Articles by Margaret Taylor
The new rules of work
Sweeping legislative changes are transforming the world of work in numerous jurisdictions. In-House Perspective reports on what counsel need to know. From pay transparency and AI governance to ‘gig worker’ rights and new wellbeing obligations, employment law is being rewritten across multiple jurisdictions.
Bridging the Gap: Why the skills system is overdue an overhaul
Paul Walsh feels like he’s won the work lottery. As an apprentice stonemason with Historic Environment Scotland (HES), he’s learning his craft in style, carrying out restoration work on Glasgow Cathedral’s 15th century spire. It is, he says, the “Holy Grail of where you can work as a stonemason”, but his learning curve doesn’t stop there. “I also get to go to Melrose Abbey and Jedburgh Abbey,” Walsh says. “I live in Dumbarton and have done some work on the castle there.
Apple Must Pay $14.4 Billion to Ireland in Crackdown On ‘Sweetheart Deals’
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Apple Must Pay $14.4 Billion to Ireland in Crackdown On ‘Sweetheart Deals’
Apple has been ordered to pay €13 billion ($14.4bn) of unpaid taxes to the Irish state, in a court ruling that ended a decade-long fight between Europe and the big tech company. “The Court of Justice gives final judgment in the matter and confirms the European Commission’s 2016 decision: Ireland granted Apple unlawful aid, which Ireland is required to recover,” the court said in a statement.
Torque Airdrop Guide Released
Introduction: The world of cryptocurrency is buzzing with excitement over the concept of airdrops. For those unfamiliar, airdrops are a way for cryptocurrency projects to distribute tokens to a large number of wallets in a short period. If you're looking to maximize your earnings through airdrops, especially in the realm of Torque, this ultimate guide is tailored just for you.
9inch Airdrop Guide Inside
Еntrу: Welcome to the ultimate guide on earning free 9inch through airdrops. If you've been looking to boost your crypto portfolio without investing, you're in the right place. This guide will walk you through claiming the big airdrop on DappRadar, setting the stage for your journey into the world of 9inch airdrops. Participating in 9inch Airdrops: In the world of cryptocurrency, participating in airdrops is a common way for projects to distribute tokens to the community.
Politics and religion: does faith have a role to play in a secular society?
The 1st Buckie Company Boys’ Brigade is obviously doing something right. At a time when the UK-wide organisation, which remains wedded to the strong Christian values of its Victorian founder, is seeing membership plummet, this local group is bucking the trend.
The Lawfare Podcast: Another Week of Impeachment
It's another week of impeachment, and we thought it warranted gathering everyone around the table to talk about it. Margaret Taylor, David Priess, Susan Hennessey, and Scott R. Anderson joined Benjamin Wittes in the Jungle Studio to talk about the Schiff report, the Nunes/Jordan pre-rebuttal report, the House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday with a bunch of law professors, and Nancy Pelosi's message on Thursday afternoon that impeachment was going forward.
The Lawfare Podcast: Molly Reynolds and Margaret Taylor Talk Congress
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Congress is capable of moving a Supreme Court justice at record speed, yet it can't get coronavirus relief passed. It has struggled to keep the government open, and it has pending business that it has to accomplish now or during the lame duck session.
The Lawfare Podcast: Briefings Schmiefings
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Last week, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe informed Congress that elections security briefings in the run-up to the 2020 election would no longer be oral. There would be written intelligence product only, and there would be no Q&A sessions. Members of Congress are not happy about it.
The Lawfare Podcast: Election Anxieties and the U.S. Postal Service with Kevin Kosar and Anne Joseph O’Connell
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With On August 13, President Trump said in a news interview that he opposed supplemental funding for the United States Postal Service because such funding is needed for the delivery of universal mail-in ballots for the 2020 election. His comments sparked panic about whether the Trump administration is slowing Postal Service delivery in order to sway the election.
The Lawfare Podcast: "What’s Going on at Pompeo’s State Department?" with Nahal Toosi and Scott Anderson
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With In mid-May, President Trump fired the State Department Inspector General Steve Linick. The ouster came as a surprise, and although it is clear that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked Trump to fire him, the reasons Pompeo gave for it have changed over time. This is just one of a series of controversies coming out of the Department of State in recent months.
The Lawfare Podcast: Adam Jentleson and Molly Reynolds on Getting Rid of the Senate Filibuster
Jen Patja is the editor of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security, and serves as Lawfare’s Director of Audience Engagement. Previously, she was Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics and Deputy Director of the Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier, where she worked to deepen public understanding of constitutional democracy and inspire meaningful civic participation. Margaret L.
The Lawfare Podcast: The McGahn Decision and Proxy Voting
Jen Patja is the editor of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security, and serves as Lawfare’s Director of Audience Engagement. Previously, she was Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics and Deputy Director of the Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier, where she worked to deepen public understanding of constitutional democracy and inspire meaningful civic participation.
The Lawfare Podcast: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Democratic Staff Report on Diplomacy in Crisis
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Last Friday the Lawfare Podcast brought you Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's full statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and his question and answer session with the senators, all with "no bull." A few days before that hearing, the Democratic staff of the Committee released its most recent oversight report titled "Diplomacy in Crisis: The Trump Administration's Decimation of the State Department." Following remarks by...
House Republicans' Unprecedented Lawsuit to Stop Remote Voting
On Friday, July 24, counsel for House Republicans and the general counsel of the House of Representatives appeared before Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for a hearing on House Republicans’ effort to enjoin the use of the proxy voting system developed to help the chamber conduct business more safely in the midst of the pandemic.
The Lawfare Podcast: Election Meltdown Update
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With COVID-19 is still rampaging around the country, primaries in several states did not go as planned, and, of course, there are Russians lurking in the background. With all of this happening around us, what is going to happen with the election we are about to hold in November? Benjamin Wittes checked in with Nate Persily, the James B.
The Lawfare Podcast: Congressional Overspeech with Josh Chafetz
Jen Patja is the editor of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security, and serves as Lawfare’s Director of Audience Engagement. Previously, she was Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics and Deputy Director of the Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier, where she worked to deepen public understanding of constitutional democracy and inspire meaningful civic participation. Margaret L.
The Lawfare Podcast: Tony Mills on Congress's Institutional Limitations in Responding to the Coronavirus
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Margaret Taylor sat down with Tony Mills, director of science policy at the R Street Institute, to talk about an article he recently wrote with Robert Cook-Deegan titled, "Where's Congress?
Eleven Questions for Director of National Intelligence Nominee Rep. John Ratcliffe
Amid questions about the ability of the House and the Senate to function in regular order during a pandemic, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will hold an open hearing on May 5 at 9:30 a.m. to consider the president’s nomination of Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe of Texas to serve as director of national intelligence. The hearing will be held in person, not remotely.
The Lawfare Podcast: Tom Wheeler and Nicol Turner Lee on 5G Deployment and Digital Competition with China
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Margaret Taylor spoke with Brookings scholars Tom Wheeler and Nicol Turner Lee to discuss their new papers published as part of a two-year-long Brookings project called Global China: Assessing China’s Growing Role in the World. You can read Tom's and Nicol's papers on the Brookings website.
The Lawfare Podcast: Former Congressman Brian Baird and Daniel Schuman on How Congress Can Continue to Function Remotely
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With On April 16, former members of Congress participated in a "Mock Remote Hearing" via Zoom to test the viability of online congressional proceedings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Former General David Petraeus testified, along with representatives from Zoom, Microsoft Teams and other experts; a Member of the UK Parliament testified about how the UK Parliament is innovating to meet the demands of social distancing.
The Lawfare Podcast: Stan Brand on the State of Congressional Oversight and Subpoena Power
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Margaret Taylor sat down with Stan Brand, who served as the general counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives from 1976 to 1983. They talked about key issues working their way through the courts that could redefine congressional subpoena power and congressional oversight for a generation. How will these cases move forward in light of the COVID-19 pandemic?
The Lawfare Podcast Bonus Edition: How the State Department and the Defense Department are Responding to the Covid-19 Pandemic
On this bonus edition of the Lawfare Podcast, we have combined two conversations about about how the Department of State and the Department of Defense are responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, including the impact on the workforce of these agencies, their efforts to assist and protect Americans abroad and domestically, and the broader national security and foreign policy consequences for the United States.
The Lawfare Podcast: Congress and Corona
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Since we are recording remotely due to coronavirus concerns, it is a good day to discuss the congressional response to coronavirus. Benjamin Wittes spoke with Margaret Taylor, Lawfare's congressional guru, about what legislation Congress has passed, what legislation Congress and the Trump administration are considering in relation to the virus, and how Congress has responded institutionally.
The Lawfare Podcast Special Edition: Senate Trial Preview
The Senate impeachment trial of President Trump starts Tuesday. The President now has a legal team. And over the weekend, both the House impeachment managers and the President's lawyers filed initial briefs. In this special edition of the podcast, Benjamin Wittes, Margaret Taylor, Susan Hennessey, David Priess, Scott Anderson, and Paul Rosenzweig talk it all through. What should we make of the president's legal team? What do the briefs say? And what should we expect from the trial to come?
The First Test for Chief Justice Roberts? McConnell’s Organizing Resolution for Impeachment
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has passed the articles of impeachment to the Senate, the senators have sworn their oaths, and the impeachment trial of President Trump is set to begin on Jan. 21. But many things remain unresolved—among them, whether and to what extent the Senate will hear “new” evidence and testimony that was not a part of the House’s impeachment inquiry.
The Lawfare Podcast: Imagining an Impeachment Trial
There's going to be a House vote tomorrow to send the impeachment articles over to the Senate. Then there's going to be a little parade where the appointed managers from the House take them over. And then, we're going to have a Senate trial. Benjamin Wittes gathered in the Jungle Studio with Margaret Taylor, Molly Reynolds, David Priess, and Jonathan Shaub (by phone) to imagine what that trial will look like.
The Lawfare Podcast: Investigations All the Way Down
We have articles of impeachment. We have a very long inspector general report on the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation. And we have a Lawfare Podcast that you won't want to miss. Benjamin Wittes spoke with Margaret Taylor, Quinta Jurecic, Jack Goldsmith, and David Kris about the new articles of impeachment unveiled today and the inspector general's investigation.
The Lawfare Podcast: Quite a Week
This week, Roger Stone was convicted on seven counts by a jury in the District of Columbia, and three State Department officials testified before the House Impeachment Committee. There's been a lot going on, and Benjamin Wittes assembled an all-star, all-Lawfare crew to talk through it all. Quinta Jurecic, Margaret Taylor, Susan Hennessey, Scott R. Anderson, and David Priess make appearances to talk about different aspects of the week's events.
The Lawfare Podcast: Tom Wheeler on the Need for Real Cybersecurity for 5G
Jen Patja is the editor of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security, and serves as Lawfare’s Director of Audience Engagement. Previously, she was Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics and Deputy Director of the Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier, where she worked to deepen public understanding of constitutional democracy and inspire meaningful civic participation. Margaret L.
The Lawfare Podcast: Mark Rozell on 'Presidential Power, Secrecy and Accountability'
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Over the years, presidents have used different language to describe the withholding of information from Congress.
The Lawfare Podcast: Mueller's Testimony: A Preview
Finally, this week, former FBI director Robert Swan Mueller III will testify in front of the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees about the findings from his work as Special Counsel investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 election as well as any coordination or links between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign. To preview this testimony, David Priess spoke with Molly Reynolds, Margaret Taylor, and Benjamin Wittes.
The Lawfare Podcast: Austin Evers and Mike Stern on Congressional Oversight
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With President Trump has declared that he will fight “all the subpoenas” coming from Congress and has claimed “absolute immunity” for White House advisors. In doing so, he has brought the issue of congressional oversight of the executive branch to the front pages.
William Hurt Grave Marking Ceremony: Cemetery sign
Adair Revolutionary War Patriot Hurt honored Adair Countian crossed the Delaware with George Washington Five photos accompany this article By Margaret Taylor Patriot William Hurt's Grave Marking and Dedication Ceremony was held today, Saturday, October 6, 2006, at the Hurt Cemetery on Highway 704 South of Columbia. It was presented by the Governor Isaac Shelby Chapter, Kentucky Society Sons of the American Revolution. Mr. Hurt was born September 16, 1757 and died November 12, 1842.
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