wrestled with the overall format of the proposed school, a step necessary before UVA can send the proposal to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia for approval.
The University of Virginia is rounding out its academic year by appointing Ian Solomon as the next dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, effective Sept. 1.
The city of Charlottesville is taking steps to address climate change and reduce its carbon footprint. Albemarle County and the University of Virginia are also expected to adopt new climate action goals that are in line with Charlottesville’s.
(Commentary by George K. Yin, Edwin S. Cohen Distinguished Professor of Law and Taxation) Congress’ pursuit of President Donald Trump’s tax returns is hardening into a stalemate between the Democratic House and Trump’s Treasury Department.
Barber spent 16 seasons in the NFL, all with Tampa Bay, after being selected by the Buccaneers in the third round of the 1997 draft out of the University of Virginia. Barber was named to the Pro Bowl five times, was a three-time first-team All-Pro and two-time second-team All-Pro.
The annual collegiate tradition of conferring honorary degrees has a long history and its fair share of critics, including Thomas Jefferson, who forbade the University of Virginia, which he founded in 1819, from handing out honorary degrees just to curry favor with bigshot businessmen and politicians.
The tuition program from Virginia529 that allowed families to prepay tuition at Virginia public colleges and universities permanently closed last month. Under the program, families could buy up to 10 semesters of undergraduate in-state tuition and mandatory fees at two- and four-year state schools. Virginia529 closed off the program to new enrollees and will restructure it. Existing Prepaid529 contracts will not be changed.
On the same field where the Cavaliers let last season’s ACC title slip away, Virginia put on one of its most dominant performances of the season against the same team that celebrated with last year’s trophy. Top-seeded Virginia beat No. 3 Notre Dame 10-4 to win its first conference tournament title since 2010.
Textbooks are not the only resource available for teachers. School districts can locally approve additional books for use in the classroom, and teachers can pull in their own materials, said Meg Huebeck, director of instruction at UVA’s Center for Politics. But that requires time and expertise teachers may not have, Huebeck said. Her department at UVA helps teachers by providing some of those resources for free.
Though a Charlottesville Circuit Court judge recently ruled on a major aspect of the 2017 lawsuit over City Council’s votes to remove two Confederate statues, several issues are still unresolved. According to Richard Schragger, a University of Virginia professor of law who focuses on the intersection of constitutional law and local government law, an equal protection defense is fairly straightforward and is intended to prevent the government from racial discrimination.
Traditionally, top White House and congressional officials were reluctant to engage in tactics that could fundamentally change the separation-of-powers playing field. Knowing that majorities in Congress shift and control of the White House changes hands, there was a clear incentive to maintain balance. “That certainly does not seem to be [Sen.] Mitch McConnell (R-KY)’s way of governing,” Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia’s nonpartisan Miller Center, said. “That’s, ‘I will do whatever I can do right now and the future be damned.'”
By 2040, according to a University of Virginia analysis of Census population projections, about half of the country will live in just eight states — which means 16 senators for one half of America and 84 for the other half. Meanwhile, according to Stanford political scientist Jonathan Rodden, partisanship closely correlates with population density — “as you go from the center of cities out through the suburbs and into rural areas, you traverse in a linear fashion from Democratic to Republican places.”
The weekend also included a cancer research symposium at the Salamander Resort & Spa. Joseph Moore, M.D., Medical Director of the Duke Raleigh Cancer Center and Professor of Hematology and Oncology at Duke Cancer Center, hosted the symposium to reinforce the urgency and momentum behind research today. Each of the Virginia Vine mission partners – Inova Schar Cancer Institute, University of Virginia Health System Cancer Center and Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center – will receive a mission grant. The V Foundation will also fund competitive team science research in Virginia...