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21 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that after the resignation of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in April 2019, an improper succession occurred, with Kevin McAleenan taking on the position. [read post]
20 Aug 2020, 11:29 am by Amy L. Peck and Jessica K. Lang
According to the GAO, Kirstjen Nielsen, who resigned from her post in April 2019, was the last DHS Secretary to be properly appointed. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 11:18 am by Thomas DeLorenzo
After the departure of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in April 2019, Kevin McAleenan assumed the leadership position of the agency. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 7:57 am by Elliot Setzer
After the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on April 10, 2019, Kevin McAleneenan assumed the title of Acting Secretary. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
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 by Ben Berwick, Rachel Homer
When Nielsen resigned, therefore, Executive Order 13753 still governed the order of succession. [read post]
19 Jul 2020, 9:07 pm by Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer
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]
6 Jul 2020, 9:05 pm by Meghan Downey
Rather, the Nielsen memorandum offered new and independent reasons for terminating the program. [read post]
19 Jun 2020, 2:30 am by Steve Lubet
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 by Donna Bader
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 by Amy Howe
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 by Josh Blackman
[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 by Mark Walsh
” 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 by Amy Howe
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 by Immigration Prof
Former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen speaks at the Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit. [read post]
14 Oct 2019, 9:05 pm by Tim Duncheon
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen. [read post]
29 Sep 2019, 7:00 am by Austin Carson
Editor’s Note: The acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, distanced himself from the Trump administration’s rhetoric during congressional testimony this past week as he defended the actions of the whistleblower who filed a complaint regarding President Donald Trump’s communications with the Ukrainian government. [read post]