Author: Caitlin Styrsky
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Federal Register weekly update; 2019 page total exceeds 2018 to-date page total by more than 4,000 pages
The Federal Register is a daily journal of federal government activity that includes presidential documents, proposed and final rules, and public notices. It is a common measure of an administration’s regulatory activity. During the week of October 28 to November 1, the Federal Register increased by 1,688 pages, bringing the year-to-date total to 59,288…
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Federal Register weekly update; this week’s final rule total near double that of last week
The Federal Register is a daily journal of federal government activity that includes presidential documents, proposed and final rules, and public notices. It is a common measure of an administration’s regulatory activity. During the week of October 21 to October 25, the Federal Register increased by 1,506 pages, bringing the year-to-date total to 57,600…
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Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court want to know if there is a fourth branch of government
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on October 21 heard oral arguments in Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Local 1 v. Robin Vos, prompting some justices to question whether the Wisconsin Constitution provides for a fourth branch of administrative government. The case challenges legislation passed during the December 2018 session that made changes to administrative processes…
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SCOTUS to determine constitutionality of CFPB structure
On Oct. 18, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a case challenging the constitutionality of the bureau’s structure. The CFPB is an independent agency created by the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010. Unlike other independent agencies of the federal government, which are generally headed by multi-member commissions,…
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Federal Register weekly update; lowest weekly final rule total since January
The Federal Register is a daily journal of federal government activity that includes presidential documents, proposed and final rules, and public notices. It is a common measure of an administration’s regulatory activity. During the week of October 14 to October 18, the Federal Register increased by 1,078 pages, bringing the year-to-date total to 56,094…
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Federal district judges issue injunctions blocking public charge rule
Three federal district judges in New York, California, and Washington issued temporary injunctions on October 11 blocking the Trump administration’s public charge rule from taking effect on October 15. A fourth federal judge in Chicago issued a similar injunction on October 14. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration…
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SCOTUS hears oral arguments in Appointments Clause challenge
The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment LLC, a case arguing that the appointment of members to the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico violated the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The Appointments Clause provides the president with…
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Federal Register weekly update; first week since January without significant regulatory actions
The Federal Register is a daily journal of federal government activity that includes presidential documents, proposed and final rules, and public notices. It is a common measure of an administration’s regulatory activity. During the week of October 7 to October 11, the Federal Register increased by 1,714 pages, bringing the year-to-date total to 55,016…
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Trump issues executive order aimed at controlling agency spending
President Donald Trump (R) issued an executive order on October 10 that aims to ensure that federal administrative agencies “consider the costs of their administrative actions, take steps to offset those costs, and curtail costly administrative actions,” according to the order. The executive order targets a federal budgeting mechanism known as administrative pay-as-you-go (PAYGO),…