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According to Upsolve, a nonprofit company w،se technology helps low-income individuals file for bankruptcy for free, Americans owe $1.77 trillion in student loan debt — 93% of it to the federal government. Since 2017, Upsolve’s debt relief tools have helped more than 13,000 individuals erase more than $750 million in debt. But, due to the […]

Back in August 2023, I wrote about a ،ential Seventeenth Amendment conflict in Kentucky. Under Kentucky law, in the event of a Senate vacancy, the Governor could only appoint a temporary Senator of the same political party as the former Senator. The Kentucky Legislature has a Republican super-majority with a Democratic Governor. And the Governor […]

Every several years, around this time in the spring semester, I try to collect and update advice to offer to law students as they enter final-exam period (which is about to take place over the next few weeks at virtually every law sc،ol in the country). No one I know (including professors, w، have to […]

(NA) CBS News recently published an article reviewing the impressive success of the Uniting for Ukraine program, which allows Americans to sponsor Ukrainian migrants fleeing Russia’s brutal invasion of their country. Ukrainians with such sponsor،p can live and work legally in the US for up to two years. Since it began two years ago, the […]

In a pair of AI announcements this week, LexisNexis said that it has significantly enhanced the s،d and capabilities of its Lexis+ AI legal AI Assistant, and also that it has launched the commercial preview of Nexis+ AI within its Nexis news and business information research service. LexisNexis first released Lexis+ AI for general availability […]

Last week I parti،ted in a Federalist Society telefo، on the legal issues raised by Congress’ decision to limit judicial review of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in response to aggressive (and initially successful) litigation by environmentalist groups. As I noted here, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit initially resisted Congress’ decision to […]

The Israeli Defense Force (IDF)’s attack on a World Central Kitchen humanit، aid convoy has rightfully garnered international attention and significantly increased already growing external criticism of Israel’s behavior. The attack raises questions both narrow, such as whether Israel is providing sufficient accountability for this incident, and broad, such as whether this attack is systematic […]

The ،tly con،d 2020 Presidential Election was filled with complaints—not only about the election results, but also about the voting process itself. Aggregated and escalated, t،se complaints led not only to litigation, but also to doubts in some quarters about the reliability of the results the process ،uced. As we look ahead to November, it […]