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It's been one year since the three-member Merit Systems Protection Board had a quorum, after several years without one. A big challenge for the board was clearing a five-year backlog of appeals cases.
A former mail carrier is telling the Supreme Court the Postal Service didn’t go far enough to accommodate his religious beliefs when it scheduled him to work Sundays.
Federal employment is anything but simple. In fact, each year, thousands of federal workplace cases end up in the courts, federal district, appellate, and administrative forums.
The Department of Veterans Affairs will now provide abortions for veterans in life-threatening situations due to a pregnancy or in cases of rape and incest.
One Supreme Court case that generated the most controversy lately was a 6-3 ruling that the EPA doesn't have authority to regulate power plants' greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.
Service members are facing long travel times and financial burdens to get abortions.
A challenge to the Postal Service's authority to set market-dominant mail prices above the rate of inflation won't get a hearing from the Supreme Court.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Justice Department is looking to help agencies resolve any questions about their authority in providing reproductive care.
The Freedom of Information Act might be best known as a way for journalists and public interest groups to get information about the operations of government. But it can also be a tool for companies to get confidential information about their competitors. Safeguarding that information has gotten more complicated in the last few years. Because the state of the law around the FOIA exemption that applies to things like trade secrets, it's all in flux.
Could an overturn of Roe vs. Wade affect the federal workforce? WTOP Capitol Hill reporter Mitchell Miller explained on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
A case now being decided by the Supreme Court, known as Torres versus Texas, has a potential big impact on members of the reserves.
When President-elect John F. Kennedy asked Bob McNamara, then president of Ford Motor Company to join his cabinet, McNamara said that he didn't know anything about government, JFK is said to have replied, "Well, we can both learn on the job. I don't know how to be president." Dr. Michael Siegel is senior education specialist at the Federal Judicial Center and adjunct professor at two local universities. He's also written a book, "The President as Leader." He helped teach judges how to lead.
From a supreme court confirmation vote to Russian misbehavior, the House and Senate have a lot to do in the coming week. And there's considerable time pressure to get it done.
In today's Federal Newscast, a federal judge in Texas has blocked the Navy from enforcing its COVID vaccine mandate against nearly 4,000 sailors who’d filed religious exemptions.