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As previously noted, the applicable DOJ regulations place no restrictions on the president, including on his relationship with the attorney general. The attorney general is a principal officer under Article II of the Constitution, who serves at the pleasure of the president and is thus subject to the direction and orde...
President Trump’s many tweets and other statements, particularly those regarding the attorney general and the Justice Department, suggest that he either doesn’t fully understand how our Constitution vests him with the ultimate decision-making authority as the chief executive or that he is avoiding that constitutional f...
Properly understood, it simply makes no sense to speak of invocations by the president of executive privilege or any other litigation privileges against his own attorney general. It is beyond the scope of this piece, but I should add that it would be most unfortunate for a president to involve himself in the domain of ...
In the final analysis, talk of executive privilege in this context is a distraction. It suggests that experts should be debating the legal basis on which Trump might try to bury Mueller’s report. But the president’s power, properly understood, means that executive privilege is a red herring at this point and, indeed, a...
It’s entirely possible that actions taken by the president toward the attorney general concerning the Mueller investigation might meet the definition of obstruction of justice in certain circumstances. But that’s a very thorny and difficult issue quite separate and apart from whether the president can or should be asse...
Some might think that the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Nixon tells a different story about how possible assertions of executive privilege by President Trump against Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein should be understood. But that decision dealt with a thoroughly different factual scenario and tells us ...
The special-prosecutor scheme at that time, described in detail by the Nixon court, was very different from the one governing Mueller. The Nixon-era model provided for an appointment of a special prosecutor whose decisions and actions would not be countermanded by the attorney general. What’s more, the Justice Departme...
Faced with these particular circumstances, the Supreme Court held that—in an opinion that emphasized it was narrow and situation-specific—the president could assert executive privilege in an attempt to have the district court withdraw the subpoena for presidential materials. The court nevertheless ruled that, in the co...
Nothing in the Nixon ruling calls into doubt the conclusion that the very discussion, let alone an assertion, of executive privilege by President Trump makes no sense with respect to Rosenstein’s ultimate determination regarding whether the public interest favors disclosure of Mueller’s report. In short, the notion tha...
The UN appealed for $2.7bn to help South Sudanese refugees on Tuesday, saying a funding shortfall for Africa’s biggest refugee crisis had left many short of food, water and medicine.
The appeal follows five years of civil war that have forced about 2.2-million South Sudanese to flee to neighbouring Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is nearly double 2017’s figure.
Despite a peace accord signed by the government and rebel groups in September, the UNHCR said it did not believe the refugees could yet return safely, and the countries hosting them urgently needed international help.
It said low funding had led to food rations being cut in Ethiopia and water supplies in Sudan limited to 5l a day.
In 2018 the UNHCR received less than 40% of the total $1.4bn it appealed for.
A study in 2018 found that one in four teenage girls in South Sudan has considered killing herself, traumatised by physical and sexual violence.
South Sudan erupted in conflict in 2013 after President Salva Kiir sacked Riek Machar as vice-president. Ethnically charged fighting soon spread, shutting down oil fields and forcing millions to flee. There have been sporadic incidences of fighting since the latest agreement was signed, but violence has largely died do...
Most pollsters got the Delhi results wrong. none of the exit polls predicted a tantalisingly hung assembly, or that the AAP would be snapping at the BJP’s heels. Ajaz Ashraf writes.
The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) robust performance in the Delhi assembly elections should have turned the honchos of polling agencies scarlet, ignominious failures as they were in capturing the mood of the city’s electorate.
But for one pollster, none of the exit polls predicted a tantalisingly hung assembly, or that the AAP would be snapping at the BJP’s heels, or that the Congress would come a shockingly distant third. In their earlier rounds of polls, almost all furnished empirical evidence of the AAP’s campaign gathering momentum, but ...
Their abject failure assumes tremendous significance against the backdrop of the furious debate that had preceded the publication of these surveys.
Critics, mostly from the Congress, dubbed the polling agencies as opinion-makers, as against their own description of being opinion-seekers, who invoke the term scientific to describe their surveys, but which are, in reality, deeply flawed, or tailored to suit one party or the other, or satisfy the media-owners’ politi...
Scientific or dubious, opinion polls, even their practitioners agree, can and do influence voters. Indeed, those who have no strong ideological inclination or are not steadfast in their tilt for or against a party tend to cast their votes for one widely expected to be a winner, which is what surveys portray.
This is why critics want them banned. Those who believe opinion polls are fraudulently manufactured ask: are such polls any better than distributing liquor and money to voters to influence them?
However, those opposing a ban claim such surveys inform and assist the voter in judging the competing political parties and decide on his or her vote. A ban, therefore, would violate the fundamental right to free speech.
Yet, it might not be rhetorical to ask: since opinion polls rarely predict exact electoral results, and often go egregiously wrong, are they not misinforming the public, deliberately so in the eyes of some? Isn’t misinformation encouraged because of the protection under the right to free speech?
But view the issue from another perspective. In journalism, a wrong story doesn’t lead to a ban on the publication which featured it. Nevertheless, checks and balances have been introduced — retraction and apology, and threats of defamation suits. Might it not be time to police the pollsters, to weed out the poorly ski...
Perhaps a way out to counter misinformation, deliberate or otherwise, is to insist on pollsters evolving an index of success and publishing it every time they release a new survey.
Such an index should convey the degree to which they were right in predicting past election results, say, over the last 10 years, both in terms of vote-share and projected seat tally. This would provide a sense to voters whether or not they can rely on a given survey on deciding on their vote.
Perhaps the polling agencies should also be asked to emulate psephologist Yogendra Yadav who published the raw data on the AAP website every time the party made public its internal surveys.
The raw data should not only disclose the methodology followed in a survey, the sample-size and its diversity, but also the questionnaire the field-workers took to respondents and their responses, as also the method adopted to numerically grade them. This is vital as poll experts claim it is easy for them to tell wheth...
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The cost of living has decreased for expatriates living in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, with both cities dropping in a global ranking of the most expensive places to reside, consulting firm Mercer said on Tuesday.
Abu Dhabi has dropped 18 places from 22nd to 40th position on Mercer’s Annual Cost of Living Survey, conducted in March, while Dubai has dropped seven places to 26th from its 2017 ranking as the 19th most expensive city to live.
However, Rob Thissen, senior associate of Mercer in Dubai, said that while the survey indicated a decrease in the cost of living in the two locations, this is only in comparison to other global cities.
“If the ranking goes down, it does not necessarily mean the cost of living is going down. The ranking compares Dubai and Abu Dhabi with other cities in the world and there are two reasons they have gone down,” he said.
The first reason, he said, is the depreciation of the US dollar versus several major currencies over the last 12 months, meaning the dirham does not go as far when travelling overseas. The second reason is the falling rental rates in both Dubai and Abu Dhabi in comparison to other global cities.
According to Mercer’s research, inflation in Dubai and Abu Dhabi has risen between 3.5 to 4 per cent over the past 12 months on the back of the introduction of VAT on January 1.
While costs have increased, Mr Thissen said UAE expatriates are forgetting about lower rental rates and the fact that VAT is not applied to all goods and services.
“Housing is not such an issue and people can get better deals now than they could a couple of years ago," he said. "I think the impact of VAT and price rises in the last 12 months, particularly when compared to places like Saudi, has also been a little exaggerated.
"We ran a calculation and only 50 per cent of what people typically spend from their disposable income would typically be impacted by VAT. We ran some models to assess the impact of VAT alone and it came in at 2 per cent as opposed to some of the figures of 4, 5 or even 10 to 15 per cent I saw."
Tomorrow, June 14, is Flag Day, the national holiday set aside to celebrate America's flag and all that it stands for.
The flag has long been a symbol that has stirred strong emotion for Americans, and recent events have perhaps ignited more passion than the nation has seen in many years. Racial tension-fueled protests by professional athletes, who chose to kneel during the National Anthem rather than stand and salute the flag, has cau...
But away from the bright lights of the stadium or arena, there are many who, while espousing a deep love for the American flag, remain ignorant of flag etiquette.
According to U.S. Flag Code, the flag should not touch anything beneath it and shouldn't be allowed to be soiled or torn. If you display it at night, illuminate it. The flag should be displayed often, especially on national holidays.
"I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it." - John Thune.
Flag Day dates back to May 30, 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation establishing a national flag day on June 14. But, the story of America's flag starts much earlier.
It has long been held that the first flag was sewn by Betsy Ross, a Philadelphia seamstress who was supposedly commissioned by George Washington in June 1776 to create a flag for the new nation in anticipation of a declaration of its independence. However, it was actually New Jersey Congressman Francis Hopinkson, a sig...
On June 14, 1777, John Adams spoke about the flag at a meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
He said, "Resolved, that the flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation."
There have been 27 official versions of the flag so far; stars have been added to it as states have entered the Union. The current version dates to July 4, 1960, when Hawaii became the 50th state.
The American flag has long been a symbol of pride for this country. It has flown over battles and wars fought by generations of soldiers. Following the 9/11 attacks, there was a resurgence of respect for the flag, as it offered a comfort no other symbol could.
Thursday, the American Legion, VFW and Boy Scouts will join together to hold a Flag Retirement Ceremony, starting at 6:30 p.m., at Pioneer Park. American flags will be retired with dignity. Just as there are proper ways to fly the flag, so to are there rites for disposing of a worn flag. Those looking to ensure their r...
We commend all of these organizations for providing this service and encourage everyone to mark Flag Day in some small way.
If it's not outside your home or business already, don't wait until the Fourth of July to raise the flag.
Classic rock fans around the world were devastated yesterday when Tom Petty passed away unexpectedly at the age of 66. But one Philadelphia radio station is helping fans through the tragic loss by playing hour after hour of Petty’s music in what is either a beautiful tribute to the late rock star or just what they do a...
Wow. What a heartwarming way to honor Tom Petty if it’s not what they’d be doing anyway even if he hadn’t died.
Philly’s Classic Rock 101.3 kicked off the morning with a nonstop block of Petty hits, including “American Girl,” “The Waiting,” and “Don’t Do Me Like That,” which could be a touching homage to the rock star’s prolific career or just some kind of regular “Tuesdays With The Heartbreakers” thing. At this point, it’s a li...
After playing the smash hit “Free Fallin’” for the third time in the hour, hosts Dave and Eric spent several minutes talking about how no one would ever forget Tom Petty’s singular ability to encapsulate the American experience with cool, timeless, catchy lyrics. It sounded kind of like a eulogy for the recently deceas...
Wow. After finding out about the sad news of Petty’s death, it feels great to hear what is either a truly beautiful memorial to the legendary rocker or a regular weekday radio show that simply does not let up on the Petty. Thanks, 101.3!
Though his birth mother desperately wants him back, "Baby J" will be raised by his adoptive parents, a New Jersey appellate court ruled last week in a heart-wrenching adoption case that has left two families in turmoil for months.
Gloria Roman, a 20-year-old receptionist from Union County, went to court last year to try to get back her newborn son after she said the adoption agency misled her and failed to inform her about alternatives to adoption, as required by New Jersey law.
A family court judge agreed and ordered the baby's adoptive parents, who had raised him since birth, to return the boy to his birth mother last year. But the adoptive family appealed the judge's ruling, allowing them to keep the child while the case worked its way through the courts.
Did a local adoption agency mislead a pregnant Union County teenager considering giving up her baby?
Last week, the three-judge appellate panel agreed in a unanimous decision to overturn the lower court's ruling and allow the now 13-month-old boy, called "Baby J" in court papers, to remain with his adoptive parents.
The judges acknowledged whatever decision they made in the complex adoption case would be devastating for one side or the other.
"Few cases have so much potential for calamity," the judges wrote in their ruling. "The adopting parents could lose their only child, the child they have nurtured since birth, and in consequence suffer a lifetime of emotional pain and heartbreak . . . The child could be abruptly removed from the only parents and only h...
But the judges also said allowing "Baby J" to stay with his adoptive parents would be crushing for his birth mother.
"The birth mother could see her decision to surrender her child upheld, have her parental rights terminated, and in consequence suffer a lifetime of regret and sorrow," the 49-page court decision said.
Roman's new lawyers, Paul Townsend and Jennifer Cornelius, said the birth mother is not done fighting for her son. She plans to appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court, though there is no guarantee the court will consider the case.
"The appellate court's decision is a travesty of justice. In failing to affirm the lower court's ruling, the appellate division has focused not on whether the child should be with his natural mother, but on the feelings and emotions of the adoptive couple," Roman's attorneys said in a statement.
The court decision sends the message that New Jersey adoption agencies can skirt rules about giving birth parents information about alternatives to adoption, the attorneys said.
"This decision does not protect Baby J, but rips a child from his natural parent who, in a time of crisis, made an uninformed decision and desperately wants her child back. The procedures and the rules were put in place to avoid such a decision as this," Roman's attorneys said. "A child should be with its natural mothe...
In an interview earlier this year, Roman said she had no ill-will toward her son's adoptive parents and she thought were doing a good job raising the baby. They regularly send her photos and updates on his progress.
But she said she believed the adoption agency talked her into signing away her parental rights to her newborn when she was a scared teenager, recently evicted from her house and conflicted on whether she could provide a good life for her baby.
The agency never told her there were other options, including putting her son in foster care or receiving government assistance, she said.
"It was me trying to fight for my son because I felt like I was taken advantage of," Roman said.
The adoption agency, A Loving Choice, based in Shrewsbury, said they were happy with the appellate court decision, which found the agency did discuss some alternatives to adoption with Roman and did not violate state law.
"A Loving Choice Adoption Associates is very pleased with the ruling of the appellate court. We will not be commenting further and wish to stress the importance of honoring the privacy of the adoptive family," the agency said in a statement.
The baby's adoptive parents, who live outside New Jersey, were not identified. They were referred to by the pseudonyms "Stephen and Stephanie" in the court decision.
In a statement released through their attorney, Matheu Nunn, they asked that their name and their baby's name be kept secret.
"We understood the difficult odds we faced seeking a reversal of a trial court judge, so needless to say we are overjoyed that the three judges from the appeals court considered, and ultimately went with, Mr. Nunn's legal argument. We look forward to a lifetime of happiness with our son and we hope that our experience ...
In New Jersey, the law says a birth parent must wait at least 72 hours after a baby's birth to sign the "surrender" documents to give up a baby for adoption.
Unlike many other states, there is no grace period for a birth mother to change her mind. The surrender is irrevocable unless the birth mother goes to court and proves the papers were signed due to fraud, duress or misrepresentation, according to the law.
Cases like Roman's, where a birth mother goes to court to get her newborn back, are extremely rare, adoption advocates say.
In Roman's case, she got pregnant when she was 19, working part time and living with her mother. They were having financial problems and were recently evicted from their house, Roman said. The baby's father did not want to be involved.
Roman was living with a sister and hiding her pregnancy from her family when she began considering adoption. In her court testimony, Roman said she met several times with an adoption agency counselor, but they never discussed foster care, government assistance or other ways she could keep her baby despite her financial...
She gave birth, turned the baby over to his adoptive parents and checked herself out of the hospital the same day without telling her family where she had been. It wasn't until a month after he son's birth that she told her stunned mother and sister about the baby and began looking for legal help to get him back.
In court testimony, the adoption agency counselor said she did discuss alternatives to adoption with Roman, including how the teenager could get a friend to watch the baby while she worked if she chose to keep the child.
However, the counselor also testified she destroyed the handwritten notes she took while speaking to Roman, something she had never done in any other case.
The appellate court judges ruled Roman understood she was giving up parental rights to her baby when she signed the papers.
"Moreover, the record indisputably established that Loving Choice offered (Roman) counseling," the judges wrote in their decision.
Roman -- who now has a full-time job, a house in Roselle Park and plans to return to Kean University to earn her bachelor's degree -- has a Go Fund Me page to raise money to help pay her legal bills as she appeals her case to the state Supreme Court.
As of Monday, the page had raised nearly $6,000 toward a $90,000 goal.
Kelly Heyboer may be reached at kheyboer@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @KellyHeyboer. Find her at KellyHeyboerReporteron Facebook.
Problem: Thirty-six-year-old female, pregnant with first child. Sudden signs of heart failure at six months. Mother—and child—face life-threatening surgery.
Pai was admitted to Mount Sinai Medical Center. She already knew she had a condition called mitral-valve prolapse, in which the valve between two chambers of the heart fails to close properly, allowing blood to leak from the heart. The disorder is typically harmless; indeed, an echocardiogram early in Pai’s pregnancy h...
Pai’s heart valve was so badly damaged that rebuilding it would take hours. Adams knew he didn’t have that kind of time.
Adams made an incision across Pai’s breast bone, then drained blood from the upper chambers of her heart into a reservoir, where it would be oxygenated and returned to her aorta in a continuous circuit. Adams then proceeded to cut into Pai’s left atrium and to expose her mitral valve. He was now working inside Pai’s he...
She was a minister who allowed him to stay with her while he underwent drug rehabilitation. He initially pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease but later pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty.

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