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Executive Order
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Levy Employment Law Blog
DEI in Crisis Part II: What Is Now Gone, What Is Targeted, and New Mandates for Federal Contractors and Grant Recipients
By Tracey Levy
Sweeping changes have come about as a result of a new Trump Executive Order entitled, “Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity – The White House.” The primary impact will…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
State Department Pauses Almost All Foreign Assistance Funding
On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid, aimed at ensuring U.S. foreign assistance is “fully aligned” with the administration’s foreign…
Blank Rome Workplace
Trump Fires NLRB General Counsel
Andrew I. Herman ● In a much-anticipated move, President Donald Trump has fired Jennifer Abruzzo, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”). Trump’s action follows a precedent…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
Trump Targets OFCCP, DEI in Executive Order
By Peter J. Eyre, Kris D. Meade, Amy Laderberg O'Sullivan, Rebecca Springer, Katie Erno, Ted North
Late on the night of January 21, 2025, President Trump signed the “Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” Executive Order (the “EO”). This EO, like a number of the…
Religion Clause
Executive Orders Call for Military Reinstatement of Vaccine Objectors, Military Exclusion of Transgender Individuals
Yesterday, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled Reinstating Service Members Discharged Under the Military's Covid-19 Vaccination Mandate (full text). The Order reads in part:The vaccine mandate was an unfair,…
Hiring To Firing Law Blog
Navigating DEI in a Shifting Legal Landscape: Insights From <em>Late Night</em>
By Tracey Diamond, Emily Schifter, Nicole Edmonds
Workplace diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs face more scrutiny than ever after President Trump's recent Executive Order targeting DEI policies and programs across the federal government, in private industries…
Simple Justice
The Virtue of Virtue, And The Alternatives
After Trump’s firing of inspector generals with neither the specific explanation nor 30 day notice required by the Inspector General Act of 1978, an obvious question arose. What happens when…
Beyond the First 100 Days
Public Communications Pause — Department of Health and Human Services
Navigating Trump administration executive orders impacting regulatory freezes at key agencies. By Sean Berkowitz, Kevin Chambers, Danielle Conley, Alice Fisher, Roman Martinez, Nicholas Lloyd McQuaid, and Jonathan Su Approval Required…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Trump Ends Racial Discrimination in America! Nonprofits Can Go Home Now
Hosanna to the highest! Hosanna. President Trump has finally ended racial discrimination in America. After the Middle Passage lasting 350 years, a civil war and another 150 years of reconstruction,…
The Employer Report
AI Tug-of-War: Trump Pulls Back Biden’s AI Plans
By Adam Aft, Caroline Burnett, Cynthia Cole, Brian Hengesbaugh, Keo McKenzie, Justine Phillips, Elizabeth Roper, Avi Toltzis
On January 20, 2025, the first day of his second term, President Trump revoked Executive Order 14110 on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (the “Biden Order”), signed…