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5 Jul 2021, 3:29 pm by John Gotaskie
District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the EB-5 Modernization Final Rule was not lawfully promulgated because the former-acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan was not properly serving in his position. [read post]
28 Jun 2021, 5:34 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
On June 22nd Federal Judge Corley announced in a court ruling that the 2019 Modernization Rule passed under the Trump administration would be vacated immediately, considering that the former acting DHS Secretary, Kevin McAleenan was not properly appointed to his position under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act when he implemented the 2019 Modernization Rule. [read post]
28 Jun 2021, 8:42 am by Zain Abidi
Ultimately, Behring succeeded in showing the acting DHS secretaries succeeding Kirstjen Nielsen (including Kevin McAleenan) were not properly designated in the order of succession in accordance with the FVRA, and therefore they did not hold the authority to promulgate and ratify the 2019 modernization rule. [read post]
24 Jun 2021, 5:53 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
  In her ruling, Judge Corley concluded that the 2019 Modernization Rule should be vacated because the former acting DHS Security, Kevin McAleenan was not properly appointed in his position under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act when he implemented the Regulations. [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 9:09 pm by Ali Brodie
District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the EB-5 Modernization Final Rule was not lawfully promulgated because the former-acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan was not properly serving in his position. [read post]
14 Jun 2021, 9:59 am by Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne
The subcommittee will hear testimony from Kevin McAleenan, former acting homeland security secretary; Anthony Reardon, national president of the National Treasury Employees Union; Samuel Vale, president of the Starr-Camargo Bridge Company; and Jaime Chamberlain, president of Chamberlain Distributing Inc. [read post]
30 Jan 2021, 9:17 am by Victoria Gallegos
  Brian Frazelle argued that the unlawfulness of the appointments of both Kevin McAleenan and Chad Wolf, former acting secretaries of homeland security, render the last two years of policymaking illegal. [read post]
28 Jan 2021, 6:01 am by Brian Frazelle
It is under such an order, the Trump administration claimed, that Kevin McAleenan became acting secretary in 2019 when then-Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned. [read post]
Then-acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan introduced the new framework at a joint Brookings Institution and Heritage Foundation event, stating that “[t]here is evidence of this growing number of threat actors who seek to attack the seams of our diverse and violent social fabric and incite our nation’s most vulnerable populations ... to violence against their fellow citizens. [read post]
Under this succession plan, Christopher Krebs should have assumed the role as DHS Acting Secretary instead of Kevin McAleenan, who was Commissioner of US Customs and Border Patrol at the time. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 11:32 am by Anne Joseph O'Connell
When President Trump pushed Nielsen out, he tweeted that he was promoting Customs and Border Protection Director Kevin McAleenan to acting secretary. [read post]
2 Sep 2020, 11:36 am by Aimee Guthat
Wolf challenges all of the fee increases on the grounds that the fees were proposed and issued under those (Kevin McAleenan and Chad Wolf) not properly appointed to their positions, and therefore, the new rule is unlawful. [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that after the resignation of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in April 2019, an improper succession occurred, with Kevin McAleenan taking on the position. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 11:29 am by Amy L. Peck and Jessica K. Lang
The Maryland District Court judge in that case said the GAO report “aligns closely with her reading of the law and thinking on the plaintiffs’ argument that Wolf and his predecessor, Kevin McAleenan … were improperly appointed. [read post]
17 Aug 2020, 7:58 am by Jonathan H. Adler
As detailed in a Government Accountability Office (GAO) opinion letter issued Friday, neither Wolf nor his predecessor, Kevin McAleenan, were properly made "Acting Secretary" because of errors in the way the DHS order of succession was altered (i.e. manipulated) in an effort to ensure DHS would be run by those most loyal to the President. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 11:43 am by Paul Rosenzweig
He gets the job because he was confirmed by the Senate to be the undersecretary for the Office of Strategy, Policy and Plans and his predecessor, Acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan, changed the order of succession at DHS before he resigned, to make Wolf next in line. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 11:18 am by Thomas DeLorenzo
After the departure of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in April 2019, Kevin McAleenan assumed the leadership position of the agency. [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 2:52 pm by Ben Berwick, Rachel Homer
But Wolf’s purported authority to serve in that position rests on McAleenan’s invalid [read post]
28 Jun 2020, 9:08 pm by Anne Joseph O'Connell
For example, for months in 2019 commentators assumed that Kevin McAleenan was serving as acting DHS Secretary under the Vacancies Act. [read post]