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Additionally, the LCRR has been challenged in court by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Newburgh Clean Water Project, NAACP, Sierra Club, United Parents Against Lead and the Attorneys General of New York, California, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia. [read post]
7 May 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the release of a 2019 memo prepared by the department’s Office of Legal Counsel, which Barr sought to keep secret by asserting it was part of the department’s internal decision-making process before he selectively announced the Mueller report’s findings that March. [read post]
30 Apr 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The effort to redraw congressional districts is likely to benefit Republican officeholders more than Democrats next year. [read post]
16 Apr 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Asian American Super PAC Launches Operation to Improve Understanding of Fastest-Growing Electorate MSN – Colby Itkowitz and Amy Wang (Washington Post) | Published: 4/11/2021 The AAPI Victory Fund super PAC, the top political organization representing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, announced the creation of a new nonprofit group aimed at developing a greater understanding of the nuanced population that has long been excluded from conversations about issues such… [read post]
13 Apr 2021, 9:09 pm by Dan Flynn
In 2020, Oregon and the District of Columbia followed by adopting friendly “plant and fungus” policies. [read post]
29 Mar 2021, 4:19 am by Peter Mahler
Council of City of New Orleans, 491 U.S. 350, 360-61 (1989)] has described the metes and bounds of the Burford abstention doctrine specifically by reference to “the proceedings or orders of state administrative agencies”: Where timely and adequate state-court review is available, a federal court sitting in equity must decline to interfere with the proceedings or orders of state administrative agencies: (1) when there are difficult questions of state law… [read post]
26 Mar 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Trump is also facing criminal investigations in Georgia and the District of Columbia related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. [read post]
19 Mar 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Army Initially Pushed to Deny District’s Request for National Guard Before Jan. 6 MSN – Paul Sonne, Peter Hermann, Ellen Nakashima, and Matt Zapotosky (Washington Post) | Published: 3/16/2021 The Army pushed to reject the District of Columbia’s request for a modest National Guard presence ahead of the January 6 rally that led to the Capitol riot, underscoring the reluctance of some at the Pentagon to involve the military in… [read post]
5 Mar 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
” The greater impact will be the test the court develops for proving violations of the VRA, as new laws are proposed and state Legislatures begin redrawing congressional and legislative districts. [read post]
12 Feb 2021, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Conference of Mayors are moving back to bipartisanship just as state and city leaders have been entrusted with more power than they have had in the nation’s history. [read post]
4 Feb 2021, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
New York Times – Annie Karni and Sam Baker | Published: 2/1/2021 With no dominant leader other than a one-term president, a radical right movement that became emboldened under President Trump has been maneuvering for more power in the Republican Party and ascending in different states and congressional districts. [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 12:54 pm by John Elwood
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 20-454, was filed by the Trump administration and seeks review of a decision by the en banc U.S. [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 10:52 am by Marc Antonetti
As we reported here last month, on Dec. 15, 2020, a unanimous District of Columbia City Council approved a broad ban on noncompete agreements and “moonlighting” policies that would be among the most restrictive in the nation. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
Attorney General Alleges MSN – David Fahrenthold (Washington Post) | Published: 1/11/2021 President Trump’s private business failed to pay a $49,000 hotel bill incurred during Trump’s 2017 inaugural and then, after the bill went to a collections agency, Trump’s nonprofit inaugural committee agreed to pay the charge instead, according to a new filing from District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine, who had already sued Trump’s 2017… [read post]
7 Jan 2021, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
Acting in a dispute over records related to President Trump’s Trump International Hotel, the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals ruled lawmakers can resort to the courts to enforce an obscure statute known as the seven-member rule. [read post]
4 Jan 2021, 6:00 am by Jane Turner
City Council, which she had done previously. [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 9:03 pm by Joshua Burd
District Court for the District of Columbia temporarily blocked a rule that would have placed new restrictions on the federal government’s food assistance program, known as SNAP. [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 10:00 am by ernst
Dewey, a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia Law School who served as U.S. [read post]
24 Dec 2020, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
National/Federal A Frustrated Trump Redoubles Efforts to Challenge Election Result MSN – Felicia Sonmez, Josh Dawsey, Dan Lamothe, and Matt Zapotosky (Washington Post) | Published: 12/20/2020 President Trump has intensified efforts to overturn the election, raising a series of radical measures in recent days, including military intervention, seizing voting machines, and a 13th-hour appeal to the U.S. [read post]