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fromwww.aljazeera.com
5 days ago

US judge upholds decision to toss subpoenas into Fed Chair Jerome Powell

Judge Boasberg rejects Trump's subpoenas for Federal Reserve chairman Powell, citing improper purpose and lack of convincing arguments from the administration.
#higher-education
fromAllthingssmitty
1 week ago

You probably don't need to lift state - Matt Smith

Keep state as close as possible to where it's actually used. Lift it when multiple components need it or you need to coordinate behavior between components.
React
#education-department
Privacy professionals
fromFEDweek
1 week ago

Agencies Need More Complete Guidance on Privacy Considerations of AI Use, Says GAO

GAO identifies gaps in AI guidance, highlighting risks and the need for comprehensive privacy protections in agency implementations.
fromNextgov.com
2 weeks ago

Agency data leads worry about staff capacity to tackle statutory requirements, survey finds

Among the 189 CDO and other data leader respondents to the annual survey conducted by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Data Foundation, about 40% said they had lost six or more employees last year.
EU data protection
US politics
fromAxios
1 week ago

Exclusive: Trump's DOJ says he's not required to turn over official records

The Presidential Records Act mandates that presidential records belong to the U.S. government, a law Trump has challenged by retaining documents.
UK politics
fromwww.bbc.com
1 week ago

Ministers hope red tape cuts will speed-up decision making

The government aims to expedite decision-making by eliminating outdated regulations and overlapping consultations to reduce red tape.
Law
fromAbove the Law
2 weeks ago

The Judiciary Is Still Unaccountable, And This Congress Won't Fix It - Above the Law

The Judiciary Accountability Act aims to extend anti-discrimination protections to judiciary employees, promoting transparency and accountability in the judicial system.
fromEngadget
2 weeks ago

States are suing the EPA for relinquishing its role as a greenhouse gas emissions regulator

The lawsuit specifically argues that the EPA's decision to rescind a 2009 study that determined greenhouse gases are dangerous to public health was illegal. The study, which is the source of what's called the "Endangerment Finding," was one of several justifications - along with things like the Clean Air Act - for the agency's ability to regulate emissions.
Environment
Artificial intelligence
fromNextgov.com
2 weeks ago

Safe AI pathfinding is essential for government adoption, officials say

Federal agencies should adopt AI through experimentation and fit-for-purpose deployments, using centralized platforms like USAi.gov to safely evaluate tools and determine when AI solutions are actually needed.
Law
fromwww.amny.com
2 weeks ago

Op-Ed | It is hard to appreciate how much power the U.S. Justice Department wields | amNewYork

The Justice Department is suing New York City over its sanctuary city laws, highlighting tensions between federal and local policies.
US news
fromThe Washington Post
3 weeks ago

Did Trump cuts slow access to public records? We found 26 cases that say yes.

Federal workforce reductions have severely impaired agencies' ability to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests, with at least 13 agencies citing staffing cuts as reasons for missing FOIA deadlines in court.
fromArs Technica
3 weeks ago

Emerging legislation would shield polluters from liability for climate change

Dozens of local communities, states, and individuals are suing major oil and gas companies and their trade associations over rising climate costs and for allegedly lying to consumers about climate change risks and solutions. At the same time, some states are enacting or considering laws modeled after the federal Superfund program that would impose retroactive liability on large fossil fuel producers and levy a one-time charge on them to help fund climate adaptation and resiliency measures.
Environment
SF politics
fromwww.npr.org
4 weeks ago

Federal oversight protects student borrowers. Some of it has stopped, watchdog says

The U.S. Department of Education ceased oversight of federal student loan servicers in February 2025, eliminating record accuracy reviews and call monitoring, creating risks of billing errors and misinformation for borrowers.
fromNextgov.com
3 weeks ago

Vought takes aim at GAO in new guidance

Doing so has failed to prioritize agency internal control processes to adequately protect American taxpayer dollars, leading to documented examples of widespread abuse. Prior versions of OMB's guidance have overly deferred to the direction and priorities of external entities whose views are not binding on the Executive Branch, such as the Government Accountability Office.
Washington DC
NYC startup
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

The Zombie Regulator

The Trump Administration is weakening financial protection agencies while subprime auto lenders exploit vulnerable consumers through predatory pricing algorithms that maximize recovery over fair lending practices.
Education
fromFortune
3 weeks ago

'I don't know if we're ready': Governors from each party appalled at 100-year-old federal workforce strategy | Fortune

The United States education and workforce pipeline is critically broken, leaving workers unprepared for automation and economic instability as AI technologies rapidly advance.
Law
fromAbove the Law
3 weeks ago

The Rule Of Law Joins America's Dead Pets On The Rainbow Bridge - Above the Law

Trump attorney John Lauro claimed the DOJ improved under Attorney General Pam Bondi, contradicting legal observers who view current conditions as a constitutional crisis threatening prosecutorial independence.
US politics
fromAxios
2 weeks ago

White House eyes Friday rollout for AI framework

The White House plans to announce a federal AI regulatory framework covering child safety, communities, creators, and censorship, with potential preemption of conflicting state laws.
Non-profit organizations
fromNature
1 month ago

How Congress can restore the independence of US science

US federal science governance is shifting from merit-based civil service implementation to presidential political control, threatening research effectiveness and the science base.
fromBig Think
1 month ago

How the U.S. Constitution protects liberty from the powerful's dark impulses

The real Führer is always a judge. Out of Führerdom flows judgeship. One who wants to separate the two from each other or puts them in opposition to each other would have the judge be either the leader of the opposition or the tool of the opposition and is trying to unhinge the state with the help of the judiciary.
History
US politics
fromemptywheel
3 weeks ago

Accountability - emptywheel

Accountability for Trump and his administration is essential to prevent him from scapegoating Muslims for failures resulting from his Iran conflict decisions.
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 month ago

Video: Opinion | The Government's A.I. Alignment Problem

AI alignment is fundamentally a political question about instantiating different moral philosophies into systems, and government pressure on AI companies signals potential suppression of diverse values.
Environment
fromTruthout
1 month ago

House Bill Could Weaken EPA Oversight of Hazardous Chemicals

House conservatives propose rolling back 2016 reforms to the Toxic Substances Control Act, weakening EPA authority to regulate hazardous chemicals despite ongoing groundwater contamination cases like Jones Road.
Law
fromAbove the Law
4 weeks ago

The Justice Department Is Lowering Its Ethical Guardrails - Above the Law

The Justice Department eliminated a policy classifying senior political appointees as 'further restricted' under the Hatch Act, removing safeguards requiring election law enforcers to maintain strict political neutrality.
Intellectual property law
fromNextgov.com
4 weeks ago

Anthropic sues over a dozen federal agencies and government leaders

Anthropic sued federal agencies and leaders for allegedly retaliating against the company for refusing to modify Claude's terms of use for Department of Defense surveillance and autonomous weapons applications.
US politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

US judge nixes two subpoenas against Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell

Judge Boasberg quashed subpoenas targeting Federal Reserve Chair Powell, finding prosecutors produced no evidence of wrongdoing and issued them to pressure Powell into lowering interest rates or resigning.
Artificial intelligence
fromNextgov.com
1 month ago

Agencies begin to shed Anthropic contracts following Trump's directive

Multiple federal agencies are phasing out Anthropic tools following President Trump's directive, citing national security concerns over the company's refusal to support certain defense applications.
fromBloomberglaw
1 month ago

Punching In: Labor Department Watchdog Pressed on His Future

I'm here on this panel today answering your questions as the inspector general. I hope if you are indeed doing this that you do resign. I am well aware of the Hatch Act. The inspector general is currently heading an investigation into both Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who is accused of committing travel fraud and having an affair with her bodyguard, and the secretary's husband Shawn DeRemer, who allegedly assaulted at least two female department employees.
US politics
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

Federal Judges Threatened For Doing Their Jobs Speak Up - Above the Law

Federal judges face escalating violent threats and harassment for making constitutional rulings, including swatting attacks and assassination attempts, undermining judicial independence.
Fundraising
fromBusiness Matters
2 months ago

Which Grant Management Tools Are Best for Government Agencies?

Cloud-based grant management software helps government agencies organize workflows, track metrics, run reports, improve recordkeeping, and support implementation through configurable products and vendor support.
US politics
fromTruthout
1 month ago

Documents Expose Ties Between Trump Officials and Industries They Help Regulate

Stephen Feinberg, now Deputy Secretary of Defense, maintains financial ties to Cerberus Capital Management, which owns companies awarded billions in Pentagon missile defense contracts he oversees.
Data science
fromNextgov.com
1 month ago

FPDS looks old and clunky but that only masks its power

FPDS.gov retains a 1990s-era, clunky interface but remains a powerful, complex federal procurement data repository that requires skill to navigate.
US politics
fromwww.amny.com
1 month ago

Op-Ed | The Trump administration believes that it has the right to decide what the rule of law is | amNewYork

A federal judge invalidated the Trump administration's policy of deporting undocumented immigrants to third countries rather than their home countries, ruling it violates U.S. law protecting against torture and persecution.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Enforcement of laws against polluters nearly non-existent in US, analysis finds

Enforcement of environmental laws against major polluters has virtually ground to a halt under the Trump administration, a new analysis of Environmental Protection Agency records from January 2025 to January 2026 shows. Major polluters typically include companies that are among the largest in the oil, gas, coal and chemical industries. Records show the EPA filed just one Clean Air Act consent decree compared with 26 in the first year of Trump's first term, and 22 during Biden's first year.
Environment
US politics
fromNextgov.com
1 month ago

Bipartisan lawmakers worried about shaky progress on modernized government worker background check system

The National Background Investigation Services system for federal employee vetting faces a decade-long delay until fiscal 2028, costing $2.4 billion with $2.2 billion more needed, impacting national security and government contractors.
Artificial intelligence
fromNextgov.com
1 month ago

Republican lawmakers ask GAO to review current AI regulatory landscape

House Science Committee requested a GAO comprehensive review of federal and state AI laws and regulations to clarify the regulatory landscape for future federal legislation.
Law
fromAbove the Law
2 months ago

Accountability In An Age Of Unaccountability - Above the Law

Legal system turmoil: arrests, Epstein file fallout, judicial misconduct, and mounting ethical breaches requiring disbarment of dishonest administration lawyers.
Environment
fromArs Technica
1 month ago

Under Trump, EPA's enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds

Environmental enforcement has declined sharply under the Trump administration, with fewer lawsuits, lower penalties, and reduced regulatory actions harming public health protections.
#immigration-enforcement
fromTruthout
2 months ago
US politics

Americans Skeptical of Fed Narratives of Pretti Killing as Court Reviews "Operation Metro Surge"

fromTruthout
2 months ago
US politics

Americans Skeptical of Fed Narratives of Pretti Killing as Court Reviews "Operation Metro Surge"

Law
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Do Federal Officials Really Have "Absolute Immunity"?

Federal agents killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti during an immigration-enforcement operation in Minneapolis, triggering legal conflict over state ability to investigate or prosecute federal officials.
Environment
fromHigh Country News
2 months ago

Congress passes environmental funding without Trump's deep cuts - High Country News

Congress funded Interior, Forest Service, NOAA and EPA at current levels, rejected deep administration cuts, and blocked nearly 150 House budget riders.
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

DOJ Lawyer Delivers Moment Of Pure Honesty, Promptly Fired - See Generally - Above the Law

DOJ Lawyer Invites Judge To Hold Her In Contempt Just To Get Some Rest: Government attorney called out the challenges preventing her from complying with court orders and begs for rest. The DOJ immediately fired her.
Law
fromTechCrunch
1 month ago

Trump administration undermines EPA enforcement of Clean Air Act | TechCrunch

After months of telegraphing the move, the Trump administration today officially repealed the EPA's 2009 " endangerment finding," which found that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane were a threat to human health and welfare. The finding had so far supported the agency's regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Currently, the new rule only applies to car and truck tailpipe emissions, but it's expected to be the first of several similar changes to federal air pollution regulations.
Environment
US politics
fromNextgov.com
1 month ago

Contract reviews continue at OMB, official says

OMB is leading a government-wide review to cull and reform IT contracts, emphasizing commodity IT and empowering CIOs in procurement and budgeting.
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well.

Government staffing cuts and institutional disruptions have weakened regulatory oversight, prompting individuals to perform personal safety checks such as buying Geiger counters.
#federal-workforce
fromAxios
2 months ago
US politics

Trump admin green lights rule making it easier to fire thousands of federal employees

fromAxios
2 months ago
US politics

Trump admin green lights rule making it easier to fire thousands of federal employees

#civil-service
US politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

New Trump administration rule makes it easier to fire career civil servants

OPM will reclassify about 50,000 senior career federal employees as at-will, allowing expedited removal for misconduct or intentionally subverting Presidential directives.
US politics
fromTruthout
2 months ago

White House Orders Federal Funding Probe Focused Almost Entirely on Dem States

The OMB is reviewing federal funding in predominantly Democratic-led states to identify alleged fraud and potentially limit federal aid.
US politics
fromEngadget
2 months ago

Trump admin reportedly plans to use AI to write federal regulations

The Department of Transportation will pilot using Google Gemini to draft federal regulations quickly, prioritizing speed over producing perfect or high-quality rules.
US politics
fromNature
1 month ago

Trump team's new rule could make firing government scientists easier

US OPM finalized a rule creating a 'Policy/Career' class to reclassify and ease firing of roughly 50,000 federal civil servants, including scientists.
US politics
fromAxios
2 months ago

Why ICE agents face far less accountability than police

ICE lacks historical DOJ pattern-or-practice scrutiny and will likely avoid such probes under the Trump administration despite increased officer-involved shootings.
US politics
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

The Executive Branch Discovers Judicial Independence, Hates It - Above the Law

DOJ solicited prosecutors for examples of judges who ruled against the government to report to Congress for potential impeachment.
fromTruthout
2 months ago

Supreme Court Is Going to New Lengths to Hide Its Inner Workings From Scrutiny

Instead of promoting trust and opting for greater transparency in the ethics of individual justices, the Supreme Court has chosen more secrecy,
US politics
US politics
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
2 months ago

Protecting Our Right to Sue Federal Agents Who Violate the Constitution

Federal agents increasingly evade constitutional accountability; new statutes like California S.B. 747 are needed to enable damages lawsuits against federal officials.
US politics
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Is There a Remedy for Presidential Profiteering?

Trump and his family leveraged the presidency for large profit, including a secret Emirati payment and an A.I. chip sale, raising emolument and secrecy concerns.
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

The Education Department's efforts to fire staff cost over $28 million, watchdog says

A new report from a government watchdog suggests the Trump administration's efforts to fire staff at the U.S. Department of Education cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. The report, from the nonpartisan U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), focuses on the department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which investigates complaints of discrimination in schools based on students' sex, race, national origin, disability and more.
US politics
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Democrats Need to Take Welfare Fraud Seriously

Massive welfare fraud in Minnesota exposed systemic oversight failures that demand stronger state and federal safeguards to prevent large-scale abuse and restore public trust.
fromNextgov.com
2 months ago

From the trenches: Five essential lessons for federal IT modernization

Having spent nearly a decade leading digital infrastructure and technology initiatives at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), I've had a front-row seat to the opportunities and challenges federal agencies face in their modernization journeys. During my tenure as Associate CIO for Digital Infrastructure Technologies, overseeing the IT backbone for 17,000 users, I learned that successful transformation isn't just about the latest tech: it's about strategic vision, collaborative execution and a willingness to learn from experience.
US politics
fromNextgov.com
2 months ago

GSA wants answers from resellers about markups and equipment maker relationships

GSA also wants information on factors that drive the range of markups such as volume, product category, support levels and business size. The questions also wants to know if sourcing hardware through a distributor versus directly with the OEM drives variations in the markups. GSA wants to identify ways to reduce the cost on items that are not purchased directly from OEMs.
US politics
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

How the Supreme Court Broke Congress

Partisan polarization weakened Congress while empowering the Supreme Court to expand its authority, undermining Congress's lawmaking and reshaping the separation of powers.
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