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Amy Berman Jackson, the Glossary

Amy Sauber Berman Jackson (born July 22, 1954) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.^[1]

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Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and colloquially as Obamacare, is a landmark U.S. federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.

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Alex van der Zwaan

Alex Rolf van der Zwaan (born September 1984) is a Belgian-born Dutch attorney formerly with the London branch of New York–based international law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

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American Bar Association

The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students; it is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States.

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Arnold & Porter

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, doing business as Arnold & Porter, is an American multinational law firm.

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Assistant United States Attorney

An assistant United States attorney (AUSA) is an official career civil service position in the U.S. Department of Justice composed of lawyers working under the U.S. Attorney of each U.S. federal judicial district. Amy Berman Jackson and assistant United States Attorney are assistant United States Attorneys.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Clean Water Act

The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Collective bargaining

Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and rights for workers.

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Conspiracy against the United States

Conspiracy against the United States, or conspiracy to defraud the United States,§ 923,, U.S. Department of Justice's United States Attorneys' Manual.

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Contraceptive mandate

A contraceptive mandate is a government regulation or law that requires health insurers, or employers that provide their employees with health insurance, to cover some contraceptive costs in their health insurance plans.

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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

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Federal Employees Liability Reform and Tort Compensation Act of 1988

The Federal Employees Liability Reform and Tort Compensation Act of 1988, also known as the Westfall Act, is a law passed by the United States Congress that modifies the Federal Tort Claims Act to protect federal employees from common law tort lawsuit while engaged in their duties for the government, while giving private citizens a route to seek damage from the government for violations.

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Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

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Freedom of association

Freedom of association encompasses both an individual's right to join or leave groups voluntarily, the right of the group to take collective action to pursue the interests of its members, and the right of an association to accept or decline membership based on certain criteria.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Gladys Kessler

Gladys Kessler (January 22, 1938 – March 16, 2023) was a United States district judge of the District Court for the District of Columbia. Amy Berman Jackson and Gladys Kessler are 21st-century American women judges and judges of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

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Harrison Lee Winter

Harrison Lee Winter (April 18, 1921 – April 10, 1990) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Amy Berman Jackson and Harrison Lee Winter are lawyers from Baltimore.

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Harvard College

Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as the first lady of the United States to former president Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. Amy Berman Jackson and Hillary Clinton are 20th-century American women lawyers.

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Inspector general

An inspector general is an investigative official in a civil or military organization.

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Instagram

Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms.

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Jeopardy!

Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin.

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Jesse Jackson Jr.

Jesse Louis Jackson Jr. (born March 11, 1965) is an American politician.

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Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.

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Johns Hopkins Hospital

The Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Joyce Vance

Joyce Alene Vance (born July 22, 1960) is an American lawyer who served as the United States attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 2009 to 2017.

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Juris Doctor

A Juris Doctor, Doctor of Jurisprudence, or Doctor of Law (JD) is a graduate-entry professional degree that primarily prepares individuals to practice law.

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Kathleen Sebelius

Kathleen Sebelius (née Gilligan, born May 15, 1948) is an American politician who served as the 21st United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2009 until 2014.

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Konstantin Kilimnik

Konstantin Viktorovich Kilimnik (Константин Викторович Килимник; Kostiantyn Viktorovych Kylymnyk; born 27 April 1970) is a Russian–Ukrainian political consultant.

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Law clerk

A law clerk, judicial clerk, or judicial assistant is a person, often a lawyer, who provides direct counsel and assistance to a lawyer or judge by researching issues and drafting legal opinions for cases before the court.

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List of federal judges appointed by Barack Obama

Following is a comprehensive list of all Article III and Article IV United States federal judges appointed by President Barack Obama during his presidency, as well as a partial list of Article I federal judicial appointments, excluding appointments to the District of Columbia judiciary.

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List of Jewish American jurists

This is a list of notable Jewish American jurists.

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Logan County, West Virginia

Logan County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

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Loren AliKhan

Loren Linn AliKhan (born June 24, 1983) is an American lawyer and jurist who has served as a U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia since 2023. Amy Berman Jackson and Loren AliKhan are 21st-century American women judges, 21st-century American women lawyers and judges of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

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Louisiana's 2nd congressional district

Louisiana's 2nd congressional district contains nearly all of the city of New Orleans and stretches west and north to Baton Rouge.

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Making false statements

Making false statements is the common name for the United States federal process crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which generally prohibits knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements, or concealing information, in "any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government of the United States, even by merely denying guilt when asked by a federal agent.

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Martindale-Hubbell

Martindale-Hubbell is an information services company to the legal profession that was founded in 1868.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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Matt Jackson (Jeopardy! contestant)

Matthew Barnett Jackson (born June 24, 1992) is an American paralegal and former contestant on the syndicated game show Jeopardy! who won 13 consecutive games, earning $413,612.

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MSNBC

MSNBC (short for Microsoft NBC) is an American news-based television channel and website headquartered in New York City.

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Mueller special counsel investigation

The Robert Mueller special counsel investigation was an investigation into 45th U.S. president Donald Trump regarding Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and was conducted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller from May 2017 to March 2019.

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National Labor Relations Act of 1935

The National Labor Relations Act of 1935, also known as the Wagner Act, is a foundational statute of United States labor law that guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take collective action such as strikes.

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National Labor Relations Board

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent agency of the federal government of the United States that enforces U.S. labor law in relation to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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NBC News

NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Office of Export Enforcement

The Office of Export Enforcement (OEE) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security.

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Office of Professional Responsibility

The Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), part of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and supervised by the FBI, is responsible for investigating lawyers employed by the Department of Justice who have been accused of misconduct or crime in the exercise of their professional functions.

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Partner (business rank)

A partner in a law firm, accounting firm, consulting firm, or financial firm is a highly ranked position, traditionally indicating co-ownership of a partnership in which the partners were entitled to a share of the profits as "equity partners".

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Paul Manafort

Paul John Manafort Jr. (born April 1, 1949) is an American former lobbyist, political consultant, and attorney.

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Political corruption

Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials or their network contacts for illegitimate private gain.

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Public Integrity Section

The Public Integrity Section (PIN) is a section of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice charged with combating political corruption at all levels of government through the prosecution of corrupt federal, state, and local elected and appointed public officials.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Rick Gates (political consultant)

Richard William Gates III (born April 27, 1972) is an American former political consultant and lobbyist who pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States for making false statements in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

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Robert Mueller

Robert Swan Mueller III (born August 7, 1944) is an American lawyer who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013. Amy Berman Jackson and Robert Mueller are assistant United States Attorneys.

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Roger Stone

Roger Jason Stone (born Roger Joseph Stone Jr.; August 27, 1952) is an American conservative political consultant and lobbyist.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington

The Archdiocese of Washington (Archidiœcesis Metropolitae Vashingtonensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church for the District of Columbia and several Maryland counties in the United States.

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Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections

The Russian government was one of several foreign governments that interfered in the 2016 United States elections, with the goals of sabotaging the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, boosting the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, and increasing political and social discord in the United States.

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Sandi Jackson

Sandra Lee Jackson (née Stevens; born September 14, 1963) is an American politician.

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Senior status

Senior status is a form of semi-retirement for United States federal judges.

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Special counsel

In the United States, a special counsel (formerly called special prosecutor or independent counsel) is a lawyer appointed to investigate, and potentially prosecute, a particular case of suspected wrongdoing for which a conflict of interest exists for the usual prosecuting authority.

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Spruce 1

Spruce 1 is a proposed coal strip-mining operation approximately two miles northeast of Blair in Logan County, West Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains.

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Statute of limitations

A statute of limitations, known in civil law systems as a prescriptive period, is a law passed by a legislative body to set the maximum time after an event within which legal proceedings may be initiated.

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Test case (law)

In case law, a test case is a legal action whose purpose is to set a precedent.

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The Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore Sun is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the U.S. state of Maryland and provides coverage of local, regional, national, and international news.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Timeline of investigations into Donald Trump and Russia

The timeline of investigations into Donald Trump and Russia is split into the following pages: November 8, 2016–January 2017.

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United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in case citations, 4th Cir.) is a federal court located in Richmond, Virginia, with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts.

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United States Department of Health and Human Services

The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of the U.S. people and providing essential human services.

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United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the United States government tasked with the enforcement of federal law and administration of justice in the United States.

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United States District Court for the District of Columbia

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.D.C.) is a federal district court in Washington, D.C. Along with the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and the High Court of American Samoa, it also sometimes handles federal issues that arise in the territory of American Samoa, which has no local federal court or territorial court.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.

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United States federal judge

In the United States, a federal judge is a judge who serves on a court established under Article Three of the U.S. Constitution.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States Secretary of State

The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government and the head of the Department of State.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Venable LLP

Venable LLP is an American law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is the largest law firm in the state of Maryland.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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William Barr

William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American attorney who served as the United States attorney general in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1991 to 1993 and again in the administration of President Donald Trump from 2019 to 2020.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Berman_Jackson

Also known as Amy B. Jackson, Amy Berman.

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