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The White House criticized the ruling, [230] and the Justice Department is appealing the ruling to the Fifth Circuit. [231] In January 2024, the Fifth Circuit ruled in Texas's favor, holding that the HHS overstepped its authority in requiring abortion to be used in medical emergencies; this ruling came a few days before the Supreme Court ...
On July 11, 2012, a Mississippi federal judge ordered an extension of his temporary order to allow the state's only abortion clinic to stay open. The order was to stay in place until U.S. District Judge Daniel Porter Jordan III could review newly drafted rules on how the Mississippi Department of Health would administer a new abortion law. The ...
President Trump signs Executive Order 13771, which seeks to reduce the number of federal regulations by requiring agencies to repeal two existing regulations for every new rule introduced. [ 88 ] President Trump fires acting Attorney General Sally Yates after she ordered employees of the Department of Justice not to enforce the President's ban ...
Rafael Edward Cruz (/ k r uː z /; born December 22, 1970) is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz was the solicitor general of Texas from 2003 to 2008.
— United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Weinberger v. Equifax , 1977 In the 7 June 1978 Letter to the heads of Federal Departments and Agencies, the Comptroller General interpreted this decision in a way that carved out an exemption for "Guard and Protective Services".
The ideas underlying net neutrality have a long pedigree in telecommunications practice and regulation. Services such as telegrams and the phone network (officially, the public switched telephone network or PSTN) have been considered common carriers under U.S. law since the Mann–Elkins Act of 1910, which means that they have been akin to public utilities and expressly forbidden to give ...
In 2014, Tillis opposed increasing the federal minimum wage, and declined to comment on increasing North Carolina's minimum wage from $7.25 an hour after opposing the idea in 2010. [ 75 ] [ 76 ] [ 77 ] He suggested the government should not set a minimum wage at all, calling it an "artificial threshold" that "drives up costs" and could reduce jobs.