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…added that "some of the key considerations are flipped." In the Arizona case, conserva- tives insisted that respect for state sovereignty required letting states play a leading role in con- trolling immigration within their borders. But Mr. Sessions, a long- time conservative him...

…House. "I don't see how what didn't work last year is going to work this year," says Vali Nasr, who served in the Obama State Department before becoming dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He might not get much of an argument from White House offic...

…her criminal sentenced in Florida. But inmate No. W35755 would not be treated like other convicted sex offenders in the state of Florida, which has some of the strictest sex offender laws in the nation. Ten years before the #MeToo movement raised awareness about the kid-glove han...

…ngton is an exception, however, and makes personal cultivation a felony unless it is done by a person registered in the state’s medical marijuana database.) Unlike state medical cannabis laws, which may restrict the form of can- nabis products available, recreational laws permit...

…Los Angeles, CA 90017-580o May 19, 2008 VIA FACSIMILE Honorable Mark Filip Office of the Deputy Attorney General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Judge Filip: Joe D. Whitley Alston & Bird LLP The Atlantic Building 950 F...

…Los Angeles, CA 90017-5800 VIA FACSIMILE May 19, 2008 Honorable Mark Filip Office of the Deputy Attorney General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Judge Filip: Joe D. Whitley Alston & Bird LLP The Atlantic Building 950 F...

…te actors and government officials, which local police and prosecutors have at times ignored or devalued, and for which state-level enforcement commitment continues to be uneven. !” Federal jurisdiction is coextensive with state jurisdiction regarding police wrongdoing, and the J...

…uprising, and the new government really does need the money to stay afloat. But I only hope that Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton understand that right now — right this second — Egypt needs something more from Washington than money: quiet, behind-the-scenes engagement...

…otal loss was estimated around $11.5 billion; however, the country still needs more time to rebuild (U.S. Department of State, 2010). The majority of the donor countries worry about Haiti becoming a burden throughout the years without any positive results (Novacek et. al, 2008)....

…diplomatic solutions to deeply embedded conflicts, such as the one in Afghanistan. But the fact remains, as is so often stated, that there is no military solution to such conflicts. The challenge is creating a dialogue among people who profoundly mistrust each other — and avertin...

…e-it deal by the U.S. on the nuclear issue is the wrong strategy Ray Takeyh February 14, 2013 -- On Feb. 26, the United States and Iran will once more resume their diplomatic ritual, in the so-called six-party talks, over Iran's disputed nuclear program. As the two perennial adve...

…t reflected the Chinese system’s deep conclusion that American global power was in relative decline and that the United States would not confront China militarily if China sought to expand its regional military presence. In part it reflected a Chinese institutional conclusion tha...

…distinctive form of criminal justice federalism: federal enforcement authority wholly overlaps the territorial scope of state criminal law, and the federal code substantially overlaps much of what is covered in state criminal codes. The resulting structure of redundant federal-st...

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788 purposes of the FSIA. A “foreign state” is statutorily defined: (a) A “foreign state” ... includes a po- litical subdivision of a foreign state or an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state as defined in subsection (b). (b) An “agency or instrumentality of a foreign sta...