WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge has ordered the Justice Department to produce White House memorandums that provide the legal basis for the Bush administration's post-Sept.
Trump, who owned stock in the companies developing the pipeline, issued a memorandum last month that ordered the Army to study whether it could lift the stoppage imposed during the Obama administration. .
The memorandum, issued and then retracted within hours by the Pentagon on Wednesday, had ordered the suspension of military exchanges and contacts with the Chinese armed forces.
The under secretary of commerce responsible for NOAA, Jane Lubchenco, issued the memorandum ordering the changes.
The Justice Department had asked Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan to delay a decision on whether to order the release of the memorandums, suggesting that the government might voluntarily release them.
More than 200 detainees remained at Gitmo in November, but on December 15 Obama issued a presidential memorandum ordering the transfer of detainees to Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois.
In the aftermath of the 2012 shooting, Obama issued a presidential memorandum ordering the Centers for Disease Control to defy Congress with work its researchers have not done in almost 20 years: study gun violence.
On his first full day in office Barack Obama issued a presidential memorandum ordering the heads of federal agencies to make available as much information as possible, urging them to act "with a clear presumption: in the face of doubt, openness prevails".
On Jan . 23 , 2009President Barack Obama signed an presidential memorandum, ordering the closure of the detention facilities at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A11 Gesture to Restore a Record The secretary of the Navy has ordered that a memorandum be placed in the file of Capt.
