Trump Investigation: Where Do Things Stand and What Happens Next?

“[Judge Aileen Cannon] is leaning over backwards to treat Trump the way nobody else has been treated,” Professor Michael Meltsner tells Al Jazeera. “In US law and practice, we don’t interfere lightly with a criminal investigation. A criminal investigation by its very nature has to be private.”

Fights between U.S. States and the National Government Are Endangering Public Health

”In today’s increasingly polarized political environment, legal doctrines that once supported the states’ ability to protect the health of their residents are diminishing the capacity of both our national and local governments to do so,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet in an op-ed for Scientific American. “Unless the courts stop enabling this political weaponization of federalism, our federalism will remain uncooperative. And deadly.”

Gates Versus the Pandemic

Professor Brook Baker talks to Fast Company magazine about philanthropy’s function in public health: “A fundamental question is, Well, because you have the money, should you be able to control the architecture of global health?”