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15 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
If, for example, Energy Secretary Rick Perry convinces his Republican friends in Congress finally to eliminate his department (whether or not he can remember its name), then there will be no more Energy Department.It is true that most of what the Energy Department does is so essential that its duties would simply migrate to other departments. [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 3:39 pm by Josh Blackman
For example, if an LPR was “absent from the United States for a continuous period in excess of 180 days” (ii) or “engaged in illegal activity after having departed the United States” (iii), upon her return, she would have to seek admission. [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 2:02 pm by David Kris
Government having significant responsibility for the conduct of U.S. defense or foreign policy, such as the Secretary of State or the State Department country desk officer. [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 10:23 am by Jordan Brunner
The move presents a crucial test of Trump’s vow to improve relations with Russia, at a time when key policy positions in the State Department and Defense Department have yet to be filled, and the National Security Council is in disarray. [read post]
13 Feb 2017, 11:05 am by Rishabh Bhandari, Jordan Brunner
Jane Chong flagged the indictment of Harold Thomas Martin III on charges of willful retention of national defense information, and the Justice Department’s press release. [read post]
11 Feb 2017, 4:53 am by Jordan Brunner
Andrew Kent examined when heads of executive departments can refuse White House orders. [read post]
10 Feb 2017, 10:00 am
It has also emerged that the executive order was not reviewed by senior officials at the Justice Department or the Department of Homeland Security. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 3:35 pm by David Post
This week brought the following news: An executive agency under Trump’s control (the Department of Defense) announced that it is considering renting space in New York’s Trump Tower — owned, of course, by the president himself. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 9:22 am by Paul Rosenzweig
(C)  For National Security Systems, the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence shall implement this order to the maximum extent feasible and appropriate. [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 3:09 pm by Deborah Pearlstein
  It is, rather, to say that mere reference to the general role of the courts here will not be persuasive; it depends entirely on the particular case.Second, to the extent the President’s argument in favor of deference is based on a claim of knowledge and/or expertise, the Court has recognized in a variety of contexts that it is, in the modern era, a claim about the knowledge and expertise of the knowledge and expertise of the executive branch as a whole – knowledge and expertise… [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 11:07 am by Jordan Brunner
” The Times writes that the latest draft of Trump’s executive order on Guantanamo would direct Defense Secretary James Mattis to detain suspected members of ISIS along with militants affiliated with al Qaeda and the Taliban. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 11:36 am by Peter Margulies
In its reply brief urging the Ninth Circuit to stay Judge James Robart’s temporary restraining order  against President Trump’s Refugee Executive Order (EO), the Justice Department has tried to move the court battle to more defensible ground. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 10:12 am by Jordan Brunner
The Justice Department announced yesterday that Ryan J. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 8:00 am by Andrew Kent
But the heads of core executive branch agencies such as the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, State, Defense, Treasury, Commerce, Energy and the like are at-will employees, serving only at the pleasure of the president. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 5:00 am by Jordan Brunner
The Department of Defense has recognized climate change as a “threat multiplier”—a force that compounds the danger of already volatile situations—since 2007. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 11:19 am by Jordan Brunner
Al Jazeera writes that Secretary of Defense James Mattis called Iran the “biggest state sponsor of terrorism” in the immediate aftermath of sanctions being levied. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 7:00 am by Charley Snyder, Michael Sulmeyer
On Wednesday, the Deputy Secretary of Defense issued a memo that clarifies how the Department of Defense (DoD) will implement President Trump’s executive order to freeze all civilian hiring across all departments and agencies. [read post]
3 Feb 2017, 8:10 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 217)Many people have taken an interest in the quite systematic efforts of the 45th Presidency to remake the nation in its own image during its first 100 days. [read post]