Professor Richard Painter was quoted in the Associated Press about Donald Trump’s New York trial now underway. While Trump faces charges in two cases over whether he attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election and remain in power, it’s the New York case centered on payments to an adult film actor that might provide the only legal ramifications this year. The lead prosecutor said the payments amounted to a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 election. Prof.

Professor Matthew Bodie was quoted in the New York Times and USA Today about Starbucks asking the U.S. Supreme Court to require a stricter test for when courts can step in and protect union organizers who are fired or punished. Labor sympathizers see the case as part of a corporate backlash to the success of the National Labor Relations Board and to a rise in union organizing. The case comes about two months after Starbucks and the union organizing its U.S. workers agreed to begin discussing potential collective bargaining deals.

Professor Kristin Hickman was a guest on the Bloomberg Tax podcast and discussed the upcoming decision from the U.S. Supreme Court on federal agency rulemaking power. Prof. Hickman provided background on the Chevron deference and how the Treasury Department and the IRS are expected to be largely insulated from the ruling, no matter the outcome.

Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a Washington Examiner article about U.S. senators who are investigating conservative activists over their ties to U.S. Supreme Court justices. The article states the senators themselves receive major donations which could lead to charges of hypocrisy. Prof. Painter said that the subpoenas the senators are issuing to investigate any conflicts of interest shouldn’t be “fishing expeditions in which members of Congress go after each other’s big donors or the nonprofit organizations they support.”