US Politics
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President Donald Trump on Friday ordered TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell off the popular video app’s U.S. operations within 90 days, following a conclusion by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. that TikTok’s data collection poses security risks… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Department of Justice demanded on Thursday that Yale University end its use of race as a factor in its undergraduate admissions process, saying the school’s policies amount to a “long-standing and ongoing” violation of the civil rights of white and Asian applicants… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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After being ousted from his job as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York last month following a showdown with U.S. Attorney General William Barr, Geoffrey Berman will join Stanford Law School to teach a legal ethics course and work as a fellow at a corporate governance think tank, the school announced Wednesday……
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Former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman resisted attempts by members of the House Judiciary Committee to get him to speculate on the possible reasons for his controversial ouster last month, according to a transcript of last week’s closed-door congressional hearing made public on Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of his friend and adviser Roger Stone, who had been ordered to serve 40 months in prison following his convictions for witness tampering, lying to Congress and obstructing probes into Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 