Dear Mo: An open letter to Alabama’s controversial congressman
Updated Jan 15, 2021;
Posted Jan 15, 2021
U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, shown at the Google data center groundbreaking in Jackson County last year, said he is being encouraged to run for Senate.
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Mo,
You and I have known one another, personally and professionally, for four decades. When you were a prosecutor in Madison County, and I was (as I continue to be) an attorney in private practice, we tried cases against one another. We later worked together for common goals when you were a member of the county commission. We’ve dealt with one another since you were elected to Congress. Although we’ve disagreed on some political issues, we were able to maintain respect and cordiality.
Views: We want to get your thoughts on Jim Comey, the former director of the FBI just gave an interview yesterday to the BBC and he floated an interesting idea. We want to get your take, John Berman said.
BBC: Do you think Joe Biden should pardon Trump like Ford did Nixon?
COMEY: I don t know. he should consider it. I don t know whether Donald Trump he s not a genius, but he might figure out that if he accepts an pardon, that s an admission of guilt, the United States Supreme Court has said, so I don t know that he would accept an pardon, but as part of healing the country and getting us to a place where we can focus on things that are going to matter over the next four years, I think Joe Biden will have to at least think about that.
Shirley Abrahamson, Trailblazing Wisconsin Judge, Dies at 87
The first female chief justice of her state’s Supreme Court, she was on the short list for the U.S. Supreme Court seat that went to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Shirley Abrahamson in 2019 in Madison, Wis., at a ceremony marking her retirement as chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Gov. Tony Evers is at the far right.Credit.Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal, via Associated Press
Published Jan. 15, 2021Updated Jan. 23, 2021
Shirley Abrahamson, an indefatigable jurist known for her activist voice and tart dissents who was the first woman on the Wisconsin Supreme Court and later its first female chief justice, died on Dec. 19 in Berkeley, Calif. She was 87.
Yesterday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected the commonly used and admittedly lenient Lusardi framework for Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) conditional.
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On January 13, 2021, the United States Supreme Court heard an oral argument in a pivotal challenge to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) historic practice of obtaining monetary damages under a statutory provision that, on its face, allows for only injunctive relief.
AMG Capital Management, LLC v. Federal Trade Commission centers on the interpretation of Section 13(b) of the FTC Act, which allows the FTC to obtain an injunction when it has reason to believe the law is being violated or is about to be violated. Unlike other provisions of the FTC Act, such as Section 19, it does not expressly contemplate monetary awards.