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According to polling of the American people, President Biden and his aggressively progressive pro-abortion supporters are far more radical on the issue than the general population. For example, roughly 60% of Americans of all political and religious persuasions oppose federal taxpayer funding of abortions in the U.S. and 77% oppose such funding for abortions overseas.
And polling in general for several years now has shown the American people far more receptive to some significant legal restrictions on abortion on demand such as after the baby is viable outside the mother’s womb and abortions which are performed when the baby is not of the sex the mother and/or father prefer.
On Thursday, January 7, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor (“USDOL”) published its long-awaited
Federal Register revising its interpretation of independent contractor (“IC”) status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Significantly, the Rule is NOT scheduled to go into effect until March 8, 2021, AFTER President-elect Biden will have been sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. While the new Final Rule would give employers and workers greater flexibility to arrange their work relationships, it is unlikely to survive, absent court challenge, since President-elect Biden has already vowed to immediately retract it once he becomes President.
Retracting the new Trump Rule would leave existing Obama-era Rules in place defining who are “employees” and who are ICs. However, retracting the new Trump Rules
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