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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...
to enforce federal immigration law in the sense of being compelled to use local officers or resources to carry out federal removal or civil immigration investigations; the Constitution vests immigrati...
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 ...
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...
OPM released 2026 special rate tables after consulting with agencies and approved them with a tentative effective date of January 11, 2026, and those tables include new special-rate coverage for certa...
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 ...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
Congress does control federal spending through the Constitution’s Appropriations Clause and the budgetary framework it has built, but that control operates inside a complex system of statutes, preside...
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...
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 ...
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 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...