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14 Mar 2020, 10:56 am by Steven Boutwell
By Brian Carnie, Chelsea Caswell, Ed Hardin, Scott Huffstetler, Erin Kilgore, Michael Lowe, Zoe Vermeulen, and David Whitaker After midnight on March 14, 2020, the U.S. [read post]
22 Jul 2019, 3:42 pm by Anne Joseph O'Connell
 David Lewis has detailed how vacancies in political positions at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for example, contributed to devastatingly low morale among agency employees and to the agency’s inadequate responses to natural disasters. [read post]
13 Apr 2019, 9:17 am by Lev Sugarman
Sugarman posted a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order clarifying that Matthew Whitaker did not bring any action before the court during his tenure. [read post]
9 Apr 2019, 3:30 am by Steve Vladeck
And President Trump relied upon the same statute to name Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general. [read post]
26 Feb 2019, 9:11 am by Tarek Maalouf
The substantive objection brought by the plaintiffs, Damien Guedes, the Firearms Policy Coalition, David Codrea and others, concerned the ATF’s decision to classify bump stocks as “machineguns” under the National Firearms Act (NFA). [read post]
24 Feb 2019, 4:16 am by Lev Sugarman
Jack Goldsmith commented on Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s role in maintaining the independence of the Department of Justice. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 9:56 am by Lev Sugarman
President Donald Trump asked then-Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker whether Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. [read post]
11 Feb 2019, 2:15 pm by CAFE
An interview on ABC’s “This Week” with Elkan Abramowitz, the attorney representing AMI CEO David Pecker. [read post]
4 Feb 2019, 1:27 pm by Sandy Levinson
 Given the almost certain willingness of the GOP in the Senate to rubber-stamp Trump's appointments, including the announcement today nominating the egregious (though reportedly extremely hard-working) former lobbyist David Bernhardt, to continue gutting the Interior Department, perhaps one shouldn't really care, for example, that the current Secretary of Defense is merely "acting," as is, until William Barr is confirmed, the equally egregious Matthew… [read post]
24 Dec 2018, 3:02 am by Walter Olson
[David Post] Tags: constitutional law, Fourth Amendment, guns, illegal drugs, immigration law, Kansas, New Hampshire [read post]
22 Dec 2018, 6:17 am by William Ford
On Thursday, the Justice Department explained in a letter to Congress why Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, a vocal opponent of the Mueller investigation before joining the Trump administration, will not recuse himself from the Russia probe. [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 4:00 am by Edith Roberts
Supreme Court lawyer and publisher of SCOTUSblog, who is challenging [Acting Attorney General Matthew] Whitaker’s appointment at the high court in an unusual motion. [read post]
8 Dec 2018, 8:00 am by Mikhaila Fogel
Gabriel Schoenfeld reviewed David Priess recent book “How to Get Rid of a President: History’s Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives. [read post]
26 Nov 2018, 7:02 am by Jonathan Spontarelli
Council Approves Sweeping Reforms to Combat ‘Pay-to-Play’ Politics by Peter Jamison for The Washington Post Ethics National: Trump Wanted to Order Justice Dept. to Prosecute Comey and Clinton by Michael Schmidt and Maggie Haberman (New York Times) for MSN National: Conservative Nonprofit with Obscure Roots, Undisclosed Funders Paid Whitaker $1.2 Million by Robert O’Harrow Jr., Shawn Boburg, and Aaron Davis (Washington Post) for The Seattle Times Colorado: Hickenlooper Paid… [read post]
24 Nov 2018, 9:01 am by Anushka Limaye
David Kris assessed the broader risks that the appointment of Whitaker presents to Justice Department interests. [read post]