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13 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
Thus, a better analogy would be someone making a threat to himself not to pay his own credit card bill unless he cuts his future spending. [read post]
9 Jun 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Conservatives Seek Control Over Public Universities with State Bills MSN – Susan Svrluga (Washington Post) | Published: 6/3/2023 Conservative lawmakers have accelerated efforts to try to rein in what they see as liberal indoctrination on college campuses, with dozens of state bills igniting debates in recent months over academic priorities and how public universities should operate. [read post]
7 Jun 2023, 5:00 am by Guest Author
Bush Administration, Circular A-4 aggregated best practices from twenty years of cost-benefit analysis practice in the federal government.[1] It built on President Bill Clinton’s Executive Order 12,866 on regulatory review and offers agencies guidance on how to structure an inquiry into the social consequences of regulatory decisions.[2] Drawing on the intellectual tradition of welfare economics, Circular A-4 provides valuable advice that highlights several fundamental… [read post]
6 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
With the government’s fiscal year ending on September 30, a highly poisonous atmosphere in Congress would have made it all but impossible to pass the necessary appropriations bills to fund the federal government’s activities—from law enforcement to transportation management to running the national parks, and on and on.In other words, there would have been a government shutdown starting on October 1. [read post]
5 Jun 2023, 1:21 am by INFORRM
The Michael Geist blog has more information here. [read post]
31 May 2023, 2:01 pm by Guest Author
  This could be a potential course of action if a member of Congress decides to put a hold on the bill or slow its passage for idiosyncratic reasons. [read post]
29 May 2023, 9:03 am by INFORRM
The Open Rights Group has warned that the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill could allow Meta to circumvent the suspension of EU-US data transfers. [read post]
23 May 2023, 12:58 am by INFORRM
Last week in the courts On 15 May 2023, Nicklin J continued to hear the trial of MBR Acres Ltd v Free MBR Beagles. [read post]
22 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
If we reach the point where the debt ceiling becomes binding, possibly as soon as next week, President Joe Biden will have exactly two options: (1) Continue to pay the nation’s bills, or (2) Fail to pay the nation’s bills for the first time ever. [read post]
21 May 2023, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
It is not.Even the Pre-Crisis Strategic Choices Were All BadWe have been studying these issues for the past twelve years, and we are on record as saying that the President should have announced from the start that the debt ceiling is unconstitutional and thus that it will not stop him from paying the country’s bills. [read post]
17 May 2023, 9:02 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
” But what does it mean to negotiate over paying bills that have already been enacted into law? [read post]
16 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
However, they do appear to have one that involves the President not paying all of the nation’s bills. [read post]
16 May 2023, 1:41 pm by Michael Lowe
Drug arrests in Texas that may include other serious charges (like conspiracy or homicide) are known to be fixed upon fentanyl these days; both Texas and federal law enforcement are blatantly targeting fentanyl use as well as its manufacture and distribution. [read post]
14 May 2023, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
We would be delighted if the debt ceiling truly were a mere paper tiger that could be easily shredded by stamping “$3 trillion” on a piece of platinum or issuing bonds with a face value of one dollar but sold for a hundred dollars each because they offer 40,100 percent in interest (which is the rate Treasury would need to offer to reproduce the payback on a conventional 3-month hundred-dollar T-bill that pays the roughly 5 percent current interest rate). [read post]
8 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
Pundits have come out of the woodwork over the years with various versions of a plan to have the Treasury use some kind of new or special-use security, which would supposedly allow the government to continue to pay the bills (a good thing, of course) but to do so by pretending that the new securities are not debt. [read post]
8 May 2023, 5:59 am by Siven Watt
The letter, sent by committee chair Michael McCaul (T-RX), gave the State Department until May 11 to comply or assert a legal basis to withhold the documents. [read post]