Intelligence Whistleblower Protections, and More from CRS
New publications from the Congressional Research Service that Congress has withheld from online public distribution include the following.
Intelligence Whistleblower Protections: In Brief, October 23, 2014
Sexual Violence at Institutions of Higher Education, October 23, 2014
Cities Try, and Fail (So Far), to Prevent Federal Marijuana Enforcement, CRS Legal Sidebar, October 24, 2014
Bankruptcy for Marijuana Businesses?, CRS Legal Sidebar, October 29, 2014
Spectrum Needs of Self-Driving Vehicles, CRS Insights, October 28, 2014
The Ebola Outbreak: Quarantine and Isolation Authority, CRS Legal Sidebar, October 28, 2014
Can Marriage Conquer “Consular Nonreviewability” for a Spouse’s Visa Denial?, CRS Legal Sidebar, October 30, 2014
Congressional Power to Create Federal Courts: A Legal Overview, October 1, 2014
Drug Enforcement in the United States: History, Policy, and Trends, October 2, 2014
January saw us watching whether the government would fund science. February has been about how that funding will be distributed, regulated, and contested.
This rule gives agencies significantly more authority over certain career policy roles. Whether that authority improves accountability or creates new risks depends almost entirely on how agencies interrupt and apply it.
Our environmental system was built for 1970s-era pollution control, but today it needs stable, integrated, multi-level governance that can make tradeoffs, share and use evidence, and deliver infrastructure while demonstrating that improved trust and participation are essential to future progress.
Durable and legitimate climate action requires a government capable of clearly weighting, explaining, and managing cost tradeoffs to the widest away of audiences, which in turn requires strong technocratic competency.