Board members spent well over an hour Friday in a private executive session on real estate issues, but no significant Hughes Stadium-related actions were taken.
The board of governors stressed that it maintains the right to manage state-owned property and plans to move forward with its Site Plan Advisory Review process, a bureaucratic exercise launched in 2020.
On April 6, Fort Collins voters overwhelmingly approved a citizen-led initiative directing the city to make a good-faith effort to buy the 165-acre site from the CSU System to be used “for parks, recreation, and open lands, natural areas, and wildlife rescue and restoration,” according to the ballot language.
Immigration advocates sounded the alarm after the Biden administration’s first list of new immigration court picks was filled entirely by judges selected under former President Donald Trump.
The Justice Department last week released a list of 17 new immigration judges, who decide whether to grant asylum claims or deport migrants. “The 17 new immigration judges referenced in the notice all received their conditional offers under the prior administration,” a DOJ spokesperson told
The Hill, despite President Biden’s vow to undo his predecessor’s damage to the country’s immigration system.
Trump cut funding to the immigration courts during his four years in office and limited how much control immigration judges have over their own dockets, barring them from allowing migrants with pending cases to remain in the country indefinitely. His administration also launched an aggressive enforcement strategy at the border and reopened hundreds of thousands of low-priority cases tha
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Joe Biden’s administration has hired 17 new immigration judges to help deal with the huge backlog of cases in immigration court. Some of them have no experience with the immigration court, either as prosecutors or defense attorneys. Almost none have represented migrants before.
This has enraged immigration activists who want the stink of Trump’s influence on the immigration system removed permanently.
“This is a list I would have expected out of Bill Barr or Jeff Sessions, but they’re not the attorney general anymore. Elections are supposed to have consequences,” said Paul Schmidt, an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School and former immigration judge.
The Biden team has hired a slate of immigration judges initially selected during the Trump era, angering advocates who argue the White House is already failing to deliver in its pledge to push back against the prior administration's shaping of the judiciary.
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Compensation systems that are “blatantly unfair” and “rife with gender bias” were most often cited as the reason female attorneys left their law firms, according to a new ABA report based on focus groups and interviews with experienced female lawyers.
Female lawyers reported that they originated more work than some male colleagues yet received lower compensation, according to the report by the American Bar Foundation, undertaken in collaboration with the ABA Commission on Women in the Legal Profession.
The report is titled
In Their Own Words: Experienced Women Lawyers Explain Why They Are Leaving Their Law Firms and the Profession. The study is part of the ABA Initiative on Long-Term Careers for Women in Law.