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Professor Deborah Pearlstein Authors Piece in The Atlantic

writes in The Atlantic about the Trump administration's view of their authority over U.S. foreign policy: 鈥淕iven this history, it should be unsurprising that Congress has repeatedly enacted legislation in the modern era prohibiting the use of funds to support various U.S. military activities abroad...And in response, presidents have complied. This is in part why the current president鈥檚 critical鈥攁nd apparently unlawful鈥攄elay in delivering congressional authorized security assistance to Ukraine is so extraordinary.鈥�

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Professor Jessica Roth Discusses Impeachment Proceedings on MSNBC; Publishes Piece in Federal Sentencing Reporter

Professor Jessica Roth told , in the event of a Senate trial on impeachment, 鈥渢he risks are the unknowns. You prefer not to have unknowns going into a trial especially from key witnesses.鈥� Regarding a separate topic, Professor Roth also wrote an article in the October 2019 issue of the , titled Rehaif v. United States: Once Again, a Gun Case Makes Surprising Law.

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Professor David Rudenstine鈥檚 Research on Criminal Justice Featured in The New Yorker

was featured in a New Yorker article for work he did in 1975 as part of the Citizens鈥� Inquiry on Parole and Criminal Justice. The report declared that the parole system had 鈥渇ailed dramatically鈥� and was 鈥渂eyond reform鈥�. The New Yorker article on contemporary parole issues quoted Rudenstine鈥檚 conclusion as still valid more than 40 years later: 鈥淚t is regrettable that the primary loyalty of public officials鈥eems to be the maintenance of things as they are.鈥�

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Professor Sam Weinstein Quoted in Bloomberg Regarding Internet Privacy

addressed the issue of Internet privacy and the antitrust cases in Bloomberg, saying, 鈥淐onsumers seem just willing to give up the data. If that鈥檚 what鈥檚 happening, it鈥檚 hard to see antitrust interceding.鈥�

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Professor Lindsay Nash Quoted in Daily Beast on Asylum Rejection Rates

was quoted in Daily Beast regarding why asylum rejection rates are spiking in NY Immigration Court. "Where there鈥檚 a question about a 鈥榩articular social group,鈥� judges in other parts of the country may have taken a narrower view," she said. The Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic's Teaching Fellow, Mauricio Norona, was effectively quoted, saying that new judges would be especially careful to follow the lead in the attorney general's ruling.

Talks and Writings

spoke on a panel at Princeton University called . will speak at the in San Diego on Dec. 17 and the Plenary Session of Annual Conference of Society of Jewish, Christian and Muslim Ethics, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 12. is a speaker at a conference of the which will take place in Jerusalem December 16-17.