New asylum cases swamp border courts
ABA Journal Daily News
ABA Journal Daily News
The long-term recovery for thousands of Texans whose homes were decimated by Hurricane Harvey rests with a Trump administration government outsider who wants his agency's budget cut by billions of dollars. After the flood waters around Houston recede and the Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster officials leave, Ben Carson's Department of Housing and Urban Development […]
In a persistent drizzle on 17 January, a group of protesters swathed in green ponchos unfurled tarps and sleeping bags on the sidewalk in front of Goldman Sachs' high-rise building on the West Side highway in New York City. A few of them wore handmade swamp creature masks; others bore signs with the swamp creatures […]
President-elect Donald Trump announced on November 30 that former Goldman Sachs partner Steven Mnuchin – a man described as “the anti-populist from Hell” – is his pick for treasury secretary. Critics say Mnuchin's background – including running a bank described as “a foreclosure machine” – is further evidence that Trump has no intention of fulfilling […]