5 things from this week that didn’t involve Trump’s condolence calls

Here are five stories from the Trump administration you may have missed this week.

 

1. D.C. Court weighs undocumented teen seeking an abortion must wait for a sponsor: Judges with the Washington, D.C., Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the Department of Health and Human Services has untilOct. 31 to find a sponsor for an undocumented teenage girl in order for the abortion she is seeking to move forward, the Washington Post reported.
2. Women’s rights group sues DeVos over campus sexual assault changes: The women’s rights group Equal Means Equal is suing the Department of Education over its decision to rescind Obama-era rules about the way that campuses must handle sexual assault allegations.
3. Trump’s pick to head White House environment council once called belief in climate change “paganism”: Trump’s new selection to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality once called belief in climate change a “kind of paganism” for “secular elites,” according to CNN. Kathleen Hartnett White, the former head of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, was on a conservative online radio program in 2016 when she made the comments to the host.
4. Fired New York U.S. attorney says Trump is vetting his replacement:According to former United States Attorney Preet Bharara, Trump has beenpersonally interviewing candidates for the position of U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Washington, D.C. The decision to personally vet U.S. attorneys in those two jurisdictions creates a potential conflict of interest for a president who may one day be investigated by those same attorneys for his New York-based businesses.
5. EPA to restrict settlements with environmentalists: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has vowed to end the agency’s practice of settling lawsuits with environmental groups. “We will no longer go behind closed doors and use consent decrees and settlement agreements to resolve lawsuits filed against the agency by special interest groups,” Pruitt said while announcing the new policy.

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