Trump Announces Intent to Appoint Individuals to Key Administration Posts; July 24, 2020

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NOMINATIONS & APPOINTMENTS

President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Appoint Individuals to Key Administration Posts
Issued on: July 24, 2020

Today, President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to be Members of the Administrative Conference of the United States for terms of three years:

Roger Thomas Severino, of California

Jennifer B. Dickey, of California

Adrian Vermeule, of Massachusetts

Ronald A. Cass, of Virginia

Roger Severino and his wife used to live out by the West Falls Church Metro stop. I recognized the name right away.

The Man Behind Trump's Religious-Freedom Agenda for Health Care
Roger Severino, the devout, conservative head of civil-rights enforcement at HHS, shows the power of behind-the-scenes figures in a dysfunctional Washington.

EMMA GREEN | JUNE 7, 2017

The offices inside the Department of Health and Human Services are aggressively tan. Roger Severino, the newly appointed head of its Office for Civil Rights, hasn’t done much by way of decoration. Aside from a few plaques and leftover exhibits from old cases, his Clarence Thomas bobblehead doll and crucifix are the only personal touches in his work space.

The media spends a lot of time tracking Donald Trump’s every move and chasing down members of Congress, but much of governing happens in these bland halls. Under Trump, HHS may see more changes than any other agency, in part because the president’s predecessor left his biggest mark here. As Congress stalls on passing a new health-care bill, the Trump administration can still fight Obamacare with revised regulations, rejiggered budgets, and lackluster enforcement.

Severino leads the office that could shape the future of two of the most high-stakes aspects of the health-care debate: abortion and contraception access and LGBT rights. OCR, as it’s known, is responsible for investigating civil-rights violations in health-care settings, including discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, and national origin. Under Barack Obama, HHS faced religious objections to the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that most employers cover birth control in their insurance plans, and OCR has dealt with the fall-out of those fights. It developed strict requirements for the language services hospitals have to provide to non-English speakers. Most controversially, it was responsible for interpreting Section 1557, the part of the health-care law that prohibits discrimination.

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Roger Thomas Severino
Health and Human Services (joined: March 19, 2017)

Director Office for Civil Rights | $179,700 | Financial Disclosure »

Bio, via Department of Health and Human Services:

Roger Severino is the Director of the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to joining the Department, Mr. Severino served as Director of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society in the Institute for Family, Community, and Opportunity at The Heritage Foundation. Before joining Heritage in 2015, Mr. Severino was a trial attorney for seven years in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division where he enforced the Fair Housing Act, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, and Title II and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He has litigated cases under sex, race, national origin, religion, disability, and familial status discrimination and served as the Housing and Civil Enforcement Section's E-discovery officer as well as attorney advisor to the fair housing testing program. Mr. Severino was previously chief operations officer and legal counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Mr. Severino holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, received a master’s degree in public policy, with highest distinction, from Carnegie Mellon University, and has a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Southern California, where he was a National Merit Scholar.

Former Positions Outside Government
Campbell Family Properties, LLC Secretary
The Heritage Foundation Director

Former Compensation Sources
The Heritage Foundation Director of a six person research center (counting me) within a larger public policy think tank.

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1. Don't rats usually abandon sinking ships?

[tirebiter]

2. Screw any lame duck appointments

Either don't let them in or throw them out on 1/21/2021

[SmartVoter22]

3. A few months work...donations to Trump 2020

Maybe these appointments are only to get them to turn over the income from the jobs to Trump's 2020 campaign.

It would not surprise me, or millions of others they would do something like this.