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Yale Law School
Research scholar at Yale Law School, focusing on questions of prosecutorial misconduct around the country
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Laura Fernandez
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FROM Laura Fernandez
Which Way, L.A.?
Is Law Enforcement Skirting the Rules? A federal investigation of possible misconduct by the District Attorney and the Sheriff of Orange County has been called for by a group of legal heavyweights. They include 30 law professors, led by Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at UC Irvine. Others are former LA District Attorneys Gil Garcetti and John Van de Kamp — who also served as California’s Attorney General—and the ACLU.
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The Trump agenda: where's the beef? President Trump says big things are happening. After celebrating a House bill on health care, he doesn’t yet have Senate agreement. With James Comey’s public testimony scheduled tomorrow, the President today tweeted his selection of a new FBI Director. Is the Chief Executive all style and no substance? Later, terror attacks in Iran and conflicting claims about who’s behind them.
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Is the threat from Russia missing from the Russia meddling probe? There's much being made about the Trump administration's possible ties with Russia. But the bottom line is Russia's effort to influence American democracy. Do the President and his aides care enough to take action before voters go back to the polls?
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Trump's 'America First' goes missing abroad In the Middle East, President Trump is changing some policies of the Obama Administration—and reversing his own campaign attacks on Islam as a religion that "hates us." We hear about his visit to Saudi Arabia and what's at stake for the rest of his foreign excursion.
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The longest US war: Will Trump send more troops to Afghanistan? The Trump White House is divided over the Pentagon's request for more troops in Afghanistan—where the US has been fighting for the past 16 years. Is there a formula -- either for "victory" or a political settlement? Is there an end in sight for America's longest war?