Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, cannabis rescheduling cleared a courtroom hurdle. Michigan’s marijuana tax is the subject of discussion in the governor’s race. A
On September 17, Representative Rosa DeLauro and twenty-four other Democrats in the House and Senate wrote to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins asking USDA to stop closing the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center and to put its Cyclospora research back to work. It is…
A Koehler Law client was recently reimbursed for his attorney fees after prevailing as the respondent in a civil protection order (CPO) case in Washington, D.C.The court awarded fees after concluding that the petitioner had brought the case in bad…
Judge Christopher Cooper of US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on Tuesday that the Kennedy Center’s Board of Trustees cannot install memorials for President Donald J. Trump, or anyone else who is not former President John F.…
Frank Maisano, a senior principal in Bracewell’s Policy Resolution Group, recently joined “The Julie Mason Show” on SiriusXM to discuss the latest news in the energy sector. Maisano discussed the implications of rising gasoline and diesel prices on the midterm elections,…
On August 20, 2026, the White House released the National Security Science and Technology Strategy (“NSSTS“), which establishes the Trump administration’s framework for maintaining US technological leadership and protecting critical and emerging technologies. The NSSTS is organized around four pillars:…
Today is Constitution Day. This year’s observance carries extra weight as the nation marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence and 239 years since the signing of the U.S. Constitution. President
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Former Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black has taken the unusual step of filing a lawsuit seeking to preclude the House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight and Government Reform from enforcing subpoenas the Committee issued in its investigations related to…
On September 15, 2026, the Undersecretary for Intellectual
Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office John A. Squires gave
a speech titled, “Protecting U.S. IP and Tech Leadership through International
Trade Policy Tools,” at the USC Gould…