The legal action one of the first of its kind filed in New York state will provide an important legal test of the controversial immunity provision pushed through early last year by Gov. Cuomo to protect nursing homes, hospitals and other health care facilities during the pandemic.
Former Republican House Speaker John Boehner on Thursday criticized his party for recently enacting strict voting rules in states around the country, saying the "very partisan way" it's happening will only undermine people's confidence in the electoral process.
President Joe Biden arrived to speak at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on Wednesday.Credit.Oliver Contreras for The New York Times
President Biden issued a new executive order on Thursday barring Americans from investing in Chinese firms linked to the country’s military or engaged in selling surveillance technology both inside and outside of China used to repress dissent or religious minorities.
The new order, which initially lists 59 Chinese firms, substantially expands an order issued in November by President Donald J. Trump. By rewriting that earlier order to include firms engaged in making and deploying the surveillance technology used against Muslim minorities like the Uigurs and dissidents in Hong Kong and in the Chinese diaspora around the globe it intensifies a commercial and ideological battle between Beijing and Washington, one that Mr. Biden has termed the struggle between “autocracy and democracy.”
ST. PAUL, Minn. (Legal Newsline) - The Minnesota Court of Appeals
ruled on Tuesday that Attorney General Keith Ellison cannot conceal documents related to his office s communications with attorneys general in other states.
The Court of Appeals reversed a previous Ramsey County District Court decision and held that the common interest doctrine - which allows states to withhold communications involving conversations with other states - is not valid in Minnesota. The case was represented by Upper Midwest Law Center on behalf of Energy Policy Advocates, a nonprofit public interest group that promotes governmental transparency. What the Court of Appeals said in Minnesota is that those types of agreements they re called common interest agreements are not valid under Minnesota law. If you share something outside of the attorney-client relationship in Minnesota, if you share it with Washington or with New York, then you ve got to share it with the public, too. That s what the case is