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U.S. President Joe Biden has nominated Virginia Solicitor General Andrew Ferguson and Utah Solicitor General Melissa Holyoak to fill Republican slots at the Federal Trade Commission, the White House said on Monday.
Highlights from the SCOTUS term
Supreme Court conservatives complete another assertive term
Legal ·June 30, 2023 The U.S. Supreme Court has wrapped up another term in which its conservative justices flexed their muscles, following up major abortion and gun decisions last year with rulings that rejected affirmative action in college admissions, curbed LGBT rights and blocked President Joe Biden's student debt relief plan.
SLAVERY'S DESCENDANTS
America's Family SecretMore than 100 U.S. leaders – lawmakers, presidents, governors and justices – have slaveholding ancestors, a Reuters examination found. Few are willing to talk about their ties to America's “original sin.”
- White Collar CrimeThree charged with insider trading ahead of proposed Trump Media merger
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday charged three Florida men with making more than $22 million through insider trading in late 2021 ahead of a proposed merger to take former U.S. President Donald Trump's social media company public.
