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Jackson’s confirmation expected by end of week after committee deadlocks along partisan lines

SCOTUSBlog

Despite the tie vote on Monday, Jackson’s nomination can still go to the Senate floor using a procedure known as a discharge petition and a simple majority vote to place Jackson’s nomination on the calendar. Once there, Democrats expect to confirm Jackson before the Senate adjourns for its Easter recess at the end of this week.

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ALPS In Brief – Episode 58: The Vera Project

ALPS

And you fly into Iowa and you’d have all these visits set up and, and drive all over the state, and visiting with solo and small firms. We gone through law school and passed the bar and are practicing. It was a fee service. Mark Bassingthwaighte: And we’re all bright people. We’re some bright people here.

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Can U.S. Policing Be Saved?

The Crime Report

a professor of law at Yale Law School, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. State legislatures in places like Arizona, Texas and Iowa continue to resist reform by crafting legislation seeking to block any attempts to reallocate budget funds to social services.