Corruption around Roger Stone’s commutation, the personal effect of ICE guidelines on students, and how uncertainty led to more gun sales.
| The Spring 2020 spike in firearm sales In just the first six months of 2020, approximately 19 million firearms were sold in the United States, representing more than one firearm for every 20 Americans. In a new analysis, Phillip Levine and Robin McKnight look at how recent events—including COVID-19 and nationwide protests against police brutality—have shaped gun purchasing behavior. Read more |
| New ICE guidelines jeopardize international students Last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released new guidelines for international students studying in America: these students now must either resume in-person classes—amid rising coronavirus case counts—or leave the country. Diana Quintero, an international student herself, breaks down what this decision means for students like her. Read more |
| The Roger Stone commutation is even more corrupt than it seems “[T]he predictable nature of Trump’s action should not obscure its rank corruption. In fact, the predictability makes the commutation all the more corrupt, the capstone of an all-but-open attempt on the president’s part to obstruct justice in a self-protective fashion over a protracted period of time.” Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes write about the president’s commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence. Read in Lawfare |
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