A federal judge on Sept. 17 temporarily blocked the implementation of Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s executive order, which allowed parents to opt children out of wearing masks in schools. The judge blocked Lee, a Republican, from enforcing his order in Shelby County and directed Shelby officials to enforce the county’s health orders without exception to…
US Expansion of Chinese Company Blacklist Aims to ‘Purge the Red Assets’: Expert
June 6, 2021
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The United States is gearing up to uproot “red assets,” said an analyst after Washington moved to ban Americans from investing in dozens of Chinese military firms. Two days earlier, President Joe Biden signed an executive order blacklisting 59 Chinese defense and surveillance technology firms. The ban expands on a Trump-era order, which covered a…
Biden Orders Ban on 59 Chinese Defense and Tech Firms
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden signed an executive order on June 3, amending a Trump-era ban that prohibited American investors from investing in Chinese military companies. The new order expands the previous prohibition list by adding more Chinese defense and surveillance technology companies. The order also moves the authority of selecting targeted companies to the Treasury Department…
Republican Lawmakers in Kansas Repeal Mask Mandate
Kansas lawmakers voted Thursday along party lines to repeal the state’s mask mandate despite a bid by Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly’s attempts to extend it, becoming the latest Republican-led state to refuse to extend or reimpose requirements to wear facial coverings. After the Kansas state legislature recently passed a law permitting the Legislative Coordinating Council—a…
Republican Lawmakers in Kansas Revoke Mask Mandate
Kansas lawmakers voted along party lines last week to rescind the state’s mask mandate despite a bid by Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly’s attempts to extend it, becoming the latest Republican-led state to refuse to extend or reimpose requirements to wear facial coverings. After the Kansas state legislature recently passed a law permitting the Legislative Coordinating…
White House Confirms Biden Will Sign Executive Order on Gun Control
President Joe Biden will sign executive orders on gun control in the near future, confirmed White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday. When asked about the prospect of taking executive action, Psaki responded with, “Yes.” “I can’t give you an exact time frame, in part, because they have to go through a review process,…
Biden Orders Review of Trump-Era Rule on College Sexual Misconduct Claims
President Joe Biden has ordered a review of a Trump-era rule on how colleges and universities handle complaints of sexual misconduct under Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at federally-funded education programs. In an executive order signed on Monday, Biden directed the newly-confirmed Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to review the education department’s rules,…
Biden Revokes 7 Trump Executive Orders, Offers No Explanation
President Joe Biden revoked seven executive orders on Feb. 24 issued by President Donald Trump between 2017 and 2021. The White House offered no explanation for the revocation in its formal press release. Biden’s action revoked one of the first executive actions Trump signed upon taking office—an executive order titled Core Principles for Regulating the…
Governing by Executive Order?
Commentary The executive order has had a big year. Governors have issued them to impose lockdowns and travel restrictions in the fight against COVID. And, of course, President Biden made a splash in his first days in office by using executive orders to, among other things, stop the Keystone pipeline and loosen the clampdown on…
Daniel Horowitz: State Legislatures Must ‘Take Back’ Power from Executive Branches
The United States is living through a time unlike any other, in which the normal rigor of the legislative process has been put aside amid the CCP virus pandemic, according to Daniel Horowitz. In its place are executive powers that have resulted in what Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said were “previously unimaginable restrictions on…
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