I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
To be effective, our opposition to today's abuses must run alongside a clear picture of what we are actually for - and how everyday life could be better with different leadership.
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I do not know whether DOJ has "Trump fatigue." But I would believe that it's prioritizing its investigations & prosecutions of Trump by their degree of overt threat to the Republic. We might not know whether it's already investigating Trump and Giuliani for selling pardons until one or more indictments is unsealed.
The Office of the Pardon Attorney, by the way, is in DOJ, not in the White House. So going directly to the White House to seek a pardon would keep the matter out of the ken of career DOJ lawyers who might well have objected.
Besides DOJ we have a series of agency IGs who have been asleep at the switch. My agency, DOL, was hell on wheels on stuff like the "appearance" of conflicts of interests.
In the final hours of his term, Trump rescinded an executive order he had issued years earlier to bar former White House employees from lobbying the government after they leave their jobs.
The order was rescinded around 1 a.m., just after Mr. Trump issued 143 clemency grants to allies, associates and low-level offenders serving lengthy sentences.
Regardless, people like Mnuchin were employees of agencies -- the Treasury Department. And Financial Disclosure rules were probably violated -- especially by the Trump family.
Daniel EO orders signed by Trump can be rescinded or redone by Biden.
Trump created Schedule F Employees. Employees that were political appointees, to embed in the government as protected civil servants, and to reclassify those who occupied those slots as at will employees.
Biden rescinded that EO with his EO 14003, which he could have used to replace the Trump appointees, thus robbing Trump of a tool, but he didn't he left Trump's virus in place and now we are seeing the results, especially with…
EO 13843 titled, “Excepting Administrative Law Judges from the Competitive Service” (83 FR 32755). The E.O. specifies that all appointments of ALJs made on or after July 10, 2018 must be made under Schedule E of the excepted service and acknowledges that such appointments must be made by the head of the hiring agency.
My position was restructured so that new hires were not merit selected. Biden did not cure it because it entails a lousy interpretation from SCOTUS and reinstatement of a hiring "r…
Wow so now we have regressed to the spoils system. By cure I take it to mean that Biden did not have a permanent remedy, because of a lousy interpration of SCOTUS. What was the SCOTUS interpretation., is it so bad that Biden finds the status quo better than revoking Dubya's EO 13483?
The SEC improperly appointed judges. I begged them to ask the SEC to reappoint them, but they never did. In Lucia v. SEC, SCOTUS found they were unconstitutionally appointed, and hundreds of cases had to be reheard. The Trump administration tried to extend this across many other agencies, and there is still ongoing litigation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L…
I've probably told you that the administration's knowledge and view of administrative law has been lacking. This stuff is arcane and has been in a…