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Native women land key leadership and policy roles in Biden administration
Friday, February 5, 2021
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A citizen of the Winnebago Tribe is taking on a key leadership position in President Joe Biden’s administration.
Ann Marie Bledsoe Downes will serve as Deputy Solicitor for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior.
In that role, she will lead the Indian Country legal team for the federal agency with
the most trust and treaty responsibilities to tribes and their citizens.
In recognition of the department’s importance, Biden has nominated Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) to serve as Secretary of the Interior. If confirmed, the Pueblo of Laguna citizen will be the first Native person to lead Interior and the first Native person in a modern-day presidential cabinet.
Guest post: Criminal Justice Scholarship and Reform
I am very pleased to have the opportunity to publish this guest post from Michael Serota, who is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, an Associate Deputy Director of the Academy for Justice, and the Director of the Criminal Justice Reform Lab. I was lucky enough to be a small part in a big project Michael has just completed, and so it is especially exciting to provide this platform for highlighting this work:
Can scholarship improve criminal justice decisions? That question drives Reforming Arizona Criminal Justice (RACJ), a collaborative project between the Academy for Justice and the
PolitiFact s ruling: Mostly False
Here s why: President Joe Biden has been systematically undoing former President Donald Trump’s policies on climate change. Case in point Trump took the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement. On Biden’s first day, he signed paperwork to bring the United States back in.
Under the Paris agreement, about 200 nations promised to set goals to cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Each nation decides for itself what its goal will be. The hope is that cumulatively, those reductions would limit global temperature increases to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, criticized Biden’s move.