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U. Of Miami Asks Court To Toss Wasteful EEOC Pay Bias Suit
Law360 (April 20, 2021, 2:59 PM EDT) The University of Miami urged a Florida federal judge to toss an U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit accusing it of underpaying a female professor, saying a male professor s higher salary is justified because of his credentials.
The university on Monday asked U.S. District Judge Robert Scola Jr. to grant it summary judgment on the EEOC s Title VII and Equal Pay Act claims, which the agency filed on behalf of Louise Davidson-Schmich.
The EEOC s July 2019 complaint claimed that Davidson-Schmich was paid roughly $25,000 less than her colleague Gregory Koger, even though both are tenured political science professors with the same.
You ve (probably) all seen how the musical ends.
Vice-President Aaron Burr shoots and kills Alexander Hamilton in a duel. There s a heart-wrenching final song about Hamilton s legacy in Washington.
Burr creates a confusing Senate procedure responsible for 200 years of partisan gridlock. The curtain closes.
If that last bit doesn t sound right, don t worry.
The Senate procedure known as the filibuster was inspired by Burr, but Hamilton isn t the only piece of commentary that glosses over the rule.
Today, it s an essential and often misunderstood aspect of the US legislative process. It s also been the subject of intense debate in Washington since President Joe Biden took office.
Local GOP leaders discuss the future of the party
By Amanda M. Perez By Amanda M. Perez
03-17-2021
The University of Miami’s Department of Political Science hosted South Florida politicians during a virtual dialogue Tuesday evening that explored where the Republican Party is headed after the 2020 election.
It is conventional that after a presidential election, the losing political party engages in a discussion both public and private about how it lost and why it should approach the next election differently. In an effort to spark that conversation in the South Florida community, the University of Miami’s Department of Political Science hosted a virtual dialogue about the future of the Republican Party.
How Much Has the Filibuster Cost America? Intelligencer 2/6/2021 Ed Kilgore
As Democrats mull a reform or even an abolition of the hoary and disreputable institution of the Senate filibuster, it’s easy to confine the stakes of the debate to desirable legislative items that are currently front-and-center: reforming democracy, fighting climate change, and reforming health care, and other progressive goals that simply cannot get through Congress to Joe Biden’s desk because 41 senators can and will veto every one of them.
Fundamentally, the filibuster (which really didn’t exist in a meaningful sense until the late 19th century) allows any determined Senate minority to resist and in many cases kill legislation it dislikes. Until 1917, with the invention of “cloture,” there was no way to force the end to a filibuster. Still, the filibuster didn’t achieve its full evil flowering as the favored tool for preservation of Jim Crow until between the world wars