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Cornell faculty members and experts weigh in on current events.

To connect with a Cornell faculty member or expert, please contact the Media Relations Office.

Cornell experts available to discuss imminent SCOTUS opinions

May 15, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court will soon issue decisions on several high-stake cases, Cornell University experts are available to discuss ruling implications.

Law and Policy

‘Enormous consequences’ loom in the wake of Trump indictment

March 31, 2023

Cornell University experts David Bateman and Randy Zelin weigh in on 'enormous consequences' and more in wake of Trump indictment.

Law and Policy

Cornell experts available to discuss 2022 midterm elections

October 26, 2022

In less than two weeks, Americans will head to the polls for the midterm elections. The following Cornell University experts are available to discuss topics from the state of democracy to inflation and public opinion.

Law, Government & Public Policy

History repeats with effort to protect voting rights, end filibuster

January 11, 2022

David Bateman, professor of government at Cornell University, says that inaction on voting rights could result in irreversible damage to electoral integrity in some states.

Law and Policy

Progressives make sacrifices to win Manchin, Sinema

October 20, 2021

David Bateman, professor of government at Cornell University, says progressives are likely to sacrifice policies included in the original domestic big domestic spending proposal that may make the bill more palatable to Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.

Law and Policy

DC statehood represents ‘equal rights of citizenship,’ not politics

April 22, 2021

David Bateman, professor of government, says while much of the critique of H.R. 51, a bill being voted on in the House to give DC full statehood, is political, the bill represents a decision about whether residents of DC merit equal rights of citizenship.

Law and Policy

Southern politics, slim margins to force ‘tricky choices’ in Congress

January 4, 2021

David Bateman, professor of government at Cornell University, says the politics of Georgia and other southern states, along with tight margins of party control in Congress, will force leaders to consider new legislative strategies.

Law and Policy

Procedural questions to shape impeachment trajectory

December 5, 2019

David Bateman, professor of government, says that it might just take a few Republican members shifting their positions for conviction to be possible in the Senate.

Law and Policy
Arts and Sciences

States’ rights at the center of California auto emission conflict

September 18, 2019

David Bateman says that the conflict between California and the Trump administration over auto emissions will expose potentially counter-intuitive positions on states’ rights among political actors.

Law and Policy
Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Anti-Semitism Resolution Is ‘Implicit Rebuke of a Sitting Member’

March 8, 2019

The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on a formal condemnation of anti-Semitism this week that would also include language condemning anti-Muslim bias.

Law and Policy

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