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A group of federal watchdogs has criticized the U.S. Department of Justice for determining that a whistleblower’s report about allegedly inappropriate White House interaction with Ukraine wasn’t an “urgent concern,” thereby blocking the complaint from being sent to Congress… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California federal judge held U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her department in contempt Thursday and fined them $100,000 for their “minimal efforts” to comply with the court’s order to halt collection of student loan debt from former Corinthian Colleges enrollees… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The county of El Paso in Texas and a local immigrant-rights nonprofit asked a Texas federal judge on Monday to block the entirety of the Trump administration’s planned diversion of $6.1 billion in defense funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Texas federal judge who vacated the Affordable Care Act last year tossed an Obama-era regulation banning federally funded health insurance plans from discriminating on the basis of gender identity, saying the rule violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The acting head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Kevin McAleenan, is leaving the agency after a six-month stint as its interim leader, President Donald Trump said late Friday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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