CFTC General Counsel Dan Davis To Depart Agency On January 15 Date
11/01/2021
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced that Daniel J. Davis, the CFTC’s General Counsel and head of the Legal Division, will depart the agency on January 15, 2021 for a role in the private sector. Mr. Davis has served as General Counsel since joining the agency in March 2017.
“When I recommended Dan for this role, I knew he would be the ideal General Counsel for this agency. He has more than met that high bar, displaying his wide range of incredible talents in advising the Commission over the past four years,” said CFTC Chairman Heath P. Tarbert. “He has been the steady hand in reviewing the agency’s rulemakings and enforcement actions, managing the appellate docket, and providing wise counsel on legislative and general law issues. He helmed multiple historic appellate victories including successfully obtaining the agency’s first writ of mandamus in federal court. H
Regarding the use of vaccines developed using cells from aborted human persons
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On 21 December 2020,
Reuters reported on a document issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announcing that the Vatican had signed off on the use of vaccines even if their production employed cell lines drawn from tissues of aborted fetuses.[1] Though the CDF document stresses that it strongly desires the use of ethically acceptable vaccines, the document also emphasizes that the common good and the protection of the weakest and most exposed also hold equal claim. While CDF laments the lack of ethically acceptable vaccination methods, it argues incorrectly that the use of ethically compromised vaccines using fetal cell lines is remote material cooperation with evil, precisely because we are dealing in questions of life and death.
Lori Lightfoot, then chair of the Police Board, chaired the Task Force on Police Accountability that announced its findings in April 2016. Among other things, the task force recommended that anyone arrested by Chicago police be informed of their right to be represented by free legal counsel and allowed to make a “reasonable number of phone calls” to attorneys and family members “within one hour of arrival” at the place where they are being held. But one alderman said Monday that Lightfoot appears to be backing away from that standard.
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration was accused Monday of attempting to water down a pivotal criminal justice reform recommended by the Task Force on Police Accountability she co-chaired after the police shooting of Laquan McDonald.