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Given the significant push to vaccinate the public since the start of 2021, the increasing availability of vaccines, and the need to recruit additional personnel to administer vaccinations, the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has again amended its declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) to accommodate some workforce barriers that had not been previously contemplated.
Several times since the beginning of 2021, the secretary has cited an “urgent need to expand the pool of COVID-19 vaccinators to respond effectively to the pandemic” as the rationale for issuing multiple amendments to the PREP Act declaration focused exclusively on expanding workforce personnel in the fight against the pandemic.
Noticing some notable criminal justice panels at CPAC 2021
As highlighted by this NPR preview, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) kicks off tonight and concludes Sunday with former Prez Trump giving his first big speech since leaving office. Though there are lots and lots of storylines surrounding this year s CPAC, and I was intrigued to see a few criminal justice reform programs appearing on the CPAC 2021 agenda.
Notably, one theme for various CPAC panels is the Bill of Rights, with Senator Mike Lee slated to give a speech tomorrow morning titled Why the Left Hates the Bill of Rights. and We Love It. But it is not exactly clear that the CPAC folks really loves ALL of the Bill of Rights: the CPAC agenda has a whole lot more folks slated to speak about those parts of the Bill of Rights that primarily deal with civil rights rather than criminal defendant rights. For example, the Fifth Amendment panel on the first day has four participants focused on F
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Ex Parte Virginia, 100 U.S. 339 (1880)
1. A., a judge of a county court in Virginia, charged by the law of that State with the selection of jurors to serve for the year 1878 in the circuit and county courts of his county, was, in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia, indicted for excluding and failing to select as grand jurors and petit jurors certain citizens of his county of African race and black color, who, possessing all other qualifications prescribed by law, were excluded from the jury lists made out by him as such officer, on account of their race, color, and previous condition of servitude, and for no other reason, against the peace, &c., of the United States, and against the form of the statute in such case made and provided. Being in custody under that indictment, he presented to this court his petition for a writ of habeas corpus and a writ of certiorari to bring up the record of the inferior court, t
President urges judges, lawyers to ensure rule of law The New Nation
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President M Abdul Hamid on Friday called the judges to take care of the litigants rights so that they do not have to roam on the court s corridor the day after day to get a copy of the judgement after the verdict of the case. One thing to keep in mind is that if the dispute is not resolved properly, there will be a crisis of confidence. And if this process continues again and again, a chaotic situation may arise in the state and society, he mentioned while delivering his virtual address from the Bangabhaban on the occasion of Supreme Court Day 2020, reports BSS.