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"People Really Want Relief"-The Reporters' Roundtable Feb 26

$15 Minimum Wage Setback. Covid Progress. Airstrikes in Syria. GOP Civil War. Trump CPAC. With Leah Askarinam, Editor of National Journal Hotline, Maya King, Politics Reporter at Politico and Chris Lu, Fmr. Dep. Sec. of Labor and now at The Miller Center at UVA.
Chris Lu
Miller Center Presents

Can we all just get along? The new president and the Supreme Court

Three Supreme Court experts examine the future of the high court under the Biden administration. Among other topics, they will discuss upcoming court cases and how the addition of Amy Coney Barrett might affect some of these outcomes and the overall makeup of the court; whether the Biden administration might more add more justices and if so, who might be on a short list; and the impact Biden might have on the lower federal courts through appointments.
Saikrishna Prakash
Miller Center Presents

Can we all just get along? The new president and the Supreme Court

Three Supreme Court experts examine the future of the high court under the Biden administration. Among other topics, they will discuss upcoming court cases and how the addition of Amy Coney Barrett might affect some of these outcomes and the overall makeup of the court; whether the Biden administration might more add more justices and if so, who might be on a short list; and the impact Biden might have on the lower federal courts through appointments.
Barbara Perry
Newsweek

Joe Biden's Backing of Neera Tanden Could Cost Him Key Political Capital, Experts Say

But experts warned against Biden dragging out Tanden's nomination, arguing that he could risk losing political capital he will need to pass much of his legislative agenda over the next four years. "I suspect that he will not prolong this," Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a nonresident senior fellow with governance studies at the Brookings Institution, told Newsweek. "My advice would be to not lose any more political capital than you already have, don't go to the mat for it, because this is one of several really important appointments that you need to get in place quickly," she added. "Already, they're behind. They only have six of 15."
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas
Newsweek

Joe Biden's Backing of Neera Tanden Could Cost Him Key Political Capital, Experts Say

David Leblang, a professor of public policy at the University of Virginia and a senior fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, specifically cited the need for Biden to stay on the good side of senators—among them Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah). All three senators have come out against Tanden's nomination over the past week. "If he thinks he's going to have to strike deals with Republicans, especially moderate Republicans, where he knows he's going to need the votes, is this where he uses that capital? I'm skeptical," Leblang told Newsweek.
David Leblang