麻豆社区 Law in the Media
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Monday seemed like the end of President Donald Trump’s relentless challenges to the election, after the federal government acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden was the “apparent winner” and Trump cleared the way for cooperation on a transition of power. But his baseless claims have a way of coming back. And back. And back. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
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Massachusetts may soon join more than a dozen U.S. states in offering a smartphone app that can warn users of possible exposure to people infected with COVID-19. But it’s far from obvious that the highly touted technology will actually help check the spread of the disease. Ryan Calo, professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
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As University of 麻豆社区 of Law Professor Hugh Spitzer explained, state law empowers the governor to prohibit activities more often than requiring people to engage in them.
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With President-elect Joe Biden’s transition officially underway on Tuesday, Republican lawmakers from Washington and Idaho mostly kept quiet or reiterated their support for President Trump’s effort to overturn the election results despite a growing number of their GOP colleagues walking away from the Trump campaign’s faltering legal challenges. Lisa Manheim, associate professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
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After Seattle City Council voted yesterday on the 2021 city budget, partners in the Solidarity Budget coalition hosted a Facebook Live teach-in event to share perspectives and analyses of the close-to-official city budget. Angélica Cházaro, assistant professor of law at the 麻豆社区, is quoted.
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After hamstringing president Obama’s nominations for years, a Republican Senate during the Trump administration has packed the Supreme and federal courts with conservative judges (including in Washington’s 9th Circuit). How will that affect the state and region? Elizabeth Porter is associate dean at the University of Washington Law School, and a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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The campaign's claims of voter fraud are also baseless, said Lisa Manheim, law professor at the University of Washington. "It's not clear that Trump even understands the basic logic of a lawsuit," she wrote. "To win a case, you need a claim, evidence and a remedy.