Trump has issued two orders that seek to limit visitors and refugees from several predominantly Muslim countries to the U.S., and both have, so far, been blocked by the courts. “Ultimately, it was the President’s decision whether to defend the first order,” Micah Schwartzman, a constitutional law professor at the University of Virginia, said. “He could have told his Attorney General (or acting Attorney General at the time) to do that.”
Wearing the jacket his son Otto Warmbier wore at the sham trial that ended with his imprisonment in North Korea, Fred Warmbier denounced the “pariah” regime that had brutalized his son, and fought back tears Thursday as he remembered kneeling to hug him when he was returned to the United States.
The Major League Baseball Draft ended Wednesday, signaling a win for Virginia. After five Cavaliers were chosen among the first 10 rounds, Bennett Sousa, selected by the Washington Nationals in the 34th round, became No. 6 Wednesday. Only two UVA signed recruits were picked, but in rounds 31 and 36. The late selections likely indicate both will come to Virginia and not sign professionally.
The parents of a UVA alumnus who was killed in Iraq will establish a scholarship in their son's memory. Khizr and Ghazala Khan will make the announcement Friday about the Bicentennial Scholarship in memory of their son, U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan.
UVA student Otto Warmbier is back home in Cincinnati, but as people in the community awaited news about his health while he was treated at the hospital Wednesday, they were in a familiar place: feeling helpless, wishing there was something they could do.
In this week's Political Tuesday, Geoff Skelley from UVA’s Center for Politics speaks about why the Virginia governor's race is getting intense interest from around the country, and what the latest polls predict about the winners for both parties.
“Initial takeaways are that Northam performed strongly in the Urban Crescent – Northern Virginia, Richmond, and Hampton Roads – and that was all he had to do in the end,” says Geoffrey Skelly of UVA’s Center for Politics. “He ran strongly among black voters and ended up carrying liberal strongholds like Alexandria and Arlington.”
It’s possible that Trump could circumvent DOJ entirely and fire Mueller on his own. It’s not clear that Trump has any constitutional duty to adhere by a Justice Department regulation, said Saikrishna Prakash, a professor at UVA School of Law and former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. “I don’t know how a rule of the Department of Justice can limit the president’s constitutional authority,” Prakash said, pointing to the president’s authority to remove officers of the executive branch, which could be interpreted to include a special counsel. “My view is the president can fire the...
(Co-written by Jennifer Doleac, assistant professor of public policy and economics) Ban the Box is a popular policy that prevents employers from asking about someone’s criminal record until late in the job application process – giving applicants an opportunity to explain their qualifications first. The policy aims to increase employment for people with criminal records, in the hopes of reducing recidivism, and to reduce racial disparities in employment.
Boston-based architects Höweler+Yoon, along with Mabel O. Wilson, Gregg Bleam Landscape Architect, and Dr. Frank Dukes, are designing a circular memorial to honor the slaves who helped build the University of Virginia. The memorial was approved Friday by the UVA Board of Visitors’ Buildings and Grounds Committee.
"This has been an unimaginable, traumatic year for them," said Sara Kenny, UVA Student Council president, about the Warmbier family. Halfway through his third year at UVA, Warmbier was arrested in North Korea. Just this past May, his class graduated.
A plane carrying University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, who had been detained in North Korea for 17 months and was in a coma for most of it, touched down in Cincinnati on Tuesday night.
A UVA student who was arrested, tried and sentenced to hard labor in North Korea has been released, but his family says he’s in a coma. Sandy Hausman reports on what’s known about Otto Warmbier and on reaction from the University of Virginia, where he would have graduated this year.
University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, who spent 17 long months in detention in North Korea, has finally come home – in a coma.
Yun went on a secret mission to North Korea to bring out Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia student who was detained in January last year and had fallen into a coma for reasons that are not yet clear. Warmbier arrived home in Cincinnati on Tuesday and was being treated at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
Kyle's Guy's infamous man bun is no more. The rising sophomore Virginia basketball player posted a photo of his new haircut with a short note to his old hairdo on Tuesday night.
Of the first 250 cases where DNA evidence exonerated wrongfully convicted people, 190 involved inaccurate eyewitness accounts, said Brandon Garrett, a UVA law professor and author of “Convicting the Innocent.” “Eyewitnesses are much less reliable than people think,” Garrett said. “They have real problems identifying faces.”
Congratulations to James B. Murray, an Albemarle County resident who has been elected vice rector of the University of Virginia. Congratulations as well to new Rector Frank N. “Rusty” Conner. A partner at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, he specializes in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate governance. This skill set, along with his experience on other boards of directors, will serve him well in helping to guide the University.
UVA student Otto Warmbier, who has been detained in North Korea for 17 months, has been medically evacuated from the country in a coma, his parents told The Washington Post Tuesday.