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Professor Bennett Gershman tells Salon the court won’t let Trump lawyers try to get jurors to “disregard” the law.

The trial court will likely find that allegations of foreign influence, disinformation and biased prosecutors and other government officials will mostly "confuse" the jury and are evidently "not relevant" to Trump's state of mind, Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, told Salon. This is particularly true given that he was “repeatedly” and “strongly” advised by insiders close to him that he lost the election. “It’s a desperate and distracting effort to throw all sorts of wild and irrational claims against the wall and hope that something sticks,” Gershman said. “In legal circles, it’s mockingly referred to as the ‘shotgun’ or ‘kitchen sink’ defense.”

Director of Blue CoLab John Cronin speaks with Bonita Springs Florida Weekly about why water quality and collaboration matters.

Cronin, now a professor at Pace University, once fought the polluters with lawsuits. Today he finds ways to influence attitudes. Protecting the environment, he believes, requires more than laws, regulations, and sanctions. It requires that we embrace environmental stewardship as a way of life.

Professor Nicholas Robinson speaks to Times Union about the Green Amendment case over massive landfill being under appeal and its potential broader impact.

“It’s going to be watched very closely,” said Nicholas Robinson, a law professor at Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law. “It will be persuasive to any other cases that are pending.”

Pace University School of Law has tracked Green Amendment claims that have sprung up in several other cases around the state, including the People of the State of New York v. Norlite (PDF).

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Professor and staff attorney for the Food & Farm Business Law Clinic Jack Hornickel speaks with The Examiner News about a local organic farm being forced to relocate.

“The trend in the last few years of greater land unaffordability was fueled by COVID,” said Jack Hornickel, a staff attorney for the Food & Farm Business Law Clinic at Pace University in Pleasantville who has been advising Deacon. “It was an outward urban migration and because land values are driven by a free market, there are higher more profitable uses for the land than farming.”

But there are few tools available to hold the justice accountable, says Pace University Law Prof. Bennett Gershman. Thomas' willingness to receive such benefits, including trips and vacations which total in the millions of dollars, is almost “certainly unlawful and ethically reprehensible,” Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, told Salon. “We have never seen a situation like this before,” Gershman said. “Thomas could be removed from the Supreme Court for his misconduct but won’t be. He won’t leave voluntarily even if he doesn’t like the pay. He has lifetime tenure. His position appears to be to stonewall his detractors and continue to serve on the Court, serving without much distinction, but with considerable power.”

“​The state court ruling sets a historic precedent which other states may follow,” Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and law professor at Pace University, told Salon. “It is a landmark ruling. I can’t think of an application of this provision in modern times.”

Pace University has announced its introducing a new game development program starting in fall 2024. Students can now graduate with Bachelor's Degree in game development, and will have the opportunity to learn how to create mobile and traditional video games, preparing them for a booming industry. Pace athletics announced E-Sports as its 15th varsity sport back in 2021. The program was recently voted number one in the nation after winning a march madness-styled bracket for college esports programs.

Love video games? Make it your career. Pace University will launch a video game development program in the fall of 2024.

The new bachelor's degree will aim to produce students with a well-rounded education in game development, including computer science, art, design, and narrative, according to a news release Thursday.