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UrduIn the latest development in nationwide disputes over the scope of the Clean Water Act, a federal judge in North Dakota has issued a preliminary injunction that blocks a Biden Administration rule over which waters can be regulated. The ruling…
Tag: Trump Administration
Jan. 6 hearings: What’s missing are key White House witnesses
The House Committee charged with investigating the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol is set to hold the first of several hearings on Thursday, hearings that will present evidence and propose reforms designed to strengthen the U.S. democracy. Doug Kriner…
Orphans and exiles: Research shows the impact of family separation
New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York shows the human trauma and family separation that resulted from the Trump Administration’s zero tolerance policy on undocumented immigration.
Space policy continues to shoot for the Moon: ASU Thunderbird’s newest professor says space appears to be one thing Trump and Biden agree on
ASU Thunderbird’s newest professor says space appears to be one thing Trump and Biden agree on The Biden White House has generally made every attempt to distance itself from the Trump administration’s policies and messaging. The new president has swiftly…
Presidential Transition Index uncovers institutional vulnerabilities, unmet legal provisions
The Presidential Transition Index (PTI) team at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs closely analyzed the completion of each legal requirement and ultimately rated the transition efforts at 76 percent.
New H-1B rule is “last gasp” of Trump effort to limit immigration
The Department of Labor (DOL) announced today that it is issuing a 247-page rule to increase wage levels significantly for the H-1B nonimmigrant worker category and for certain employment-based green card applications. Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law at Cornell Law School and…
UNC Expert Offers Context from Historical Perspective on Capitol Riot and its Lasting Impacts
On January 6, supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in Washington, D.C. As people not only in the U.S. but around the world try to understand the event and its ramifications, University of Northern Colorado Professor of…
After Election: Making the Endangered Species Act More Effective
Following the presidential election, a leading group of scientists are making the case that a “rule reversal” will not be sufficient to allow the Endangered Species Act to do its job of protecting species. Instead, they’re calling for deeper improvements to the rules the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service use to apply the law–aiming to make the Act more effective and to gain bipartisan and industry support in an era of accelerating climate change.
The team’s analysis and policy recommendations were published in the journal Science.
Rutgers Experts Available to Discuss Paris Climate Agreement Following 2020 Election
New Brunswick, N.J. (Nov. 4, 2020) – Rutgers University–New Brunswick professors Robert E. Kopp and Pamela McElwee are available for interviews on the Paris climate agreement following the 2020 election. In 2017, President Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the agreement, and…
Trump White House NDAs are likely unconstitutional
The nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) that President Donald Trump has required many White House employees to sign – unlike any previous administration – are likely unconstitutional, according to a report issued by Cornell Law School’s First Amendment Clinic.
Rutgers Medical Experts Available to Discuss President Trump Testing Positive for Coronavirus
Rutgers Medical Experts Available to Discuss President Trump Testing Positive for Coronavirus Rutgers medical experts are available to discuss the implications of President Trump’s positive test for coronavirus, including treatment protocols, results time for testing and the importance of following…
International political economist available to comment on Trump administration’s TikTok, WeChat ban
The Trump administration announced today that it would bar the Chinese-owned mobile apps WeChat and TikTok from U.S. app stores as of Sunday. These two popular services are used by more than 100 million people in the United States. Sarah…
University of Redlands Political Scientist Renee Van Vechten on conventions & elections in 2020 & mail-in voting.
University of Redlands Political Scientist Renee Van Vechten weighs in on the national conventions, rescheduling the presidential election and mail-in voting. Q. What will change for conventions when they are held virtually? A. “Conventions long ago lost their mystique when…
Prof. Sharona Hoffman available to discuss Trump administration’s decision to strip C.D.C. of control of coronavirus data
07/15/20 Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law, co-director of the Law-Medicine Center and a professor in the department of bioethics at the university’s School of Medicine, is available to discuss the Trump administration’s decision to strip the…
AMLO’s White House visit shows Mexico’s dependence on U.S.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico (often referred to as AMLO) will join President Trump at the White House on Wednesday amid continued coronavirus concerns and celebrations of the new trade deal between Mexico, Canada and the United States. …
Tulane immigration law expert calls SCOTUS ruling a surprise victory for Dreamers
Mary Yanik, director of the Tulane Immigrants’ Rights Law Clinic, says the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling barring President Trump from ending DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, is recognition that “the Trump administration’s rescission of the program was…
Separation of powers at stake in US House v. Trump
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia held arguments by phone on Tuesday in a case pitting the Trump administration against the House of Representatives over the latter’s power to enforce a subpoena for former White House…
University of Redlands professor says ‘there is simply no way to justify the Trump Administration’s new fuel economy standards.’
Dr. Nicholas Reksten is an environmental economist at the University of Redlands who can speak with authority about the economic impact of the Trump Administration’s new fuel economy standards. “There is simply no way to justify the administration’s new fuel…
ASA Urges Administration to Take Steps to Ensure Continued Patient Care, Provider Safety During COVID-19
As the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) continues to collaborate with the Administration, Congress and other officials on ways physician anesthesiologists can help treat patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, ASA President Mary Dale Peterson, M.D., MSHCA, FACHE, FASA, sent a communication to the White House commending the Administration for its work to date and formalizing key ASA recommendations to address top health concerns. In the communication, Dr. Peterson urges the Administration to continue to prioritize actions to expand access to personal protective equipment (PPE), to provide robust economic relief to physician anesthesiologists’ practices and to increase access to ventilators which include anesthesia gas machine ventilators, while considering expanding access to critical care providers.
COVID-19 threatens 2020 election; WVU political scientist urges feds to explore voting alternatives
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – As states postpone their primary elections in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, one West Virginia University political scientist is calling on President Donald Trump to assemble a bipartisan task force to consider voting options for November’s…
Both our political past and present shape America’s response to COVID-19, says policy expert
One researcher at West Virginia University suggests that we need to set aside political partisanship as the U.S. responds to the novel coronavirus. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency Friday (March 13). Earlier this week, the World Health Organization declared it…
Trump floodplain buyout plan bold, but ‘uncoordinated’
The Trump administration is pushing cities to use eminent domain in order to remove homeowners from flood zones — threatening to withhold federal funds those municipalities need to combat climate change if the cities refuse. Linda Shi, assistant professor in…
Study Finds ‘Far-Reaching’ Impact from Affordable Care Act
[Embargoed to March 2, 2020 @ 4 p.m. (ET). ] By 2008, when President Obama was first elected, the rate of uninsurance in the U.S. had been steadily deteriorating: nearly 56 million Americans reported they had no health insurance for…
University of Utah Law research questions whether national monument management plans follow federal law
New research from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law’s Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment questions whether the federal government followed the law in finalizing management plans for the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
UCLA expert available for comment on planned Trump Administration revisions of federal protections for streams and wetlands.
Richard F. Ambrose, a UCLA biologist and marine ecologist with more than four decades in the field, is available for comment on planned Trump Administration revisions of federal protections for streams and wetlands. Ambrose is a professor in the Department of…
Evaluating the Trump Administration’s Iran Policy
In his testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, CFR President Richard N. Haass analyzed the pros and cons of the targeted killing of Qasem Soleimani and offered recommendations for U.S. policy moving forward.
Rutgers Experts Available to Discuss Implications of U.S. Strike on Iran Commander
Rutgers Experts Available to Discuss Implications of U.S. Strike on Iran Commander New Brunswick, N.J. (Jan. 3, 2019) – Rutgers experts are available to comment on the implications of the Friday morning strike that killed Iran’s top security and intelligence…
“It mirrors executive overreach elsewhere, where such behavior has contributed to the decay of democratic political systems,” says University of Redlands professor about the current impeachment case.
“Impeachment is a means of establishing and maintaining the separation of powers designed by the founders in the U.S. and replicated across the western hemisphere,” says Dr. Steve Wuhs, a political scientist at the University of Redlands, who can speak…
Rutgers Expert Available to Discuss Impeachment Public Hearings
New Brunswick, N.J. (November 18, 2019) – David Greenberg, a Rutgers–New Brunswick professor of history and of journalism and media studies, is available to discuss the House impeachment inquiry as it begins its second week of public hearings with the…
Expert Available to Discuss Anonymous Book, Role of Anonymity in Whistleblowing Cases
Rutgers scholar Craig R. Scott is available to discuss the use of anonymity in recent whistleblowing cases as well as the upcoming book A Warning by Anonymous. Scott, along with Brian Richardson at University of North Texas, analyzed last year’s…
U.S. Carbon and Pollution Emissions Policies are ‘Up in the Air’
Tangles in courts and in Congress threaten emissions-related energy regulations and incentives. If these are lost, carbon emissions are projected to climb, and the fight against health-damaging ozone may lose traction, allowing it to resurge, too. An expert explains the legal messes.
Energy Regulation Rollbacks Threaten Progress Against Harmful Ozone
The fight against harmful ozone is under legal threat. Air quality and carbon emissions regulations are currently in limbo in courts and congress, from core legislation from the 1970s to rules from the last U.S. administration. This study models the future losses in the fight to drive down respiratory-damaging, ground-level ozone if the regulations go away.
American Society of Anesthesiologists Offers Trump Administration Medical Expertise to Protect and Improve Medicare
ASA today offered it medical expertise to the Trump Administration as it works to improve Medicare beneficiaries’ access to physician care, implement transparency and market-based reforms, while reducing cost and regulatory burdens as provided in President Trump’s Executive Order.
Experts Available to Comment on 2020 Presidential Race
New Brunswick, N.J. – As the 2020 presidential campaign accelerates, Rutgers faculty experts are available to comment on the most pressing issues in the race for the White House. Topics include the economy, immigration, health care, national security, gun control,…
Political Scientist Available to Discuss Impeachment Inquiry
Ross Baker, distinguished professor of political science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick and an expert on American politics, is available to comment on the formal impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Baker is a former research associate at the Brookings Institution. He has served…
Oregon State University expert says impeachment is all about foreign intervention
Christopher Nichols, an associate professor of history and director of the Center for the Humanities at Oregon State University, is available to comment about Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment announcement. Nichols has these initial thoughts: “President Trump’s efforts with — and ties to…
States’ rights at the center of California auto emission conflict
The Trump administration is expected to strike down California’s ability to set in-state auto emissions standards this week. The move pits California against the administration in an unprecedented legal battle over the states’ right to regulate air quality. David Bateman,…