McGahn to Sit for Closed-Door Interview With House Judiciary Panel Ending Protracted Lawsuit
Former White House counsel Don McGahn will appear for a closed-door interview with House Judiciary Committee lawmakers as part of an agreement to end a years-long lawsuit seeking his testimony.
The Justice Department and attorneys for the Judiciary committee provided details of the agreement in the filing to a federal court, a day after they informed the court that the parties had reached an agreement on an accommodation that would resolve issues in the lawsuit.
The agreement would allow the panel to conduct a transcribed interview of McGahn that would be closed to the members of the public, press, and lawmakers not on the Judiciary Committee. The document did not indicate when the interview will be held but said it would be conducted as soon as possible.
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May 6, 2021 The nationwide eviction moratorium for now will remain in place after the federal District of Columbia judge who ruled Wednesday to vacate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) order granted a stay of her own judgment.
In a minute order, Judge Dabney Friedrich of the District of Columbia District Court granted a temporary administrative pause of her judgment to the United States agency defendants after they moved for an emergency stay pending appeal of the vacatur. The plaintiffs have about a week to file an opposition, according to the order.
Although the moratorium originally ordered by the CDC in September 2020, extended most recently until June 30 remains unperturbed by way of the stay, Friedrich adjudged in her opinion on the parties’ cross motions for summary judgment that the CDC overstepped its statutory authority in its nationwide order to ban evictions in an attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19. If the de
Biden Family Dogs, Champ and Major, Trigger Conservative Group Lawsuit
On 5/4/21 at 12:23 PM EDT
The conservative activist group Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in federal court Monday that names the Biden family dogs and accuses the U.S. Secret Service of not reporting an alleged March biting incident.
Judicial Watch announced the lawsuit today against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It seeks compliance in a filing listed as JW v DHS Biden dogs complaint 01194. The federal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia demands the Secret Service respond in a timely fashion to FOIA requests for details about an early March dog biting debacle. Judicial Watch claims it s been irreparably harmed by the Secret Service s reluctance to report the incident, which reportedly involved one of the two Biden family German Shepherds, Champ and Major.
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April 29, 2021
After the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moved to dismiss two counts of the farm trade associations’ claims in their four-count complaint earlier this month, the American Soybean Association and Plains Cotton Growers Inc. filed an amended complaint in the District of Columbia District Court. The lawsuit concerns the associations’ challenge to the EPA’s October 2020 registration of the herbicide dicamba.
According to Tuesday’s filing, “some aspects of the registration decision are problematic for Growers, who depend on reasonable, consistent access to dicamba for use on [dicamba-tolerant] soybeans and cotton.” The original complaint challenged the EPA’s application restrictions, Endangered Species Act (ESA) buffers, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) buffers, and sought an order judicially validating the ESA’s “no effect” findings on certain ESA listed species and critical habitat.