Big Law Deals With Trump Are Backfiring on Top Firms
Major law firms in a storng position to fight Trump diktats about backing conservative interests are paying a price for selling out.
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Wall Street Journal Reports UnitedHealth Under Criminal Investigation for Medicare Fraud
The Department of Justice is reportedly seeking to indict UnitedHealth for Medicare Advantage fraud. Why has it been so hard to make a case?
Read more...Decisive Win for Pensioners, Taxpayers in Kentucky as Judge Wingate Rejects Attorney General’s “Get Out of Jail for Almost Free” Scheme for KKR and Blackstone
The plaintiffs seeking to claw back funds from misbehaving finance titans like KKR and Blackstone continue their winning streak.
Read more...How Long Until You Lose Your Constitutional Rights?
Trump adviser Stephen Miller is talking about suspending habeas corpus due to “invasion.” Whether that happens or not, we’re still seeing constitutional rights continue to erode as the “War on Terror” comes home.
Read more...Forensic Science Faces an Identity Crisis
To avoid bias, should scientists direct evidence collection from a crime scene? Or should they stay removed from it?
Read more...Predictive Policing AI Is on the Rise − Making It Accountable to the Public Could Curb Its Harmful Effects
Predictive policing experiments continue, despite poor results to date. Can this approach be made non-abusive?
Read more...Responsibility to Protect and Humanitarian Military Intervention
Humanitarian military intervention sounds like an oxymoron and often winds up being one. Nevertheless, there are rules of engagement.
Read more...US-Ukraine Minerals Deal: Has Trump Agreed to Continue Military Support? Even if Not, Will He Fall for an Endowment Effect Trap?
Will the Ukraine minerals deal become a tar baby for Trump?
Read more...The Legal Limits of Trump’s Crackdown on Sanctuary Cities Like Philadelphia
Trump is escalating his campaign against sanctuary cities, and potentially even sanctuary churches. How might that play out?
Read more...Company Accused of Organizing National Rental Housing Cartel Goes on Offense as Trump DOJ Mothballs Price-Fixing Case
In a lawsuit against Berkeley, RealPage contends that using pricing algorithms to coordinate residential rents among mega landlords is “free speech.”
Read more...“Is Trump About to End Democracy in the USA?”
Trump asked the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to determine whether to use the Insurrection Act to secure the southern border
Read more...Trump Makes Presumed Empty but Loud Threat to Fire Fed Chair Powell, Showing that Trump Will Continue to Wreck Markets and the Economy to Prove His Manhood
Trump is now taking on Fed chair Powell over Powell’s refusal to cut rates to bail Trump out of the economic messes he created.
Read more...More Trump Punishment of the Poors: HHS Eliminates Office That Sets Poverty Levels Tied to Benefits for 80 Million People
Yet another Trump gutting of a whole swathe of programs, here by eliminating the experts who knew how to determine poverty thresholds.
Read more...‘We’re Turning Into a Dictatorship’: Trump Tariffs Seen as Ploy to Further Consolidate Power
Senator Chris Murphy called President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs “a political weapon designed to collapse our democracy.”
Read more...Blockbuster Deal Will Wipe Out $30 Billion in Medical Debt. Even Backers Say It’s Not Enough.
A program that purchased medical debt at a deep discount, while effective, still reinforces a predatory system.
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