House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers’ wife resigned from a position on the Detroit City Council after pleading guilty to a bribery charge, according to this report. [Monica] Conyers will leave the council effective next Monday after pleading guilty to … Continue reading
Daily Archives: June 29, 2009
The Department of Justice announced a guilty plea in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case today. Joseph T. Lukas, 60, a resident of New Jersey, was a partner in Nexus Technologies Inc. until 2005. According to court documents, Nexus Technologies … Continue reading
Needless to say, we will not be seeing too many majority opinions in campaign finance cases citing the sober-minded Elihu Root any time soon. With today’s Supreme Court’s announcement that it will rehear argument in Citizens United and the retirement … Continue reading