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According to the Presidential (Transition) Act, 2012 (Act 845), within 24 hours of the declaration of presidential election results, a Transition Team is established. The incumbent president and the President-elect each appoint members to the team, including key officials such as the Head of the Civil Service and the National Security Coordinator.
Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
President Donald Trump's transition team asked more than a dozen senior career diplomats to step down from their roles, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said, as the newly inaugurated ...
The coverage formula, contained in Section 4(b) of the Act, determines which states are subject to preclearance. As enacted in 1965, the first element in the formula was whether, on November 1, 1964, the state or a political subdivision of the state maintained a "test or device" restricting the opportunity to register and vote.
The Act defines expropriation as the compulsory acquisition of property by organs of state or authorised "expropriating authorities". The Act provides that its primary purpose is to align South Africa's expropriation processes with the requirements of the Constitution whilst providing clear guidelines for implementation across all levels of ...
The House on Wednesday passed the Laken Riley Act, sending the immigration-related bill to President Trump’s desk in what is poised to be his first legislative victory since returning to the ...
By 1840, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Virginia were the only states that still had property requirements to vote. The property requirement in Rhode Island led to the Dorr Rebellion, essentially an intra-state civil war. In 1856, North Carolina was the final state to remove the property requirement for voting, although requirements for ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Saturday ordered retaliatory tariffs in response to the U.S. decision to slap 25% tariffs on all goods coming from Mexico, as a trade ...