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The Donald Trump-Rupert Murdoch Relationship in the United States
The Donald Trump-Rupert Murdoch relationship in the United States When Donald Trump ran as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, Rupert Murdoch was reported to be initially opposed to him, so the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post were too.1 However, Roger Ailes and Murdoch fell out because Ailes wanted to give more positive coverage to Trump on Fox News.2 Soon afterwards, however, Fox News turned more negative towards Trump.3 As Trump emerged as the inevitable winner of the race for the nomination, Murdoch’s attitude towards Trump appeared to shift, as did his US news outlets.4 Once Trump became the nominee, he and Rupert Murdoch effectively concluded an alliance of mutual benefit: Murdoch’s news outlets would help get Trump elected, and then Trump would use his powers as president in ways that supported Rupert Murdoch’s interests. An early signal of this coming together was Trump’s public attacks on the AT&T-Time Warner merger, 21st Century Fox having tried but failed to acquire Time Warner previously in 2014. Over the last year and a half, Fox News has been the major TV news supporter of Donald Trump. Its coverage has displayed extreme bias in his favour, offering fawning coverage of his actions and downplaying or rubbishing news stories damaging to him, while also leading attacks against Donald Trump’s opponent in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton. Ofcom itself ruled that several Sean Hannity programmes in August 2016 were so biased in favour of Donald Trump and against Hillary Clinton that they breached UK impartiality rules.5 During this period, Rupert Murdoch has been CEO of Fox News, in which position he is also 1 See e.g. -
Congressional Record United States Th of America PROCEEDINGS and DEBATES of the 116 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION
E PL UR UM IB N U U S Congressional Record United States th of America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 116 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION Vol. 165 WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2019 No. 206 Senate The Senate met at 9:30 a.m. and was U.S. SENATE, House amendment to the Senate called to order by the Honorable THOM PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, amendment), to change the enactment TILLIS, a Senator from the State of Washington, DC, December 19, 2019. date. North Carolina. To the Senate: McConnell Amendment No. 1259 (to Under the provisions of rule I, paragraph 3, Amendment No. 1258), of a perfecting f of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I hereby appoint the Honorable THOM TILLIS, a Sen- nature. McConnell motion to refer the mes- PRAYER ator from the State of North Carolina, to perform the duties of the Chair. sage of the House on the bill to the The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, of- CHUCK GRASSLEY, Committee on Appropriations, with in- fered the following prayer: President pro tempore. structions, McConnell Amendment No. Let us pray. Mr. TILLIS thereupon assumed the 1260, to change the enactment date. Eternal God, You are our light and Chair as Acting President pro tempore. McConnell Amendment No. 1261 (the salvation, and we are not afraid. You instructions (Amendment No. 1260) of f protect us from danger so we do not the motion to refer), of a perfecting na- tremble. RESERVATION OF LEADER TIME ture. Mighty God, You are not intimidated The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- McConnell Amendment No. 1262 (to by the challenges that confront our Na- pore. -
The 2020 Election 2 Contents
Covering the Coverage The 2020 Election 2 Contents 4 Foreword 29 Us versus him Kyle Pope Betsy Morais and Alexandria Neason 5 Why did Matt Drudge turn on August 10, 2020 Donald Trump? Bob Norman 37 The campaign begins (again) January 29, 2020 Kyle Pope August 12, 2020 8 One America News was desperate for Trump’s approval. 39 When the pundits paused Here’s how it got it. Simon van Zuylen–Wood Andrew McCormick Summer 2020 May 27, 2020 47 Tuned out 13 The story has gotten away from Adam Piore us Summer 2020 Betsy Morais and Alexandria Neason 57 ‘This is a moment for June 3, 2020 imagination’ Mychal Denzel Smith, Josie Duffy 22 For Facebook, a boycott and a Rice, and Alex Vitale long, drawn-out reckoning Summer 2020 Emily Bell July 9, 2020 61 How to deal with friends who have become obsessed with 24 As election looms, a network conspiracy theories of mysterious ‘pink slime’ local Mathew Ingram news outlets nearly triples in size August 25, 2020 Priyanjana Bengani August 4, 2020 64 The only question in news is ‘Will it rate?’ Ariana Pekary September 2, 2020 3 66 Last night was the logical end 92 The Doociness of America point of debates in America Mark Oppenheimer Jon Allsop October 29, 2020 September 30, 2020 98 How careful local reporting 68 How the media has abetted the undermined Trump’s claims of Republican assault on mail-in voter fraud voting Ian W. Karbal Yochai Benkler November 3, 2020 October 2, 2020 101 Retire the election needles 75 Catching on to Q Gabriel Snyder Sam Thielman November 4, 2020 October 9, 2020 102 What the polls show, and the 78 We won’t know what will happen press missed, again on November 3 until November 3 Kyle Pope Kyle Paoletta November 4, 2020 October 15, 2020 104 How conservative media 80 E. -
August 4, 2021 VIA E-MAIL Joon H. Kim Anne L. Clark Special Deputies
August 4, 2021 VIA E-MAIL Joon H. Kim Anne L. Clark Special Deputies to the First Deputy Attorney General Office of the Attorney General The Capitol Albany, NY 112224-0341 Re: Response to Special Investigators’ Report Dear Counsel: As outside counsel to the Executive Chamber, we write to express our client’s deep concerns about the fairness of your investigation, and the lack of neutrality and impartiality with which it was conducted and concluded. First, it is very disappointing that you refused to provide the subjects of the investigation, many of whom are current and former Chamber officers and employees, with an opportunity to review and respond to your findings before they became public today.1 Unlike civil litigation or criminal prosecutions, where an investigation is followed by the opportunity for a trial or a hearing, your report is the end of the line. There will be no formal setting in which those whose conduct the report discusses will have a meaningful opportunity to challenge, rebut, or even raise questions about the investigators’ accuracy, their credibility determinations, or their thoroughness. That lack of process explains why it has now become commonplace in circumstances like these for agencies such as the New York Inspector General,2 the U.S. Department of Justice’s 1 We also note that you did not even alert us that you were releasing your report today. 2 See, e.g., State of New York Offs. of the Inspector Gen., Investigation of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles Political Subdivision Program at 4 (Mar. -
Senator Chuck Grassley and Judicial Confirmations
University of Richmond UR Scholarship Repository Law Faculty Publications School of Law 2019 Senator Chuck Grassley and Judicial Confirmations Carl Tobias University of Richmond - School of Law, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.richmond.edu/law-faculty-publications Part of the Courts Commons, and the Judges Commons Recommended Citation Carl Tobias, Senator Chuck Grassley and Judicial Confirmations, 104 Iowa L. Rev. Online 31 (2019). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Law at UR Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Law Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of UR Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CARL_PDF PROOF FINAL 12.1.2019 FONT FIX (DO NOT DELETE) 12/4/2019 2:15 PM Senator Chuck Grassley and Judicial Confirmations Carl Tobias* I. 2015–16 PROCESSES ....................................................................... 33 A. THE 2015–16 DISTRICT COURT PROCESSES ............................... 34 1. The Nomination Process ................................................ 34 2. The Confirmation Process .............................................. 36 i. Committee Hearings ..................................................... 36 ii. Committee Votes ........................................................... 37 iii. Floor Votes ................................................................... 38 B. THE 2015–16 APPELLATE COURT PROCESSES ........................... -
Targeted Sampling from Massive Block Model Graphs with Personalized Pagerank∗
Targeted sampling from massive block model graphs with personalized PageRank∗ Fan Chen1, Yini Zhang2, and Karl Rohe1 1Department of Statistics 2School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA Abstract This paper provides statistical theory and intuition for Personalized PageRank (PPR), a popular technique that samples a small community from a massive network. We study a setting where the entire network is expensive to thoroughly obtain or maintain, but we can start from a seed node of interest and \crawl" the network to find other nodes through their connections. By crawling the graph in a designed way, the PPR vector can be approximated without querying the entire massive graph, making it an alternative to snowball sampling. Using the degree-corrected stochastic block model, we study whether the PPR vector can select nodes that belong to the same block as the seed node. We provide a simple and interpretable form for the PPR vector, highlighting its biases towards high degree nodes outside of the target block. We examine a simple adjustment based on node degrees and establish consistency results for PPR clustering that allows for directed graphs. These results are enabled by recent technical advances showing the element-wise convergence of eigenvectors. We illustrate the method with the massive Twitter friendship graph, which we crawl using the Twitter API. We find that (i) the adjusted and unadjusted PPR techniques are complementary approaches, where the adjustment makes the results particularly localized around the seed node and (ii) the bias adjustment greatly benefits from degree regularization. Keywords Community detection; Degree-corrected stochastic block model; Local clustering; Network sampling; Personalized PageRank arXiv:1910.12937v2 [cs.SI] 1 Jul 2020 1 Introduction Much of the literature on graph sampling has treated the entire graph, or all of the people in it, as the target population. -
ACLU V. Clapper
Case 1:13-cv-03994-WHP Document 33 Filed 08/26/13 Page 1 of 52 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION; AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION; NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION; and NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION, 13 Civ. 3994 (WHP) Plaintiffs, ECF Case v. JAMES R. CLAPPER, in his official capacity as Director of National Intelligence; KEITH B. ALEXANDER, in his official capacity as Director of the National Security Agency and Chief of the Central Security Service; CHARLES T. HAGEL, in his official capacity as Secretary of Defense; ERIC H. HOLDER, in his official capacity as Attorney General of the United States; and ROBERT S. MUELLER III, in his official capacity as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defendants. DEFENDANTS’ MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN SUPPORT OF MOTION TO DISMISS THE COMPLAINT STUART F. DELERY PREET BHARARA Assistant Attorney General United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York JOSEPH H. HUNT Director DAVID S. JONES TARA M. La MORTE ANTHONY J. COPPOLINO JOHN D. CLOPPER Deputy Director CHRISTOPHER HARWOOD Assistant United States Attorney s JAMES J. GILLIGAN 86 Chambers Street, 3rd Floor Special Litigation Counsel Tel. No. (212) 637-2739 (Jones) Fax No. (212) 637-2730 MARCIA BERMAN [email protected] Senior Trial Counsel [email protected] [email protected] BRYAN DEARINGER [email protected] Trial Attorney U.S. Department of Justice Washington, D.C. Case 1:13-cv-03994-WHP Document 33 Filed 08/26/13 Page 2 of 52 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page PRELIMINARY STATEMENT………………………………………………………………. -
"The Buck Stops Here": Barring Executives for Corporate Violations
University of Chicago Legal Forum Volume 2012 Article 7 2012 Making Sure "The uckB Stops Here": Barring Executives for Corporate Violations Peter J. Henning Follow this and additional works at: http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf Recommended Citation Henning, Peter J. (2012) "Making Sure "The uckB Stops Here": Barring Executives for Corporate Violations," University of Chicago Legal Forum: Vol. 2012, Article 7. Available at: http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf/vol2012/iss1/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Chicago Unbound. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Chicago Legal Forum by an authorized administrator of Chicago Unbound. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Making Sure "The Buck Stops Here": Barring Executives for Corporate Violations Peter J. Henringt When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong. Ecclesiastes 8:11 INTRODUCTION The movement called "Occupy Wall Street" has sought to take over locations in New York City and elsewhere to protest what it sees as corporate greed and corruption that have led to a growing inequality between powerful moneyed interests and "the other 99 percent." The protests in some ways harken back to the 1960s, with large numbers arrested amidst accusations of police brutality, although unlike earlier efforts to stop the Vietnam War, it is not clear what the protesters hope to accomplish be- yond voicing their objection to the status quo. A prominent target of their ire is bankers, with one protester quoted as saying, "I think a good deal of the bankers should be in jail"1-although no particular crime was identified. -
Conference Agenda Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Confronting Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Challenges in Times of Unprecedented Change October 14 and 16, 2020 New York University School of Law Virtual Conference Faculty Director Executive Director Assistant Director Jennifer H. Arlen Alicyn Cooley Clarissa D. Santiago The Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE) is a law and policy program dedicated to promoting effective enforcement and compliance. Through practical discourse and legal scholar ship, PCCE helps shape optimal enforcement policy, guides firms in developing more effective and robust compliance programs, and educates in the fields of corporate compliance and enforcement. Confronting Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Challenges in Times of Unprecedented Change October 14 and 16, 2020 Conference Objectives This conference brings together academics, government executives’ duties and best practices in these areas. It will officials, corporate directors, in-house counsel, compli then examine how enforcement agencies, financial services ance officers, and private attorneys for an off-the-record providers, and corporations collectively can address the discussion of today’s most significant challenges and risks threats posed today by the misappropriation of corporate pertaining to cybersecurity and data privacy. The confer data, including terrorism and election interference. The ence participants will offer concrete guidance on how com next panel will provide practical guidance, and regulators’ panies and their counsel can overcome and even preempt perspectives, -
Wall Street Fraud and Fiduciary Duties: Can Jail Time Serve As an Adequate Deterrent for Willful Violations?
S. HRG. 111–835 WALL STREET FRAUD AND FIDUCIARY DUTIES: CAN JAIL TIME SERVE AS AN ADEQUATE DETERRENT FOR WILLFUL VIOLATIONS? HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIME AND DRUGS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION MAY 4, 2010 Serial No. J–111–88 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary ( U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 63–555 PDF WASHINGTON : 2011 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate Nov 24 2008 11:29 Feb 07, 2011 Jkt 063555 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 S:\GPO\HEARINGS\63555.TXT SJUD1 PsN: CMORC PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont, Chairman HERB KOHL, Wisconsin JEFF SESSIONS, Alabama DIANNE FEINSTEIN, California ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah RUSSELL D. FEINGOLD, Wisconsin CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania JON KYL, Arizona CHARLES E. SCHUMER, New York LINDSEY GRAHAM, South Carolina RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois JOHN CORNYN, Texas BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, Maryland TOM COBURN, Oklahoma SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, Rhode Island AMY KLOBUCHAR, Minnesota EDWARD E. KAUFMAN, Delaware AL FRANKEN, Minnesota BRUCE A. COHEN, Chief Counsel and Staff Director MATT MINER, Republican Chief Counsel SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIME AND DRUGS ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania, Chairman HERB KOHL, Wisconsin LINDSEY GRAHAM, South Carolina DIANNE FEINSTEIN, California ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah RUSSELL D. FEINGOLD, Wisconsin CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa CHARLES E. SCHUMER, New York JEFF SESSIONS, Alabama RICHARD J. -
The Smear Campaign Against Mueller: Debunking the Nunes Memo and the Other Attacks on the Russia Investigation
The Smear Campaign Against Mueller: Debunking the Nunes Memo and the Other Attacks on the Russia Investigation Noah Bookbinder, Norman Eisen, Caroline Fredrickson, and Kristin Amerling1 January 31, 2018 1 Noah Bookbinder is the executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and a former federal corruption prosecutor. Norman Eisen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is the chairman of CREW, a former chief White House ethics lawyer and Ambassador to the Czech Republic. Caroline Fredrickson is president of the American Constitution Society (ACS). Kristin Amerling is special counsel for investigations for the joint ACS-CREW Presidential Investigation Education Project and former chief counsel to several congressional committees. This memorandum was prepared for the Presidential Investigation Education Project, a joint initiative by ACS and CREW to promote informed public evaluation of the investigations by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and others into Russian interference in the 2016 election and related matters. This effort includes developing and disseminating legal analysis of key issues that emerge as the inquiries unfold and connecting members of the media and public with ACS and CREW experts and other legal scholars who are writing on these matters. The authors would like to thank Jennifer Ahearn, Maya Gold, and Conor Shaw at CREW; Sathya Gosselin, Tamara Freilich, and Jeanette Bayoumi at Hausfeld LLP; and many others for their contributions to this report. Table of Contents Introduction .................................................................................................. 3 Executive Summary ..................................................................................... 5 I. Mueller Does Not Have Conflicts of Interest that Disqualify Him from Being Special Counsel ........................... 8 II. Mueller’s Investigative Team Does Not Face Conflicts of Interest ...................................................................... -
Filling the New York Federal District Court Vacancies
Washington and Lee Law Review Online Volume 76 Issue 1 Article 1 11-19-2019 Filling the New York Federal District Court Vacancies Carl Tobias University of Richmond School of Law, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlulr-online Part of the Courts Commons, Judges Commons, Law and Politics Commons, and the President/ Executive Department Commons Recommended Citation Carl Tobias, Filling the New York Federal District Court Vacancies, 76 WASH. & LEE L. REV. ONLINE 1 (2019), https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlulr-online/vol76/iss1/1 This Development is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Journals at Washington & Lee University School of Law Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington and Lee Law Review Online by an authorized editor of Washington & Lee University School of Law Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Filling the New York Federal District Court Vacancies Carl Tobias∗ Table of Contents I. Introduction .......................................................................... 1 II. Contemporary Selection Difficulties ................................... 3 A. Persistent Vacancies ...................................................... 4 B. The Contemporary Dilemma ......................................... 5 III. Trump Administration Judicial Selection .......................... 6 A. Nomination Process ....................................................... 6 B. Confirmation Process ..................................................