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6 Feb 2017, 1:21 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Here is the latest edition of the Institute for Justice’s weekly Short Circuit newsletter, written by John Ross.) [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 9:41 am by Dennis Crouch
Supreme Court’s Presumption of Judicial Review Since the days of Chief Justice John Marshall, the Supreme Court has relied on a strong presumption that judicial review is available for executive branch action.[4] Agency decisions are presumed to be reviewable, and preclusion statutes are construed narrowly. [read post]
5 Feb 2017, 2:24 pm by Kelly Phillips Erb
IBM and H&R Block rolled out the new technology at approximately 10,000 branch offices across the U.S. [read post]
5 Feb 2017, 5:25 am by SHG
I’m going to take a wild guess that Chief Justice John Roberts understood that he was in a position of some serious responsibility before Greenhouse tried to troll him. [read post]
4 Feb 2017, 5:17 am by SHG
While senators and representatives are critical players in the scheme of American government, they do not get to give orders to executive branch personnel. [read post]
3 Feb 2017, 11:32 am by Jordan Brunner
” OFAC’s acting director, John Smith, stated that the sanctions were part of “Treasury’s ongoing efforts to counter Iranian malign activity abroad that is outside the scope of the JCPOA. [read post]
3 Feb 2017, 7:22 am by Joy Waltemath
This is no way to treat a co-equal branch of government, or to protect the independence of our Federal judiciary. [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm by John Dean
While it takes only a majority to confirm, it takes 60 votes to break a filibuster, so Republicans must pick up 8 votes. when the Republicans consistently blocked President Obama’s nominees for Executive Branch and judicial appointments, Democrats had to change the rules to abolish filibuster on presidential appointments but kept the exception for Supreme Court justices who are still subject to a filibuster. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 9:00 pm by Dean Falvy
Only if the Senate votes to convict (by a two-thirds majority) is the president removed from office.In a system designed to set the executive and legislative branches at odds, it is striking how rarely the impeachment process has been used against U.S. presidents, with only two votes to impeach by the House and no convictions by the Senate. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 8:18 am by Laura Mikeworth
Upon graduating, Bennett served as a law clerk for State Supreme Court Justice John D. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 2:18 pm by Jordan Brunner
Officials ranging from Senator John McCain to former Defense Secretary Robert Gates to former U.N. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 11:15 am by Jordan Brunner
John Bellinger provided his thoughts about the NSC memorandum. [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 8:07 pm by Nora Ellingsen
Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, tweeted a letter he sent to John Kelly, the head of the Department of Homeland Security. [read post]
27 Jan 2017, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
It shows that Chief Justice John Marshall’s opinion for a unanimous Court upheld the constitutionality of the Second Bank by affirming Congress’s inherent sovereign legislative powers. [read post]
25 Jan 2017, 6:58 am by Susan Hennessey, Jordan Brunner
McClatchy additionally reported that the Treasury Department branch involved was the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (known as FinCen). [read post]
23 Jan 2017, 11:36 am by Jordan Brunner
With Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) dropping their opposition as well, Tillerson’s hopes for confirmation are much brighter. [read post]
22 Jan 2017, 7:09 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The anti-nepotism law dates to 1967 and is widely believed to have been aimed at blocking appointments modeled on President John Kennedy’s nomination of his brother Robert as attorney general. [read post]