Biden sets record by commuting sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted on nonviolent drug charges
The recent round of clemency gives Biden the presidential record for most individual pardons and commutations issued.
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Keeping Families Together program faces legal challenge
For nondocumented spouses of U.S. citizens, the path to obtaining legal status has typically involved a mountain of paperwork and a trip back to their home countries. The Biden Administration’s Keeping Families Together program looked to alleviate some of that burden.
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Vacancy looms as federal judge heads toward senior status
It’s taken a little longer than expected for the Biden Administration to announce a nominee for the Indiana Southern District Court’s impending vacancy.
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2022 in review: Honorable mentions
While the “top stories” of each year are usually easy to define, there are always other stories that, while perhaps not as high-profile, are equally as important to our readers.
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Shifting sands: Without congressional action, immigration attorneys deal with fallout from ‘political whims’
Although immigration law has not changed since Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigration Responsibility Act of 1996, presidential administrations have implemented new policies that have sometimes created drastic changes.
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Biden signs executive order aimed at growing AI infrastructure in U.S.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence that seeks to ensure the infrastructure needed for advanced AI operations, such as large-scale data centers and new clean power facilities, can be built quickly and at scale in the United States.
Biden’s administration proposes new rules on exporting AI chips, provoking an industry pushback
The Biden administration is proposing a new framework for the exporting of the advanced computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence, an attempt to balance national security concerns about the technology with the economic interests of producers and other countries.
Nippon, US Steel file suit after Biden administration blocks $15 billion deal
The suit, filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, alleges that it was a political decision and violated the companies’ due process.
Biden vetoes Young-backed legislation to add 66 federal judgeships
The legislation, which was pushed for by Sen. Todd Young of Indiana and included a new judge for the state’s Southern District, would have spread the establishment of the new trial court judgeships over more than a decade.
Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates so Trump can’t have them executed
President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office.
Former FBI informant will plead guilty to lying about phony bribery scheme involving the Bidens
A former FBI informant is set to plead guilty on Monday to lying about a phony bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter that became central to the Republican impeachment inquiry in Congress.
Congress passes Young-backed bill to add more U.S. judges, but veto looms
A bill that would create dozens of new federal judgeships across the country received final approval in Congress on Thursday morning, setting up a likely veto from President Joe Biden even as his administration pushes to confirm his final nominees to fill existing judicial vacancies.
Biden commutes roughly 1,500 sentences and pardons 39 in biggest single-day act of clemency
Most of the commutations announced Thursday are for people who had been placed on home confinement during the pandemic, rather than put in prison where the spread of COVID was high.
Biden is considering preemptive pardons for officials and allies before Trump takes office
The pardons would be for officials and allies who the White House fears could be unjustly targeted by President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, a preemptive move that would be a novel and risky use of the president’s extraordinary constitutional power.
Browning and Llewellyn: President Biden and Gov. Holcomb leave judicial legacies
With the terms of President Joe Biden and Gov. Eric Holcomb coming to an end, it is time to look back at both men’s appointments to federal and Indiana courts, the impacts of which will last decades after their respective stints as chief executive.
President Biden pardons his son Hunter despite previous pledges not to
The move comes weeks before Hunter Biden was set to receive his punishment after his trial conviction in a gun case and guilty plea on tax charges, and less than two months before President-elect Donald Trump is set to return to the White House.
Small business owners breathe easier over labor costs after decision to strike down overtime rule
Small business owners have had a mostly positive reaction to a judge’s decision to strike down an overtime rule that would have qualified more workers for overtime pay.
Democrats strike deal to get more Biden judges confirmed before Congress adjourns
The Senate won’t hold votes on four of President Joe Biden’s appellate court nominees as part of a deal with Republicans to allow for speedier consideration of other judicial nominations and bring Biden within striking distance of the 234 total judicial confirmations that occurred during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term.
Airline CEOs, Buttigieg fight over regulations even after election
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg snapped back Thursday at criticism from airline executives who say the Biden administration over-regulated them, pointing out that some of those airlines are making large profits despite new passenger-protection rules.
Judge blocks new Labor Department rule to expand overtime pay for millions
A federal judge in Texas has blocked a new rule from the Biden administration that would have expanded access to overtime pay to millions more salaried workers across the U.S.
FTC is preparing to investigate Microsoft’s cloud business
The Federal Trade Commission is planning to launch an investigation into Microsoft’s cloud software business over alleged anticompetitive practices, as the Democratic-led agency tries to cement a legacy of aggressive regulation during President Joe Biden’s final weeks in office.
Trump’s win brings uncertainty to borrowers hoping for student loan forgiveness
President-elect Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have criticized Biden’s loan forgiveness efforts, and lawsuits by GOP-led states have held up plans for widespread debt cancellation. Trump has not said what he would do on loan forgiveness, leaving millions of borrowers facing uncertainty over their personal finances.
Judge strikes down Biden administration program shielding immigrant spouses from deportation
The program, lauded as one of the biggest presidential actions to help immigrant families in years, allowed undocumented spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens to apply for a green card without first having to leave the country.
Trump receives congratulations and an invitation to the White House as Biden nudges on transition
Vice President Kamala Harris called Trump to concede the race and to congratulate him, while President Joe Biden invited the man he ousted from the White House four years ago to an Oval Office meeting to prepare to return the keys.