George H.W. Bush's appointees were 19% women, and Reagan appointees 8%.
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There are five Republican appointees on the court and four Democratic appointees.
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Democratic appointees outnumber Republican appointees on the court's active bench 8-6.
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The remaining three Obama appointees voted against while four Trump appointees voted in favor.
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Sixteen judges are appointees of Democratic presidents and seven are appointees of Republican presidents.
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On that decision, Roberts joined four other Republican appointees to outvote the four Democratic appointees.
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Of those 25, 18 were appointees of Democratic presidents and seven were appointees of Republicans.
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Currently, the active judges on the court consist of four GOP appointees and seven Democratic appointees.
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A 1987 study showed that she voted more often with Republican appointees than with Democratic appointees.
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In the 1950s and 1960s, the ideological biases of Republican appointees and Democratic appointees were relatively modest.
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In both cases, justices voted against the president who appointed them, including three Nixon appointees and two Clinton appointees.
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Justices break down into liberal and conservative blocs, with Democratic appointees on the left and Republican appointees on the right.
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There will be many novel and difficult consumer protection issues on which Trump appointees will have differing views than Obama appointees.
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Political appointees can be removed at will, but civil appointees can be removed only after going through a fairly elaborate process.
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The measure is expected to pass 2628-28500, with all the Republican appointees supporting repeal and all the Democratic appointees opposing.
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The measure is expected to pass 3-21625, with all the Republican appointees supporting repeal and all the Democratic appointees opposing.
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The measure is expected to pass 28503-22019, with all the Republican appointees supporting repeal and all the Democratic appointees opposing.
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"Anything less than a complete and utter rejection of Trump's Cabinet appointees and of their Supreme Court appointees is absolutely unacceptable."
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Political appointees at the EPA are reviewing scientists' work, and political appointees at Interior Department are reviewing science-based grants and contracts.
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Not only are they more likely than previous Democratic appointees, but they support business significantly more than many Republican appointees from prior courts.
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Both voted with the three other Republican appointees on the court in the majority, while the four Democratic appointees were in the minority.
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It is hard to avoid such conclusions when the justices often split 5-4, the five Republican appointees against the four Democratic appointees.
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Currently on the nine-member bench, five justices are Republican appointees who vote generally conservative; four are Democratic appointees who generally vote liberal.
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The remaining three Obama appointees voted against while five Trump appointees voted in favor along with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who chairs the council.
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She is the leader of the four liberals -- all Democratic appointees -- on a court generally controlled by the five conservative justices -- all Republican appointees.
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The Florida Supreme Court, for example, has four Republican appointees, two Democratic appointees and one justice who got nods from governors of both parties.
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The agencies are manned by political Schedule C appointees (individuals who report to presidential appointees), and an army of civil servants working hand in hand.
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The current composition of the Supreme Court includes five Republican appointees and four Democratic appointees, but the justices do not always vote along partisan expectations.
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The new 9th Circuit ruling split the Republican appointees on the panel, Clifton and Smith, both of whom are appointees of President George W. Bush.
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Appointees of Republican presidents controlled nine of the 12 courts, while appointees of Democrats controlled one, according to data from Mr. Wheeler of the Brookings Institution.
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Even as Trump appointees resign for their comments, other appointees with dubious or controversial records are awaiting confirmation to a number of positions in the federal government.
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The case would then go to the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, where appointees of Republican presidents hold a 10-5 majority over Democratic appointees.
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Trump has suggested in remarks on Twitter and elsewhere that he believes his judicial appointees would side with him, while Democratic appointees would automatically rule against him.
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The appeal will be assigned to a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit, which has seven Democratic appointees and four GOP appointees on its active bench.
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But she stood out among the Trump appointees not by disagreeing with Democratic appointees but by taking on two judges named by former President Ronald Reagan, a Republican.
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They were notably more likely than their peers on the bench to agree with Republican appointees and to disagree with Democratic appointees — suggesting they are more consistently conservative.
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The Trump appointees have also significantly narrowed the edge held by appointees of Democratic presidents in the largest and most reliably liberal circuit, the Ninth, based in San Francisco.
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A 9th Circuit panel of four Democratic appointees and seven Republican appointees in July allowed the administration's overhaul of the Title X federal family planning program to take effect.
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Among mid-level political appointees under President Trump — those easiest to quantify in the personnel data, and whom account for the vast majority of appointees — only 11% identify as minorities.
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Nevertheless, some fear the Garland episode provides further confirmation that Supreme Court justices are political appointees like other government political appointees who are expected to carry out a political agenda.
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It was also well known, and perhaps not terribly surprising, that Republican appointees are tougher on crime over all, imposing sentences an average of 2.4 months longer than Democratic appointees.
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At their respective points in the presidency, Barack Obama could tout a total of 228 confirmed appointees and 394 nominations, and George W. Bush had confirmed 208 appointees with 305 nominations.
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After all, the corporate world is well represented in the administration: At least five cabinet nominees or appointees and several more cabinet-level appointees have been chief executives or corporate leaders.
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Republican appointees issued six of the 28 rulings against Trump or his policies, including Washington, D.C. federal judge John Bates who, like two Democratic-appointees, ruled against the administration on DACA.
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And while the Conservatives have defended the qualifications of appointees, they've taken particular umbrage over LeBlanc's efforts to putsch a raft of appointees who deal with citizenship, refugee applications, and pension payments.
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The existing votes fall along the lines of the party of the appointing President, with four Republican appointees voting to restrict constitutional claims for damages and two Democratic appointees voting to sustain them.
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The Times reports that Cuomo has taken nearly $900,000 from two dozen of his appointees since taking office, as well as at least $1.3 million from spouses, children and businesses of the appointees.
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"Anything less than a complete and utter rejection of Trump's Cabinet appointees and of their Supreme Court appointees is absolutely unacceptable," Charles Chamberlain, executive director of Democracy for America, told Vox's Jeff Stein.
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In other high-profile cases, the justices act like politicians in an even more fundamental way: They vote their party line, with Republican appointees on one side and Democratic appointees on the other.
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When Obama took office in 2009 after Republican President George W. Bush's eight years in office, the courts were tilted heavily toward Republican appointees, with only one having a majority of Democratic appointees.
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He has filled the Justice Department with reasonably capable appointees.
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Those people are generally chosen by Trump's direct presidential appointees.
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A supervisor in Hunan grumbles about interference by political appointees.
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That will leave them unable to block Mr Trump's appointees.
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It also includes political appointees, mostly appointed by Democratic presidents.
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Republican appointees at the Federal Communications Commission applauded the measure.
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Currently, only 14 of Trump's Cabinet appointees have been confirmed.
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The White House asked for the resignation of Clinton appointees.
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These appointees spent their careers opposing birth control and abortion.
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Trump is running a government filled with Goldman Sachs appointees.
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Trump's other Fed appointees have also supported the rate hikes.
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President Trump's appellate appointees are only beginning to issue opinions.
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So even political appointees will be disciplined by legal requirements.
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Democratic appointees vote in lock step to advance progressive values.
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Ten of the tribunal's 15 judges are already PiS appointees.
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More importantly, however, are appointees of Trump's probable administration lineup.
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Even so, Trump's appointees stood out for their sheer hackishness.
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These appointees will provide crucial leadership on the regulatory front.
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He rails against pernicious legislators, disloyal appointees, and craven reporters.
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He has received solid reviews from former Obama political appointees.
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Its membership is split evenly between Democratic appointees and Republicans.
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He later ordered political appointees to submit letters of resignation.
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All three judges on the original panel are Republican appointees.
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Pruitt used to share his travel schedule with political appointees.
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But when they did not, the Trump appointees stood out.
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The arguments we make to political appointees are not heard.
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"The Trump appointees are clearly not fungible," Professor Epstein said.
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And of the 10 highest paid appointees, four were women.
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Federal agencies were stacked with campaign figures and political appointees.
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The order does not differentiate between types of authority appointees.
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The analysis identified about $890,000 in donations from 26 appointees.
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But the political appointees sent it to the White House.
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The three judges on the panel are all Democratic appointees.
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Over time, however, more federal judges will be Trump appointees.
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It's not like the list of appointees doesn't have variety.
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Most will be staffed with other political appointees as well.
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There, five of the nine justices are conservative Republican appointees.
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But Obama's appointees will remain to counter Trump's new ones.
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For the top dozen appointees, the rate was 50 percent.
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Political appointees are nothing new for Presidents of either party.
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Obama's appointees do sometimes vote in favor of conservative outcomes.
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It has taken an extended period of time for the terms of the prior administration's appointees to run out, and for the new administrations to select new appointees and get them through Senate confirmation.
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He did ban appointees of any executive agency from lobbying for five years after leaving government employment and permanently banned future former appointees from activity on behalf of any government or political party abroad.
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But the emergence of the Federalist Society in the early 1980s helped change that, and these days many Republican appointees to the federal bench hire mostly conservative clerks and Democratic appointees mostly liberal ones.
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He represents prospective political appointees requiring Senate confirmation through the vetting process including Cabinet and sub-Cabinet members, administrators and commissioners of various agencies, and numerous ambassadorial appointees in both Democratic and Republican administrations.
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With the addition of Trump-appointee Gorsuch, a former Denver-based US appeals court judge, the Supreme Court has resumed the posture of five Republican-appointed conservative appointees and four Democrat-appointed liberal appointees.
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The EPA said John Christy, an atmospheric science professor at the University of Alabama, was among the new appointees to the advisory body, which now numbers 45 people and includes several appointees from past administrations.
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On Monday, Mr Obama's appointees were active questioners of Mr Wall.
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U.S. attorneys are political appointees requiring confirmation by the U.S. Senate.
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But will these appointees, if approved, really shut down these departments?
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The lack of appointees has made for a directionless federal government.
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He's going to be asking his own appointees to make sacrifices.
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Who knows what will emerge about the cabal of cabinet appointees?
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Donald Trump's NLRB appointees are likely to reverse Obama-era changes.
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These offices are typically staffed by career officials, not political appointees.
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Each of those political appointees receives less than $200,000 a year.
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Incoming résumés would be judged by one of the governor's appointees.
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Wade, despite Trump's recent appointees having histories of anti-abortion opinions.
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It wasn't phrased as who gets to nominate Supreme Court appointees.
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The leaders of many agencies have been replaced with Trump appointees.
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"The president had to choose appointees from lawmakers' lists," Olson said.
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Noreika's ascension fits into a broader pattern of Trump administration appointees.
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Appointees would also be permanently barred from lobbying for foreign governments.
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Democrats have been successful at making some of Trump's appointees uncomfortable.
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But OSC has little power to discipline senior White House appointees.
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Kavanaugh and Henderson are Republican appointees; Millett is a Democratic appointee.
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At least one of Trump's appointees does, though: Retired Rear Adm.
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Both Hillman and Sorokin are Obama appointees to the federal bench.
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Most revealing, perhaps, is President Trump's assessment of his own appointees.
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Wisconsin's Supreme Court on Tuesday restored 82 appointees of former Gov.
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Her recommendations also came from academics and former Democratic political appointees.
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Even if political appointees, they almost always have serious diplomatic experience.
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There is no extensive process underway for vetting potential Trump appointees.
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Speculation has swirled around three potential appointees, in particular: Maj. Gen.
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The only speed bump is the lack of appointees in place.
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Mr. Trump's appointees to the N.L.R.B. could easily reverse such rulings.
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The committee excludes the Singaporean group's appointees to the hotelier's board.
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This difference is amplified by the different types of appointees chosen.
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That surpasses the appointees of both Mr. Obama and Mr. Bush.
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But when they did not, the Trump appointees made a difference.
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His party's appointees or supporters dominate many artistic institutions and universities.
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Others are political appointees who the president can fire at will.
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And some appointees have disparaged the president while in the administration.
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His appointees, who share his goals but not his methods, resist.
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Trump's appointees have tended to be unusually well credentialed and conservative.
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Democrats, for their part, prefer to focus on the appointees' ideology.
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It would benefit from a small number of private sector appointees.
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Indeed, few legal experts say firing federal appointees is itself illegal.
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Some of these scaremongering tactics have been used since Reagan's appointees.
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No Trump appointees have been confirmed to serve on the Fed.
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One of the party's appointees to the platform drafting committee, Rep.
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The new appointees will take up their positions by Jan. 1.
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"The chairmen before him have been political appointees," Mr. Samuelsen said.
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All three judges who ruled on the appeal are Democratic appointees.
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Consider the Trump appointees who have been in the news lately.
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The six appointees, though, have been well received on Capitol Hill.
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Maybe you see this as reassuring, and those appointees as courageous.
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Maybe you see it as dangerous, and those appointees as treacherous.
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But Mr. Trump's appointees are not trying to improve the law.
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Both men were chosen for their current jobs by Trump appointees.
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Several Trump appointees, however, have taken a different tack against Russia.
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Each one of these agencies will be headed by Trump appointees.
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Out of the five current Fed governors, three were Trump appointees.
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Problematic travel expenses have dogged a number of Trump administration appointees.
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Nearly one-third of all current immigration judges are Sessions appointees.
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Only 230 Trump appointees have been officially confirmed by the Senate.
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In a letter to Pruitt, the House lawmakers said there were "serious concerns of impartiality of current U.S. EPA political appointees" and they asked for additional information regarding appointees engaged in outside activities that were compensated.
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In September, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which was chaired by a Trump appointee and made up of two Republican appointees and two Democratic appointees, approved technical details of the Falcon pipeline the plant will use.
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President Donald Trump accused Democrats in the Senate of slowing the confirmation process for his appointees, including foreign ambassadors, even though Senate rules allow Republicans, the chamber's majority party, to move appointees along without Democratic votes.
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In his dozen years on the D.C. appeals court, the balance has shifted: Republican appointees initially dominated, but since 2013 they have been outnumbered by Democratic appointees, and Judge Kavanaugh has found himself dissenting more often.
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The order enacts a number of other lobbying restrictions, including banning appointees from accepting gifts from registered lobbyists and banning appointees who were lobbyists from participating in any issues they petitioned for within the last two years.
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While some political appointees are political allies and friends of the president, for many postings — particularly in Western Europe and the Caribbean, where 80% of the ambassadors are political appointees — who gets the job depends on money.
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When ruling on cases, they have been notably more likely than other Republican appointees to disagree with peers selected by Democratic presidents, and more likely to agree with those Republican appointees, suggesting they are more consistently conservative.
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Furthermore, Trump has not yet managed to tip the balance on even a single appellate court from majority-Democratic appointees to majority-Republican appointees — that is, his changes to particular courts have been rather marginal so far.
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In response to questions about the donations from appointees, Cuomo administration officials said they believed that the order only applied to appointees who could be fired at any time by the governor, not those serving set terms.
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For the most part, in fact, the four-member bloc of Democratic appointees on the court — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — has voted more in lock step than the Republican appointees.
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The department's political appointees will then decide whether the proposal needs tweaking.
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He talked about how important it is they&aposre Trump appointees, loyals.
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Trump said he "may consider" asking other appointees to do the same.
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So presidents can stuff the FOMC with appointees who share their views.
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The flurry is directly related to the addition of Trump's two appointees.
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Top police jobs are routinely given to political appointees with few qualifications.
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His appointees will be reshaping American law long after his presidency ends.
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Investors will be looking to see some respected and experienced cabinet appointees.
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"There are scores more appointees within the department," our source told us.
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Some 95 Kurdish mayors have been sacked and replaced by state appointees.
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You have argued that there need to be fewer political appointees altogether.
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Both of the appointees previously held senior level roles at Credit Suisse.
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The party has appointees in the ministry and state airport operator Infraero.
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She declined to discuss Trump's views on the ethnicity of political appointees.
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All permanent ministerial appointees in Kenya have to be vetted by parliament.
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Democratic-appointed Justice Stephen Breyer sided with the court's four Republican appointees.
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Just a handful of agencies responded with the names of their appointees.
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The top court is divided 5-4 among Republican and Democratic appointees.
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Trump's three other appointees are Randal Quarles, Richard Clarida and Michelle Bowman.
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The bench is currently divided 5-4 among Republican and Democratic appointees.
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Hundreds, if not thousands, of ANC appointees will now lose their jobs.
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Democratic appointees hold a 7-4 advantage among the 11 active judges.
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Bush's cabinet and agency appointees were routinely waved through on voice votes.
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Since they are political appointees, the White House must approve such raises.
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Some of these appointees were in business (Secretary of State Rex Tillerson).
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Other potential appointees being considered on an informal basis reportedly include Sens.
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The three identified replacements are all younger appointees (The Hill via Yonhap).
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Icahn employees began reviewing the references and résumés of potential Cabinet appointees.
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Both Obama appointees have since testified at congressional committees investigating Russian meddling.
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Just "calling balls and strikes" is not the objective of these appointees.
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And staffers found that the word "sustainability" aroused suspicion among Trump appointees.
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Democrats have signaled their oversight agenda, which includes going after political appointees.
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They merely sought to deny "control" of the court by Democratic appointees.
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Six of those appointees replaced judges who were nominated by Democratic presidents.
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That's the question Trump and his appointees should be forced to answer.
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The Western Values Project has been looking into DOI staff and appointees.
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Haley is widely viewed as one of the President's most effective appointees.
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Loyalty, after all, is the quality Trump prizes most in his appointees.
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The two Reagan appointees upheld a lower-court ruling against the man.
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Appointees like Mr. Pruitt tarnish the good name of government service everywhere.
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All but six appointees to the Supreme Court have been white men.
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Do you think Obama's appointees have been tough enough on Wells Fargo?
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An article on Sunday about campaign contributions from state appointees to Gov.
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Until the 1980s, the president's appointees were usually approved with little controversy.
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In all, she expects that about 260 political appointees will turn over.
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A court containing two Trump appointees could chip away at those rulings.
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Mr. Kalanick's two new appointees are well known in the business world.
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This suggests the focus is on disloyalty among Trump's own political appointees.
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Other Republican appointees, including Justices Stevens and Souter, drifted left over time.
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The executive order explicitly forbids appointees from soliciting donations for the governor.
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The court's active judges include seven Democratic appointees and four GOP ones.
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" Palmieri insisted the campaign is "not focused on the transition or appointees.
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Currently, the court is divided 4-3 between Democratic and Republican appointees.
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The next president's appointees at regulatory agencies will also get a say.
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In each, he said, the five Republican appointees were in the majority.
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A look at the business backgrounds of Trump administration appointees and advisers.
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That eight-member court included four Republican appointees and four Democratic ones.
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The Justice Department, then run by Obama appointees, declined to move forward.
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Several of his picks were appointees of former President George W. Bush.
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Thus, Puhl deserves approval, while she resembles other, moderate, diverse Obama appointees.
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All of which function under various political appointees and career government employees.
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She was the subject of numerous emails among Trump appointees, including Hook.
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The cabinet will be composed of presidential appointees rather than elected lawmakers.
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The officials attributed the moves to Mr. Trump's appointees at the agencies.
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When appointees go off to head their respective departments, many suddenly ... change.
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These are, after all, both Trump administration agencies, run by Trump appointees.
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Four slots remain vacant, waiting for Trump appointees to wend their way.
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Here the same interpretive divide exists: While Republican appointees believe that the court must adhere to statutory text, Democratic appointees believe that the court ought to implement a statute's policies, even when the text dictates a different outcome.
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The Treasury Department also announced new sanctions against nine appointees and representatives of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, specifically targeting appointees in the Office of the Supreme Leader, the Expediency Council, the Armed Forces General Staff and the Judiciary.
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Overall, the Times' investigation found that in addition to the about $890,000 Mr. Cuomo has raised from his appointees while they hold state posts, he has collected $1.3 million from the spouses, children and businesses of those appointees.
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Since the publication of that investigation last month, the news organizations have identified more than a dozen other appointees through interviews, public records and reader tips — including the three appointees to the deregulation team at the Transportation Department.
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Thus judicial appointees of the pre-New Deal era restrained Roosevelt's liberalism for a time, and the judicial appointees from liberalism's New Deal-Great Society heyday continued to advance liberal causes even as the Democratic coalition fell apart.
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They are also well off: Their median net worth is nearly $2 million — adjusted for inflation, that is on a par with the worth of Obama appointees, and about a half-million dollars more than that of Bush appointees.
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"We're talking about presidential appointees, political appointees, FBI special agents in charge, U.S. attorneys, wardens, a chief deputy U.S. marshal, a U.S. marshal assistant director, a deputy assistant attorney general," Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz told the newspaper.
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There are also concerns about the lack of permanent appointees at the Pentagon.
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Some US states have ostensible redistricting commissions, but let politicians name the appointees.
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He has failed to fill vacancies, and his antics must discourage potential appointees.
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And he&aposs widely like, by the way, by Democrats appointees and Republicans.
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A board of government officials and presidential appointees would oversee the prize fund.
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The nine-member court is divided 5-4 among Republican and Democratic appointees.
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The State Department estimates that roughly 70% of US ambassadors are career appointees.
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That's because Trump's Cabinet appointees, thus far, are seen as prudent and intelligent.
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That brings the total of number of roles without permanent appointees to nineteen.
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When it comes to hiring political appointees, however, there are virtually no rules.
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Indeed Mr Trump's statements do not always agree with those of his appointees.
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We excluded political appointees, who routinely leave whenever a new president takes office.
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Career people are working away, but senior political appointees lack their own staff.
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The judges confirmed this year mostly filled seats previously occupied by Republican appointees.
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She assailed the vast wealth of Trump's cabinet appointees, and promised firm opposition.
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It's certainly not the case that it's only Republican appointees that are going.
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As of Friday, Trump had 51 presidential appointees confirmed and another 255 nominated.
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Ultimately, the problem for liberal groups is not Trump's appointees, but Trump himself.
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Linda McMahon fits the profile of many high-level Trump advisors and appointees.
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She voted against all but two of his cabinet-level and administration appointees.
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Almost two-thirds of his cabinet-level appointees — 11 of 17 — are women.
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Some Assistant Secretaries are political appointees, but most, like Countryman, are career diplomats.
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Political appointees looking for simple blind obedience from career executives have misplaced expectations.
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And one of their appointees could not be registered to their own party.
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In this way, everyone would get a say: the public, appointees, lawmakers, governor.
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Several expected SAB appointees will likely argue that these regulations should be weakened.
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Today, MCC has 85033 political appointees — double the number from the Obama administration.
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Several of his political appointees have proven scandal-prone in matters of diplomacy.
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Roy Cooper's appointees and require his Cabinet picks to be confirmed by lawmakers.
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Will a board made up of Trump appointees choose to enforce similar decisions?
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A list of appointees and nominees for top posts in the new administration.
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Two of Reagan's appointees voted to uphold abortion rights in Planned Parenthood v.
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Other appointees are from Venezuela, Brazil, Spain, Belgium, Mauritius, Mexico, Italy and Albania.
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Grenell becomes one of the most prominent gay appointees serving in the administration.
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Someone must make those decisions, and Trump's appointees are unlikely to be trusted.
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Without political appointees, there is no one to manage the process of deregulation.
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But they're also contradicted by the sworn testimony of his national security appointees.
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But little by little the government started filling these centers with political appointees.
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Frustration with the governor's appointees also came from other members of the panel.
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Paul To the Editor: Could we improve the process of confirming presidential appointees?
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I'm talking about appointees who receive diplomatic posts thanks only to political connections.
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That's unfortunate, because it leaves Mueller's investigation vulnerable to interference by political appointees.
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Surely any president has the authority to remove his political appointees at will.
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We have judges that are just pure political appointees with relatively limited skills.
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Mr. Cuomo's donor-appointees span the state's vast network of boards and authorities.
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She stressed that the office is staffed by "career officials," not political appointees.
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The solution may not be a court packed with two more Democratic appointees.
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The standard would apply to both new appointees and those renewing their terms.
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The appointees have left, but make no mistake — the progressive civil servants remain.
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Here are some of the numbers: • Of 71 appointees, 1003 had potential conflicts.
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In the gerrymandering case, Chief Justice Roberts voted with the other Republican appointees.
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Caitlin Thompson, its previous director, resigned in 2017 after tangling with political appointees.
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The Justice Department, led by Trump appointees, oversees the investigation into Beny Steinmetz.
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Eliot Spitzer (D), banning campaign donations from most political appointees in the state.
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Hundreds of other former executive branch staffers and appointees populate K Street firms.
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Trump's appointees have made the tests less frequent and also easier to pass.
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Every member of the commission, both Democratic and Republican appointees, signed the report.
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The White House had its own process for vetting political appointees and ambassadors.
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The political appointees were also especially sensitive to pressure from conservative media outlets.
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Shulkin has also been clashing with Trump political appointees on his own staff.
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Flynn, as Vox's Andrew Prokop explained, was one of Trump's most "extreme" appointees.
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Some potential presidential appointees found the process burdensome, discouraging them from government service.
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The two Obama appointees were in the majority, with a Republican appointee dissenting.
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The court now has a 7-4 split in favor of Democratic appointees.
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And Republican appointees have handed the administration some of its biggest courtroom losses.
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The bill that lowers the number of gubernatorial appointees from 1,500 to 300, meanwhile, reverses a drastic increase the legislature enacted only after McCrory took office in 2012––meaning the vast majority of McCrory's appointees would keep their jobs under Cooper.
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Two former appointees charged in the bridge scandal are scheduled for trial in May.
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The nine-justice panel is currently divided 5-4 among Republican and Democratic appointees.
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And it's not simply a matter of the Senate failing to confirm Trump appointees.
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The nine-member court is currently divided 5-4 between Republican and Democratic appointees.
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"This is normal diplomatic practice for political appointees everywhere," Kalondo said in a statement.
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Dr Mahathir is trying to replace 17,000 political appointees who served under Mr Najib.
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Perhaps Trump's new appointees could prove to be defenders of the Justice Department's independence.
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Wasn't Mueller's job to make these difficult decisions so political appointees wouldn't be involved?
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So far the travel ban has been litigated in courts dominated by Democratic-appointees.
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It is standard for new presidents to replace those officials with their own appointees.
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Believing in "Cabinet government," Nixon gave his appointees great freedom in picking their subordinates.
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The court's 5-4 conservative majority includes Trump appointees Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch.
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Political appointees are supposed to be entrusted with the strategic decisions of the government.
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The Pentagon has named three appointees for key civilian positions within the Defense Department.
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According to data compiled by Whittington, the Senate confirmed seven of 14 such appointees.
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Again, however, there's precedent for a new president to replace all his predecessor's appointees.
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In a bygone era, we might expect Trump's appointees to defect from the administration.
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The White House has had a hard time choosing, vetting and retaining top appointees.
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The instability of Trump's A Team of high-level staff appointees has been remarkable.
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All three of those political appointees resigned shortly after their inspection reports came out.
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In other words, all six commissioner positions can now be filled with new appointees.
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He also isn't as openly hostile to the media as many other Trump appointees.
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These appointees report to the Office of Cabinet Affairs instead of the Cabinet secretary.
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All three dissenters, Rao, Judge Gregory Katsas and Judge Karen Henderson, were Republican appointees.
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And what is permitted would vary based on the whims of unaccountable political appointees.
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The nine-member court is currently divided 5-4 among Republican and Democratic appointees.
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A large number of senior roles at the Pentagon continue to lack permanent appointees.
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To fill his government, Trump needs to clear 553 political appointees through the Senate.
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A few dozen political appointees brought in under the Trump administration are driving policy.
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For decades, Presidents and Congress have created a steadily increasing number of political appointees.
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We are also analyzing the civil liberties records of potential high-ranking federal appointees.
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Most of his appointees have little in the way of directly relevant policy experience.
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At least seven of his fellow appointees had ties to the Trump administration itself.
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Other appointees had held state jobs that showcased their conservative — and sometimes partisan — credentials.
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Muhyiddin had earlier met with the king to present his list of cabinet appointees.
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The appointees from conservative research and advocacy groups reflect Mr. Trump's right-leaning politics.
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By next year, the whole financial regulatory regime will be led by Trump appointees.
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And he will doubtless find new appointees of comparable character to do his will.
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The memo specifically targets actions by "government leadership," which implies Trump administration political appointees.
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It is one thing, however, to dismiss appointees who have deputies to replace them.
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Bernie: no endorsement from Warren MORE, the two Trump appointees Schumer had referred to.
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But Trump appointees at the Department of Justice squashed the case, the article reports.
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There were a couple Obama-era appointees he basically got sort of kicked out.
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Experts say the country's food agency has become paralyzed by infighting among Duterte appointees.
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Mr. Trump's appointees among career diplomats amount to only about 55 percent of ambassadorships.
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Otherwise, Clinton will have trouble getting anything through Congress, even her most basic appointees.
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Trump's transition — the process, the appointees, the tweets — can be charted along both axes.
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Despite being Obama appointees, Lipnic and Miscimarra have routinely broken with their Democratic colleagues.
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More waivers granted to federal agency appointees are expected to be posted on Wednesday.
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Assembled the highest number of advisers and appointees who have ties to Russia. 4.
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You said the mayor's appointees on the MTA voted for fare and toll hikes.
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Reached for comment, the EPA argued its political appointees have been following ethics guidelines.
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Some departments are almost entirely vacant of political appointees below the cabinet-level positions.
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Four of the political appointees are making $2628,28503 and another staffer is earning $22019,595.
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So it's like, you know, Donald Trump running his administration with Barack Obama's appointees.
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No doubt his appointees will attempt some other disingenuous foray around the Bonn negotiations.
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Trump's "listening session" seemed to be populated only by his black appointees and supporters.
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Applications to the foreign service are down and political appointees for Ambassadors are up.
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Those appointees had given another $85033 million to the Cuomo campaign before their appointments.
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Senate hearings for court appointees, now an enduring ritual, are a relatively modern phenomenon.
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It failed, he said, because workers did not like taking orders from political appointees.
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Some say that Democrats should not have acquiesced to voting for Trump's cabinet appointees.
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December 22016 - Putin scraps direct elections for regional governors, effectively making them Kremlin appointees.
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The affair hardened perceptions among political appointees that the department was a Democratic bastion.
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Under Trump, the political appointees largely kept to themselves, the former U.S. ambassador said.
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He puts a man whose appointees are facing trial in charge of government appointments.
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President Obama's appointees have tilted these courts decisively in a religious freedom-hostile direction.
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A Court of Trump appointees could fail to check him or any future demagogue.
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Political appointees seek results before the next election or prior to when they depart.
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Rossana Barrera, one of the Guaidó appointees roped into the scandal, denied any wrongdoing.
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Last January, Maduro replaced many of his top executives with political and military appointees.
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If Trump wants to get his appointees confirmed, he needs McConnell in the Senate.
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Through a mix of seven Obama appointments and retirements, Democratic appointees now hold sway.
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They also began exploring alternative fuel sources despite skepticism by some senior administration appointees.
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LeBlanc sent letters to 33 of the appointees, pressuring them to resign their posts.
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Those 5-4 cases likely have high ideological stakes, and the data show that justices are more likely to split along the lines of the party that nominated them — Republican appointees become more pro-business, while Democrat appointees swing the other way.
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After seven years as governor of New York, Andrew M. Cuomo has rewritten the disclaimer language on his campaign website that describes which of his appointees are banned from donating to his campaign, potentially opening the door for more appointees to contribute.
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The Trump administration has been quite successful in stocking the federal bench with its appointees, and by some estimates the share of Republican appointees on the federal district courts could rise to 50 percent in 2020, from 34 percent in early 2017.
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"It would be handing the Hill a club to beat up Trump's appointees," says Lewis.
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He takes over from July 1 and will be joined by two other Zeman appointees.
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Letting partisan politicians — or their appointees — draw congressional districts reverses the normal order of politics.
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Haley has been one of the few Trump appointees to sail through Senate confirmation hearings.
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The White House had asked political appointees to submit their letters of resignation by Dec.
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Government spokesman Shaban Bantariza rejected the accusation, saying Museveni was certain about his appointees' merits.
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Those appointees don't write laws, but they have broad power to interpret and implement them.
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That change led to the confirmation of Obama appointees Millett, Cornelia Pillard and Robert Wilkins.
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According to ProPublica, at least 188 former lobbyists have been appointees in the Trump administration.
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Lopez is among just a few of Duterte's appointees yet to be confirmed by lawmakers.
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Democrats also questioned if Clayton is willing to stand up to Trump and his appointees.
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The other problem is 40 percent of the federal judiciary is filled with Obama appointees.
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Political appointees to the statistical agency's board initiated the charge that he violated his duty.
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It does runs a risk of the president not getting his appointees&apos best advice.
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Ninety-three percent of Trump's appointees have been white, compared to 65 percent of Obama's.
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And 75 percent of Trump's appointees have been men, compared to 59 percent of Obama's.
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The vertical lines represent the median score of each party's respective judicial appointees over time.
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The entity was established in 2012 and is staffed by state officials and political appointees.
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But the president and his appointees have enormous discretion over the enforcement of existing laws.
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The filibuster change opened the door to three more Democratic appointees on that influential court.
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EPA spokesman John Konkus said EPA appointees receive rigorous ethics training from career ethics officials.
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Overt defiance of presidential authority by the president's own appointees — now that's a constitutional crisis.
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In the early days of his administration the president seemed willing to tolerate establishment appointees.
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Ten of the 15 active judges on the court are either Clinton or Obama appointees.
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Zeman's fourth and fifth appointees will replace policymakers appointed by his eurosceptic predecessor, Vaclav Klaus.
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Along with a few other Grant appointees, Babcock was named in the Whiskey Ring scandal.
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But Mr. Mulvaney was willing to shell out top dollar for his highest-ranking appointees.
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Trump faces another major problem in finding appointees: Candidates are reluctant to take the jobs.
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Jackson's comments on Sunday weren't the first time the civil rights leader slammed Trump's appointees.
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How much can appointees that are philosophically opposed to regulation really drag their heels here?
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Of the Democratic appointees, Judge David Tatel is 75 and Judge Judith Rogers is 77.
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Appointees need to "identify with the government's programme", Mr Jackiewicz told the parliament in March.
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Some of the appointees are not experts in the field, the former Bush appointee added.
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"What does this mean for the countless appointees who came in with him?" they said.
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For high-level appointees, the process is normally "expedited," a former senior U.S. official said.
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For one, the order only covers political appointees, providing a loophole for most federal employees.
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Political appointees on Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission would be replaced with technocrats and judges.
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Instead, the five-member commission including three Trump appointees, unanimously rejected the proposal in January.
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That vote is expected to succeed, with Republican appointees now a majority on the commission.
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This is the tone from the top that leads his appointees to violate ethics rules.
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These former appointees might then have been willing to file their disclosures with little prompting.
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The second policy will bar Trump's political appointees from ever lobbying for a foreign government.
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He also noted that in 2013 he got rid of it for most presidential appointees.
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During the transition to the new Administration, N.S.C. staffers prepared briefing binders for Trump appointees.
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Brown and Sugiyama, along with many of the other political appointees, have worked for Sen.
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Evers initially rescinded all 82 of Walker's appointees, though he later reappointed all but 15.
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Other appointees include the grandson of a senior official at the Presidential Personnel Office (PPO).
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The board's two democratic appointees, Lauren McFerran and Mark Gaston Pearce, dissented from the ruling.
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The country's president nominates appointees to the bank board, who must be ratified by Congress.
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Four of the six trustees signing the 22019 report are political appointees of President Trump.
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The nine-member Supreme Court includes two Trump appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
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These investigations are all being led by either Republican appointees or Republican elected officials. 2.
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With the federal government under GOP control, the judiciary is filling up with GOP appointees.
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December 24 - Putin scraps direct elections for regional governors making them, in effect, Kremlin appointees.
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Mr. Reagan ignored her criticism of several cabinet appointees, including Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger.
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They won't make it easy for Trump's political appointees to move quickly to implement changes.
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These episodes could simply reflect inexperience — appointees struggling to figure out the agency they lead.
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But it will be important that the political appointees have input on assignments and promotions.
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Mr. Reich said he anticipated intense resistance to any appointees with ties to Wall Street.
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Granted, when compared to other Trump appointees, Cohn may be a breath of fresh air.
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That vote is expected to succeed, with Republican-appointees now a majority on the commission.
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In 1933, there were just over 200 presidential appointees in the executive and legislative branches.
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The idea that they need to be regularly "led" by uninformed political appointees is ridiculous.
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Both of his appointees, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer, voted against him.
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In Mr. Page's case, most of the judges reviewing his application were actually Republican appointees.
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State Department officers seethe at America's abandonment of its values, but political appointees overrule them.
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Though half of the city's legislators are elected, the government is controlled by Beijing appointees.
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Two of the judges are Clinton appointees and one is a George W. Bush appointee.
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In December, the Florida advisers and the political appointees formed a plan to change leadership.
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As a result, the en banc court for McGahn will have only two Republican appointees.
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VoteWithMe was developed by the New Data Project, a nonprofit founded by Obama administration appointees.
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Those staffers are overseen by a small number of political appointees from the new administration.
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Unlike many other Trump appointees, Carter appears to be informed and at least somewhat engaged.
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Dani Lever, Mr. Cuomo's press secretary, said donors were only a fraction of his appointees.
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His political appointees all followed his lead and refused to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry.
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But the courts are stacked with Duterte appointees; the chances of a victory are slim.
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But Duncan is hardly an ideological outlier on a court that's dominated by Republican appointees.
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Congressional offices report being overwhelmed by calls, letters and faxes about Mr. Trump's cabinet appointees.
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The appointees in our jurisdiction have been for the most part very, very good nominees.
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Tweets from the personal accounts of political appointees have also made many career diplomats uncomfortable.
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Black judges appointed by Republicans treat black offenders more leniently than do other Republican appointees.
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Trump's appointees in his first two years were 2900 percent white (Obama's were 220006 percent).
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Some at the F.B.I. suspected that Democratic appointees were playing semantic games to help Mrs.
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The letter notes that most of the people teaching languages are non-tenure-track appointees.
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In the key part of the census decision, he voted with the four Democratic appointees.
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But for Trump's appointees and other staffers, the president's tweets can be a major problem.
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ISDS makes sure that foreign companies, in short, aren't steamrolled by local politicians and appointees.
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However, those appointees are too often beholden to the very people who run the department.
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O'Connor is an unusually conservative judge, even in a judiciary increasingly staffed by Trump appointees.
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But the new Trump Cabinet appointees are unabashedly American, what we used to call patriots.
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These appointees may be as accomplished and well qualified as anyone else in Trump's cabinet.
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The memo also notes that the judges that granted the FISA application were Republican appointees.
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Trump's political appointees, with one exception, have all refused to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry.
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One hopes and trusts that senior appointees to his foreign policy team will take notice.
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He's also participated in several mock hearings with career and political appointees since shutdown ended.
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That's provided national security officials -- careerists and political appointees alike -- with a sense of caution.
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Kushner is one of several White House appointees still operating on an interim security clearance.
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Elrod's decision was joined by Judge Kurt Engelhardt — both Elrod and Engelhardt are Republican appointees.
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White House turmoil has slowed the confirmation of Trump appointees at the main US watchdogs.
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No political appointees like the ones Trump is purging would be protected by those unions.
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They aren't liberal, just heterodox, and today's appointees may be better vetted or truer believers.
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By early 2019, CMS also had hired multiple political appointees to help manage Verma's communications.
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They provide expertise and institutional memory that is supposed to aid an administration's political appointees.
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In contrast, the Supreme Court majority traversed ideological lines, and included all four Democratic appointees.
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Instead, Trump administration political appointees were the ones who took responsibility for the new positions.
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Should he name Justice Ginsburg's replacement, Republican appointees would outnumber Democratic ones six to three.
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Since then, two Trump appointees — Justices Kavanaugh and Neil M. Gorsuch — have joined the court.
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Should further vacancies open up on those courts, Trump's appointees would tip the ideological balance.
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The end result would make the board as accountable as any set of political appointees.
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Four Republican appointees on the bench have generally taken a conservative stance (Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito) and four Democratic appointees regularly have been more liberal (Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan).
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Once rarely used, it was employed by Democrats to block five Bush appointees a year; it was used by Republicans to block 16 Obama appointees a year, driving the then Democratic leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, to abolish its use in blocking cabinet appointments.
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The Senate will still have to approve dozens of other appointees, whom Trump has been slow to name, says Reynolds; Lewis has his doubts that the Trump team will fill its full roster before people start leaving and needing to be replaced by new appointees.
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The surveillance started under the Obama administration, but Trump's appointees at the Justice Department continued it.
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The remaining signatories are former Justice Department appointees, the majority of whom served in Democratic administrations.
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Sessions demurred during his confirmation hearing when asked whether he would vote on his fellow appointees.
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He attributed differences in policy and "subversive" tactics by President Donald Trump's appointees for his departure.
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Then the political appointees named have "72-hour awareness to 5 days" to review the documents.
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The final decision would rest with the constitutional court, composed almost entirely of the president's appointees.
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At that point, Mr Trump could promote one of his appointees to lead the central bank.
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It's clear that Buttigieg — and any other Democrat — would replace these appointees with less hateful people.
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One of those recent appointees, Judge Richard Sullivan, wrote the panel opinion in the Blaszczak case.
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And it seems unlikely that Mr Powell will find himself overwhelmed by Mr Trump's other appointees.
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Mr. de Blasio has seen an exodus of female appointees since early in his first term.
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Conservatives have long complained that Republican appointees tend to drift to the left after being confirmed.
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Mr Trump's appointees have slashed rules governing mine waste, water pollution and methane leaks from wellheads.
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Critics say the government has neutered Poland's constitutional court, which is now packed with its appointees.
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But tradition suggests it's more likely to be profound, giving him as many as five appointees.
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And appointees sometimes exceed expectations, perhaps because of a powerful culture of independence within the judiciary.
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At that time Hess conceded to an agreement that added three Elliott appointees to the board.
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Far from draining the swamp, Trump and his political appointees have filled it to the brim.
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Waters announced the list of 16 new Democratic appointees to the financial services committee overnight Wednesday.
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Such recusals are not uncommon for civilian appointees who have worked previously in the private sector.
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The most prominent IGs are all presidential appointees who have to be confirmed by the Senate.
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This should result in appointees who are better qualified, more effective, and — potentially — more easily confirmed.
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The agency's top lawyer had just resigned, the latest casualty in a purge of political appointees.
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But Foreign Policy noted that Bilden has ties to top Trump appointees, including retired Marine Gen.
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Notwithstanding its long tradition of professionalism, the Office of Legal Counsel is run by political appointees.
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Political appointees in the Obama administration also sometimes reviewed requests and documents pertaining to the administrator.
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But a 2015 inspector general report concluded that those appointees' involvement in the process was minimal.
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And having political appointees in this administration make decisions about this worries me a great deal.
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Expecting Trump and his appointees to govern otherwise ignores the lessons his own business career teaches.
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And political appointees are still working on issues where they might have a conflict of interest.
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Consider that Perry appointees ignored unanimous warnings by professional staff not to approve the WCS site.
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The Supreme Court is dominated by five Republican appointees, two of them named by Mr. Trump.
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The moves come amid a growing controversy over the use of private planes by Trump's appointees.
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Shulkin faced ethical issues and tensions with political appointees within the agency and the White House.
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Two other Republican appointees, Justices Anthony Kennedy and David Souter, had also voted to uphold Roe.
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Trump's appointees to lead the FBI, CIA and National Security Agency have all endorsed the report.
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While those appointees pushed for vast privatization of VA, Shulkin argued for a more measured approach.
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In early 2018, these appointees will finally have full control however of the banking regulatory apparatus.
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"It looks like Trump has protected his own appointees, and everyone else gets screwed," added Rep.
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Full-time political appointees cannot participate for two years in matters linked to their former positions.
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Powell and Fed Governor Lael Brainard are the only remaining Obama appointees on the Fed board.
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No matter what appointees he foists on us, there's always another pal who'd have been worse.
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Despite the overall trend, the administration and its appointees have not been categorically sympathetic to labor.
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Democratic senators have raised questions about the qualifications and potential conflicts of interest for several appointees.
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This, as 130 appointees, including the President's daughter and son-in-law, lack permanent security clearances.
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Two commissioners were behind that sentiment, both Trump appointees: Neil Chatterjee and new chair Kevin McIntyre.
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Yes, but: Trump's issues with Amazon won't be solved regardless of what happens with the appointees.
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He wasn't impressed by the notion that Trump's political appointees were to blame for Shulkin's fate.
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Privacy advocates are worried that President Trump and his appointees could expand the government surveillance apparatus.
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In his early days as administrator, Pruitt helmed daily morning meetings with dozens of political appointees.
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The policy teams operate mostly separate from the political appointees wrapped up in the Pruitt saga.
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Another option is to increase the number of political appointees sent to the CIA and FBI.
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I certainly hope that future appointees to the court will be worthy of that high office.
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Trump's choices have drawn more "not qualified" ratings from the ABA than appointees of past presidents.
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Higgins told CNN he arrived to find two senior NSC directors and fellow Trump appointees, Col.
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Even with them, the 11-judge court has more appointees from Democratic administrations than Republican administrations.
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The Trump appointees turned out in big numbers at its national convention in Washington in November.
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Conservatives have also celebrated Trump appointees in circuits where the balance of power has not shifted.
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They have shirked their duty to act as a check on the president and his appointees.
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His two appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, have deepened the conservative hold on the court.
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But Trump is not particularly known for valuing a depth of government experience in his appointees.
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Rosenstein and the other senior FBI executives are fired and replaced with more Trump-friendly appointees.
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The ruling was the latest example of a split between President Trump's two Supreme Court appointees.
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They create more anxiety among both political appointees and career officials, distracting them from good governance.
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Dr. Shulkin had also split with political appointees over how to oversee privately provided health care.
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The most obvious is to change its composition of 16 Democratic appointees and seven Republican ones.
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"No matter who I put in, they go after him," Mr. Trump said of his appointees.
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The new appointees will support the work of the newly established Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational.
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In others, the appointees stopped donating after receiving state posts, but their families continued writing checks.
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With Mr Trump's two new appointees, he reckons, the Supreme Court has become more "gun-friendly".
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The three-judge appeals court panel, all of whom are Republican appointees, turned down that request.
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There were not many clues presented during Wednesday's arguments as to how Trump's appointees will vote.
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If Trump's aides and appointees go along with his various power grabs, Trump may well succeed.
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It may be a court packed with dozens or even hundreds of appointees from both parties.
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Those three justices are now joined by two conservative Trump appointees, Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch.
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Why would Trump political appointees push to protect white-collar corporate executives who commit securities fraud?
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Political appointees of Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rossello, they argued, cannot be trusted to do so.
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From which appointees is it appropriate to ask for this and from which is it not?
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This anti-science culture is bleeding out beyond government agencies under the watch of Trump appointees.
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The Justice Department has released the names of only two appointees currently working on its team.
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Fearful of leaks, they kept details from political appointees across the street at the Justice Department.
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He has declared that a deeply rooted cabal — including his own appointees — is working against him.
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In some cases, appointees stopped donating after receiving state posts while family members continued to contribute.
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While there are biologists on the FWC staff, it is led by well-connected political appointees.
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"We have Trump appointees who are clearly unnerved by the lawlessness of this president," Jeffries said.
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Both Democratic appointees have moderate reputations and were confirmed by the Senate with widespread Republican support.
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Already, he has fired appointees in retaliation for their testimony under oath during the impeachment proceedings.
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EPA's response: Reached for comment, the EPA argued its political appointees have been following ethics guidelines.
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Such tools are of more limited value when it comes to blocking confirmation of presidential appointees.
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The political appointees -- from John Bolton and Don McGahn to Mick Mulvaney and beyond -- have not.
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Nevertheless, the five Republican appointees on the Supreme Court blocked the regulation from going into effect.
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It is rare to see political appointees forcefully push back on an IG's non-partisan findings.
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In those preparation sessions, the appointees are often questioned on issues they know could snag them.
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The appointees who stand between Trump and his worst instincts recognize what many of us feel.
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Will they sit back and hope to someday appoint enough new judges to counterbalance Trump's appointees?
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The agency, led by Obama appointees however, performed poorly, delaying the project and running up costs.
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Senior Trump appointees this week publicly moved to distance the president's health insurance mandate from HHS.
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It is not unusual for presidential appointees to leave after the first year of an administration.
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Political appointees dictate the terms EPA may use to settle enforcement cases, even in routine situations.
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All appointees by the president to the Supreme Court are subject to approval by the Senate.
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Even if Trump fills all of them, Democratic-appointees would still hold a 16-13 majority.
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FERC now has three commissioners (a quorum), two of which, including the chair, are Trump appointees.
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It needs to ensure those appointees aren't mere Trump cronies but are respected and independent figures.
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I do a little carve-out for the political appointees, think twice before you do this.
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In July 2007, 18 months before Obama became president, Republican appointees held a 7-5 majority.
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Within a few years, he faced a huge backlash and turned to more moderate environmental appointees.
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A Polarized Court On the current bench sit four Republican appointees who generally vote conservative (Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito) and four Democratic appointees who regularly vote liberal (Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan).
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Mr. Lee is the latest in a series of young conservative jurists and administration appointees who have sailed through the Senate, sometimes over objections by the American Bar Association over their qualifications or accusations by activists who say the appointees traffic in racist or sexist remarks.
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Trump's team gets low marks Trump's appointees to Cabinet and high-level government positions fare poorly in comparison to previous appointees on their qualifications for the job, ability to empathize with the public, willingness to use their positions for personal gain and to misuse taxpayer money.
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Two Bill Clinton appointees, Judges Diana Motz and Robert King, asked pointed questions of Mr Wall too.
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Often, numbers that he denounced as inaccurate were compiled by government agencies his appointees will now oversee.
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The fellow Reagan appointees were moderate conservatives who often held the key vote in high-profile cases.
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We're just trying to educate people about the past views and associations about these appointees and nominees.
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Although some appointees boast impressive reform backgrounds, others came over from Mr Zelensky's production studio, Kvartal 95.
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The move is an end-run around the vetting and confirmation process legally required for cabinet appointees.
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Harry Reid did something for lower federal court and other appointees, not the Supreme Court. That&aposs.
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The proportion of political appointees who are female has also dropped off a statistical cliff under Trump.
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He is held in contempt by many in his department, a badge of honour for Trump appointees.
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Just four of Mr Trump′s appointees are women, three are non-white, and none are Hispanic.
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Two Republican appointees and one Democratic appointee joined in Friday's ruling tossing out the Congressional Democrats' suit.
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Democrats now run the House, but Trump's appointees still run the agencies that are necessary for approval.
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Obama appointees run the risk of getting shoved out at any time if they cause any problems.
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If you have an administration stacked with Wall Street appointees, it ain't going to accomplish very much.
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In Uganda Mr Museveni has transferred many powers from the opposition-led city council to his appointees.
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The Hatch Act placed sweeping restrictions on political activity by government officials, including the president's political appointees.
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The other seven were appointed by Trump or Trump appointees, such as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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The majority of new vacancies announced since Trump was elected were created by Republican appointees stepping down.
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It is routine for a new president to appoint his own U.S. attorneys, who are political appointees.
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As part of that vetting, appointees were judged based on a loyalty test, a source told CNN.
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Was it just Republican appointees and people inclined to these ideas anyway who were going to these?
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Sarah Binder of George Washington University notes the long line of political appointees waiting for Senate confirmation.
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In his campaign against corruption, Duterte has sacked dozens of officials, including many of his own appointees.
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Furthermore, many of McCrory's own Republican appointees serving on local county election boards have rejected his complaints.
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The search for appointees had taken months, with some small lenders complaining about the pace of progress.
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"DOJ's staff seems to get that, even if some of the political appointees leading the FCC don't."
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Indeed, Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, both Clinton appointees, didn't recuse themselves from Clinton v.
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Jokowi's supporters were also disappointed by his initial cabinet, which included more party appointees than many expected.
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The agencies with which he's fighting will have to obey him and his appointees—figures like Bolton.
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Critics say unqualified political appointees have sunk the OPEC nation's oil industry and spurred a brain drain.
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Pruitt's hearing is one of a series of sessions to vet Trump's senior appointees since last week.
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The political appointees who oversaw INDEC leaned on statisticians to manipulate their results, especially the inflation rate.
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Congress must not tolerate Justice Department political appointees using settlements to funnel money to their liberal friends.
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The Virginia-based 4th Circuit has a 10-5 majority of Democratic appointees and no current vacancies.
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Federal law requires presidential appointees requiring Senate confirmation to submit financial and employment disclosures to the OGE.
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Today, however, it stands as one of the circuits most heavily weighted in favor of Democratic appointees.
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He's also rearranged the bureau's structure, making a broad array of powers subject to his appointees' control.
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At least two White House officials similarly sent the piece to political appointees at the State Department.
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"People are leaving, the political appointees aren't replacing them, the agency is being hollowed out," Holstein continued.
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He is one of just a handful of appointees of President Barack Obama still steering financial regulators.
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She is among just a few of Duterte's appointees yet to get the green light from lawmakers.
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According to The Tennessean, state investigators' notes were shredded in at least two cases surrounding political appointees.
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Lower-level appointees, in particular, have become cannon fodder in a procedural war of "holds" on nominees.
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All 14 political appointees are white and all six current MCC Board of Directors are white men.
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"These are lifetime appointees, and Democrats need to stop treating this as business as usual, "he said.
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The blame for the exodus lies in the White House and its recruiters, not on the appointees.
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EPA emails obtained by Politico indicate Pruitt's political appointees have been screening Freedom of Information Act requests.
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History has revealed the extent to which Roosevelt received advice from some of his Supreme Court appointees.
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Then, when Trump replaced them with his own appointees, he attacked, criticized or ignored them as well.
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Why it matters: Bipartisanship is nearly extinct in this Washington, particularly when it comes to Trump's appointees.
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Instead of moving to a 5-4 balance of Democratic-appointed justices, Republican appointees maintained a majority.
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Amtrak's eight-member board and chairman are presidential appointees confirmed by the Senate for five-year terms.
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The Trump appointees are far less diverse than Mr. Obama's, with two-thirds of them white men.
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The 13th appeals court, the Federal Circuit, hears mostly intellectual property cases and has no Trump appointees.
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About a third of the new judges have taken seats formerly occupied by appointees of Democratic presidents.
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Through his relentless politicization of everything he touches, Mr. Trump has complicated matters greatly for his appointees.
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Here's How He Fits In. All but six appointees to the Supreme Court have been white men.
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If she runs and is elected, Ms. Miner pledged not to raise money from her own appointees.
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Republicans control the Senate, and it's no longer possible for the minority party to veto presidential appointees.
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But, of course, in fighting Trump and his extremist appointees, we cannot fight the federal government itself.
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The agency's director of its prevention office, Caitlin Thompson, resigned in 230 after tangling with political appointees.
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Historically, Fed appointees have generally been economic experts who kept their political views out of policy discussions.
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But many of those appointees are allied with the Mar-a-Lago group, former department officials say.
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The judiciary will still name three members, but the appointees must be retired judges, Mr. David said.
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By then, Mr. Orban's appointees controlled the state media, as well as Hungary's two main media regulators.
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By the end of the day, more than a dozen names were being floated as possible appointees.
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Appointees named to their posts by previous governors and not reappointed by Mr. Cuomo also were excluded.
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An additional roughly $830,000 came from family members, and $20113,000 from firms owned or controlled by appointees.
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Where the appointees likely will diverge, then, from the Yellen Fed is where they stand on regulations.
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Although congressional Republicans have largely lain down for Trump, judges — both Republican and Democratic appointees — have not.
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Red states are likely to engage in massive resistance against a Supreme Court packed with Democratic appointees.
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The Trump appointees spoke of the career staffers as a "deep state" determined to thwart Trump's agenda.
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Yovanovitch's firing has underscored the tensions — and the lack of trust — between career officials and political appointees.
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The greatest court in the land now has a conservative majority including two appointees from President Trump.
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Running it for a boss with a record of firing political appointees adds another level of complexity.
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Political appointees can still thwart approval of new programs internally — and already appear to be doing so.
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Its 19 members were chosen mostly by Mr. Johnson with some additional appointees by Mr. de Blasio.
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In November, Trump said he believes the findings of the agencies "as currently led" by his appointees.
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Shulkin blamed turmoil in the wake of that report on an internal rebellion by some Trump appointees.
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Many senior-level appointees are still not in place, including the assistant secretaries of state, for example.
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Even so, it has added to the wave of concern across the administration, even among Trump appointees.
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Clarification: This story has been updated to include the names of the new appointees and their roles
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President Trump's appointees in the White House and in the Department of Justice should do the same.
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The Obama administration required appointees to pledge they'd avoid soliciting their former agencies for an additional year.
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The nine-member court has five Republican appointees, including Trump picks Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
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The 2100th Circuit now has five Trump appointees, and a 7-5 majority of Republican-named judges.
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In the detailed plan, Warren proposed barring elected officials and senior government appointees from ever becoming lobbyists.
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Politicians effectively have direct control over PREPA, through a governing board made up entirely of political appointees.
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The Supreme Court will probably ultimately decide the issue — not Trump's appointees who don't know the Constitution.
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While Trump appointees are almost 100% white males, this does not reflect the entirety of the profession.
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One senior administration official said there is unlikely to be a widespread, simultaneous purge of senior appointees.
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An extensive interagency effort by civil servants and political appointees produced the $50 billion list of products.
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Appointees had to submit financial disclosure forms, which could be obtained by the Freedom of Information Act.
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Congressional leaders "recommend" appointees to the president, with no more than three coming from the same party.
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Klobuchar appointees would presumably be more aggressive on antitrust enforcement and put greater scrutiny on proposed deals.
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If the Republican appointees stick together, they could strike down affirmative action by a 4-3 vote.
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Well, if we see appointees to the EPA and Department of the Interior and Department of Energy, all of whom have disdain for environmental protection, this would be a real potential problem, because it would mean the political appointees at the top are opposed to these agencies' essential missions.
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In the five days since The New York Times reported that Mr. Cuomo had construed an executive order to enable himself to collect roughly $21.3,22018 in campaign money from his appointees to state boards, the administration has insisted the order was never meant to apply to most board appointees.
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"It's one thing for the president to criticize political appointees — although it is quite odd for him to criticize his own political appointees," said Alan Rozenshtein, a lawyer who left the Justice Department's national security division in April and now teaches at the University of Minnesota law school.
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As is customary for political appointees in outgoing administrations, Klotz had submitted his resignation effective today at noon.
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Trump and his appointees will learn that running the people's business is different than running your own business.
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"Coming down on the side of not really believing the intelligence verdict of his own appointees," Mitchell said.
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But he has presented no proof whatsoever that his top intelligence appointees and international experts have been incorrect.
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Rest assured that Mr. Trump and his Wall Street appointees fully understand the conditionality of that welcome mat.
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Making it all worse for the Democrats is their ability to block these appointees is now almost nil.
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For more than 60 years, Republican Supreme Court appointees have often disappointed conservatives once they joined the court.
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It would be similar to what then-Majority Leader Harry Reid did to confirm lower court Obama appointees.
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Republicans backed Trump in claiming he was allowed to appoint Mulvaney due to longstanding laws over presidential appointees.
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And the argument being they&aposre Trump appointees and so they should have the benefit of the doubt.
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The threats against Paul are just the latest in a series leveled against lawmakers and government appointees recently.
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Though the heads of the CFPB and OCC are presidential appointees, they still require approval by the Senate.
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Indeed, the appointees in every last cranny of this administration must question the dysfunctional enterprise they are enabling.
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The Trump administration installed its own appointees to several important US attorney posts without getting the Senate's approval.
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But Trump appointees sought to continue the surveillance in 2017 and four Republican-appointed judges approved the warrants.
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The proper time for any push back would be during the Senate confirmation hearings for Trump cabinet appointees.
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With four appointees of former President Barack Obama still holding FSOC seats, Yellen's vote proved decisive on Friday.
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The Arizona Republic listed a number of names that have been floated as potential appointees to replace McCain.
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That way, he can continue the tough work of replacing useless Zuma appointees with law-abiding, competent people.
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The president could give Mr Zelaya a say in picking appointees to such important jobs as chief prosecutor.
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The announcement comes at a time when large number of senior roles at the Pentagon lack permanent appointees.
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" The agencies' explanations: The EPA spokesman said, "[w]e're not going to rubber-stamp the last administration's appointees.
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Since 2013, only 50 votes are needed to approve executive branch appointees, and Republicans have more than that.
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The incoming administration needed to develop a clear policy agenda and identify potential appointees based on those goals.
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Of his four female appointees, the highest profile is billionaire Republican donor and "school choice" activist Betsy DeVos.
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And that's bad news for a one of Trump's appointees who just happens to start confirmation hearings Wednesday.
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Nixon, which said there were limits on executive privilege, also had Nixon appointees join in the unanimous decision.
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The Times and ProPublica found at least two of Trump's White House appointees may have violated ethics rules.
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The report of the icing came amid concerns about the agency, which is tasked with vetting administration appointees.
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President Trump's appointees undoubtedly will move as quickly as they can, and they are going to need help.
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And yes to an extent, political appointees come and go, and they leave when new people come in.
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Okay, but what if Trump starts filling the courts with appointees more likely to rule in his favor?
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Some of those recently reassigned employees had been with the department for decades, while others were Trump appointees.
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The case could expand the control by the president and political appointees over officials in various federal agencies.
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Those groups then lobby on issues like presidential appointees and policies related to social programs and foreign policy.
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The predictions are not based on guesswork, but on the records of current justices and likely Trump appointees.
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Trump's choices have drawn more "not qualified" ratings from the American Bar Association than appointees of past presidents.
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Across committees, lawmakers should ensure political appointees have the knowledge and the will to serve the public interest.
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But they should understand that all his appointees to the National Labor Relations Board do not favor workers.
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These government appointees are considered by many close to the company to be a front for the rulers.
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The President's many tweets focused on the judiciary signal a belief that his appointees would side with him.
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Michael Wilkerson, Richard Boucher, Quinn McLean and Hisham Ezz Al-Arab joined as new directors - all Fairfax appointees.
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So instead, Trump and his appointees keep returning to the claim they have fundamentally changed the regulatory state.
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Harris, in particular, has won praise from progressives for her sharp questioning of Trump appointees in previous hearings.
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Critics say the shift made EPA political appointees — and not career officials — the first gatekeepers for FOIA requests.
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Take the broad conflict of interest rules that apply to all executive branch appointees and career civil staff.
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The pattern continued among lower-level political appointees, including in Pence's office, which was stocked with Koch alumni.
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And those people are being placed in by the sheriff, himself, as political appointees and favoritism and cronyism.
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Political appointees are taking more of a hands-on role in tasks career employees previously would have handled.
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It should be the people's will that governs this outcome, not the litigious appointees of the prior administration.
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It will contribute to the increased percentage of political appointees at the NSC -- which O'Brien said would occur.
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The unequal split between Democratic and Republican appointees can give the circuits distinct reputations as liberal or conservative.
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That these appointees are at liberty to fill important senior staff positions with their political allies is shameful.
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The Times noted that there's no indication Gilbert was under pressure from political appointees to make her request.
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"We've had 12 appointees come before the committee, and I've supported every damn one of them," he said.
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A remarkable number of Trump appointees have been forced out over falsified credentials, unethical practices or racist remarks.
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He enforces laws through the attorney general and his various cabinet-level appointees — "secretaries" of large federal departments.
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"We're not going to rubber-stamp the last administration's appointees," said a spokesman for the EPA, J.P. Freire.
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Among the many, many names floating around for potential appointees to Trump's Cabinet is outgoing New Hampshire Sen.
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The study on tax cuts was not the only issue that frustrated political appointees at the Agriculture Department.
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"This gives rise to the clear possibility that there will be almost only military-favored appointees," Chambers said.
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Should he name Justice Ginsburg's replacement, Republican appointees would outnumber Democratic ones by a 6-to-3 margin.
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But so far, Trump appointees have generally expressed more interest in unilateral administrative actions than in legislative solutions.
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In general, personnel appointees should be conditioned on their willingness and ability to implement a progressive policy agenda.
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However, Ms. DeVos has won some praise for streamlining the department, including reducing the number of political appointees.
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It looks like a not-so-subtle dig at Trump and his not-so-open-minded cabinet appointees.
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In addition to required training for federal employees, GSA holds mandatory monthly ethics trainings for GSA political appointees.
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The governor also has accepted $212017 million from the spouses, children and businesses of appointees, state records show.
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He said he was investigating a number of political appointees in his department for misconduct and possible removal.
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It ruled that prosecutors fall under the authority of the Justice Ministry, which is controlled by political appointees.
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Last December an investigation by The New York Times concluded that science is "under attack" by Trump appointees.
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In the list of bizarre things done by Trump appointees, this did not even make the top 100.
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H. R. McMaster succeeded Mr. Flynn and has slowly tried to move out some of Mr. Flynn's appointees.
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In the late 1990s, officials were purged from city government and replaced by A.N.C. appointees with little experience.
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There have been earlier reports that Trump is downsizing the NSC and stacking it with more political appointees.
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Under the Vacancies Act, political appointees in an acting position can hold office only for about 200 days.
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Under the Vacancies Act, political appointees in an acting position can hold office only for about 200 days.
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Most political appointees resigned or offered to resign with the change in administration, including Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
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He has said he prefers provisional appointees because they are more readily moved in and out of positions.
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Both Petronas and the China National Petroleum Corporation have appointees serving in senior management roles in Dar Petroleum.
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Most of the people being investigated were political appointees who were leaving or had already left the department.
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And over many administrations, too many political appointees have found ways to burrow into the career Civil Service.
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All of those judges are Republican appointees, and two of them are semi-retired judges with reduced caseloads.
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The entire commission is made up of the governor's appointees, and it seems highly unlikely they'd overrule Newsom.
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But for women who need access to basic health care, the real danger is in the president's appointees.
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Incredibly, they still haven't been dislodged and replaced with political appointees who, of course, require no Senate confirmation.
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David Schweikert are among the potential appointees who would be unlikely to face a challenge from the right.
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The political appointees are teasing cooperation, as Bolton has done and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did Tuesday.
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Tesla could appeal the ruling to the NLRB's five presidential appointees, something even the judge said was likely.
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The surveillance did begin under the Obama administration, but Trump's own appointees at the Justice Department continued it.
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Clement also filed a complaint against political appointees, saying his reassignment was the result of illegal political interference.
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Maldonado speculated that the ideological differences between the Obama appointees and the Trump administration were just too extreme.
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The court's makeup has changed significantly since then, with the addition of Trump appointees Neil Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
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And there can be little doubt that some career scientists are at odds with the president's political appointees.
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And there can be little doubt that some career scientists are at odds with the president's political appointees.
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More than 80 percent of the appointees were white, and about 60 percent of that group were men.
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Richard Azzopardi, a spokesman for Mr. Cuomo, noted that the commission also comprises appointees from the State Legislature.
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The Trump administration's deregulation-minded appointees have had a year and a half to go about their work.
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This would mean the president was suggesting antagonistic questions to be aimed at one of his own appointees.
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A majority of its members would have been Democratic appointees for the first time in almost 43 years.
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Democrats, who control 47 of the Senate's 20163 seats, have slowed the confirmation of scores of such appointees.
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But the three-judge panel - all Democratic appointees - did not address whether it was unconstitutional discrimination against Muslims.
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And the more the White House and political appointees give them top-down directives, the more they rebel.
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Trump is who he is, and his appointees will in large part say and do what he wants.
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Harris' sharp questioning of Trump administration appointees and officials during Senate hearings made her popular with liberal activists.
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These are loyal Trump appointees who nonetheless believe that enacting his agenda would be dangerous for the world.
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Meanwhile, none of the four recent Democratic appointees, whether "moderate" or liberal, have moved meaningfully rightward during their tenures.
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Reid also defended his consequential 2013 decision to remove the legislative filibuster for judicial appointees, which has allowed Sen.
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The president and his appointees are overseen by the Office of Government Ethics, which is still an independent agency.
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Donald Trump and his appointees are likely to inflame the situation and make Snowden an even more sympathetic character.
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That forced transparency seems to have restrained the hand of political appointees at DOE friendly to coal and nuclear.
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He's tapped several appointees who are best known for their strong opposition to the agencies they're going to lead.
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One example: Four of the five FTC commissioners who voted to settle with Google in 2013 were Obama appointees.
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Several current political appointees got approval from the EPA's ethics office to engage in such activities, agency records show.
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For the first time since the 1980s, the group of cabinet appointees does not include a single Hispanic-American.
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Even before she announced her presidential run, Harris generated headlines for her tough questioning of several Trump administration appointees.
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A number of other Trump appointees have expressed hostility toward the Obama administration's two-year effort to normalize relations.
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The list included in DOJ GEN's letter includes a mix of political appointees and career employees of the department.
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He will run the ministries of interior and religious affairs until new appointees are named for the two posts.
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But the final decision will be made by political appointees who have changed since President Donald Trump took office.
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Political appointees "serve at the pleasure of the president, and the president can choose whomever he wants," Stier says.
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In general, Trump's political appointees will set the tone for each agency, and the career staff will follow suit.
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The two Bush appointees ran large industrial corporations before taking over Treasury and lacked deep experience in financial markets.
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While political appointees remain largely silent, career officials show that they don't serve a particular party, but a country.
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He encouraged Mr Trump to clear US attorneys' offices of Obama appointees who had not already offered their resignations.
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Republican Trump's camp announced on Thursday it had asked more than 50 of Democrat Obama's appointees to stay on.
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They are permitted to have up to 10 percent of the senior executive service be non-career political appointees.
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This is common for new appointees so that they can start doing their work while their background checks proceed.
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Meanwhile, just 58.6% of Trump's appointees were career Foreign Service Officers, a record low among presidents since Ronald Reagan.
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From 2010 to 2015, he served as one of President Barack Obama's appointees to the National Council on Disability.
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Guardino also believes tech policy under a Trump administration could be positive if the president lets his appointees lead.
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Using Sen and Bonica's system, judicial appointees are scored based on political donations they have made in the past.
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If their opinion was negative, a national judicial body which is dominated by PiS appointees would then be consulted.
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"You keep mentioning this professional team of career professionals -- were there any political appointees on that team," he asked.
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It appears to be a not-so-subtle dig at Trump and his not-so-open-minded cabinet appointees.
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But the names can be unmasked upon request of intelligence officers and higher-ranking government officials, including presidential appointees.
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The memo said the effort would be headed by political appointees in DOJ's civil rights division, the Times reported.
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With their new majority, Republican appointees will have a smorgasbord of past cases and regulations to repeal and replace.
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Instead, the April confirmation of Trump nominee Neil Gorsuch kept the scale tipped toward Republican appointees and their ideology.
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There is, again, nothing wrong with a president deciding he's had a change of heart about executive branch appointees.
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Lopez is among just a few of President Rodrigo Duterte's appointees yet to get the green light from lawmakers.
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It's unclear whether the Democratic disquiet over the military appointees will translate into "no" votes in the confirmation process.
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The order itself was not unprecedented as U.S. attorneys are political appointees, serving at the pleasure of the president.
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Berkeley's O'Connell notes that institutions like the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Nuclear Regulatory Commission also suffer without appointees.
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"The political appointees are the ones who need to turn the crank on the sausage-making machine," Mazur said.
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It made a number of changes, including expanding employment discrimination protection to employees of Congress and some political appointees.
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The organization was founded 2005 to help usher then-President George W. Bush's judicial appointees through the confirmation process.
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But for the past two years, the Republicans running it have spent little time on oversight of Trump's appointees.
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Political appointees were never approved to leadership roles and the rank and file staffers fled the increasingly hamstrung department.
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The liberal Nowoczesna party has launched an online infographic exposing the web of appointees' connections, with an anonymous hotline.
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It is true that it is the responsibility of the Senate to provide "Advice and Consent" on presidential appointees.
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Consumer financial protection will remain alive under new Republican leadership as shown by actions taken by past Republican appointees.
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The problem is that there is no mechanism for oversight, or for holding political appointees and career bureaucrats accountable.
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The EEOC's claim was so flimsy that it did not even garner a majority of Clinton and Obama appointees.
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An agency spokeswoman called the allegation "completely false" and said political appointees do not conduct reviews of such decisions.
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McGahn played a key role in the Trump administration in picking judicial appointees and shepherding them through the process.
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The Pentagon has limited public appearances by senior military leaders and its senior political appointees, Defense One reported Thursday.
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The Post said the moves have been conducted by political appointees led by the VA's acting secretary, Peter O'Rourke.
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After Buhari won the 2015 election, many expected Emefiele to join the list of Jonathan appointees who were fired.
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Silencing that voice of wisdom and experience prevents political appointees from making fully informed decisions to the public's detriment.
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Katja Bullock and Doocey have overseen the process for naming the appointees to the agency, the newspaper reported. Sen.
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We are now asking the president and his appointees to end the six year attack on those American principles.
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Obama's appointees were, in many cases, extremely liberal, ideologically driven people who dragged their circuits drastically to the left.
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Since U.S. Attorneys are the only political appointees in their offices, the work of most career prosecutors went on.
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The numbers: The Senate has confirmed 17 Trump nominees for federal district courts, most of whom replaced Democratic appointees.
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In January, Trump's team cancelled a previously scheduled ethics and leadership training course for White House appointees, Politico reported.
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Pruitt has largely blamed career staff and political appointees for the decisions that have embroiled the EPA in controversy.
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He eliminated staff positions that were used to reward Democratic appointees with salaries above the state merit system scale.
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Two-thirds are white men, and as a group, they are much younger than the Obama and Bush appointees.
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About 40 percent previously served as a judge, compared with more than half of the Bush and Obama appointees.
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All told, there were 168 appointees — 51 by Mr. Trump, 55 by Mr. Obama and 62 by Mr. Bush.
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For starters, there is muted recognition that even under a Supreme Court populated by conservative Trump appointees, Roe v.
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An unequal split between Democratic and Republican appointees can give a court a distinct reputation as liberal or conservative.
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Now it has been aggressively revived under President Trump by an array of industry-backed political appointees and others.
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President Trump, his family and more than a few of his appointees are using his presidency to enrich themselves.
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The Empire State Development board includes two other appointees who meet the governor's interpretation: Howard Zemsky and Peter Beshar.
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Political appointees trying to wrestle away control of the department seized on the report to force the secretary's ouster.
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He has appointed more active and retired generals to serve as political appointees than any president in recent memory.
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Political appointees are necessary to shape policy, as they serve as a conduit between the administration and foreign governments.
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Perhaps he would have been more able to convince the White House to trust his judgment on political appointees.
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Wade, saying that many previous Republican appointees — Sandra Day O'Connor, David Souter, and Anthony Kennedy — declined to do so.
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The addition of Trump appointees Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch could alter the conservative-majority court's approach to abortion.
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Like other appointees, Mr. Kushner sought a certification that would let him defer capital gains taxes on those assets.
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S. attorneys are presidential appointees and so meeting with the president prior to being nominated is certainly not disqualifying.
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Reliance on electorally unaccountable appointees and civil servants to check the president creates a whole new set of problems.
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A world in which 50 percent of government appointees are female is a world in which fewer are male.
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Rosenstein was willing to bend Justice Department practice meant to prevent political appointees from meddling in law-enforcement decisions.
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The two groups also helped identify many of the scores of Mr. Trump's appointees to the lower federal courts.
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In addition to criminal investigations, the F.B.I. conducts background checks on all major government appointees, including Supreme Court nominees.
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But recent appointees have almost never disappointed their supporters, and Judge Kavanaugh is not likely to be an exception.
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Unlike the Fed chairman, regional Fed bank presidents are not political appointees and are not chosen by the president.
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Four out of its five members are now Trump appointees (though two, Richard Glick and Cheryl LaFleur, are Democrats).
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American intelligence officials, including Mr. Trump's own appointees, who now run the agencies that compiled the assessment, say otherwise.
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I've been talking lately with past Justice Department appointees, from both parties, and they speak in almost identical terms.
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The new appointees among the cardinals will include prelates from Morocco, Indonesia, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Several sources said they felt they were being scrutinized by political appointees who could report disloyalty to senior officials.
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However, Mr. Noreika is not required to sign the ethics pledge that President Trump is requiring of other appointees.
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The Office of Government Ethics is requiring all appointees to sign new ethics agreements in light of the Jan.
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State appointees began getting drinking water from the polluted Flint River, rather than the more expensive Detroit water system.
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The FEC, which is evenly divided between Democratic and Republican appointees, has become a byword for gridlock and mismanagement.
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No other federal department is as dependent on political appointees, meaning State is uniquely affected by such foot-dragging.
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After an initial temporary delay, that rule was eventually withdrawn and replaced by Obama appointees at the Labor Department.
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Manafort also suggested two other possible Trump appointees, Pat Sink and Vernon Parker, according to the email released Monday.
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The existing rules stipulate that current employees and political appointees have to comply with a stricter set of requirements.
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Wray is not an outlier among recent appointees who played a role in this dark chapter of American history.
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The approval of the national security council, which is dominated by military appointees, is required for a presidential amnesty.
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Some 1,700 of them were freed by a corrections bureau run by Duterte's appointees, two of them staunch loyalists.
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Many of those departments and agencies do not have the political appointees to marshal the resources FEMA will need.
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His appointees now control the judiciary, the Constitutional Court, the prosecution service, the electoral authority and the central bank.
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Montemayor voted for Trump in 2016 but worries the president's conservative appointees to federal courts could undermine abortion rights.
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"The ultimate question is what happens when these reach the Supreme Court, which has two Trump appointees," he said.
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The prospect of Shulkin's ouster comes after months of infighting between Shulkin and Trump administration appointees at the department.
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Trump has been able to get his appointees confirmed at a pace that surpasses that of any recent administration.
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Trump appointees pushed Nowrouzzadeh out of a prestigious State Department post after articles about her appeared in conservative media.
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Clearly we have a president who doesn't understand that his appointees are sworn to uphold the Constitution, not him.
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Montemayor voted for Trump in 2016 but worries the presidents conservative appointees to federal courts could undermine abortion rights.
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Other appointees, such as Housing and Urban Development nominee Ben Carson, face accusations that they are unqualified to serve.
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A large majority of the court's members was appointed by Republican presidents, but Friday's majority consisted of Democratic appointees.
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The court currently has a 5-4 conservative majority, including two Trump appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
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And the fact that there are no actual IPAB appointees should not be seen as salvation for Medicare beneficiaries.
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That order says federal appointees can't participate in matters related to their former employers and clients for two years.
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The White House empties of all but a skeleton crew of political appointees during the inauguration on Capitol Hill.
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In 2012, a hundred and thirty elected mayors had their terms expire, and he replaced them with government appointees.
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Mr. Trump's allies outside the government had been calling for the dismissal of appointees from President Barack Obama's administration.
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"I have been disappointed that there have been no resignations on principle by the political appointees of this administration."
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In the absence of analysis we are left with the gut feelings of political decision-makers or their appointees.
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Board appointees are far too concerned about the effect of public opinion on their job security and political image.
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A recently proposed bill would have replaced six of the elected members with appointees by the governor and treasurer.
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The organization has recommended countless judicial appointees to the president and then played a key role in their confirmations.
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Many of the appointees helped with the drafting of ObamaCare, which the Trump administration has actively tried to repeal.
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Mr. Gingrich said Mr. Trump plainly relished personal contact with possible appointees and favored a free-form leadership style.
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Articles published by those outlets were frequently traded among the political appointees as they sought to sideline career employees.
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In large part, that was because Trump appointees declined interviews or offered evasive answers, Linick says in his report.
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Those are far higher rates than for the department's regular communications staff and even the agency's top political appointees.
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The Supreme Court has a 5-4 conservative majority including two Trump appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
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Four of the nine were recent Trump appointees (the fifth Trump appointee on the court, Kyle Duncan, was recused).
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Both the 11th Circuit and 93rd Circuit have major cases pending in which Trump appointees could make their mark.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A selection of recent U.S. appeals court rulings in which Obama judicial appointees played a significant role: 22th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, July 21 A three-judge panel featuring two Obama appointees struck down North Carolina's voter identification law on a 3-0 vote, saying it had a discriminatory intent.
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While there are now majorities of Democratic appointees on nine of the 2216 circuit courts (including the powerful District of Columbia Circuit, to which no single senator can block a nomination because the nation's capital lacks Senate representation), Republican appointees have retained majorities on four where Republican senators have retained a tight grip.
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Indeed, deliberations among EPA political appointees showed that the agency was concerned about revealing industry trade secrets under the directive.
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Comey also offered a blistering rebuke of Trump's appointees at the Justice Department and their handling of the Russia investigation.
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Another provision sets a two-year period during which appointees must avoid working on issues involving former employers or clients.
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Consider, for example, that several of Trump's advisers and appointees have been accused of enabling abuse toward women or misogyny.
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Among Trump's first appointees, Spicer may have possessed the greatest relevant expertise combined with the smallest measure of dominance behavior.
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Although Cabinet secretaries typically are confirmed quickly, it often takes 60 to 90 days to get other senior appointees confirmed.
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Still, at the end of the day, the Fed chair and the other members of the board are presidential appointees.
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But with the judge's ruling on Friday evening, even Trump's own appointees will be forced to follow the court's order.
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Rebecca Loy is an advocate for oceans and one of 15 appointees to the World Oceans Day Youth Advisory Council.
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President Trump, while acknowledging the concerns of his appointees and often echoing their fierce words, has stressed a narrower focus.
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Washington (CNN)19 of the most senior roles at the Pentagon lack permanent appointees, after it was announced that Adm.
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While legislators left key regulations governing the country's largest banks intact, Trump's appointees have put them on the chopping block.
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The new dispensation also puts ever-greater authority in the hands of the political appointees in charge of regulatory agencies.
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" That view, said Judges David Tatel and Patricia Millett, both Democratic appointees, "would reorder the very structure of the Constitution.
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Then, we calculated the percentage of those names (excluding political appointees) that did not appear in the next quarter's data.
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The House of Lords contains a diverse, largely unelected, mix of political appointees, experts, and members who inherited their positions.
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Last week the Trump administration issued two executive orders that could undermine environmental regulations and consolidate power in political appointees.
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None of the judges, all Bill Clinton appointees, appeared to harbour a grudge against the president for insulting their institution.
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Unlike many of the president's initial cabinet appointees, she began as a critic rather than a supporter of Mr Trump.
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These shifts have kept the court's rulings near the midpoint of American political debate, despite a preponderance of Republican appointees.
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But any move by Mr. Sessions could infuriate Mr. Trump, who has called Mr. Sessions his "biggest mistake" in appointees.
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Many appointees come from religious and conservative groups, some of whom regularly protested outside abortion clinics during the Obama years.
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It is possible, alas, that Mr Lourenço's appointees may see the new order as their chance to get rich quick.
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The challenge of getting political appointees to abide by social media policy is a perennial one for the State Department.
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