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14 Aug 2020, 3:00 am
Wolf served as the acting chief of staff at the Transportation Security Administration in 2017 and later became the chief of staff for former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. [read post]
5 Aug 2020, 2:52 pm
In April 2019, Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen—the most recent Senate-confirmed secretary of homeland security—tried to amend the existing succession order (see Enclosure B to the linked letter to the comptroller general from the House Committee on Homeland Security, which in turn refers to Executive Order 13753 for a hierarchy for DHS succession) right before she resigned, in order to make Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan the next… [read post]
19 Jul 2020, 9:07 pm
Nine months later, then-Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen issued the second memo—the Nielson memo—in response to an order by a federal district court asking DHS for further explanation about the decision to rescind DACA. [read post]
9 Jul 2020, 7:58 am
Two months later, Duke’s successor, Secretary Kirstjen M. [read post]
6 Jul 2020, 9:05 pm
Second, the Court confronted the two DHS memoranda purporting to justify the agency’s rescission decision—an initial 2017 memorandum issued by then-Acting Secretary Elaine Duke terminating DACA and a follow-up 2018 memorandum issued by then-Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, which “declined to disturb the Duke memorandum’s rescission of the DACA policy” and listed “several separate and independently sufficient reasons” for… [read post]
19 Jun 2020, 2:30 am
The entire zero-tolerance policy would become unenforceable if enough prosecutors and DHS agents -- and perhaps even Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen -- would quit their jobs in the face of inhumanity. [read post]
18 Jun 2020, 11:03 am
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen later announced the program would be phased out, arguing the program increased the risk of undermining public confidence in the rule of law. [read post]
18 Jun 2020, 9:44 am
The majority declined to consider a June 2018 memorandum by DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, reasoning that it is a “foundational principle of administrative law” that courts should only look at the grounds on which an agency relied when it took the action being challenged. [read post]
14 Nov 2019, 3:41 am
[In the circuit courts, DOJ cited the Nielsen memorandum as providing an "independent" basis to rescind DACA] The DACA litigation turns, in part, on two separate memoranda issued by two Homeland Security Secretaries: (1) a memorandum from Secretary Elaine Duke, and (2) a memorandum from Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. [read post]
12 Nov 2019, 2:17 pm
” Finally he gets to answer, responding that then-Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, the author of one of the two key decision memos at issue, “explicitly considered the reliance interests, including all of the things that you just listed that were set forth in excruciating detail in the numerous district court decisions that have ruled against us. [read post]
12 Nov 2019, 1:55 pm
Francisco, arguing for the administration.... pointed to a second memo, issued last year by Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary at the time. [read post]
12 Nov 2019, 11:07 am
But in this case Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, considered the reliance interests “quite clearly and explicitly” but concluded that they didn’t justify retaining a program that violated the law. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 2:46 am
Former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen speaks at the Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit. [read post]
14 Oct 2019, 9:05 pm
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen. [read post]
22 Jul 2019, 3:42 pm
Confirmed secretaries, on average, serve much longer than acting secretaries. [read post]
19 Jun 2019, 1:31 am
The entire zero-tolerance policy would become unenforceable if enough prosecutors and DHS agents -- and perhaps even Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen -- would quit their jobs in the face of inhumanity. [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 1:45 pm
But Homan’s appointment will likely intensify the cruelty of the administration’s border policies.Homan was one of three administration officials, including current Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kevin McAleenan, who signed a memo to now-former Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen which paved the way for the family separation policy. [read post]
19 May 2019, 1:11 pm
For instance, on March 28, 2019, then Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. [read post]
19 May 2019, 1:11 pm
For instance, on March 28, 2019, then Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. [read post]
18 May 2019, 3:22 am
Department of Homeland Security, which recently saw its Secretary (Kirstjen Nielsen) step down: "An attempt by President Trump’s senior adviser... [read post]
