6 entries in the ledger
A Ninth Circuit panel ruled on Monday, Aug. 17, 2026 that Sigal Chattah, the Trump administration's initial pick to run the U.S. Attorney's Office in Nevada, was unlawfully appointed to lead federal prosecutions there...
Trump signed Executive Order 14415 on Aug. 3, 2026, establishing the President's Military Spouse Commission to advise him on housing, employment, health care, education, child care and deployment-related support for...
The Washington Post reported on June 2, 2026 that the Defense Department had hired Elias Irizarry, 23, as a political appointee in the office of the Assistant Secretary for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict...
On June 2, 2026, President Trump named Bill Pulte — director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — acting Director of National Intelligence. Pulte's career has been in housing...
On June 12, 2025 the Senate confirmed former Missouri congressman Billy Long as IRS Commissioner by a party-line 53-44 vote. Long, a six-term House Republican who left office in 2021, had previously backed legislation to...
On May 29, 2025 President Trump nominated 30-year-old White House aide Paul Ingrassia, a 2022 law school graduate with under a year as a licensed attorney, to lead the Office of Special Counsel, the agency responsible...