No. of Recommendations: 9
Note the site:
https://govbrief.today/Lists major daily articles and may have different headers. I highlighted one that caught my eye-
+Upside-down US flag hung off Joshua Tree marks start of weekend of national park protests, including Grand Canyon.
+Education Dept emails employees with one-day buyout offer ahead of “significant layoffs.”
+Nearly half of fair housing grants for monitoring discrimination are canceled.
+US attorney Ed Martin permanently demotes seven top Jan 6 prosecutors.
+Iowa is first state to strip discrimination protections for transgender people.
+Democrats sue to block Trump’s order giving him exclusive authority over campaign finance law.+IRS rebuffs DHS demand for 700K undocumented immigrants’ addresses.
SNIP The Democratic Party’s three national political committees contend that Trump’s order could preclude independent agencies from taking legal positions that don’t align with the president’s views.
They wrote in their complaint that
the Watergate scandal resulted in a “bipartisan recognition” that federal campaign finance rules must be neutrally enforced. But Trump’s executive order threatens to undercut that consensus and leave judgment to a “single partisan political figure —the President of the United States.”“This abrupt departure from the statutory scheme threatens significant harm to the Democratic Party’s three national political committees,” wrote Marc Elias, a lawyer for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
The Democrats said that Trump’s order would eliminate the Federal Election Campaign Act’s (FECA) requirement that the executive branch’s legal interpretations of the law reflect the consensus of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), an expert and bipartisan board. SNIP
Thia may help.
