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Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) senses something fishy going on at the Environmental Protection Agency just a week into the Biden administration. It appears that EPA Principal Deputy General Counsel Melissa Hoffer asked the DOJ to place a hold on EPA-related litigation via a letter on January 21. In a letter of her own to the EPA Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office Comptroller General, Blackburn is calling for an investigation into Hoffer s potential ethics violations.
One day into the job, EPA’s new leadership is already running afoul of the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Today I referred EPA official Melissa Hoffer to EPA IG and GAO to investigate potential violations of ethics rules and the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. pic.twitter.com/asJokPFYCS Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) January 25, 2021
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By the time Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president yesterday, every member of President Trump’s cabinet had resigned. That’s customary when a new president takes office. Because none of President Biden’s nominees to fill his cabinet have yet been confirmed by the Senate, all fifteen cabinet‐level departments are currently being led by “acting secretaries.” These acting secretaries serve either by virtue of succession statutes specific to particular departments or by virtue of the “Vacancies Act,” a law that gives the president broad discretion to fill vacancies across the federal government with “acting officers” (but places time limits on their service).
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Looking ahead, we preview cases currently pending before the
Supreme Court which have already been accepted for review by
the Court, and in some cases have already been argued that
may be of particular interest to readers of the Need-to-Know
Litigation Weekly. These cases pertain to various topics in
Securities Litigation, Antitrust, IP Litigation, and jurisdictional
questions of broad interest.
Securities Litigation:
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. v.
Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, No. 20-222
Relevant Issues to be Addressed: (1)
Whether defendants in a securities fraud class action under Section
PROVIDENCE Deputy House Speaker Charlene Lima is calling for a special election to choose the state s next lieutenant governor in place of the insider political jockeying underway now as Rhode Island faces a mid-term changing of the guard. We must move immediately to take the selection of our next Lt. Governor from the backrooms of politics to the voters of Rhode Island, Lima, D-Cranston, said Tuesday amid questions about the legality of her proposal.
With Gov. Gina Raimondo poised to depart mid-term for a new job in Washington as President-elect Joe Biden s commerce secretary, Lt. Governor Dan McKee is in line to take her place as governor.