Sentences with phrase «challenges against the administration»

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«Even though the Trump administration is not a strong supporter of the fiduciary rule, it will likely continue to defend [it] against legal challenges,» said Marcia Wagner, president and founder of Wagner Law Group, in a statement.

A federal judge has rejected Massachusetts» challenge to new Trump administration rules that would allow more companies to not provide insurance plans that cover birth control; previous decisions by other judges in California and Pennsylvania went the other way, issuing injunctions against the new birth control rules.

Six environmental groups on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in a federal court in Montana to challenge its decision to approve construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

Schneiderman, first elected in 2011, has over the last year or so staked out a claim as a blue state bulwark against the policies of President Donald Trump's administration, filing legal challenges to federal laws, executive orders and regulations.

Erin Collier, a fifth - generation farmer and nationally ranked triathlete from NY - 19 who worked for the Obama administration as an agricultural economist, is running against six men for the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican Rep. John Faso this fall.

Schneiderman had led a national effort of Democratic attorneys general to file legal challenges against Trump administration environmental and immigration policies.

Attorneys for the Trump administration and the developer of the Keystone XL pipeline are again pushing a federal court to dismiss an environmental challenge against the project.

This likely sends Republicans back to the drawing board for a candidate to run against Schneiderman, who has in the last year challenged policies backed by President Donald Trump's administration.

The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the third version of President Donald Trump's travel ban to go into effect while legal challenges against it continue — a victory for the administration after its mixed success before the court over the summer, when justices considered and eventually dismissed disputes over the second version.

The biggest focus of the Buhari administration has been simply this: to prove to Nigerians that the preceding Jonathan administration used public funds to finance the 2015 general elections, and that the public funds involved were meant for the prosecution of the war against the Boko Haram: Nigeria's biggest security challenge.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration finalized a set of rules Wednesday preventing employers and businesses from discriminating against transgender New Yorkers but, at least one conservative group is planning a legal challenge.

He hit Schneiderman for bringing more than 100 lawsuits and challenges against the Trump administration.

Speaking on the crusade against corruption and insecurity, for which his administration has received so much lashing lately, President Jonathan said he will not resort to crude tactics to combat the major challenges of corruption and insecurity the way some of his predecessors had done in the past.

Nonchargeable activities: lobbying and ballot initiatives; external public relations; litigation, «unless specifically related to collective bargaining, contract administration or organizational maintenance»; get - out - the - vote activities; contributing to charitable, religious, or ideological causes; supporting political organizations or candidates for public office; organizing or recruiting new members and «defending against challenges to exclusive bargaining representative status»; and «monitoring and opposing activities of groups and individuals whose purpose is to undermine public education.»

Once again, the current occupant of the White House has effectively issued a challenge to the school reform movement, especially to conservatives who once were the dominant force within it: Will they up stand against the administration's war against the futures of poor and minority children?

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal filed a suit against the Obama administration Wednesday, joining a conservative - led effort to challenge controversial national education standards knows as the Common Core, which Jindal says violate states» sovereignty.

Against a backdrop of the opportunities provided by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and the challenges for education posed by the new federal administration, the Annenberg Institute for School Report has released an issue of Voices in Urban Education (VUE) and an online supplement that proposes performance assessment as a personalized and rigorous alternative Read more about Performance Assessment: Fostering the Learning of Teachers and Students (update)-LSB-...]

The Bureau of Land Management has leased to the coal industry 400 million tons of coal on federal land in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, and the administration has defended the decision against a court challenge by environmental groups.

For example, in 2006, then - Senator Kerry filed an amicus brief on behalf of an ultimately successful federal lawsuit brought by several environmental groups against the Bush administration, challenging the administration's suppression of the National Climate Assessment process.

The lawsuit, headed by California and its coalition of 16 states and the District of Columbia, represents an important step in California's ongoing battle with the Trump administration over climate change regulations — the challenge marks California's 10th lawsuit against the EPA and its 32nd since Trump took office.

Justice Moldaver then turns to what is described as practical considerations for law enforcement and the administration of justice, at paras. 183 - 6, suggesting that (a) the disclosure of text messages received by a complainant could be challenged by a sender who is alleged to have abused the complainant and thus exposes vulnerable complainants such as children, people with mental disabilities and the elderly (b) the increased need for warrants could strain police and judicial resources in an overburdened criminal justice system and (c) at the trial stage, these repercussions could complicate and prolong proceedings where defendants have standing to challenge searches conducted against collateral targets in large prosecutions.

For example, we have challenged inaction and insufficiently protective regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and we have challenged to other Consumer Product Safety Commission's failure to live up to a statutory mandate to provide protection against hazardous materials.

Whether it is standing up against the Administration's unlawful ban on Muslim travelers, challenging the Department of Justice's effort to halt NWIRP from doing important limited representation work for people at the detention center, or protecting the rights of undocumented immigrant youth, NWIRP provides a critical voice for those marginalized by federal policies.