executive branch of the government

• Behind the presidency: admire him or despise him, George W. Bush is essentially a figurehead for the tightly knit establishment oligarchy that actually runs the executive branch of our government.

When a tiny, single-engine Cessna 150 aircraft wafted into restricted Washington, D.C., airspace on May 11, the federal government went to a terrorism...

• The New American
• July 25, 2005

• Mining for Records When Open Records Laws Do Not Apply

The Freedom of Information Act only applies to executive branch agencies of the federal government. Asking is also the best first step at the state level, where open records laws don't cover every incarnation of a government body.

• News Media and the Law
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 4, October 2008

• Tenneco Oil Company, Petitioner, v. Environmental Protection Agency, Douglas M. Costle, Administrator and Eckhardt C. Beck, Regional Administrator, Region Ii, Respondents. Exxon Corporation, Petitioner, v. Douglas M. Costle and Eckhardt C. Beck, Respondents. Texaco, Inc., Petitioner, v. the Environmental Protection Agency, an Independent Agency of the Executive Branch of the Government of the United States, Et Al., Respondents., 577 F.2d 931 (5th Cir. 1978)

Baker & Botts, Charles M. Darling, IV, J. Patrick Berry, Washington, D.C., Alfred B. Smith Jr., Tenneco Oil Co., Houston, Tex., for Tenneco Oil Co. M...

• Federal Circuits

• Tenneco Oil Company, Petitioner, v. Environmental Protection Agency, Douglas M. Costle, Administrator, and Eckhardt C. Beck, Regional Administrator, Region Ii, Respondents. Exxon Corporation, Petitioner, v. Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, Douglas M. Costle, and Eckhardt C. Beck, Respondents. Texaco, Inc., Petitioner, v. the Environmental Protection Agency, an Independent Agency of the Executive Branch of the Government of the United States, Et Al., Respondents., 592 F.2d 897 (5th Cir. 1979)

Baker & Botts, Washington, D. C., for petitioner in No. 78-1684 and No. 78-1687. Charles M. Darling, IV, J. Patrick Berry, Washington, D. C., Alfred ...

• Federal Circuits

• Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch; Proposed Amendments Limiting Gifts From Registered Lobbyists and Lobbying Organizations; Extension of Comment Period

On September 13, 2011, the Office of Government Ethics published in the Federal Register proposed amendments to the regulation governing standards of ethical conduct for executive branch employees of the Federal Government to impose limits on the use of gift exceptions by all employees to accept gifts from registered lobbyists and lobbying organizations, and to implement the lobbyist gift ban for appointees required to sign the Ethics Pledge prescribed by Executive Order 13490. The public comment period closes on November 14, 2011. OGE is extending the comment period to December 14, 2011.

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 70667, November 15, 2011
• Proposed rules
• Government Ethics Office

• The United States Postal Service: An Assault On the American Middle Class

Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully-(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact; (2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or (3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry; shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both.

• Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif.
• May 26, 2010

• Gov. Lepage Tests New Powers

Gov. Paul LePage recently ordered state agencies to submit all proposed rules for his approval before they are made public. His action raises the question of how much power may be exercised over state agencies by the head of the executive branch of government.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• September 08, 2011

• Janet M. Proctor, Appellee, v. the State Government of North Carolina, Executive Branch; the Department of Human Resources of the State of North Carolina; David Flaherty, Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Human Resources; the Office of State Personnel of the North Carolina Department of Administration; I.O. Wilkerson, Director of the Division of Facility Services, North Carolina Department of Human Resources; Edward Seagroves, Analyst, Division of Manpower Management; North Carolina Department of Human Resources, Clark Edwards, Director, Manpower Management Division, North Carolina Department of Human Resources; Roy High, Section Chief, Office of State Personnel of the North Carolina Department of Administration, Appellants., 830 F.2d 514 (4th Cir. 1987)

Edwin M. Speas, Jr. and Marcella Ann Reed, Sp. Deputy Attys. Gen. (Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for appe...

• Federal Circuits

• State v. Reddish, (Ohio 2009)

The trial court did not err in failing to provide an imprisoned defendant with full and fair notice of the defendant’s sex offender classification and duties during the defendant’s resentencing hearing. Sex offender classification under S.B. 10 attaches by operation of law and does not encompass a judicial determination; it is not part of a judicial sentence, and the duty to advise sex offenders of their classification and resulting requirements is imposed upon officers within the executive branch of the government of Ohio, not upon judicial officers. Classification is an administrative decision and is determined solely upon the offense for which an offender was convicted. Affirmed.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Ross C. 'Rocky' Anderson Launches Presidential Bid for 2012 Election

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Monday, December 12, 2011, at 9:20 AM on MSNBC's The Daily Rundown, Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson, former Mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, and the former Executive Director of High Road for Human Rights, will launch his bid for the Presidential nomination of the newly formed Justice Party for the Office of President of the United States of America in the 2012 election cycle. For decades, Anderson has been an outspoken human rights, government reform, and environmental advocate. He has fought vigorously for compassionate and rational immigration reform, for full equality for the GLBT community, for campaign finance reform, and for an end to the disastrous so-called war on drugs. In addition, he has championed the implementation of effectiv...

• U.S. Newswire
• December 12, 2011