LEXINGTON, Kentucky, April 3 (TNSPar) -- The University of Kentucky issued the following news: On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order that established the Peace Corps as a volunteer agency in the U.S Department of State. Sixty years later, as the agency celebrates its diamond anniversary, University of Kentucky Libraries' Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History is continuing its work with local and national partners to preserve many of the stories and experiences of more PR

WASHINGTON, March 30 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R46738) on March 29, 2021, entitled "Executive Orders: An Introduction" by legislative attorney Kevin T. Richards: SUMMARY Executive orders are written instruments through which a President can issue directives to shape policy. Although the U.S. Constitution does not address executive orders and no statute grants the President the general power to issue them, authority to issue such orders is accepted a more PR

BRONX, New York, March 26 (TNSOps) -- Fordham University School of Law issued the following news: Fordham Law School welcomed 57 law student oral advocates to compete in the annual Irving R. Kaufman Memorial Securities Law Moot Court Competition, held from March 12 through March 14. The competition is named after Judge Kaufman, who graduated from the Fordham Law School in 1931. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy nominated Kaufman to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, w more PR

WASHINGTON, April 2 -- The House Administration Subcommittee on Elections issued the following testimony by Marcia Johnson-Blanco, co-director of the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, as part of a virtual hearing entitled "Voting in America: Ensuring Free and Fair Access to the Ballot" on April 1, 2021: My name is Marcia Johnson-Blanco and I am the Co-Director of the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ("Lawyers' C more PR