Writing
2026
- The SEC proposes to rescind the shareholder-proposal rule outright
- EPA repeals the power plant carbon rules, then proposes it lacked the power
- The SEC exempts tokenized stock venues from the exchange definition
- FOMC raises rates a quarter point on a 12-0 vote
- The First Circuit denies a stay on Elections Clause grounds
- The customs line turns positive as refunds collapse
- OPM reopens its accountability rule to publish its data
- The Supreme Court denies the ballot-mail stay
- The commission EO 14248 relies on has no members
- OFAC suspends Iran's aviation-safety general licences
- WOTUS supplement floats a perennial-flow test for 'relatively permanent'
- Canada's Section 338 duties escalate to an import ban
- Five more tankers destroyed, and the ratio keeps rising
- An executive order puts AI on veterans' medical records
- Canada matches the Section 338 duties, dollar for dollar
- The ballot-mail application is withdrawn and refiled the same day
- USDA proposes to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule
- Both ballot-mail injunctions are gone, and a restraining order has taken their place
- CENTCOM strikes IRGC targets, then destroys three tankers
- Labor rescinds the Executive Order 11246 regulations and finds it lacks authority for them
- OFCCP drops the disability utilization goal and leaves the veterans' benchmark standing
- SEC proposes to define when a crypto investment contract has ceased to exist
- Seventeen agencies delete disparate impact from their Title VI regulations
- August payrolls rise 162,000 and July's decline is revised away
- The IRS proposes to make race-conscious programmes cost a school its tax exemption
- The MSPB retires the mandatory Douglas framework
- EO 14418 enjoined as to the class Barbara declared citizens
- The FY2027 stopgap becomes law on the Senate's vehicle
- OPM takes probationary appeals from the MSPB too
- OPM's reduction-in-force rule puts performance first and takes probationers out of competition
- OPM replaces the MSPB on reduction-in-force appeals and bars judicial review
- The election-interference emergency is continued an eighth time
- Roberts dissents as the Court stays the ballroom injunction
- Warsh answers the July minutes on restrictiveness
- A bulk-power emergency is declared again, five years on
- Canada's Section 338 duties are 'suspended' by moving their start date three days
- Supreme Court stays one of the injunctions blocking the mail-in ballot order
- Treasury opens 'Operation Economic Outcast' with five Iran sector determinations
- July FOMC minutes record the Chairman's case for a six-meeting calendar
- The Islamabad Memorandum's window lapsed without a word
- Blanche confirmed Attorney General 50-49 as two Republicans vote no
- Senate passes the FY2027 stopgap 90-6 by emptying an African trade bill
- Senate passes Russia sanctions carrying 500 percent duties
- Two executive orders name four categories outside Barbara's rule
- War and tariff costs reach the data: the August ledger
- OPM replaces the MSPB for suitability appeals too
- Senate appropriators release CR to 11 December, blocking OMB grant rule
- Trump cancels Iran attack citing parameters of a deal
- Senate confirms Clayton as DNI 51-47; handover set for Monday
- OPM makes electronic filing mandatory for pay claims
- OPM strips the Uniform Guidelines from its regulations
- House votes 214-208 to end Iran hostilities by concurrent resolution
- FOMC holds at 3½–3¾ percent over three dissents seeking a hike
- Section 301 forced-labour tariffs replace the § 122 surcharge
- Three Section 338 proclamations impose 50% duties on Canadian autos, alcohol and dairy
- House passes FY2027 stopgap to 4 December; Senate rewrite expected
- IEEPA refund certifications pass $86 billion; CIT orders Phase 3 reliquidation for suing importers
- Two weeks after ceasefire collapse, Houthis embargo Saudi-bound shipping
- Schedule Policy/Career at seven weeks: amended complaint, dismissal motion pending, a transparency demand
- Senate Intelligence advances Clayton for DNI, 9-8
- Senator Lindsey Graham dies at 71; sister Darline Graham appointed
- 25% Section 301 tariff on Brazilian goods takes effect this week
- Aircraft Section 232 ends without tariffs; Proclamation 11040 orders negotiation track
- Warsh Fed names outside co-leads for five monetary-policy task forces
- DOGE Temporary Organization terminates on schedule
- The EEOC removes the Title VII affirmative action safe harbor
- Suitability actions now reach employees, not just applicants
- Supreme Court strikes down birthright-citizenship order
- Supreme Court leaves Fed Governor Cook in place
- Supreme Court overrules Humphrey's Executor in Trump v. Slaughter
- OPM becomes the gatekeeper of the SES pipeline
- Twin executive orders target quantum computing and post-quantum cryptography
- Alan Greenspan, 13th Fed chairman, dies at 100
- Islamabad Memorandum ends US-Iran war
- FOMC June meeting: Warsh's first as Chair
- FY2027 appropriations status: 109 days to fiscal-year start
- DOGE Temporary Organization sunset: 22 days to termination
- FISA Section 702 expires after House rejects extension
- CIT show-cause hearing: CAPE Phase 3 refund tool by end July
- Federal Circuit stays § 122 tariff injunction pending appeal
- Forced-labour Section 301 investigation reaches three-month mark
- Section 301 investigations: three-month procedural status
- Senate Banking holds AI hearing; NVIDIA chief declines invitation
- Customs EO: importer-of-record restrictions and penalty floor detailed
- Customs enforcement EO week one: CSMS guidance and enforcement architecture
- Schedule Policy/Career week one: agency notices and pending litigation
- Section 232 metals modifications: week-one downstream effects
- House Appropriations marks up FY2027 Labor-HHS-Ed and DHS bills
- OLC holds the EEOC's disparate-impact rules unconstitutional
- Section 232 metals modifications take effect
- NSPM-11 directs AI in the national security enterprise
- Executive order escalates customs enforcement against tariff evasion
- EO implements Schedule Policy/Career for ~8,000 positions
- Trump names Pulte acting DNI; Clayton nominated as permanent
- Executive order on advanced AI innovation and security signed
- Proclamation modifies Section 232 metals tariff framework
- SCOTUS reverses Fourth Circuit in immigration-judge speech case
- Powell named Fed Chair pro tempore as Warsh confirmed as successor
- US-brokered 9-11 May ceasefire and 1,000-prisoner swap announced
- Ceasefire, failed Islamabad Talks, then a US naval blockade of Iran
- CIT holds § 122 surcharge outside statutory authority; enjoins collection from three plaintiffs
- DHS funding lapse ends after 76 days
- Proclamation 11021 consolidates Section 232 metals framework
- Executive order directs federal citizenship lists and a Postal Service ballot rulemaking
- DHS funding lapse hits day 44, longest by duration on record
- Iran closes Strait of Hormuz; Gulf states enter the war
- CBP files CIT status report on CAPE IEEPA-refund mechanism
- USTR launches Section 301 investigations of 16 trading partners
- CIT orders CBP to reliquidate non-final IEEPA entries
- US-Israeli strikes on Iran kill Khamenei; war begins
- Section 122 10% surcharge replaces IEEPA tariffs
- Executive order winds down IEEPA tariff collection
- Supreme Court holds IEEPA does not authorise tariffs
- EPA rescinds the endangerment finding on three independent bases
- Second 2026 federal shutdown begins on DHS lapse
- OPM finalises Schedule Policy/Career rule
- Four-day partial shutdown ends; five FY2026 bills enacted
- Executive order authorises Cuba-linked secondary tariffs
- Three more FY2026 appropriations bills signed into law
- US withdrawal from World Health Organization takes effect
- Expanded travel ban takes effect
