{"id":1982815,"date":"2023-07-26T05:04:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T09:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-braces-for-legal-challenges-over-acting-labor-secretarys-authority\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T05:08:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T09:08:18","slug":"white-house-braces-for-legal-challenges-over-acting-labor-secretarys-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-braces-for-legal-challenges-over-acting-labor-secretarys-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"White House prepares for legal battles over acting labor secretary&#8217;s power."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-braces-for-legal-challenges-over-acting-labor-secretarys-authority%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1982815&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The \u200bWhite House Faces Potential Lawsuit Over Julie Su<\/h2>\n<p>Excitement is \u2062brewing in Washington\u2062 as the Biden administration attempts to keep \u200bJulie Su as acting \u200blabor \u200csecretary without Senate confirmation. This move has sparked\u200c controversy among\u2063 business groups, \u200cRepublicans, and even some Democrats who view it \u2064as legally questionable.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;By\u200c declining to act on Ms. Su\u2019s\u200c nomination, the Senate\u200d is advising\u2063 against the policies she has espoused and declining to consent to her leadership,&#8221; Flex,\u200b which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-braces-for-legal-challenges-over-acting-labor-secretarys-authority\/\" title=\"White House prepares for legal battles over acting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-officials-say-10-of-states-unemployment-payments-linked-to-fraud\/\" title=\"Calif. officials say 10% of state\u2019s unemployment payments linked to fraud\">labor secretary<\/a>&#8216;s power.&#8221;>represents gig\u200b economy companies<\/a> like \u200bDoorDash, GrubHub, Lyft, and Uber, wrote to the White House Monday.\u200b &#8220;As a result,\u200c any action taken to\u2063 finalize the proposed worker classification regulation under Ms. Su\u2019s current leadership as \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/acting-secretary-of-the-department-of-defense-chris-miller-thanks-vp-pence-for-efforts-in-most-complex-military-operation-in-history\/\" title=\"Acting Secretary of the Department of Defense Chris Miller Thanks VP Pence for Efforts in Most Complex Military Operation in History?\">acting secretary<\/a> would circumvent the Senate\u2019s constitutional role of providing advice and consent\u200c on nominees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While\u2062 this\u2064 letter does not explicitly \u200dthreaten legal action, it hints at\u2062 potential battles over Su&#8217;s authority as labor secretary and \u2063the legitimacy of her actions in that role.<\/p>\n<p>Su assumed the position in March, \u200dreplacing Marty Walsh who \u2064left\u200d to represent professional hockey players. Normally, the secretary\u200d of labor would be confirmed by a simple majority\u2062 in the Senate, but President Biden\u200d is facing difficulties in making \u2063that happen for Su.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, \u2063the administration is \u200drelying on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/key-figure-in-jan-6-events-backs-claims-that-cheney-january-6-committee-are-lying\/\" title=\"Key Figure in Jan. 6 Events Backs Claims That Cheney, January 6 Committee Are Lying\">legal ambiguity<\/a> to keep her in\u2063 place indefinitely. A White House official \u200bstated, &#8220;Upon Secretary Walsh\u2019s departure, acting Secretary Su\u200d automatically became acting secretary\u200d under its organic statute, not under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. As a result, Su is not\u200c subject \u2063to the time limits of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act and she \u2064can serve as acting secretary \u2064indefinitely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite Democrats holding \u200ba slim\u200c majority in the Senate, \u200cSenator Joe Manchin has expressed\u200d opposition to\u2062 Su due to her &#8220;progressive background.&#8221; While Manchin&#8217;s defection alone would not tip the scales,\u200b other centrist senators\u2064 have yet to\u200d declare their support or opposition.<\/p>\n<p>One aspect of Su&#8217;s background that has \u200bdrawn criticism is\u2063 her involvement in California&#8217;s Labor and Workforce Development Agency, where she supported legislation that sought\u200c to restrict independent contracting. However, this \u200clegislation \u2062was \u200blater overturned by California voters.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Jon Tester has made\u2063 it clear that he does not support \u200bkeeping Su in an acting capacity without confirmation, likening it \u200cto the actions of former President Donald\u200c Trump.\u200b Tester stated, &#8220;I \u2063don\u2019t support\u2063 that myself. \u200cI didn\u2019t support it in the last administration. I don\u2019t support it in this one. I just think there\u2019s much\u200c more certainty if you\u2019ve been confirmed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump faced ridicule for keeping cabinet members \u2063in acting roles \u200bto bypass Senate confirmation. Biden, who pledged to restore normalcy to Washington, \u2063may now face similar pressure due \u2064to his commitment to being \u200bthe \u200dmost pro-union\u200c president in history.<\/p>\n<p>Former White House chief ethics \u2062lawyer \u2063Richard Painter argues that the Su controversy has become a typical occurrence in Washington, where Congress has become ineffective \u2062at reining in \u2063executive power.\u200c Painter notes the inconsistency between Democrats&#8217; outrage over Trump&#8217;s actions and their silence\u200c when Biden made significant decisions without congressional \u2062approval.<\/p>\n<p>While there\u200b may be no legal barriers preventing \u2063Su from continuing to perform her role in\u200b an acting capacity and finalizing new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hawley-lee-press-eeoc-over-trans-bathroom-and-pronoun-rules\/\" title=\"Hawley, Lee Press EEOC Over Trans Bathroom and Pronoun Rules\">agency rules<\/a>, the situation becomes murkier when it comes to implementing controversial rules without a Senate-confirmed secretary.<\/p>\n<p>White House officials maintain that Su&#8217;s \u2063actions leading\u2064 the Labor\u2063 Department would \u200dface\u200d challenges regardless of\u200d her confirmation status, and\u200b they defend the job she has done so far. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated, &#8220;[The president] nominated her because he believed that\u200b she \u200dwas\u200d eminently\u200b qualified to do the job, and she has\u2063 done \u200bit in a brilliant way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> \u200b to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House may face a lawsuit over Julie Su, as the Biden administration aims to retain her as acting labor secretary without Senate confirmation. Business groups, Republicans, and even some Democrats are displeased. The Secret Service warns that if not the president&#8217;s pet, Biden&#8217;s dog would be euthanized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1982816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}