January 20, 2021, was a busy day for White House ethics. In the morning then-president Trump revoked his 2017 ethics policy and, in the afternoon, as one of the seventeen executive orders he signed on his first day, President Biden introduced his own Executive Order on Ethics Commitments by Executive... Read More »
In one of his 17 executive orders signed his first day in office, President Biden stopped construction on the border wall between the United States and Mexico. The executive order said that all projects on the border wall needed to stop within a week of the order being signed. Customs... Read More »
For the first time ever, the Department of Homeland Security has issued a national terrorism bulletin about violent domestic extremists. The bulletin comes after the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill which has heightened the threat of violence across the nation, according to DHS. The bulletin, formally titled the National... Read More »
Janet Yellen was confirmed as the first female Treasury secretary on Monday, January 25, 2021. She won unanimous backing from both parties on the Senate Finance Committee and was confirmed by the full Senate on an 84-15 vote. Her confirmation comes 232 years after Alexander Hamilton became the first Treasury... Read More »
One of six men accused of planning to abduct Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer last fall has pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping conspiracy charge, while the other five defendants remain silent. According to the plea agreement of Ty Gerard Garbin, part of the “Wolverine Watchmen,” an aim of certain members... Read More »
One week in and President Biden has already been met with the first major setback of his presidency. On Tuesday, a federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked Biden's 100-day deportation freeze. The deportation freeze was implemented via executive order on January 20th. As part of the memorandum, the Department of... Read More »
On January 28th, 2021, President Biden honored another of his campaign promises when he issued a presidential memorandum that rescinds his predecessor’s elimination of federal aid for any foreign health provider that performs or actively promotes abortion as a method of family planning. During the signing ceremony in the Oval... Read More »
One of President Biden’s executive orders issued in the first week of his administration is intended to “encourage \[federal worker] union organizing and collective bargaining” and to “protect, empower, and rebuild the career federal workforce.” During the Trump administration, three executive orders targeting federal unions were signed into law on... Read More »
President Joe Biden’s Executive Order enacted during his first day in office, ‘Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing,' imposes a powerful mandate on all federal buildings, lands, and staff to wear masks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) emphatically endorses mask-wearing to block the spread of COVID-19,... Read More »
In a show of force made possible by social media and a Reddit forum, main street investors are turning against Wall Street hedge funds, beating them at their own game in what can only be described as 2021’s version of a David vs. Goliath pump and dump. There has been... Read More »
Ghislaine Maxwell has asked a New York judge to dismiss her pending criminal child sex case. Her legal team has filed several motions arguing for the dismissal. The British socialite and her lawyers cite several reasons the charges against her should be thrown out, with the most controversial being that... Read More »
President Biden’s ambitious Executive Order title says it all: “Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers.” The president’s new U.S.-focused order, created to engage Americans to spend their money on items made in the U.S., harkens to decades past, when “Made in the... Read More »
Earlier this month, an FBI anti-human trafficking operation led to the recovery of 33 missing children. The operation took place in Southern California and was dubbed “Operation Lost Angels.” The recovery of the children was the result of the work of more than two dozen agencies on the local, state,... Read More »
As part of the raft of executive orders promulgated by the new president on his first day in office, President Biden signed the Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government. In Section 10, paragraph (c) of the order is the mention that... Read More »
Biden's latest executive order tackles the issue of privately operated criminal detention facilities. In his memorandum, President Biden seeks to reform the nation's current incarceration system by eliminating the use of these privately owned detention centers. The memorandum explains in part, “To decrease incarceration levels, we must reduce profit-based incentives... Read More »
