Political science, not political science-fiction. A student-run magazine at Binghamton University.
Although the homeless population in New York is decreasing from pandemic levels, homelessness and housing insecurity are still persistent enough to say there is a housing crisis. New York currently has the second-highest homeless population in the United States, with roughly 13% of the country’s homeless population living in the state.
Congress enacted the Presidential Records Act (PRA) in 1978 initially as a reaction to the Richard Nixon Watergate scandal and a dispute over his presidential records. The new legislation essentially changed the legal ownership of presidential records from private to public; the records belonged to the United States government rather than the President himself. It also laid out the process of filing records and what happens after a President’s term comes to an end.
In an unprecedented turn of events, Donald Trump, the former president and current presidential candidate, finds himself in uncharted waters, becoming the first U.S. president to be indicted while simultaneously dealing with multiple other major legal cases and federal felony counts.
The ability to express one’s beliefs on political and social matters through speech—verbal or nonverbal—without fear of government-led censure for doing so is a central element of American democracy.
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