This is from a new york times gift article from the nyt.
TikTok ban
What the administration did
- Ordered the Justice Department not to enforce a ban on TikTok for 75 days and to notify the app and its business partners that defying the law is no criminal offense.
What it could be violating
- Law barring TikTok from operating in the United States unless and until its Chinese owner sells it.
Foreign aid freeze
What the administration did
- Required blanket temporary freeze on most foreign aid.
What it could be violating
- The longer it lasts, blocking congressionally approved spending comes into greater tension with Impoundment Control Act.
Domestic grants freeze
What the administration did
- The Office of Management and Budget ordered agencies to carry out a blanket temporary freeze up to $3 trillion in domestic grants and other government spending.
What it could be violating
- The freeze has been temporarily blocked by two courts after plaintiffs raised challenges, including provisions in the Administrative Procedure Act and First Amendment rights.
U.S. Agency for International Development
What the administration did
- Moved to apparently dismantle the agency and fold its functions into the State Department, including by making Secretary of State Marco Rubio its acting director.
What it could be violating
- A law in which Congress created U.S.A.I.D. and structured it as a stand-alone entity.
Inspectors general
What the administration did
- Summarily fired 17 inspectors general, the watchdog officials who hunt for waste, fraud, abuse and illegality in government agencies.
What it could be violating
- A law that says presidents have to give Congress 30 days’ notice and a written “substantive rationale, including detailed and case-specific reasons” before any such removal.
National Labor Relations Board
What the administration did
- Summarily fired a Democratic member of the independent agency before her term was up, paralyzing the board by leaving it without a quorum.
What it could be violating
- A law that says presidents may only remove board members “upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause.”
Federal prosecutors
What the administration did
- Summarily fired prosecutors involved in the cases against President Trump or the Jan. 6 rioters.
What it could be violating
- Civil service job protections against arbitrarily firing federal workers without a good cause and without hearings before the Merit System Protection Board.
Birthright citizenship
What the administration did
- Declared that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment will no longer be interpreted as granting citizenship to babies born on U.S. soil to undocumented parents or other visitors and instructed agencies not to issue citizenship-affirming documents, like Social Security cards, to such infants.
What it could be violating
- The longstanding understanding that the 14th Amendment does grant citizenship to such infants; a federal judge has barred agencies from obeying this order for now.
