NYEC Federal Policy Roundup (3/4/22)

This Week’s Update Supreme Court Nomination: Confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will begin March 21. FY22 appropriations: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) announced the House will vote on an FY22 omnibus appropriations bill, including supplemental appropriations (aid) for Ukraine, on March 8. Hopefully the Senate will follow suit shortly after, before the…

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NYEC Federal Policy Roundup (2/25/22)

This Week’s Update Supreme Court Nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson: If confirmed, she would be the first Supreme Court Justice to have worked as a public defender – and the first Justice since Thurgood Marshall with significant experience defending (rather than prosecuting) criminal defendants. She also served on the U.S. Sentencing Commission during a time…

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NYEC Federal Policy 2021 End-of-Year Roundup

2021 feels less like its own year than any I can remember, more a continuation of 2020 and our ongoing struggle to reckon with the pandemic than anything new in itself. I am grateful to have done this work with you. We accomplished a lot, in spite of a lot of barriers. The biggest thing…

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