After the longest government shutdown in history, caused by Congress’ inability to draft a budget, there appeared to be little interest in repeating that episode. As a result, at the time of this writing, Congress was...
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On January 14, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted 2-to-1 in its first public hearing of 2026 to rescind its voting procedures that set out a timeline for individual commissioners to review...
On January 22, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted 2-to-1 to rescind the harassment guidance issued under the Biden administration. The EEOC submitted the rescission as final to Office of...
On January 21, 2026, the Supreme Court heard the next and perhaps most significant case testing the president’s power to summarily terminate any member of the executive branch and personally control the economy. Fed...
The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) long period of forced obsolescence has ended with the swearing in of NLRB Members Scott Mayer and James Murphy and General Counsel (GC) Crystal Carey. Facing a huge backlog and...
After spending the first year of his second term demonizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and retooling workplace agencies to focus on discrimination against white men, President Trump opened the second year by...
As Congress rushes to avoid another shutdown, it has a bipartisan agreement to provide the Department of Labor (DOL) with a budget of $13.7 billion for the remainder of fiscal year (FY) 2026. The budget would provide the...
For all the clamor about ending eight wars, invading Greenland, creating an “A+++++++” economy, pardoning friends and supporters by the bagful, converting the DOJ into a vehicle for personal retribution, even tariffs—if...
The unitary executive theory is a constitutional law theory holding that the U.S. president possesses sole authority over the executive branch. Supporters trace the theory’s origins to debates at the Constitutional...
On November 25, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced its partnership with the Department of Labor (DOL) on Project Firewall, a project to combat illegal national origin discrimination...
A year ago, agency heads assumed they were appointed for fixed terms and protected by law from summary termination. However, by means of a series of presidential actions, even the leaders of the “independent” agencies...
After Congress refused to block state regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) for a second time, President Trump on December 11, 2025, issued Executive Order (EO) 14365, Ensuring a National Policy Framework for...
On December 3, a bipartisan group of legislators lead by Representative Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) introduced legislation that would prohibit employers from relying solely on automated decision-making systems to make...
On September 5, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voluntarily dismissed its appeals in two cases—Ryan LLC v. FTC in the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and Properties of the Villages v. FTC in the 11th Circuit...
On April 23, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 14281, Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy, which seeks to “eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum...