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Federal employees should look to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) as the primary official source for 2026 pay tables and effective dates; OPM posts GS, locality, special rate and related pay m...
A federal election in the United States cannot be unilaterally canceled or postponed by the President and there is no historical precedent for delaying a presidential election because of war; doing so...
The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) addresses lawful and unlawful orders primarily through Articles 90 and 92: Article 92 criminalizes failure to obey orders or regulations, and Article 90 cri...
The President of the United States nominates the Federal Reserve Chair and the U.S. Senate must confirm that nominee; the Chair serves a four‑year term and sits on the seven‑member Board of Governors ...
The core, consistent requirements to apply to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point are clear: . Sources converge on deadlines and procedural steps—official test scores, transcripts, letters/evaluat...
The FY2025 federal budget and related agency announcements commit roughly $3.2 billion to VA homeless programs for Oct. 1, 2024–Sept. 30, 2025, funding prevention, rapid rehousing, transitional housin...
The short answer: parts of what is called “Antifa” have been designated terrorist organizations by U.S. authorities — but those designations apply to specific foreign groups, not to a single, unified ...
Conviction in a Senate impeachment trial requires the concurrence of two‑thirds of the Senators present; practically, if all 100 Senators are present that means 67 must vote “guilty” on at least one a...
When National Guard units are placed on federal active duty, command ultimately shifts to the President as Commander-in-Chief, with authority operationally delegated through the Secretary of Defense a...
The Speaker of the House does not have legal authority to deploy the District of Columbia National Guard; , while specific requests to support the U.S. Capitol require approval by the Capitol Police B...
The available analyses converge on a central point: the Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) generally bars the Army and Air Force from executing domestic law, but . Sources disagree about extraterritorial appli...
Federal law exempts the President and Vice President from the standard executive-branch gift ban that limits most federal employees to small, infrequent gifts (commonly cited as $20 per gift or $50 pe...
The key finding is that the Posse Comitatus Act does not itself bar governors from using their state National Guard for civil unrest, but it constrains federal military involvement by requiring carefu...
Section 4 of the 25th Amendment allows the Vice President, together with a majority of the Cabinet or a body Congress may create, to declare the President unable to discharge the powers and duties of ...
The National Park Service (NPS) has statutory responsibility for managing the White House grounds and advising on historic preservation, but its ; the President retains broad latitude for changes. Rec...
The primary distinction between Title 10 and Title 32 National Guard deployments is : Title 10 federalizes the Guard under the President and Secretary of Defense, while Title 32 keeps Guard forces und...
Congress’s formal role in removing a president under the 25th Amendment is narrowly defined: Congress must resolve a dispute triggered by the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet (or another b...
Congressional and presidential Election Day is a creature of federal statute: changing it requires Congress to pass a new law that alters the existing statutory dates controlling congressional electio...
The U.S. Constitution does not name or create a “Department of Defense”; Congress and statutes established the Department of Defense in the 20th century and set the Secretary of Defense’s role in law ...
The FBI director is nominated by the President and must be confirmed by the Senate; Congress capped the term at a single 10‑year appointment in 1976 to insulate the office from politics . When the off...