The outcome of the presidential election is likely to impact the SEC’s enforcement posture over the next four years. Although enforcement may be less aggressive, such as in the form of lower corporate penalties and less aggressive controls theories, enforcement cases against public companies are a...
An incoming president signing a flurry of executive orders is standard practice. Executive orders allow a president to wield power without action from Congress. But there are also limits to what orders can achieve. A primer on how the presidential power works and its often fleeting impact: What ...
In an executive order, followed by a presidential action, Trump did away with DEI programs, policies, activities and mandates within the federal government, including terminating individual positions within agencies related to the practice. But his edicts go far beyond just the federal governme...
JD Vance was elected vice president on Nov. 5. He is the junior senator from Ohio, a position he has held for less than two years. He will replace Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Trump defeated in the presidential election. What does the vice president do?
Tasked with executing the mandates of the United States Federal Reserve, many consider the Fed Chair to be one of the most powerful people in America, second only to the U.S. President.
World leaders, including Argentina’s Javier Milei and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, are also set to make history by attending a U.S. presidential inauguration. Early Executive Orders: A Preview Stephen Miller, Trump’s top domestic policy adviser, briefed Republican lawmakers Su...
A“strongman” (or woman) is somebody who rules a country by undermining and weakening rules, regulations, constitutional mandates and restrictions. And often that’s done very stealthily. Before, we had the old kind of strongman, the Mobutus of the world, the Francos, the Hitlers. And then...
Stronger mandates are also required. Instead of cutting funding and emasculating the organization, the United States and other nations should push for the UN Security Council to require mandatory reporting and allow WHO fact-finding missions within days of a major outbreak. National reporting on ...
Amid the flurry of presidential activity, there’s one event that, unlike prior years, that is not expected to take place: a press briefing. Sean Spicer, Trump’s first press secretary, used his first appearance behind the podium to lecture reporters about Trump’s inaugural crowd size and...
Former Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin is asking the Biden administration to withdraw or release some 20 legal opinions regarding presidential war powers after Donald Trump indicated Tuesday that he was open to using military force to take Greenland or the Panama Canal. “Congress and the executi...