Arkansas AG, Who Got a 77% Raise, Brags Federal Judge Just Blocked Overtime Rule for 4.2M workers [View all]
A federal judge has just blocked the Obama administration's new rule regulating overtime pay, which was about to increase the wages of 4.2 million lower-income workers. On Tuesday evening U.S. District Judge Amos Mazzant in Sherman, Texas, ruled the regulation is unlawful.
Representatives from twenty-one states, including the attorney general of Arkansas, joined together with "a coalition of business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce," in a lawsuit against the federal government, Reuters reports. The new regulations were to go into effect next week, on December 1.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge immediately took to Twitter to brag that the judge granted her request.
Rutledge, 40, was elected in 2014 and took office in January of 2015, earning a salary of $73,132. In March of that year, Rutledge and other top elected officials, including the governor, received exorbitant salary increases. Her salary was increased to $130,000, a 77.7% increase.
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