Eve Levin  //  7/30/17  //  Topic Update


The Trump administration is overselling its deregulatory achievementswrites Cass Sunstein at Bloomberg View.

  • However, key appointees are nearing confirmation votes, which may entail some 180-degree turnarounds from Obama-era policies, notes Charlotte Garden at ACS Blog.

For administrative law purposes, the obstruction statute might be best understood as a structural law, providing a limited grant of independence to federal law enforcementwrites Aneil Kovvali at Notice and Comment.


Updates | The Week of January 22, 2018

1/28/18  //  Daily Update

The Government Accountability Office will investigate alleged fraud during the comment period on the FCC's proposed net neutrality rules. President Trump's decision to allow agencies with leftover funding to remain open during the government shutdown may have been illegal.

Updates | The Week of January 15, 2018

1/14/18  //  Daily Update

A federal judge denies Leandra English's motion for a preliminary injunction in the dispute over who is acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Update | The Week of November 27, 2017

12/4/17  //  Daily Update

A federal judge denied Leandra English's request for a temporary restraining order in the fight over who is the acting director of the CFPB.

Jeffrey Stein

Columbia Law School