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14 Sep 2021, 2:51 pm by Angie Gou
Due to a quirk in the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, she had to step down from her acting role while the Senate considers her nomination to hold the position on a permanent basis. [read post]
” Four months later, on May 11, 2009, former Vice President Cheney charged that the Obama administration had “moved to take down a lot of those policies we put in place that kept the nation safe for nearly eight years from a follow-on terrorist attack like 9/11. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 2:18 pm by Ilya Somin
Think of what Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis might do with such avast power. [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Proponents of Post-Trump Curbs on Executive Power Prepare New Push Yahoo News – Charlie Savage (New York Times) | Published: 9/9/2021 As Donald Trump’s norm-busting presidency careened through two impeachments, his departure set the stage for lawmakers to impose new limits on executive power like the period after Watergate and the Vietnam War. [read post]
8 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
For example, those who present themselves most dramatically as being driven by religious principles have been more than willing to give Donald Trump one pass after another, because even though he represents virtually everything that conservative Christians claim to reject, he gave them power here on Earth. [read post]
6 Sep 2021, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
With Social Security’s revenues coming from a tax on wages, and with wages having been so severely depressed, we should be dancing in the streets that the Trustees’ estimates did not show a much bigger change.In addition, although The Times’s article made sure to point out (echoing the Trustees’ ominous executive summary) that the depletion date had been moved from 2034 to 2033 in this year’s report, they did not bother to note that the forecast of the depletion date… [read post]
6 Sep 2021, 9:03 am by Lee Kovarsky
President Donald Trump’s Justice Department decided to get the federal government back in the execution business, and it began announcing execution dates during the summer of 2019. [read post]
5 Sep 2021, 9:22 am
Biden’s supporters is that he is a welcome change from President Donald J. [read post]
5 Sep 2021, 7:01 am by Sara Bjerg Moller
However, some Bush administration officials, including Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, were reluctant to involve NATO in the U.S. response to the attacks. [read post]
3 Sep 2021, 3:56 am by Chris Seaton
One panelist shot back, “Well, it’s not Donald Trump in charge! [read post]
2 Sep 2021, 3:49 am by Kevin Kaufman
The Tax Foundation is pleased to submit comments on the cannabis excise tax provisions of the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act (CAOA). [read post]
1 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
When Republicans have retaken both houses of Congress and have installed either Donald Trump or his anointed successor in the White House in January 2025, what will they do next? [read post]
31 Aug 2021, 5:54 am by Cory Doctorow
Docket of the Living Dead In 2017, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai - a former Verizon lawyer appointed by Donald Trump - announced his intention to dismantle the Commission’s hard-won 2015 Network Neutrality regulation. [read post]
31 Aug 2021, 2:01 am by Jen Patja Howell
Jack Goldsmith sat down with national security reporter Spencer Ackerman, the author of the new book, “Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump. [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 9:02 pm by Austin Sarat and Dennis Aftergut
” Nor did his accusers consider the harrowing, sworn testimony of other police officers about the January 6 “terrorists,” or radio traffic that Officer Byrd was listening to, describing desperate pleas of “officer down. [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
As far back as June of 2016, I argued here on Verdict that the election of Donald Trump would bring with it “the end of constitutional democracy in the U.S. [read post]
29 Aug 2021, 9:00 pm by Vikram David Amar and Evan Caminker
The two parts of the California recall ballot thus pose two distinct questions; and just as Gavin Newsom is permissibly excluded from the second part, so too all the would-be successors are permissibly excluded from the first part, which is a straight up/down vote on recalling the incumbent. [read post]