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- Ernst v. Child and Youth Services of Chester County, 108 F.3d 486
Court Filing · 1997
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
The Third Circuit held that caseworkers and attorneys who prosecute dependency cases have absolute immunity from lawsuits for preparing and prosecuting those cases. Investigative and administrative…
- EWTN: Plaintiff Discusses Social Media Censorship Settlement (2026)
News Report · 2026
EWTN News; republished by Ethics & Public Policy Center
EWTN News, republished by the Ethics & Public Policy Center, March 2026: reports Judge Doughty approved the settlement on March 26, 2026, barring the Surgeon General,…
- Executive Grant of Clemency for Hunter Biden (2024)
Government Record · 2024
President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
President Joe Biden, December 1, 2024: a full and unconditional pardon for Hunter Biden covering federal offenses from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, including…
- Executive Order 12291: Federal Regulation (1981)
Government Record · 1981
President Ronald Reagan
President Reagan, February 1981: agencies may not issue a regulation unless its benefits to society outweigh its costs, and draft rules go to the White House…
- Executive Order 12656: Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities
Government Record · 1988
President Ronald Reagan
President Reagan's 1988 order assigning every federal agency emergency and continuity-of-government duties. It says the plans themselves need separate legal authority to be carried out.
- Executive Order 13865: National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses (2019)
Government Record · 2019
President Donald J. Trump
Executive Order 13865, March 2019: orders federal agencies to prepare the country for electromagnetic pulses that could damage the power grid and other infrastructure.
- Executive Order 13891: Agency Guidance Documents (2019)
Government Record · 2019
President Donald J. Trump
President Trump, October 2019: ordered agencies to treat guidance documents as non-binding 'both in law and in practice,' post them publicly, and take public comment on…
- Executive Order 13992: Revoking the Guidance Order (2021)
Government Record · 2021
President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
President Biden, January 2021: revoked Executive Order 13891 on guidance documents, along with several other Trump regulatory orders, and told agencies to undo the policies built…
- Executive Order 14149: Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship (2025)
Government Record · 2025
President Donald J. Trump
President Trump, January 2025: states that the prior administration censored Americans by pressuring platforms, and orders the Attorney General to investigate four years of federal activity…
- Executive Order 14187, Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation (2025)
Government Record · 2025
President Donald J. Trump
EO 14187 defines a child as under 19 and directs federal grant, HHS, TRICARE, insurance, and DOJ actions against specified procedures. It was signed January 28,…
- Executive Order 14192: Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation (2025)
Government Record · 2025
President Donald J. Trump
President Trump, January 2025: for every new regulation, agencies must identify at least ten old ones to eliminate, with zero net new regulatory cost for 2025.
- Executive Order 14219: DOGE Deregulatory Initiative (2025)
Government Record · 2025
President Donald J. Trump
President Trump, February 2025: ordered agencies to find, within 60 days, regulations that are unconstitutional, exceed the agency's authority or conflict with recent Supreme Court rulings,…
- Executive Order 14257: Reciprocal Tariffs (2025)
Government Record · 2025
President Donald J. Trump
President Trump's April 2, 2025 executive order setting "reciprocal" tariffs starting at 10 percent on imports from all trading partners, under emergency powers (IEEPA).
- Executive Order 14270: Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting (2025)
Government Record · 2025
President Donald J. Trump
President Trump, April 2025: ordered energy and environmental agencies to add expiration dates to their regulations, so rules end automatically unless the agency renews them.
- Executive Order 14352, Saving TikTok While Protecting National Security
Government Record · 2025
President of the United States
President Trump's September 25, 2025 executive order approving the deal to put TikTok's U.S. app under a new joint venture majority-owned by Americans, with Oracle as…
- Executive Order: Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization (90 FR 46317)
Government Record · 2025
The White House
Presidential order signed September 22, 2025 designating Antifa a domestic terrorist organization and directing federal agencies to investigate, disrupt and dismantle its operations, including those who…
- Executive Summary: Investigation into the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida’s Resolution of Its 2006-2008 Federal Criminal Investigation of Jeffrey Epstein and Its Interactions with Victims during the Investigation
Government Record · 2020
DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility
OPR recounts the September 24, 2007 NPA, June 30, 2008 plea, 18-month sentence, less than 13 months served, and 12-hour work release. It found poor judgment…
- FAA: A Brief History of the FAA
Government Record
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA's own history: about 12,300 controllers walked out on August 3, 1981. After the 48-hour deadline, FAA fired about 11,400 of them and later reinstated about…
- Facebook: Ends Removal of Man-Made COVID Claims (2021)
Corporate Filing · 2021
Meta / Facebook
Facebook, May 26, 2021: its own policy page shows the claim that COVID-19 is man-made was removable from February 8, 2021, then says it would no…
- Facebook: Inauthentic Behavior Report on Natural News (2020)
Corporate Filing · 2020
Facebook
Facebook, October 2020: says it removed 15 Natural News Pages and blocked links to at least 850 associated domains in May and June 2020 for spam…
- Facebook: Removal of Four Infowars Pages (2018)
Corporate Filing · 2018
Meta / Facebook
Facebook, August 2018: removed four Infowars-related Pages for repeated Community Standards violations, including glorifying violence and dehumanizing language about transgender people, Muslims and immigrants. It said…
- Fact Sheet: Hepatitis B Immunization (individual-based decision-making for infants of HBsAg-negative mothers) (2025)
Government Record · 2025
CDC
Ends the 34-year universal birth-dose recommendation for infants of HBsAg-negative mothers; birth dose within 12 hours still recommended when the mother is HBsAg-positive or status unknown;…
- Fact-Check of Donald Trump’s Beyoncé Endorsement-Payment Claim
News Report · 2025
PolitiFact
PolitiFact, July 2025: no evidence the Harris campaign paid Beyoncé millions for her endorsement. The only payment found was the $165,000 for event production.
- FAQ: Vaccine Court Hears Autism Cases (2008)
News Report · 2008
WebMD (Daniel J. DeNoon)
Quotes the leaked HHS Rule 4(c) report: vaccinations Hannah Poling received on July 19, 2000 'significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder… and manifested as a regressive…