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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, During his four years in office, President Donald Trump insidiously poisoned U.S. democracy, and, as The Washington Post put it, his assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 “utterly fractur...

Pool Washington Examiner / Associated Press Sen. Ted Cruz In the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz has received calls to resign and ethics complaints from Democratic Senate colleagues. Cruz, a lawyer, is also getting blowback from members of the legal community. Lawyers and law students are seeking to disbar him with a set of grievances filed Thursday with the State Bar of Texas. They say Cruz and Missouri Senator Josh Hawley made false statements about the 2...

KUT Sen. Ted Cruz is facing ethics complaints and calls to resign after the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. In the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has received calls to resign and ethics complaints from Democratic Senate colleagues. Cruz, a lawyer, is also getting blowback from members of the legal community. Lawyers and law students are seeking to disbar him with a set of grievances filed Thursday with the State Bar of Texas. They say Cruz and Missou...

SCOTUS should overturn the ‘return to Mexico’ policy, ABA says in amicus brief   Image from Shutterstock.com. The Trump administrations "remain in Mexico" policy undermines asylum-seekers right to counsel, due process and ethical standards under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the ABA told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday. Chad F. Wolf, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security et al., v. Innovation Law Lab et al., the ABA noted that only 7% of individuals affected by the policy, o...

ABA Approves Remote Practice, But Questions Remain By Deepika Ravi, Lauren Snyder and Hilary Gerzhoy Law360 is providing free access to its coronavirus coverage to make sure all members of the legal community have accurate information in this time of uncertainty and change. Use the form below to sign up for any of our weekly newsletters. Signing up for any of our section newsletters will opt you in to the weekly Coronavirus briefing. Sign up for our Aerospace & Defense newsletter ...

Trump’s election lawyers must be investigated Licensing authorities within each state have the authority to examine attorney misconduct. By Scott Harshbarger, Lauren Stiller Rikleen, and Dennis AftergutUpdated December 16, 2020, 3:00 a.m. Email to a Friend President Donald Trump’s campaign filed a number of lawsuits across battleground states as he tried to upend the 2020 election. Judges uniformly rejected his claims of vote fraud.Mary Altaffer/Associated Press Since Election Day, la...