@dangillmor @twrling

Wow. The EU would have fined that organization out of existence, and kept on fining the smoking crater if the org were caught doing something like that here. I'm so glad I live in the EU.

Current fines: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/

Members of the #Fed's Board of Governors, like the #labor board members, have "for-cause" removal #protections meant to let a president fire them only for reasons such as inefficiency or malfeasance, not policy disagreement.

#Legal experts said that if #SCOTUS decides to eliminate removal protections for the 2 labor boards, it *may try* to create an exception that would insulate #FederalReserve officials like #JeromePowell in a bid to preserve the Fed's #independence.

Other performance metrics include removing #protections for #EndangeredSpecies that have *recovered* & restoring “historic [racist] names” to #landmarks. On his first day back in office, #Trump stripped #NorthAmerica’s tallest mountain of its #Indigenous name, #Denali, & restored its previous title, Mount McKinley.

The push would spark an intense #legal fight over the right of a president to grant sweeping #lands #protections under the 1906 #AntiquitiesAct — & take them away. In his 1st term, #Trump became the 1st president in more than half a century to modify existing #NationalMonuments when he drastically shrank the boundaries of Utah’s Bears Ears & Grand Staircase-Escalante—only for Pres Joe #Bidento reverse the cuts.

#PublicLands #conservation #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #Environment #law

#Interior ofcls are poring over geological maps to analyze the monuments’ potential for #mining & #oil production & assess whether to *revise* their boundaries…

…#Trump’s policies…aim to boost American #energy & critical #minerals production, which he says is vital to economic growth & powering #AI. Trump declared a “national energy emergency” [there isn’t one], established an energy council to fast-track resource development projects & sought to dismantle dozens of #environmental #protections.

#Trump officials are analyzing whether to remove federal #protections for #NationalMonuments spanning millions of acres in the West, according to two people familiar with the matter and an internal #Interior Department document, in order to spur #energy development on #PublicLands.

#land #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw #law

Judge #AmyBermanJackson of the Federal District Court in Washington said she intended to issue an order later on Friday preventing the #CFPB’s workers from being cut off from the agency’s system, as the agency’s leaders had planned. She said she intended to follow up later this month with a more extensive hearing on the planned #layoffs. Until then, they will not move forward, she said.

In court filings ahead of the hearing, Mark Paoletta, the bureau’s chief legal officer, defended the #purge, which he said would “right-size” an agency filled w/ “vast waste.” Paoletta said he & others had determined that it needed only 200 workers. Many legally required units — including those that focus on #FairLending, #StudentLoans & protections for older Americans — need only one! employee, he said.

@33dBm @zeri @vfrmedia @obiwankimberly @augieray @digitalcourage @antidiskriminierung @lsvd

Personally if I was @Bundesregierung I'd order @AuswaertigesAmt & @bamf to basically rubberstamp any #trans and #nonbinary person to enter #Germany as I expect sooner or later a similar precedent to #ECHR decision re: #Women fleeing #Afghanistan under the #Taliban, that verifying someone to 'be a #US citizen and not cis and/or binary' should be enough to grant #asylum and #protections without any further hesitation.

• I mean, all that #BAMF is doing by not simply doing so is wasting #PersonnelHours and creating #costs because people defending their case successfully will have the state pay the legal expenses...