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March 30, 2018
One of these two judges was Laurence Silberman, a conservative Republican whom Ronald Reagan had appointed to the D.C. Circuit Court; the other was Ginsburg. Many of Pollard's supporters within the American Jewish community, including a number of liberal Democrats allied ideologically withÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 27, 2018
President George W. Bush (C) names Democratic former senator Chuck Robb (L) and former judge Laurence Silberman (R) as co-chairs of an independent commission to examine pre-war intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. February 6, 2004, Washington, DC. One of the recent examplesÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 22, 2018
The 2003 US invasion of Iraq had devastating consequences not only Iraq itself, but for the region as a whole. Speaking to Sputnik, Iranian political scientist and diplomat Seyed Hadi Afghani recalled how the US invasion undermined the security of Iraq's eastern neighbor, and set the stage for the rise ofÃâà...
BuzzFeed News
March 12, 2018
He clerked for US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and Judge Laurence Silberman of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. From 2005 to 2009, Nichols served in the Justice Department, first as deputy assistant attorney general for the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division, whichÃâà...
Metro US
March 2, 2018
Wrote Judge Laurence Silberman: "So, for example, a president would be barred from appointing his brother as attorney general, but perhaps not as a White House special assistant." That definition is controversial, and it's not law. But it provided enough ambiguity to allow Jared and Ivanka to be hired — ifÃâà...
RTO Insider
February 12, 2018
MISO says it will await a FERC decision after a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel vacated a series of commission orders that allowed new generators in the RTO to self-fund network transmission upgrades. In a 2-1 vote Jan. 26, Judges David Tatel and Laurence Silberman said the commission had failedÃâà...
Lexology
February 8, 2018
... but remanded to FERC, the fundamental question of whether transmission owners should ever be compelled to construct facilities with no opportunity to earn a return. Senior Circuit Judge Laurence Silberman authored the court's opinion. Circuit Judge Judith Rogers issued a dissenting opinion. A copy ofÃâà...
Dallas News
February 1, 2018
"This whole mess was the Justice Department's worst episode since Watergate," Laurence Silberman, a federal appeals court judge, wrote in The Wall Street Journal. "I doubt," he added, "the bureau will ever completely recover." But leave it to Trump to shoot himself and his administration, which is trying toÃâà...
New York Times
January 31, 2018
“This whole mess was the Justice Department's worst episode since Watergate,” Laurence Silberman, a federal appeals court judge, wrote in The Wall Street Journal. “I doubt,” he added, “the bureau will ever completely recover.” But leave it to Mr. Trump to shoot himself and his administration, which isÃâà...
Harvard Law School News
November 29, 2017
During his 50th Reunion in 2011, Laurence Silberman '61 joined several of his classmates in a rousing rendition of a tune they had sung 50 years before in a show whose significance they never could have imagined. Called “It's a Long Way to Certiorari” (sung to the tune of “It's a Long Way to Tipperary”),Ãâà...
Law.com
November 17, 2017
She also clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia, as well as Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Barrett's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee included some controversy as senators, including Dianne Feinstein of California, questioned if sheÃâà...
Yahoo News
November 17, 2017
She also clerked for the late Justice Antonin Scalia, as well as Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Barrett's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee included some controversy as senators, including Dianne Feinstein of California, questioned if sheÃâà...
Law.com
November 13, 2017
In oral arguments Monday, Judges Brett Kavanaugh, David Tatel and Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit repeatedly pressed Justice Department lawyer Joseph Busa about why the FBI did not explain in greater detail how it conducted the searches. Tatel said that D.C.Ãâà...
Esquire.com
February 27, 2017
The author was Judge Laurence Silberman, a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and his contention here is…odd. I can come up with one example of a judge whose political meddling makes RBG's outspokenness look like the prayers of a cloistered Carmelite nun.
Lawfare (blog)
September 24, 2016
Last week, the National Security Division of the Justice Department celebrated its 10th anniversary by holding a major conference at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Judge Laurence Silberman, the intellectual and policy force behind the division's creation, spoke about the birth of NSDÃâà...
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