The opinion says that judges should recuse themselves in certain situations, including if a spouse performed “four high level executive recruitments” for the same company in a year and collected large fees. That would constitute a “substantial and ongoing relationship,” but if the work were spread over a considerably longer period, “recusal may not be…
Month: January 2023
Trump’s Well-Worn Legal Playbook Starts to Look Frayed
Mr. Korman, following the road map laid out in reporting by Wayne Barrett, The Village Voice muckraking journalist, investigated whether Mr. Trump had agreed to sign onto a landlord suit against an oil company being filed by a lawyer whose help he needed to acquire a large for-lease parcel of undeveloped land in Manhattan. Mr….
IMF Upgrades Global Economic Outlook as Inflation Eases
WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund said on Monday that it expected the global economy to slow this year as central banks continued to raise interest rates to tame inflation, but it also suggested that output would be more resilient than previously anticipated and that a global recession would probably be avoided. The I.M.F. upgraded its economic…
Biden Administration Plans to End Covid Public Health Emergency in May
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration plans to let the coronavirus public health emergency expire in May, the White House said on Monday, a sign that federal officials believe the pandemic has moved into a new, less dire phase. The move carries both symbolic weight and real-world consequences. Millions of Americans have received free Covid tests…
Wall Street Is Counting on a Debt Limit Trick That Could Entail Trouble
Washington’s debt limit drama has Wall Street betting that the United States will employ a fallback option to ensure it can make good on payments to its lenders even if Congress doesn’t raise the nation’s borrowing limit before America runs out of cash. But that untested idea has significant flaws and has been ruled out…
Declaring Emergencies and Banning ‘Latinx’: First Acts for 9 New Governors
After a midterm election year in which statewide races were almost entirely wrapped up in national issues — abortion and democracy — the nation’s newly elected governors are showing their ambitions with a mix of virtue-signaling on national issues, currying favor with their political bases and, for some, reaching out to broader constituencies. With the…
Justice Dept. Announces More Arrests in Plot to Kill Iranian Writer
Three men were enlisted to assassinate Masih Alinejad, a human-rights activist in Brooklyn who has criticized Iran’s repression of women, the indictment says.
As Archives Leans on Ex-Presidents, Its Only Weapon Is ‘Please’
WASHINGTON — The National Archives and Records Administration this week delivered a gentle request to representatives of former presidents and vice presidents: Could you please check again to see if you have any classified documents laying around? Asking nicely is about all they can do. Legal experts said that officials at the archives do not…
Matt Gaetz, Political Arsonist, Has New Powers. What Will He Do With Them?
Two years ago, The New York Times reported that Mr. Gaetz was the subject of a Justice Department investigation over allegations that the congressman had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him, a violation of federal sex-trafficking laws. Mr. Gaetz denied the allegation and has not been charged….
Trump’s Evolution on Truth Social: More QAnon, More Extremes
In September, former President Donald J. Trump went on Truth Social, his social network, and shared an image of himself wearing a lapel pin in the form of the letter Q, along with a phrase closely associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory movement: “The storm is coming.” In doing so, Mr. Trump ensured that the…