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Taylor and Francis Group: Fulfilling friendships boost health and wellbeing, further suggests a new global study
LONDON, England, Aug. 14 [Category: BizMedia] -- Taylor and Francis Group, a publishing company, posted the following news release:
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Fulfilling friendships boost health and wellbeing, further suggests a new global study
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#Data of more than 200,000 adults, from 22 countries, shows good quality social connections are linked with one's perceptions of improved mental and physical health
Peer-reviewed Survey People
This additional information is included as part of a press release labeling system introduced by the Academy of Medical Sciences and Science Media Centre. For more details click ... Show Full Article LONDON, England, Aug. 14 [Category: BizMedia] -- Taylor and Francis Group, a publishing company, posted the following news release: * * * Fulfilling friendships boost health and wellbeing, further suggests a new global study * #Data of more than 200,000 adults, from 22 countries, shows good quality social connections are linked with one's perceptions of improved mental and physical health Peer-reviewed Survey People This additional information is included as part of a press release labeling system introduced by the Academy of Medical Sciences and Science Media Centre. For more details clickhere.
Jacek Makowicz for Alamy
Fulfilling friendships and general close social relationships are strongly linked to excellent physical and mental health, finds a substantial global study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Mental Health.
Data from more than 200,000 adults shows good quality social connections and - to a lesser extent - positive family ties in childhood are associated with better perceptions of overall mental and physical health
The research, representing one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind, spanned 22 countries including the UK, US, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Spain, India, Japan, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and others.
The outcomes of the paper - carried out by Dr Veli Durmus, from Kutahya Health Sciences University, in Turkiye - demonstrate the importance of social and family bonds.
Dr Durmus is now calling on policymakers to ensure health strategies recognise the influence of these emotional and social connections on mental and physical health.
"I found that people who were more satisfied with their friendships and relationships also tended to report better mental and physical health," says Dr Durmus, whose research specialism focuses on health management, health policy, the determinants of health, and health law.
"These findings show why social connections should be considered an important part of overall health and well-being. With this in mind, public health planning and prevention strategies should include the impact on mental and physical wellbeing of how people connect with others and with their families."
Evidence shows relationships protect against stress, boost self-esteem and help people manage their emotions in a positive way.
The number and quality of personal ties made by humans influence mental and bodily wellbeing from birth onwards, according to existing research. However, studies have focused only on individual countries and results have proved inconsistent.
To bridge this knowledge gap, Dr Durmus analysed data on 204,907 adults aged 18 and over from the Global Flourishing Study (GFS). This project surveys individuals to determine what factors help humans to flourish throughout life.
The GFS covers countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, and Africa. For the purpose of this new study, the researchers used the first phase of the GFS to ensure religious and cultural diversity.
Participants were asked the extent to which they agreed or disagreed that they were content or satisfied with their friendships and relationships. Childhood connections with mothers and fathers were scored on a scale from 'very good' to 'very bad'.
Those taking part in the survey also had to rate their mental and physical health from 'poor' to 'excellent'. In addition, the researchers took into account income, education and other factors.
Results showed that individuals who reported the highest contentment with friendships and for satisfaction with relationships also tended to report better overall mental and physical health.
A similar, although weaker, pattern emerged among participants who reported very good childhood relationships with their parents.
Dr Durmus explains that these findings suggest that early family relationships may be associated with health and well-being later in life, while adult social relationships may also play an important role.
"While these additional findings suggest that childhood relationships matter, they do not tell the whole story. People's social environments continue to change throughout life, and friendships, partnerships and other relationships may strengthen or modify the influence of earlier experiences," he adds.
Mental health scores were lower among people in their mid-thirties to late forties compared with those aged 18 to 34 years, but higher among those aged 65 and above.
Being married, having sufficient money, and identifying with a religion, especially Islam, was associated with better mental and physical health scores.
Marked variations existed between countries. People living in Indonesia scored highest for contentment with friendships and relationships, and lowest among those in Japan.
In conclusion, the findings demonstrate strong social relationships serve as a 'universal pillar' of well-being across cultural backgrounds. Dr Durmus, emphasises that the strength of his research lies in the analysis of data from multiple countries with populations made up of people from diverse backgrounds.
A limitation of the paper is that it cannot prove cause-and-effect; being based on self-reported data, the findings depend heavily on people's subjective perceptions at that moment in time that they are asked.
Further Information
Dr Veli Durmus, Department of Health Management, Kutahya Health Sciences University, Turkiye.
Email: velidurmus@gmail.com
Simon Wesson, Media Relations Manager
Email: newsroom@taylorandfrancis.com
Tel.: +44 (0)20 7017 4468
Follow us on Twitter: @tandfnewsroom
The article will be freely available once the embargo has lifted via the following link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/09638237.2026.2695973
About Taylor & Francis Group
Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life. As one of the world's leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, ebooks and reference works our content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine.
From our network of offices in Oxford, New York, Philadelphia, Boca Raton, Boston, Melbourne, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, Stockholm, New Delhi and Cape Town, Taylor & Francis staff provide local expertise and support to our editors, societies and authors and tailored, efficient customer service to our library colleagues.
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Original text here: https://newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/fulfilling-friendships-boost-health-and-wellbeing-further-suggests-a-new-global-study/
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Fulfilling friendships boost health and wellbeing, further suggests a new global study
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#Data of more than 200,000 adults, from 22 countries, shows good quality social connections are linked with one's perceptions of improved mental and physical health
Peer-reviewed Survey People
This additional information is included as part of a press release labeling system introduced by the Academy of Medical Sciences and Science Media Centre. For more details click ... Show Full Article LONDON, England, Aug. 14 [Category: BizMedia] -- Taylor and Francis Group, a publishing company, posted the following news release: * * * Fulfilling friendships boost health and wellbeing, further suggests a new global study * #Data of more than 200,000 adults, from 22 countries, shows good quality social connections are linked with one's perceptions of improved mental and physical health Peer-reviewed Survey People This additional information is included as part of a press release labeling system introduced by the Academy of Medical Sciences and Science Media Centre. For more details clickhere.
Jacek Makowicz for Alamy
Fulfilling friendships and general close social relationships are strongly linked to excellent physical and mental health, finds a substantial global study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Mental Health.
Data from more than 200,000 adults shows good quality social connections and - to a lesser extent - positive family ties in childhood are associated with better perceptions of overall mental and physical health
The research, representing one of the most comprehensive studies of its kind, spanned 22 countries including the UK, US, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Spain, India, Japan, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and others.
The outcomes of the paper - carried out by Dr Veli Durmus, from Kutahya Health Sciences University, in Turkiye - demonstrate the importance of social and family bonds.
Dr Durmus is now calling on policymakers to ensure health strategies recognise the influence of these emotional and social connections on mental and physical health.
"I found that people who were more satisfied with their friendships and relationships also tended to report better mental and physical health," says Dr Durmus, whose research specialism focuses on health management, health policy, the determinants of health, and health law.
"These findings show why social connections should be considered an important part of overall health and well-being. With this in mind, public health planning and prevention strategies should include the impact on mental and physical wellbeing of how people connect with others and with their families."
Evidence shows relationships protect against stress, boost self-esteem and help people manage their emotions in a positive way.
The number and quality of personal ties made by humans influence mental and bodily wellbeing from birth onwards, according to existing research. However, studies have focused only on individual countries and results have proved inconsistent.
To bridge this knowledge gap, Dr Durmus analysed data on 204,907 adults aged 18 and over from the Global Flourishing Study (GFS). This project surveys individuals to determine what factors help humans to flourish throughout life.
The GFS covers countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, and Africa. For the purpose of this new study, the researchers used the first phase of the GFS to ensure religious and cultural diversity.
Participants were asked the extent to which they agreed or disagreed that they were content or satisfied with their friendships and relationships. Childhood connections with mothers and fathers were scored on a scale from 'very good' to 'very bad'.
Those taking part in the survey also had to rate their mental and physical health from 'poor' to 'excellent'. In addition, the researchers took into account income, education and other factors.
Results showed that individuals who reported the highest contentment with friendships and for satisfaction with relationships also tended to report better overall mental and physical health.
A similar, although weaker, pattern emerged among participants who reported very good childhood relationships with their parents.
Dr Durmus explains that these findings suggest that early family relationships may be associated with health and well-being later in life, while adult social relationships may also play an important role.
"While these additional findings suggest that childhood relationships matter, they do not tell the whole story. People's social environments continue to change throughout life, and friendships, partnerships and other relationships may strengthen or modify the influence of earlier experiences," he adds.
Mental health scores were lower among people in their mid-thirties to late forties compared with those aged 18 to 34 years, but higher among those aged 65 and above.
Being married, having sufficient money, and identifying with a religion, especially Islam, was associated with better mental and physical health scores.
Marked variations existed between countries. People living in Indonesia scored highest for contentment with friendships and relationships, and lowest among those in Japan.
In conclusion, the findings demonstrate strong social relationships serve as a 'universal pillar' of well-being across cultural backgrounds. Dr Durmus, emphasises that the strength of his research lies in the analysis of data from multiple countries with populations made up of people from diverse backgrounds.
A limitation of the paper is that it cannot prove cause-and-effect; being based on self-reported data, the findings depend heavily on people's subjective perceptions at that moment in time that they are asked.
Further Information
Dr Veli Durmus, Department of Health Management, Kutahya Health Sciences University, Turkiye.
Email: velidurmus@gmail.com
Simon Wesson, Media Relations Manager
Email: newsroom@taylorandfrancis.com
Tel.: +44 (0)20 7017 4468
Follow us on Twitter: @tandfnewsroom
The article will be freely available once the embargo has lifted via the following link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/09638237.2026.2695973
About Taylor & Francis Group
Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life. As one of the world's leading publishers of scholarly journals, books, ebooks and reference works our content spans all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine.
From our network of offices in Oxford, New York, Philadelphia, Boca Raton, Boston, Melbourne, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, Stockholm, New Delhi and Cape Town, Taylor & Francis staff provide local expertise and support to our editors, societies and authors and tailored, efficient customer service to our library colleagues.
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Original text here: https://newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/fulfilling-friendships-boost-health-and-wellbeing-further-suggests-a-new-global-study/
Politico : Full Transcript - Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation With Dasha Burns"
ARLINGTON, Virginia, Aug. 14 -- Politico issued the following transcript of a podcast involving Senator Adam Schiff:
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Full Transcript: Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation with Dasha Burns"
This is a full unedited transcript of POLITICO's interview with Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation with Dasha Burns":
Adam Schiff: We're going to have to work to win that trust back. We're going to have to be proposing things that are bold. It is going to be completely inadequate to say well, if you elect Democrats, we will take you back to the status quo before Donald Trump.
Dasha Burns: Hello, ... Show Full Article ARLINGTON, Virginia, Aug. 14 -- Politico issued the following transcript of a podcast involving Senator Adam Schiff: * * * Full Transcript: Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation with Dasha Burns" This is a full unedited transcript of POLITICO's interview with Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation with Dasha Burns": Adam Schiff: We're going to have to work to win that trust back. We're going to have to be proposing things that are bold. It is going to be completely inadequate to say well, if you elect Democrats, we will take you back to the status quo before Donald Trump. Dasha Burns: Hello,hello, and welcome to The Conversation. I'm Dasha Burns, and every week on this show, I sit down with some of the most compelling and sometimes unexpected power players in Washington and beyond. And this week, we are beyond. I am coming to you from Politico's Sacramento Summit here in a hotel room right now, but I sat down earlier with California Senator Adam Schiff for a live taping of The Conversation.
Now Schiff is exactly who I wanted to talk to about the duality of the Democratic Party going into the midterms. On the one hand, he serves California, one of the most progressive states in the nation. Case in point, California has a billionaire wealth tax on the ballot in November. At the same time, Schiff himself comes from a pretty mainstream brand of the Democratic Party. So as the debate between progressive versus establishment Democrats plays out in the primaries, Schiff and I talked about which playbook he thinks will be more successful in the midterms and what it says about the direction of the Democratic Party, what a winning coalition looks like long-term.
If you're curious about those questions, too, we'll have plenty more interviews you'd be interested in this election season so make sure you're subscribed to the show. And now, here's my conversation with Adam Schiff.
Senator Adam Schiff, thank you so much for joining The Conversation live here in Sacramento.
Adam Schiff: Great to be with you.
Dasha Burns: California is actually my home state. I grew up in San Diego. My husband's from LA. We already had plenty of Los Angeles gossip backstage that we will not rehash here, but I do want to...to talk to you about both California and California's place in the big picture for the Democratic Party because there is...there's kind of a lot going on for Democrats right now. We in Washington have been watching very closely some of these primaries. You had progressive Abdul El-Sayed just beat establishment-backed Democrat in Michigan. Dozens of DSA-backed candidates are winning primaries across the country. Today is election day in Wisconsin. Democrats might nominate Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong for governor.
Here in California, though, voters nominated the most establishment credentialed Democrat in a crowded governor's field. You'll hear from Xavier Becerra in a moment here. San Francisco just handed its moderate mayor a clean sweep. Is this one Democratic Party right now? What's going on, Senator?
Adam Schiff: It is one Democratic Party, and I think if we want to be in the majority, we're going to have to be a big tent party. I would much rather have that diversity in our party than have it outside the party. I don't think you can extrapolate too much from the results because they're all over the map. A mainstream...
Dasha Burns: Literally.
Adam Schiff: ...moderate...literally mainstream moderate candidate just won in Hawaii. Others won in Iowa and New Jersey and Virginia, and then you had very progressive and DSA candidates win elsewhere. Very hard to generalize except this, I think the common denominator is people are for a very good reason deeply dissatisfied with the status quo. And they're looking for candidates of middle, left, right that are willing to challenge the status quo, that have bold ideas for how to move the country forward for addressing what I think is the central challenge facing the country, and that is that people are working hard and they still can't get by. And candidates that have an answer to what needs to be done about that are doing very well. Those that don't or seem to be incrementalist in nature are not doing very well. And to me, that is really the common denominator.
Dasha Burns: Well, it's interesting to have this conversation in California because we've seen this insurgent left rise in swing states like Michigan and Wisconsin, of course, New York, which is a blue state, but in California, which I think for a lot of folks, both that live here and that look from the outside in, is such a bastion of progressivism. And yet, in this moment where there is this debate and this turn to the left among parts of the party, that hasn't really happened here. The bluest state in the country seems actually to be running kind of in the opposite direction of the...some of the country's most covered progressive breakthroughs. Do you think that Democratic voters here have been resistant to that for some reason, and why do you think that is?
Adam Schiff: I don't think that Californians have been resistant to that. I do think in all of these races that the quality of the candidate matters.
Dasha Burns: Yeah.
Adam Schiff: And some candidates are really able to inspire people and project an idea of change, and that may look very different. I think Mayor Lurie in San Francisco, Mayor Mahan in San Jose, both doing an excellent job very different styles in other cities. But the quality of those candidates, the quality of the argument that they make for their agenda resonates, and I think you find others that are very charismatic Mayor Mamdani, for example who made a powerful case when he was running for mayor and is a hugely charismatic candidate; doesn't hurt that he's young and good looking. So I'm working on both of those things.
Dasha Burns: Even President Trump agrees with you on that. [Laugh]
Adam Schiff: Well, the President and I agree on so much. Um...
Dasha Burns: You've made that so clear, Senator. But let me ask you, you know, I spoke with Speaker Mike Johnson for The Conversation last week.
Adam Schiff: I'm sorry to hear that.
Dasha Burns: We were in Arizona. And I also followed him around on the campaign trail, and he is making the case to voters using characters like Mamdani, like El-Sayed to say that the Democratic Party has been taken over by Marxists. Do you think those kinds of politicians and candidates in the party do present a liability for...for the midterms?
Adam Schiff: I don't think that argument is going to work. Frank...first of all, it's a retread. They tried this argument several years ago. They had some success with it in places like Florida and South Texas by claiming that all Democrats are socialists.
Dasha Burns: But now you have Democrats that actually self-identify as Democratic Socialists and have, you know, plenty of positions that they've held in the past, some of which they've walked away from now, but that Republicans are able to grab and weaponize.
Adam Schiff: I don't think it's going to be successful for a different reason, though. And that is they are now the status quo, and I don't mean the DSA candidates. Donald Trump, Mike Johnson represent a ugly status quo, a status quo in which people can't afford the price of gasoline. They can't afford the price of housing. They can't afford childcare. We're involved in yet another foreign war that the President doesn't know what to do about. They are the status quo, and much as they try to change the topic and make a handful of Democrats the subject, I don't think it's going to work because people are asking themselves is my life better? Did the President, Republicans, keep their word? And the answer is no. The President promised he would keep us out of foreign wars. He promised he would address rising prices. And what has he done? In addition to getting us involved in this terrible war, he has told the country that the cost of living and affordability is a hoax. He has literally told the country he thinks that housing is so unimportant, he's so offended that a reporter would ask him about inflation when he's got much more pressing business with the ballroom. He's building a golden ballroom while people are struggling to get by. I don't think you can change the topic from that.
So I don't think Mike Johnson's going to be successful. They don't have anything else to offer. They certainly don't have any prescription for what to do about the economy. So they will do the best they can. But it is up to us to always bring it back to the economy.
Dasha Burns: Well, and you have your anti-Trump spiel on lock. I will give you that. But I do think Democrats have some hurdles. I want to ask you about these comments that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made when she was asked about some of the far left rhetoric that dominated the party around 2019 and 2020. You know, she kind of laughed it off and said that that was "woke 1.0 was crazy" she said. The debate is obviously a major tension within the party of how to sort of reckon with those years. What do you make of the woke one was crazy comments?
Adam Schiff: You know, I'm not sure that I understand the context of it. I will say this about AOC who I consider a friend, I think she's hugely talented, and every time I see the Republicans go after her, she ends up handing them their head on a platter. I think she speaks in a way that millions of young people understand and identify with and we desperately need that in our party. There's a whole generation of Americans that look at the life their parents had and they think it's better than what they have. They wonder if they'll ever own a home. The year that I was born, the average new home buyer was 28 years old. Now it's 40. And I think that they can continue attacking her. I hope that they continue to think that's a good strategy. I think it's not a winning strategy. And I'm glad we have people in our party that are able to speak to a younger generation.
Dasha Burns: But why do you think that the Democratic brand has gotten to this place of toxicity where even in polls where the President's approval ratings are at record lows, Democrats are still even below that?
Adam Schiff: Well, I think there's sadly good reason for that. Because the failure to address some of the fundamental problems in the economy has been a bipartisan failing. It has been something, frankly, that has been in process for probably the last 30 to 35 years. As we have seen the productivity in the country continue to improve the country generate enormous wealth, what we have seen for the first time in our history since the 1970s is that as productivity goes up, historically wages and incomes went up with it. The people who made that prosperity possible also prospered. But beginning in the '70s, those lines started to diverge. They diverged under Democratic presidents and congresses and they did under Republican presidents and congresses. Both parties have failed to do anything meaningful about it. So there's good reason, sadly, for the public to distrust both parties.
And for my party, that means we're going to have to work to win that trust back. We're going to have to be proposing things that are bold. It is going to be completely inadequate to say well, if you elect Democrats, we will take you back to the status quo before Donald Trump. If our argument is if you elect Democrats, we will restore ACA premium tax credits and that's all we have to say, that is a losing message. And yes, we should do that, but we should also go well beyond that for things like Medicare For All. And I think we should take some note of what the Republicans have been able to do, and that is they have moved the country far and fast in a terrible direction.
Adam Schiff: But we can move the country far and fast in a good direction.
Dasha Burns: Do you think then maybe more mainstream establishment Democrats might also need to take more note of what these insurgent left candidates are doing and the energy and momentum that's behind them? I mean, when I watch, like I remember what happened around Trump in 2015 and 2016 when a lot of Republicans said no way, like I'm keeping a distance from this guy. There's no way this is going to go anywhere good, and then he dominated the party for the next decade, you know. Do you see some of that grassroots energy, and is that something the Democrats need to work to capitalize on?
Adam Schiff: We certainly need to capitalize and develop and cultivate energy among our grassroots. But I think the common denominator with Trump's victory and Mamdani's victory is the same, and that is both vigorously challenged a deeply unpopular status quo.
Dasha Burns: Yeah.
Adam Schiff: Trump promised to break everything and he did. And that obviously is not the right answer. But nor is it the right answer to say we're just going to go back to the way it was. We have to do new things. I think we need a period like we saw with Franklin Roosevelt where a Democratic administration and Congress is willing to experiment to try new, big things to make the economy work for people again. We should be building vast quantities of housing to bring housing costs down. We did that after World War II for returning GIs. We did it affordably. There's no reason we can't do that again in this country. We need to think big. And I think whether you're a mainstream candidate or you're on the left, if you're thinking small and you're thinking incremental, it's just not going to cut it.
Dasha Burns: Well, it's interesting because California has sort of run the progressive experiment in the past. I'm talking during that sort of 2020 era where you had um, progressive DAs in places like LA in California, progressive mayors. And that experiment didn't go the way I think those folks are hoping for. There were recalls. There was a lot of frustration about increases in crime. I mean, what do you think that this slate of progressive candidates should take away from what California saw and the sort of backlash to a move to the far left?
Adam Schiff: I think all of us in the Democratic Party, wherever we are on the spectrum from left to right and center, need to keep first and foremost what most Americans really have on their minds, and that is they're working their ass off and they're still struggling to get by. They feel very little security in their retirement. They are afraid of getting sick because their health insurance isn't going to cut it. They are terrified.
I remember talking with a young woman in the north of the state who told me she got a good education 'cause she was told she should. She got a lot of good debt along with it. And between her loan payments and her rent and her health insurance, she had nothing set aside and nothing to set aside and she was petrified. And I think she was speaking for millions and millions of young people and people who are not so young.
And it is not, in my view, the fault of changes in technology, and we are in the midst of another transformation. I think it is the fault of policymakers that we have not adapted to a workplace that is so different than the workplace my parents worked in where so many people stayed with the same company their whole career and had healthcare and retirement through their work. And we're going to have to, with the advent of AI, think even more broadly now about how do we...how do we ensure that people have gained full employment, dignified employment, and secure retirement? What does that look like in the era of AI and globalization and automation. So this is, I think, going to be the cardinal challenge for both parties.
Adam Schiff: And I'd like to see the Democratic Party leading the way.
Dasha Burns: Well, you talk about big, new things. California has a billionaire tax on the ballot in November. It would impose a one-time five percent tax on the wealth of Californians worth more than one billion dollars. Now Governor Newsom and gubernatorial candidate Becerra don't support it, but the state party does. Do you support the tax?
Adam Schiff: I haven't gotten involved in that ballot measure, and I don't get involved in most ballot measures.
Dasha Burns: Well, to be fair, you are a California voter so folks want to know how you might vote.
Adam Schiff: I am a California voter, but I am a US Senator and I'm more focused, frankly, on the federal legislation to try to create a more progressive tax...
Dasha Burns: So you won't say how you'll vote?
Adam Schiff: I haven't decided, frankly, how I'm going to vote. And what I am focused on though is in addition to supporting any number of proposals to make sure that people can't simply borrow against their assets and avoid paying taxes or pay...you know, those that are multi, multi billionaires pay a lower tax rate than all the people who work for them. I am trying to put together a comprehensive and progressive tax reform package that I would like to see if I can somehow inject into the Presidential debate that addresses this phenomenal concentration of wealth now.
Dasha Burns: But there are a lot of Democrats that would like to see something like this billionaire tax at the federal level, and I wonder how you'd respond to voters that hear you kind of hedging there and say well, the establishment Democrats are still more worried about protecting the wealthy than taking bold action. When you talk about big, new things, is this just not the direction you think those big, new things should go?
Adam Schiff: No, I support a wealth tax at the federal level. And I support taxing capital gains different than we tax capital gains. So when it comes to...
Dasha Burns: I'm just surprised it's a hard answer for you on this one.
Adam Schiff: On...
Dasha Burns: On the ballot measure here.
Adam Schiff: Well, it has pros and cons. I mean, I don't think it's a easy answer when it comes to each state developing a one-time only tax. And what is the impact on business in the state? What's the impact on people who need healthcare services that are going to be cut otherwise? It's not an easy question.
Adam Schiff: And frankly, I've got enough difficult questions at the federal level. But one thing that is not difficult for me, and that is there should be a wealth tax at the federal level. There should be a much more progressive tax code than the one we have. And one thing that has become so abundantly clear is this concentration of wealth we see now is operating to perpetuate itself. And you have individuals now that have such a massive say in our electoral process that they can pour hundreds of millions of dollars into a single campaign if they choose to. We have a broken campaign finance system that allows them to do that. And I think if we don't bring determination to solving that problem also, this income and equality, wealth and equality gap is just going to get worse.
And it is I also think deeply destabilizing. The combination of the disruption of the workforce through AI, the vast concentration and the arrogant use of wealth by some who have amassed it, is going to be hugely disruptive for society. It's bad economics. I think it's immoral. And I'm working on federal solutions to try to address that.
Dasha Burns: I do want to ask about another debate playing out within the Democratic Party, and we've seen a lot of shifts on this is about Israel and the US relationship with that country. You know, you've sharpened your criticism of Netanyahu considerably since 2024, but you did still vote against blocking offensive arms sales to Israel. What has changed in your view on Israel and what hasn't?
Adam Schiff: Actually I voted for the joint resolutions of disapproval the last time they came up.
Dasha Burns: Okay.
Adam Schiff: It's...and those joint resolutions of disapproval... prevented the sale...or would've prevented the sale if they were successful of 1000 pound bombs as well as giant bulldozers.
Dasha Burns: So you're in support of no more arms sales to Israel?
Adam Schiff: Well, I voted against those sales, and I'm going to take each request individually. I support things like the Iron Dome system that are necessary, I think, for Israel's defense. But I am in vehement disagreement with how Netanyahu has run that country with the conduct of the war in Gaza, with the conduct of the war in Iran and in Lebanon. Uh, and I think we have to use the leverage that we have uh, not only to make sure that we are in the first and foremost doing things that are in the US national interest but also in the interest of a peaceful resolution of the conflict there.
And I start from, you know, one uh, ironclad conviction, and that is the only way this gets solved is by having two states side by side living in peace and security. And so what I ask myself when I'm making these decisions is does this help get us there or is this an impediment? And so much of what this government is doing and saying is an impediment to getting to two states that I can't support those policies. And so I will make these decisions as they come, but it...but it is heartbreaking to see uh, how Netanyahu has so damaged Israel, its standing in the world, and the loss of life as a result.
Dasha Burns: One of the challenges, within this debate is there is also a large concern around antisemitism. Do you believe that there's an antisemitism problem on the left?
Adam Schiff: Well, I think there is an antisemitism problem across the board. And yes, some of it is on the left and some of it is very plainly on the right and some of it is probably in the middle. I called the rabbi at a synagogue recently to express my alarm and upset over the fact that someone had painted swastikas on the synagogue. And the rabbi said do you realize, Senator, this is the second time you've called me for this reason. And he was right. I make those calls so often, I'd forgotten that I had called him once before for the same reason.
And I'm in a chat with a number of Jewish members. We share what's happening in our states, in our districts, and not a day, not a week goes by where we don't see some new horror. I've never seen anything like it in scale and scope. And it's awful, and we need to be able to talk about it. You can agree or disagree with what the Israeli government is doing, and that is a separate conversation. But we have a serious antisemitism problem in this country and around the world that cannot be ignored. So, I obviously feel strongly about that 'cause I experience it myself.
Dasha Burns: Yeah. One of the other parts of this debate is the role of AIPAC in campaign spending. I know you have in the past accepted money from AIPAC and pro-Israel lobby support throughout your career. Will you continue to do so?
Adam Schiff: It will depend. First and foremost, I make my decisions based on what I think is right for the region but mostly for the country, our country. At times, that has bee very different than AIPAC's view. I was a strong supporter of the JCPOA. I disagreed with AIPAC on these recent arms sales. At other times, we're in agreement as we were right after October 7th when Hamas raped, murdered, and butchered over a thousand Israelis, mostly civilians. So, I'm going to continue to make the decisions I make and allow individuals and organizations to decide what to do with that, whether they want to support me or don't want to support me. But these issues are just too important to come at it backwards and say okay, what do I do to gain the support of this or that organization. I'm going to make the decision I think is right, and people can support me. And I've been fortunate in the past to have support from the Jewish community, the Muslim community, the Christian community. And I'm just going to continue to try to make the best call.
Dasha Burns: But you won't say that you don't want to take AIPAC money?
Adam Schiff: I'm not going to exclude any person, faith, organization. I'm going to make the decisions that I think are best and let the chips fall where they may.
Dasha Burns: Yeah, and I ask because, you know, there are Democrats that have taken very different positions on this. You know, I sat down with Ruben Gallego, your fellow senator, a while back and he was very unequivocal about this issue. It's going to be a continuing debate within your party. But I don't want to let you go without asking about 2028, which is just around the corner, don't you think, Senator? [Laugh]
Adam Schiff: I don't know. I'm still very focused on 2026. We have a...
Dasha Burns: Sure, sure, sure.
Adam Schiff: ...super important midterm coming up.
Dasha Burns: Midterm, schmidterm. No, midterms are very important. But it is funny because California you've got Gavin Newsom and you've got Kamala Harris from here. You have Ro Khanna. I mean, it is a state that has been producing a number of potential candidates. I know you're not going to like come out here and endorse anyone right now, but when you think about the mold for '28, what do you think that candidate will need to bring, will need to do? Do they look more like a Mamdani? Do they look more like a Xavier Becerra? And by look, I mean in the style of politics and campaigning?
Adam Schiff: What I am really hoping for, what I am really counting on, because this is such an existential moment for our country, for our democracy, is to see what happened when Barack Obama burst on the scene. We didn't know that Barack Obama was going to be Barack Obama until he became Barack Obama. I would say we didn't know that Bill Clinton was going to be Bill Clinton until he emerged. I don't know who that person is going to be. But we desperately need someone who catches the interest, excitement, enthusiasm, and hope of the Democratic Party. That's what I'm going to be looking for, who can capture that kind of moment, who rises to the occasion. And even if I thought I knew who that was today, and I don't know who that is today, it may be a very different person six months or a year from now. So I'm going to be looking who is that person.
I do think Democratic voters, much as they can be maligned, are very pragmatic. They want someone who can win. And they know the stakes now more than anything, and even though you didn't invite me to talk about the midterms, I do want to say this.
Dasha Burns: Well, I was just going to ask, do Democrats take the Senate?
Adam Schiff: I think we have multiple pathways now to take the Senate. And this was unthinkable a year ago, but we are tight or ahead in Alaska, Ohio, North Carolina, Iowa, Maine, Texas. We are narrowly down in Florida, in Mississippi even, and other states that are emerging. This is, I think, shaping up to be one of those wave elections in which you wake up the day after election day and you're like did you see some guy named Jon Tester won in Montana? Who is Jon Tester? There are going to be, I think, a lot of moments like that, the day after the election when Americans wake up and they find out there are a lot more Democrats in the Senate than we were expecting. And since you've been asking about the Middle East, let me just say inshallah.
Dasha Burns: I think that's a great way to end it. Thank you so much, Senator Adam Schiff. We appreciate your time.
Adam Schiff: Thank you very much.
Dasha Burns: This has been The Conversation with Dasha Burns. Next week I'll be sitting down with Jonathan Haidt. So call or text the number in the description, let me know what you think I should ask him. And to make sure you never miss another episode of The Conversation, click that subscribe button below. Thanks for watching.
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This is a full unedited transcript of POLITICO's interview with Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation with Dasha Burns":
Adam Schiff: We're going to have to work to win that trust back. We're going to have to be proposing things that are bold. It is going to be completely inadequate to say well, if you elect Democrats, we will take you back to the status quo before Donald Trump.
Dasha Burns: Hello, ... Show Full Article ARLINGTON, Virginia, Aug. 14 -- Politico issued the following transcript of a podcast involving Senator Adam Schiff: * * * Full Transcript: Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation with Dasha Burns" This is a full unedited transcript of POLITICO's interview with Sen. Adam Schiff on "The Conversation with Dasha Burns": Adam Schiff: We're going to have to work to win that trust back. We're going to have to be proposing things that are bold. It is going to be completely inadequate to say well, if you elect Democrats, we will take you back to the status quo before Donald Trump. Dasha Burns: Hello,hello, and welcome to The Conversation. I'm Dasha Burns, and every week on this show, I sit down with some of the most compelling and sometimes unexpected power players in Washington and beyond. And this week, we are beyond. I am coming to you from Politico's Sacramento Summit here in a hotel room right now, but I sat down earlier with California Senator Adam Schiff for a live taping of The Conversation.
Now Schiff is exactly who I wanted to talk to about the duality of the Democratic Party going into the midterms. On the one hand, he serves California, one of the most progressive states in the nation. Case in point, California has a billionaire wealth tax on the ballot in November. At the same time, Schiff himself comes from a pretty mainstream brand of the Democratic Party. So as the debate between progressive versus establishment Democrats plays out in the primaries, Schiff and I talked about which playbook he thinks will be more successful in the midterms and what it says about the direction of the Democratic Party, what a winning coalition looks like long-term.
If you're curious about those questions, too, we'll have plenty more interviews you'd be interested in this election season so make sure you're subscribed to the show. And now, here's my conversation with Adam Schiff.
Senator Adam Schiff, thank you so much for joining The Conversation live here in Sacramento.
Adam Schiff: Great to be with you.
Dasha Burns: California is actually my home state. I grew up in San Diego. My husband's from LA. We already had plenty of Los Angeles gossip backstage that we will not rehash here, but I do want to...to talk to you about both California and California's place in the big picture for the Democratic Party because there is...there's kind of a lot going on for Democrats right now. We in Washington have been watching very closely some of these primaries. You had progressive Abdul El-Sayed just beat establishment-backed Democrat in Michigan. Dozens of DSA-backed candidates are winning primaries across the country. Today is election day in Wisconsin. Democrats might nominate Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong for governor.
Here in California, though, voters nominated the most establishment credentialed Democrat in a crowded governor's field. You'll hear from Xavier Becerra in a moment here. San Francisco just handed its moderate mayor a clean sweep. Is this one Democratic Party right now? What's going on, Senator?
Adam Schiff: It is one Democratic Party, and I think if we want to be in the majority, we're going to have to be a big tent party. I would much rather have that diversity in our party than have it outside the party. I don't think you can extrapolate too much from the results because they're all over the map. A mainstream...
Dasha Burns: Literally.
Adam Schiff: ...moderate...literally mainstream moderate candidate just won in Hawaii. Others won in Iowa and New Jersey and Virginia, and then you had very progressive and DSA candidates win elsewhere. Very hard to generalize except this, I think the common denominator is people are for a very good reason deeply dissatisfied with the status quo. And they're looking for candidates of middle, left, right that are willing to challenge the status quo, that have bold ideas for how to move the country forward for addressing what I think is the central challenge facing the country, and that is that people are working hard and they still can't get by. And candidates that have an answer to what needs to be done about that are doing very well. Those that don't or seem to be incrementalist in nature are not doing very well. And to me, that is really the common denominator.
Dasha Burns: Well, it's interesting to have this conversation in California because we've seen this insurgent left rise in swing states like Michigan and Wisconsin, of course, New York, which is a blue state, but in California, which I think for a lot of folks, both that live here and that look from the outside in, is such a bastion of progressivism. And yet, in this moment where there is this debate and this turn to the left among parts of the party, that hasn't really happened here. The bluest state in the country seems actually to be running kind of in the opposite direction of the...some of the country's most covered progressive breakthroughs. Do you think that Democratic voters here have been resistant to that for some reason, and why do you think that is?
Adam Schiff: I don't think that Californians have been resistant to that. I do think in all of these races that the quality of the candidate matters.
Dasha Burns: Yeah.
Adam Schiff: And some candidates are really able to inspire people and project an idea of change, and that may look very different. I think Mayor Lurie in San Francisco, Mayor Mahan in San Jose, both doing an excellent job very different styles in other cities. But the quality of those candidates, the quality of the argument that they make for their agenda resonates, and I think you find others that are very charismatic Mayor Mamdani, for example who made a powerful case when he was running for mayor and is a hugely charismatic candidate; doesn't hurt that he's young and good looking. So I'm working on both of those things.
Dasha Burns: Even President Trump agrees with you on that. [Laugh]
Adam Schiff: Well, the President and I agree on so much. Um...
Dasha Burns: You've made that so clear, Senator. But let me ask you, you know, I spoke with Speaker Mike Johnson for The Conversation last week.
Adam Schiff: I'm sorry to hear that.
Dasha Burns: We were in Arizona. And I also followed him around on the campaign trail, and he is making the case to voters using characters like Mamdani, like El-Sayed to say that the Democratic Party has been taken over by Marxists. Do you think those kinds of politicians and candidates in the party do present a liability for...for the midterms?
Adam Schiff: I don't think that argument is going to work. Frank...first of all, it's a retread. They tried this argument several years ago. They had some success with it in places like Florida and South Texas by claiming that all Democrats are socialists.
Dasha Burns: But now you have Democrats that actually self-identify as Democratic Socialists and have, you know, plenty of positions that they've held in the past, some of which they've walked away from now, but that Republicans are able to grab and weaponize.
Adam Schiff: I don't think it's going to be successful for a different reason, though. And that is they are now the status quo, and I don't mean the DSA candidates. Donald Trump, Mike Johnson represent a ugly status quo, a status quo in which people can't afford the price of gasoline. They can't afford the price of housing. They can't afford childcare. We're involved in yet another foreign war that the President doesn't know what to do about. They are the status quo, and much as they try to change the topic and make a handful of Democrats the subject, I don't think it's going to work because people are asking themselves is my life better? Did the President, Republicans, keep their word? And the answer is no. The President promised he would keep us out of foreign wars. He promised he would address rising prices. And what has he done? In addition to getting us involved in this terrible war, he has told the country that the cost of living and affordability is a hoax. He has literally told the country he thinks that housing is so unimportant, he's so offended that a reporter would ask him about inflation when he's got much more pressing business with the ballroom. He's building a golden ballroom while people are struggling to get by. I don't think you can change the topic from that.
So I don't think Mike Johnson's going to be successful. They don't have anything else to offer. They certainly don't have any prescription for what to do about the economy. So they will do the best they can. But it is up to us to always bring it back to the economy.
Dasha Burns: Well, and you have your anti-Trump spiel on lock. I will give you that. But I do think Democrats have some hurdles. I want to ask you about these comments that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made when she was asked about some of the far left rhetoric that dominated the party around 2019 and 2020. You know, she kind of laughed it off and said that that was "woke 1.0 was crazy" she said. The debate is obviously a major tension within the party of how to sort of reckon with those years. What do you make of the woke one was crazy comments?
Adam Schiff: You know, I'm not sure that I understand the context of it. I will say this about AOC who I consider a friend, I think she's hugely talented, and every time I see the Republicans go after her, she ends up handing them their head on a platter. I think she speaks in a way that millions of young people understand and identify with and we desperately need that in our party. There's a whole generation of Americans that look at the life their parents had and they think it's better than what they have. They wonder if they'll ever own a home. The year that I was born, the average new home buyer was 28 years old. Now it's 40. And I think that they can continue attacking her. I hope that they continue to think that's a good strategy. I think it's not a winning strategy. And I'm glad we have people in our party that are able to speak to a younger generation.
Dasha Burns: But why do you think that the Democratic brand has gotten to this place of toxicity where even in polls where the President's approval ratings are at record lows, Democrats are still even below that?
Adam Schiff: Well, I think there's sadly good reason for that. Because the failure to address some of the fundamental problems in the economy has been a bipartisan failing. It has been something, frankly, that has been in process for probably the last 30 to 35 years. As we have seen the productivity in the country continue to improve the country generate enormous wealth, what we have seen for the first time in our history since the 1970s is that as productivity goes up, historically wages and incomes went up with it. The people who made that prosperity possible also prospered. But beginning in the '70s, those lines started to diverge. They diverged under Democratic presidents and congresses and they did under Republican presidents and congresses. Both parties have failed to do anything meaningful about it. So there's good reason, sadly, for the public to distrust both parties.
And for my party, that means we're going to have to work to win that trust back. We're going to have to be proposing things that are bold. It is going to be completely inadequate to say well, if you elect Democrats, we will take you back to the status quo before Donald Trump. If our argument is if you elect Democrats, we will restore ACA premium tax credits and that's all we have to say, that is a losing message. And yes, we should do that, but we should also go well beyond that for things like Medicare For All. And I think we should take some note of what the Republicans have been able to do, and that is they have moved the country far and fast in a terrible direction.
Adam Schiff: But we can move the country far and fast in a good direction.
Dasha Burns: Do you think then maybe more mainstream establishment Democrats might also need to take more note of what these insurgent left candidates are doing and the energy and momentum that's behind them? I mean, when I watch, like I remember what happened around Trump in 2015 and 2016 when a lot of Republicans said no way, like I'm keeping a distance from this guy. There's no way this is going to go anywhere good, and then he dominated the party for the next decade, you know. Do you see some of that grassroots energy, and is that something the Democrats need to work to capitalize on?
Adam Schiff: We certainly need to capitalize and develop and cultivate energy among our grassroots. But I think the common denominator with Trump's victory and Mamdani's victory is the same, and that is both vigorously challenged a deeply unpopular status quo.
Dasha Burns: Yeah.
Adam Schiff: Trump promised to break everything and he did. And that obviously is not the right answer. But nor is it the right answer to say we're just going to go back to the way it was. We have to do new things. I think we need a period like we saw with Franklin Roosevelt where a Democratic administration and Congress is willing to experiment to try new, big things to make the economy work for people again. We should be building vast quantities of housing to bring housing costs down. We did that after World War II for returning GIs. We did it affordably. There's no reason we can't do that again in this country. We need to think big. And I think whether you're a mainstream candidate or you're on the left, if you're thinking small and you're thinking incremental, it's just not going to cut it.
Dasha Burns: Well, it's interesting because California has sort of run the progressive experiment in the past. I'm talking during that sort of 2020 era where you had um, progressive DAs in places like LA in California, progressive mayors. And that experiment didn't go the way I think those folks are hoping for. There were recalls. There was a lot of frustration about increases in crime. I mean, what do you think that this slate of progressive candidates should take away from what California saw and the sort of backlash to a move to the far left?
Adam Schiff: I think all of us in the Democratic Party, wherever we are on the spectrum from left to right and center, need to keep first and foremost what most Americans really have on their minds, and that is they're working their ass off and they're still struggling to get by. They feel very little security in their retirement. They are afraid of getting sick because their health insurance isn't going to cut it. They are terrified.
I remember talking with a young woman in the north of the state who told me she got a good education 'cause she was told she should. She got a lot of good debt along with it. And between her loan payments and her rent and her health insurance, she had nothing set aside and nothing to set aside and she was petrified. And I think she was speaking for millions and millions of young people and people who are not so young.
And it is not, in my view, the fault of changes in technology, and we are in the midst of another transformation. I think it is the fault of policymakers that we have not adapted to a workplace that is so different than the workplace my parents worked in where so many people stayed with the same company their whole career and had healthcare and retirement through their work. And we're going to have to, with the advent of AI, think even more broadly now about how do we...how do we ensure that people have gained full employment, dignified employment, and secure retirement? What does that look like in the era of AI and globalization and automation. So this is, I think, going to be the cardinal challenge for both parties.
Adam Schiff: And I'd like to see the Democratic Party leading the way.
Dasha Burns: Well, you talk about big, new things. California has a billionaire tax on the ballot in November. It would impose a one-time five percent tax on the wealth of Californians worth more than one billion dollars. Now Governor Newsom and gubernatorial candidate Becerra don't support it, but the state party does. Do you support the tax?
Adam Schiff: I haven't gotten involved in that ballot measure, and I don't get involved in most ballot measures.
Dasha Burns: Well, to be fair, you are a California voter so folks want to know how you might vote.
Adam Schiff: I am a California voter, but I am a US Senator and I'm more focused, frankly, on the federal legislation to try to create a more progressive tax...
Dasha Burns: So you won't say how you'll vote?
Adam Schiff: I haven't decided, frankly, how I'm going to vote. And what I am focused on though is in addition to supporting any number of proposals to make sure that people can't simply borrow against their assets and avoid paying taxes or pay...you know, those that are multi, multi billionaires pay a lower tax rate than all the people who work for them. I am trying to put together a comprehensive and progressive tax reform package that I would like to see if I can somehow inject into the Presidential debate that addresses this phenomenal concentration of wealth now.
Dasha Burns: But there are a lot of Democrats that would like to see something like this billionaire tax at the federal level, and I wonder how you'd respond to voters that hear you kind of hedging there and say well, the establishment Democrats are still more worried about protecting the wealthy than taking bold action. When you talk about big, new things, is this just not the direction you think those big, new things should go?
Adam Schiff: No, I support a wealth tax at the federal level. And I support taxing capital gains different than we tax capital gains. So when it comes to...
Dasha Burns: I'm just surprised it's a hard answer for you on this one.
Adam Schiff: On...
Dasha Burns: On the ballot measure here.
Adam Schiff: Well, it has pros and cons. I mean, I don't think it's a easy answer when it comes to each state developing a one-time only tax. And what is the impact on business in the state? What's the impact on people who need healthcare services that are going to be cut otherwise? It's not an easy question.
Adam Schiff: And frankly, I've got enough difficult questions at the federal level. But one thing that is not difficult for me, and that is there should be a wealth tax at the federal level. There should be a much more progressive tax code than the one we have. And one thing that has become so abundantly clear is this concentration of wealth we see now is operating to perpetuate itself. And you have individuals now that have such a massive say in our electoral process that they can pour hundreds of millions of dollars into a single campaign if they choose to. We have a broken campaign finance system that allows them to do that. And I think if we don't bring determination to solving that problem also, this income and equality, wealth and equality gap is just going to get worse.
And it is I also think deeply destabilizing. The combination of the disruption of the workforce through AI, the vast concentration and the arrogant use of wealth by some who have amassed it, is going to be hugely disruptive for society. It's bad economics. I think it's immoral. And I'm working on federal solutions to try to address that.
Dasha Burns: I do want to ask about another debate playing out within the Democratic Party, and we've seen a lot of shifts on this is about Israel and the US relationship with that country. You know, you've sharpened your criticism of Netanyahu considerably since 2024, but you did still vote against blocking offensive arms sales to Israel. What has changed in your view on Israel and what hasn't?
Adam Schiff: Actually I voted for the joint resolutions of disapproval the last time they came up.
Dasha Burns: Okay.
Adam Schiff: It's...and those joint resolutions of disapproval... prevented the sale...or would've prevented the sale if they were successful of 1000 pound bombs as well as giant bulldozers.
Dasha Burns: So you're in support of no more arms sales to Israel?
Adam Schiff: Well, I voted against those sales, and I'm going to take each request individually. I support things like the Iron Dome system that are necessary, I think, for Israel's defense. But I am in vehement disagreement with how Netanyahu has run that country with the conduct of the war in Gaza, with the conduct of the war in Iran and in Lebanon. Uh, and I think we have to use the leverage that we have uh, not only to make sure that we are in the first and foremost doing things that are in the US national interest but also in the interest of a peaceful resolution of the conflict there.
And I start from, you know, one uh, ironclad conviction, and that is the only way this gets solved is by having two states side by side living in peace and security. And so what I ask myself when I'm making these decisions is does this help get us there or is this an impediment? And so much of what this government is doing and saying is an impediment to getting to two states that I can't support those policies. And so I will make these decisions as they come, but it...but it is heartbreaking to see uh, how Netanyahu has so damaged Israel, its standing in the world, and the loss of life as a result.
Dasha Burns: One of the challenges, within this debate is there is also a large concern around antisemitism. Do you believe that there's an antisemitism problem on the left?
Adam Schiff: Well, I think there is an antisemitism problem across the board. And yes, some of it is on the left and some of it is very plainly on the right and some of it is probably in the middle. I called the rabbi at a synagogue recently to express my alarm and upset over the fact that someone had painted swastikas on the synagogue. And the rabbi said do you realize, Senator, this is the second time you've called me for this reason. And he was right. I make those calls so often, I'd forgotten that I had called him once before for the same reason.
And I'm in a chat with a number of Jewish members. We share what's happening in our states, in our districts, and not a day, not a week goes by where we don't see some new horror. I've never seen anything like it in scale and scope. And it's awful, and we need to be able to talk about it. You can agree or disagree with what the Israeli government is doing, and that is a separate conversation. But we have a serious antisemitism problem in this country and around the world that cannot be ignored. So, I obviously feel strongly about that 'cause I experience it myself.
Dasha Burns: Yeah. One of the other parts of this debate is the role of AIPAC in campaign spending. I know you have in the past accepted money from AIPAC and pro-Israel lobby support throughout your career. Will you continue to do so?
Adam Schiff: It will depend. First and foremost, I make my decisions based on what I think is right for the region but mostly for the country, our country. At times, that has bee very different than AIPAC's view. I was a strong supporter of the JCPOA. I disagreed with AIPAC on these recent arms sales. At other times, we're in agreement as we were right after October 7th when Hamas raped, murdered, and butchered over a thousand Israelis, mostly civilians. So, I'm going to continue to make the decisions I make and allow individuals and organizations to decide what to do with that, whether they want to support me or don't want to support me. But these issues are just too important to come at it backwards and say okay, what do I do to gain the support of this or that organization. I'm going to make the decision I think is right, and people can support me. And I've been fortunate in the past to have support from the Jewish community, the Muslim community, the Christian community. And I'm just going to continue to try to make the best call.
Dasha Burns: But you won't say that you don't want to take AIPAC money?
Adam Schiff: I'm not going to exclude any person, faith, organization. I'm going to make the decisions that I think are best and let the chips fall where they may.
Dasha Burns: Yeah, and I ask because, you know, there are Democrats that have taken very different positions on this. You know, I sat down with Ruben Gallego, your fellow senator, a while back and he was very unequivocal about this issue. It's going to be a continuing debate within your party. But I don't want to let you go without asking about 2028, which is just around the corner, don't you think, Senator? [Laugh]
Adam Schiff: I don't know. I'm still very focused on 2026. We have a...
Dasha Burns: Sure, sure, sure.
Adam Schiff: ...super important midterm coming up.
Dasha Burns: Midterm, schmidterm. No, midterms are very important. But it is funny because California you've got Gavin Newsom and you've got Kamala Harris from here. You have Ro Khanna. I mean, it is a state that has been producing a number of potential candidates. I know you're not going to like come out here and endorse anyone right now, but when you think about the mold for '28, what do you think that candidate will need to bring, will need to do? Do they look more like a Mamdani? Do they look more like a Xavier Becerra? And by look, I mean in the style of politics and campaigning?
Adam Schiff: What I am really hoping for, what I am really counting on, because this is such an existential moment for our country, for our democracy, is to see what happened when Barack Obama burst on the scene. We didn't know that Barack Obama was going to be Barack Obama until he became Barack Obama. I would say we didn't know that Bill Clinton was going to be Bill Clinton until he emerged. I don't know who that person is going to be. But we desperately need someone who catches the interest, excitement, enthusiasm, and hope of the Democratic Party. That's what I'm going to be looking for, who can capture that kind of moment, who rises to the occasion. And even if I thought I knew who that was today, and I don't know who that is today, it may be a very different person six months or a year from now. So I'm going to be looking who is that person.
I do think Democratic voters, much as they can be maligned, are very pragmatic. They want someone who can win. And they know the stakes now more than anything, and even though you didn't invite me to talk about the midterms, I do want to say this.
Dasha Burns: Well, I was just going to ask, do Democrats take the Senate?
Adam Schiff: I think we have multiple pathways now to take the Senate. And this was unthinkable a year ago, but we are tight or ahead in Alaska, Ohio, North Carolina, Iowa, Maine, Texas. We are narrowly down in Florida, in Mississippi even, and other states that are emerging. This is, I think, shaping up to be one of those wave elections in which you wake up the day after election day and you're like did you see some guy named Jon Tester won in Montana? Who is Jon Tester? There are going to be, I think, a lot of moments like that, the day after the election when Americans wake up and they find out there are a lot more Democrats in the Senate than we were expecting. And since you've been asking about the Middle East, let me just say inshallah.
Dasha Burns: I think that's a great way to end it. Thank you so much, Senator Adam Schiff. We appreciate your time.
Adam Schiff: Thank you very much.
Dasha Burns: This has been The Conversation with Dasha Burns. Next week I'll be sitting down with Jonathan Haidt. So call or text the number in the description, let me know what you think I should ask him. And to make sure you never miss another episode of The Conversation, click that subscribe button below. Thanks for watching.
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LOS ANGELES, California, Aug. 14 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Paul Hastings, a law firm, issued the following news:
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Paul Hastings Advises Piper Sandler, BTIG and Brookline Capital Markets on Outlook Therapeutics' Public Offering of Common Stock and Warrants
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Paul Hastings LLP advised Piper Sandler, BTIG and Brookline Capital Markets as underwriters in a public offering by Outlook Therapeutics (Nasdaq: OTLK) of 55,555,556 shares of its common stock and accompanying warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 55,555,556 shares of its common stock at a price of $0.99 per share and accompanying ... Show Full Article LOS ANGELES, California, Aug. 14 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Paul Hastings, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Paul Hastings Advises Piper Sandler, BTIG and Brookline Capital Markets on Outlook Therapeutics' Public Offering of Common Stock and Warrants * Paul Hastings LLP advised Piper Sandler, BTIG and Brookline Capital Markets as underwriters in a public offering by Outlook Therapeutics (Nasdaq: OTLK) of 55,555,556 shares of its common stock and accompanying warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 55,555,556 shares of its common stock at a price of $0.99 per share and accompanyingwarrant.
Equity Capital Markets and Corporate Life Sciences co-chair Seo Salimi and partner Will Magioncalda led the Paul Hastings team, which also included associates Adam Swank and Agustina Guazzaroni.
More details can be found here.
About Paul Hastings
With widely recognized elite teams across 17 core practices, Paul Hastings is a premier law firm with a culture of excellence focused on providing intellectual capital and superior execution globally to the world's leading investment banks, asset managers and corporations. For more information, visit www.paulhastings.com.
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Paul Hastings Advises Piper Sandler, BTIG and Brookline Capital Markets on Outlook Therapeutics' Public Offering of Common Stock and Warrants
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Paul Hastings LLP advised Piper Sandler, BTIG and Brookline Capital Markets as underwriters in a public offering by Outlook Therapeutics (Nasdaq: OTLK) of 55,555,556 shares of its common stock and accompanying warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 55,555,556 shares of its common stock at a price of $0.99 per share and accompanying ... Show Full Article LOS ANGELES, California, Aug. 14 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Paul Hastings, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Paul Hastings Advises Piper Sandler, BTIG and Brookline Capital Markets on Outlook Therapeutics' Public Offering of Common Stock and Warrants * Paul Hastings LLP advised Piper Sandler, BTIG and Brookline Capital Markets as underwriters in a public offering by Outlook Therapeutics (Nasdaq: OTLK) of 55,555,556 shares of its common stock and accompanying warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 55,555,556 shares of its common stock at a price of $0.99 per share and accompanyingwarrant.
Equity Capital Markets and Corporate Life Sciences co-chair Seo Salimi and partner Will Magioncalda led the Paul Hastings team, which also included associates Adam Swank and Agustina Guazzaroni.
More details can be found here.
About Paul Hastings
With widely recognized elite teams across 17 core practices, Paul Hastings is a premier law firm with a culture of excellence focused on providing intellectual capital and superior execution globally to the world's leading investment banks, asset managers and corporations. For more information, visit www.paulhastings.com.
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HANNAH WADDINGHAM, JEAN SMART, CHARLIE DAY, MEGAN MULLALLY, NICK OFFERMAN WITH GUEST HOST ROSIE O'DONNELL ON ABC'S 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE,' AUG. 17-21
BURBANK, California, Aug. 14 [Category: BizArts/Cultural] -- ABC, a division of Walt Disney, posted the following news release:
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HANNAH WADDINGHAM, JEAN SMART, CHARLIE DAY, MEGAN MULLALLY, NICK OFFERMAN WITH GUEST HOST ROSIE O'DONNELL ON ABC'S 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE,' AUG. 17-21
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ABC's Emmy(r) Award-winning late-night talk show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live," airs every weeknight at 11:35 p.m. EDT and features a diverse lineup of guests that includes celebrities, athletes, musical acts, comedians and human-interest subjects, along with comedy bits and a house band.
The following episodes are scheduled ... Show Full Article BURBANK, California, Aug. 14 [Category: BizArts/Cultural] -- ABC, a division of Walt Disney, posted the following news release: * * * HANNAH WADDINGHAM, JEAN SMART, CHARLIE DAY, MEGAN MULLALLY, NICK OFFERMAN WITH GUEST HOST ROSIE O'DONNELL ON ABC'S 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE,' AUG. 17-21 * ABC's Emmy(r) Award-winning late-night talk show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live," airs every weeknight at 11:35 p.m. EDT and features a diverse lineup of guests that includes celebrities, athletes, musical acts, comedians and human-interest subjects, along with comedy bits and a house band. The following episodes are scheduledto air the week of Aug. 17-21 (subject to change):
Monday, Aug. 17 - Guest Host Rosie O'Donnell
1. Hannah Waddingham ("Ted Lasso") 2. Ana Gasteyer ("Schmigadoon!") 3. Musical Guest The Linda Lindas 4. Bella Brown sits in with The Cletones
Tuesday, Aug. 18 - Guest Host Rosie O'Donnell
1. Jean Smart ("Hacks") 2. Richard Gadd ("Half Man") 3. Musical Guest Ashley McBryde 4. Bella Brown sits in with The Cletones
Wednesday, Aug. 19 - Guest Host Rosie O'Donnell
1. Charlie Day ("It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia") 2. Janelle James ("Abbott Elementary") 3. Bella Brown sits in with The Cletones
Thursday, Aug. 20 - Guest Host Rosie O'Donnell
1. Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman 2. Shawn Hatosy ("The Pitt") 3. Musical Guest Sydney James Harcourt ("Cats: The Jellicle Ball") 4. Bella Brown sits in with The Cletones
Friday, Aug. 21
TBC
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HANNAH WADDINGHAM, JEAN SMART, CHARLIE DAY, MEGAN MULLALLY, NICK OFFERMAN WITH GUEST HOST ROSIE O'DONNELL ON ABC'S 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE,' AUG. 17-21
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ABC's Emmy(r) Award-winning late-night talk show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live," airs every weeknight at 11:35 p.m. EDT and features a diverse lineup of guests that includes celebrities, athletes, musical acts, comedians and human-interest subjects, along with comedy bits and a house band.
The following episodes are scheduled ... Show Full Article BURBANK, California, Aug. 14 [Category: BizArts/Cultural] -- ABC, a division of Walt Disney, posted the following news release: * * * HANNAH WADDINGHAM, JEAN SMART, CHARLIE DAY, MEGAN MULLALLY, NICK OFFERMAN WITH GUEST HOST ROSIE O'DONNELL ON ABC'S 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE,' AUG. 17-21 * ABC's Emmy(r) Award-winning late-night talk show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live," airs every weeknight at 11:35 p.m. EDT and features a diverse lineup of guests that includes celebrities, athletes, musical acts, comedians and human-interest subjects, along with comedy bits and a house band. The following episodes are scheduledto air the week of Aug. 17-21 (subject to change):
Monday, Aug. 17 - Guest Host Rosie O'Donnell
1. Hannah Waddingham ("Ted Lasso") 2. Ana Gasteyer ("Schmigadoon!") 3. Musical Guest The Linda Lindas 4. Bella Brown sits in with The Cletones
Tuesday, Aug. 18 - Guest Host Rosie O'Donnell
1. Jean Smart ("Hacks") 2. Richard Gadd ("Half Man") 3. Musical Guest Ashley McBryde 4. Bella Brown sits in with The Cletones
Wednesday, Aug. 19 - Guest Host Rosie O'Donnell
1. Charlie Day ("It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia") 2. Janelle James ("Abbott Elementary") 3. Bella Brown sits in with The Cletones
Thursday, Aug. 20 - Guest Host Rosie O'Donnell
1. Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman 2. Shawn Hatosy ("The Pitt") 3. Musical Guest Sydney James Harcourt ("Cats: The Jellicle Ball") 4. Bella Brown sits in with The Cletones
Friday, Aug. 21
TBC
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Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village To Host Fall Festival in October
TORONTO, Ontario, Aug. 14 [Category: TravelBiz] -- Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts posted the following news release:
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Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village To Host Fall Festival in October
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Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village invites local families and hotel guests to celebrate the arrival of autumn at its Fall Festival, taking place on Friday, October 2, 2026, from 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm. The event will be held at The Cove, offering a seasonal celebration filled with festive activities and engaging experiences for guests of all ages.
Designed to embrace the charm of fall in Southern California, ... Show Full Article TORONTO, Ontario, Aug. 14 [Category: TravelBiz] -- Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts posted the following news release: * * * Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village To Host Fall Festival in October * Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village invites local families and hotel guests to celebrate the arrival of autumn at its Fall Festival, taking place on Friday, October 2, 2026, from 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm. The event will be held at The Cove, offering a seasonal celebration filled with festive activities and engaging experiences for guests of all ages. Designed to embrace the charm of fall in Southern California,the Fall Festival will turn The Cove into a cozy, interactive space for the community to gather and enjoy a curated selection of seasonal activities.
Event Highlights Include:
* Creative arts and crafts activities
* An interactive petting zoo with friendly animals
* Fall-themed face painting and sparkling glitter tattoos
* A family-friendly Silent Disco with wireless headphones
* One complimentary pumpkin for each guest to take home
* Picture-perfect photo opportunities for the whole family
* Delicious fall-inspired treats and seasonal beverages available for purchase
Event Details:
* Date: Friday, October 2, 2026
* Time: 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm PDT
* Location: Four Seasons Hotel Westlake, 2 Dole Drive, Westlake Village, California 91362
* Tickets: To purchase tickets, please visit the Eventbrite site
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Original text here: https://press.fourseasons.com/westlakevillage/hotel-news/2026/fall-festival
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Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village To Host Fall Festival in October
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Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village invites local families and hotel guests to celebrate the arrival of autumn at its Fall Festival, taking place on Friday, October 2, 2026, from 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm. The event will be held at The Cove, offering a seasonal celebration filled with festive activities and engaging experiences for guests of all ages.
Designed to embrace the charm of fall in Southern California, ... Show Full Article TORONTO, Ontario, Aug. 14 [Category: TravelBiz] -- Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts posted the following news release: * * * Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village To Host Fall Festival in October * Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village invites local families and hotel guests to celebrate the arrival of autumn at its Fall Festival, taking place on Friday, October 2, 2026, from 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm. The event will be held at The Cove, offering a seasonal celebration filled with festive activities and engaging experiences for guests of all ages. Designed to embrace the charm of fall in Southern California,the Fall Festival will turn The Cove into a cozy, interactive space for the community to gather and enjoy a curated selection of seasonal activities.
Event Highlights Include:
* Creative arts and crafts activities
* An interactive petting zoo with friendly animals
* Fall-themed face painting and sparkling glitter tattoos
* A family-friendly Silent Disco with wireless headphones
* One complimentary pumpkin for each guest to take home
* Picture-perfect photo opportunities for the whole family
* Delicious fall-inspired treats and seasonal beverages available for purchase
Event Details:
* Date: Friday, October 2, 2026
* Time: 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm PDT
* Location: Four Seasons Hotel Westlake, 2 Dole Drive, Westlake Village, California 91362
* Tickets: To purchase tickets, please visit the Eventbrite site
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Original text here: https://press.fourseasons.com/westlakevillage/hotel-news/2026/fall-festival
Foley Hoag: Federal Appeals Court Upholds Rights of Detained Noncitizens to Bond Hearings
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 14 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Foley Hoag, a law firm, posted the following news:
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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Rights of Detained Noncitizens to Bond Hearings
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This press release was originally published by the ACLU of Massachusetts and has been republished with permission.
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a ruling declaring that the Trump administration is unlawfully denying bond hearings to thousands of people arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New England
In 2025, the federal government abandoned its 29-year understanding ... Show Full Article BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 14 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Foley Hoag, a law firm, posted the following news: * * * Federal Appeals Court Upholds Rights of Detained Noncitizens to Bond Hearings * This press release was originally published by the ACLU of Massachusetts and has been republished with permission. A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a ruling declaring that the Trump administration is unlawfully denying bond hearings to thousands of people arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New England In 2025, the federal government abandoned its 29-year understandingof a 1996 law and announced that millions of noncitizens living in the United States would have no opportunity to ask for release on bond if detained by ICE. This new guidance defies decades of government practices, federal law, and fundamental due-process protections. It also exacerbates longstanding problems with immigration detention, including overcrowding, medical neglect, inadequate nutrition, and more. Last night, the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a District Court ruling finding the new policy unlawful, reasoning that the federal government's interpretation violated the relevant statutory text and congressional intent.
"This ruling affirms that the Trump administration cannot unilaterally rewrite federal statutes to suit its political agenda," said Adriana Lafaille, managing attorney at the ACLU of Massachusetts. "This is especially important for matters of fundamental fairness, like the ability to seek release from detention. The federal government must follow the law, provide bond hearings to class members, and allow those who pose no danger or flight risk to be released while immigration courts decide their cases."
With Thursday's ruling, seven appellate courts and hundreds of District Court judges have now issued rulings holding that the Trump administration's new policy of subjecting noncitizens living in the country to categorical detention without a bond hearing is unlawful.
"I am gratified that the First Circuit upheld the rule of law, affirming what we have known since 1996: Immigrants, regardless of how they entered our country, are entitled to bond hearings. I am in awe of our client's courage to fight for what is right, securing not only his freedom but that of hundreds of other immigrants in New England," said Annelise Araujo, founding principal and owner at Annelise Araujo Law.
"We are pleased that the court is vindicating the rights of immigrants unlawfully detained in Maine and throughout New England," said ACLU of Maine Legal Director Carol Garvan. "The government's cruel mandatory detention policy stripped people of the chance to seek their freedom while indefinitely separating them from their loved ones, communities, and jobs. The policy also upended decades of standard civil immigration procedures, violating the clear language of federal law. The court's order today is clear: no administration is above the law. The government cannot arrest and detain people indefinitely without providing them with a hearing in front of a judge."
The petitioner and class in Guerrero Orellano v. Moniz are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, the ACLU, the ACLU of New Hampshire, the ACLU of Maine, Annelise Araujo Law, Foley Hoag, Anderson & Kreiger, and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic.
The original complaint in this case was filed in September 2025 on behalf of Jose Arnulfo Guerrero Orellana and a class of similarly situated individuals. In October, the court granted a preliminary injunction and ordered a bond hearing for Mr. Guerrero Orellana, who was later released on bond. Later that month, the court certified a class of people arrested by federal immigration officials inside the United States and held in New England detention facilities. In December, the court granted partial summary judgment and rejected the government's novel and erroneous statutory interpretation.
As disclosed in subsequent court filings, the government's chief immigration judge later instructed her colleagues to ignore declaratory judgments like the one entered in this case. Immigration judges have continued to systematically deny bond hearings to people arrested by ICE within the United States who are alleged to have entered without inspection, no matter how long the person has been in the country. This policy violates the plain language of the federal detention statutes and denies fundamental due process rights to potentially millions of people.
Read the opinion here.
The Foley Hoag team includes Anthony Mirenda, Hampton Dellinger, Gilleun Kang, Spenser Angel, Daniel Zaleznik, Joshua Nacht, and Judith Gallant.
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Original text here: https://foleyhoag.com/news-and-insights/news/2026/august/federal-appeals-court-upholds-rights-of-detained-noncitizens-to-bond-hearings/
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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Rights of Detained Noncitizens to Bond Hearings
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This press release was originally published by the ACLU of Massachusetts and has been republished with permission.
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a ruling declaring that the Trump administration is unlawfully denying bond hearings to thousands of people arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New England
In 2025, the federal government abandoned its 29-year understanding ... Show Full Article BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 14 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Foley Hoag, a law firm, posted the following news: * * * Federal Appeals Court Upholds Rights of Detained Noncitizens to Bond Hearings * This press release was originally published by the ACLU of Massachusetts and has been republished with permission. A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a ruling declaring that the Trump administration is unlawfully denying bond hearings to thousands of people arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New England In 2025, the federal government abandoned its 29-year understandingof a 1996 law and announced that millions of noncitizens living in the United States would have no opportunity to ask for release on bond if detained by ICE. This new guidance defies decades of government practices, federal law, and fundamental due-process protections. It also exacerbates longstanding problems with immigration detention, including overcrowding, medical neglect, inadequate nutrition, and more. Last night, the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a District Court ruling finding the new policy unlawful, reasoning that the federal government's interpretation violated the relevant statutory text and congressional intent.
"This ruling affirms that the Trump administration cannot unilaterally rewrite federal statutes to suit its political agenda," said Adriana Lafaille, managing attorney at the ACLU of Massachusetts. "This is especially important for matters of fundamental fairness, like the ability to seek release from detention. The federal government must follow the law, provide bond hearings to class members, and allow those who pose no danger or flight risk to be released while immigration courts decide their cases."
With Thursday's ruling, seven appellate courts and hundreds of District Court judges have now issued rulings holding that the Trump administration's new policy of subjecting noncitizens living in the country to categorical detention without a bond hearing is unlawful.
"I am gratified that the First Circuit upheld the rule of law, affirming what we have known since 1996: Immigrants, regardless of how they entered our country, are entitled to bond hearings. I am in awe of our client's courage to fight for what is right, securing not only his freedom but that of hundreds of other immigrants in New England," said Annelise Araujo, founding principal and owner at Annelise Araujo Law.
"We are pleased that the court is vindicating the rights of immigrants unlawfully detained in Maine and throughout New England," said ACLU of Maine Legal Director Carol Garvan. "The government's cruel mandatory detention policy stripped people of the chance to seek their freedom while indefinitely separating them from their loved ones, communities, and jobs. The policy also upended decades of standard civil immigration procedures, violating the clear language of federal law. The court's order today is clear: no administration is above the law. The government cannot arrest and detain people indefinitely without providing them with a hearing in front of a judge."
The petitioner and class in Guerrero Orellano v. Moniz are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, the ACLU, the ACLU of New Hampshire, the ACLU of Maine, Annelise Araujo Law, Foley Hoag, Anderson & Kreiger, and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic.
The original complaint in this case was filed in September 2025 on behalf of Jose Arnulfo Guerrero Orellana and a class of similarly situated individuals. In October, the court granted a preliminary injunction and ordered a bond hearing for Mr. Guerrero Orellana, who was later released on bond. Later that month, the court certified a class of people arrested by federal immigration officials inside the United States and held in New England detention facilities. In December, the court granted partial summary judgment and rejected the government's novel and erroneous statutory interpretation.
As disclosed in subsequent court filings, the government's chief immigration judge later instructed her colleagues to ignore declaratory judgments like the one entered in this case. Immigration judges have continued to systematically deny bond hearings to people arrested by ICE within the United States who are alleged to have entered without inspection, no matter how long the person has been in the country. This policy violates the plain language of the federal detention statutes and denies fundamental due process rights to potentially millions of people.
Read the opinion here.
The Foley Hoag team includes Anthony Mirenda, Hampton Dellinger, Gilleun Kang, Spenser Angel, Daniel Zaleznik, Joshua Nacht, and Judith Gallant.
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Original text here: https://foleyhoag.com/news-and-insights/news/2026/august/federal-appeals-court-upholds-rights-of-detained-noncitizens-to-bond-hearings/
Dinsmore's Financial Institutions Team Advises LCNB Corp. on $25 Million Subordinated Notes Offering
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Aug. 14 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Dinsmore and Shohl, a law firm, posted the following news release:
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Dinsmore's Financial Institutions Team Advises LCNB Corp. on $25 Million Subordinated Notes Offering
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Attorneys in Cincinnati, Houston and Denver collaborate to support Ohio-based bank holding company's strategic capital raise.
Dinsmore advised LCNB Corp. (NASDAQ: LCNB), the holding company for LCNB National Bank, in connection with its successful private placement of $25 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.50% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due ... Show Full Article CINCINNATI, Ohio, Aug. 14 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Dinsmore and Shohl, a law firm, posted the following news release: * * * Dinsmore's Financial Institutions Team Advises LCNB Corp. on $25 Million Subordinated Notes Offering * Attorneys in Cincinnati, Houston and Denver collaborate to support Ohio-based bank holding company's strategic capital raise. Dinsmore advised LCNB Corp. (NASDAQ: LCNB), the holding company for LCNB National Bank, in connection with its successful private placement of $25 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.50% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due2036.
The matter highlights Dinsmore's ability to leverage talent across its national footprint. Michael Dailey in Cincinnati, Jacqueline McCloskey in Houston and Faith Wood in Denver advised on the structuring, negotiation and documentation of the offering, as well as the regulatory and securities law considerations involved in a private placement. The offering marked LCNB's first issuance of subordinated debt and drew strong investor interest, reflecting confidence in the company's performance and growth strategy.
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Original text here: https://www.dinsmore.com/uncategorized/dinsmores-financial-institutions-team-advises-lcnb-corp-on-25-million-subordinated-notes-offering/
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Dinsmore's Financial Institutions Team Advises LCNB Corp. on $25 Million Subordinated Notes Offering
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Attorneys in Cincinnati, Houston and Denver collaborate to support Ohio-based bank holding company's strategic capital raise.
Dinsmore advised LCNB Corp. (NASDAQ: LCNB), the holding company for LCNB National Bank, in connection with its successful private placement of $25 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.50% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due ... Show Full Article CINCINNATI, Ohio, Aug. 14 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Dinsmore and Shohl, a law firm, posted the following news release: * * * Dinsmore's Financial Institutions Team Advises LCNB Corp. on $25 Million Subordinated Notes Offering * Attorneys in Cincinnati, Houston and Denver collaborate to support Ohio-based bank holding company's strategic capital raise. Dinsmore advised LCNB Corp. (NASDAQ: LCNB), the holding company for LCNB National Bank, in connection with its successful private placement of $25 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.50% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due2036.
The matter highlights Dinsmore's ability to leverage talent across its national footprint. Michael Dailey in Cincinnati, Jacqueline McCloskey in Houston and Faith Wood in Denver advised on the structuring, negotiation and documentation of the offering, as well as the regulatory and securities law considerations involved in a private placement. The offering marked LCNB's first issuance of subordinated debt and drew strong investor interest, reflecting confidence in the company's performance and growth strategy.
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Original text here: https://www.dinsmore.com/uncategorized/dinsmores-financial-institutions-team-advises-lcnb-corp-on-25-million-subordinated-notes-offering/