Weekly Snapshot 15-21 July 1. Flare-up in the Gaza Strip Mediation efforts from countries around the world lead to a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, but the two sides are back at it again. Hours after the cease-fire, rocket sirens in Israeli communities on the...
Intelligence Forecast 15-31 July 2018 1. The Importance of ICE Within the last couple of weeks, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been under attack for allegedly ‘ripping children out of their parent’s arms’ under the current presidential...
Analysis of Husted v. Phillip Randolph Institute (2018) Christopher J. Schaefer, MA 9 July 2018 States are legally permitted to remove infrequent voters from its databases, according to the United States Supreme Court. A five-justice majority, led by Samuel Alito,...
Analysis of Gill v. Whitford (2018) Christopher J. Schaefer, MA 9 July 2018 The United States Supreme Court, in Gill v. Whitford, one of the 2017-18 session’s most highly anticipated and potentially transformational cases, ruled that Wisconsin’s legislative maps were...
Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission: The Remaking of American Campaign Finance Reform Christopher J. Schaefer, MA 9 July 2018 Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission (2009) was a landmark case, yet still controversial. It was a United States...
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