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Haub Law’s Bridget Crawford speaks with Forbes about gift and luxury tax issues relating to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Bennett L. Gershman, a prosecutorial ethics expert at Pace University law school, said making such statements after acquittals is wrong. “That’s highly improper for a prosecutor after a jury has acquitted you to suggest you lied,” Gershman said. “Prosecutors can’t do that, because that erodes our confidence, our trust in the system. It’s really a very dangerous thing to do.”

Pace University political scientist George Picoulas said the border issue has emerged as a wedge issue that the Democrats need to address. “People’s minds and impressions take time to change,” he said. “Biden and the Democrats must confront the immigration issue, especially when cities are seeing a huge wave coming. It’s spreading to the suburbs, where the Democrats must do well if they have a chance at getting the House back.”

Humanity is ramping up the risk of global health disasters by intruding deep into the world’s bat habitats, breeding grounds for deadly viruses. Pace University’s Haub Law Professor Nicholas A. Robinson was quoted by Reuters in an extensive five-part series exploring how “The Next Pandemic May Come From Bats” and where the outbreak is likely. “People like a bright line,” said Nicholas Robinson, an American professor of environmental law who has advised governments and worked on conservation issues since the 1960s. “They don’t understand that it’s a continuum of engagement between nature and humans.”

Roughly 3 million students across the country will earn college degrees this spring. Just under another million will complete master’s degrees. At Pace University, where I’m president, we’re awarding about 3,700 associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees, and on Monday we put on a truly wonderful series of commencement ceremonies celebrating our Class of 2023 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, the home of the U.S. Open.