Ryan Farrick is a freelance writer and small business advertising consultant based out of mid-Michigan. Passionate about international politics and world affairs, he’s an avid traveler with a keen interest in the connections between South Asia and the United States. Ryan studied neuroscience and has spent the last several years working as an operations manager in transportation logistics.
A 96-year old judge from Brooklyn is pushing back against the Supreme Court, claiming a pair of recent rulings protecting law enforcement from lawsuits had gone too far. In a Monday decision, Judge Jack B. Weinstein claimed the expanded police protections could absolve “all but the plainly incompetent” from the consequences of misconduct. “The Supreme
Friday brought chaos to a conservative effort to broker compromise on a House immigration bill. After a week of long talks, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan promised Wednesday that Republicans were finally finding common ground on a contentious immigration issue. Ever since President Donald Trump formally rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program
Newly-appointed New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood is suing the Trump Foundation, along with the president and his children, alleging “extensive and persistent” lawbreaking. Underwood, writes the BBC, claims that Trump’s charitable group engaged in “unlawful political co-ordination” aimed at influencing the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Along with dissolving the foundation, Underwood
On Thursday, the Supreme Court struck down a Minnesota law banning voters from wearing political apparel at polling places. In what the New York Times describes as a ‘cautious 7-2 decision,’ the court recognized the values underlying Minnesota’s intent. Nevertheless, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. opined that the state’s law wasn’t “capable of reasoned
When Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai decided to scrap net neutrality, he claimed that Obama-era regulations were slowing down the nationwide deployment of broadband services. A new analysis from the Center for Public Integrity, published Tuesday, calls Pai’s reasoning ‘shallow at best and ridiculous at worst.’ The conclusion shouldn’t come as a shock—Pai’s decision
A Tuesday meeting between moderate Republicans and House Speaker Paul Ryan could culminate in the release of a new immigration bill, intended to circumvent a Democrat-led discharge petition. Created after weeks negotiations between Ryan, centrists and the right-wing Freedom Caucus, the endeavor remains endangered by political uncertainty. Nevertheless, optimism seems on the rise in conservative
Moderate House Republicans are plying their more conservative counterparts with a new deal to shield Dreamers from deportation. Discussions are set to take place in House Speaker Paul Ryan’s office throughout Tuesday night. Some two-dozen Republicans are expected to be in attendance, most from swing districts with immigrant-heavy constituencies. The potential defectors have already threatened
The City of Chicago reached a tentative $16 million settlement with the family of 55-year old Bettie Jones, an innocent woman gunned down in a confrontation gone terribly awry. The settlement, writes the Chicago Tribune, arrives as the lawsuit’s trial date looms. While Jones’ surviving relatives may have reached an agreement with the city, another,
A family that lost several members during a mass shooting at a Texas church is suing the federal government, accusing the military of failing to report the killer’s court martial in a public database. The suit, writes The New York Times, claims that gunman Devin Patrick Kelley was criminally convicted of domestic violence while serving
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed a ruling that will make seeking asylum on American soil more difficult for victims of domestic violence. The 31-page decision, reports POLITICO, tightens the criteria for victims of ‘private crime’ attempting to seek asylum in the United States—along with restrictions on men and women suffering from domestic abuse, the