Vote centers open Saturday 24 October, a mailed ballot needs a 3 November postmark, and the Project 2025 ledger now covers all thirty chapters.
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Los Angeles County vote centers open tomorrow, Saturday 24 October, and stay open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day through 2 November. On election day, 3 November, they run 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The other dates that decide whether a ballot counts: a mailed ballot needs a 3 November postmark and has to reach the county by 10 November, and the Secretary of State suggests mailing by 27 October. Drop boxes close at 8 p.m. on 3 November. Anyone who missed registration can still register and vote the same day at a vote center.
The guide sets out the rules, all fourteen statewide measures, and who is on the ballot, each checked against the Secretary of State and the Registrar. It takes no position on any of them.
The Project 2025 ledger now covers every chapter of the Mandate for Leadership. Eighty three recommendations, each paired with the document that carried it out, blocked it, or left it on the table: 49 are done or in effect, 9 were stopped or reversed in court, 17 are still moving, 8 have not begun. Thirty eight landed as written; sixteen went further than the book asked, nine reached the same end by another route, fifteen landed in part, and five are not in the book at all. Where a date exists for the first order, the median wait from that order to something durable is a year. Every row quotes the page and links the record, and the page is rechecked against the record each Monday.
THE RECORDEvery primary document this piece links to
Terms that recur across the record, defined once. Each H3 below is a term; the paragraph under it is the definition the site shows on hover, and the line after it names the primary source.
Administrative Procedure Act
The 1946 statute that sets how federal agencies make rules and how courts review them. It requires notice and public comment for most rules and lets courts set aside agency action that is arbitrary, capricious, or contrary to law.
A meeting employees must attend, on paid time and under threat of discipline, where the employer argues against unionizing. The NLRB held mandatory meetings of this kind unlawful in Amazon.com Services in November 2024, applying the rule to future cases only.
The NLRB's 2023 standard from Cemex Construction Materials Pacific. When a union shows majority support, the employer must recognize it or promptly file for an election, and serious unfair labor practices before the vote lead to a bargaining order instead of a rerun. The Sixth Circuit held the standard invalid on 6 March 2026.
The doctrine from Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council (1984) under which courts deferred to an agency's reasonable reading of an ambiguous statute it administers. The Supreme Court overruled it in Loper Bright in 2024.
A 1996 law that lets Congress overturn a new federal rule with a joint resolution of disapproval, passed by simple majorities on a fast track and signed by the president. A disapproved rule cannot be reissued in substantially the same form without new authority from Congress.
The 1998 law that governs who may serve as an acting officer in a Senate confirmed post and for how long. Actions taken by someone serving outside its limits are generally without legal effect.
Extended debate that blocks a Senate vote. Ending it through cloture takes three fifths of senators, usually 60, so most legislation needs 60 votes to advance. Budget reconciliation bills are exempt.
Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935), which upheld limits on the president's power to fire FTC commissioners and became the legal basis for independent agencies. The Supreme Court overruled it in Trump v. Slaughter on 29 June 2026, except for agencies that exercise no executive power.
The International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977, which lets a president regulate commerce after declaring a national emergency. In February 2026 the Supreme Court held that it does not authorize tariffs.
When the executive withholds or delays spending money Congress has appropriated. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 allows it only through reported deferrals or through rescission proposals, which lapse unless Congress approves them within 45 days of continuous session.
Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024), which overruled Chevron and held that courts must decide for themselves what an ambiguous statute means rather than defer to the agency's reading.
The principle that Congress cannot hand its lawmaking power to another branch. Courts uphold a delegation if the statute supplies an intelligible principle to guide it, a test from J. W. Hampton v. United States (1928) that has struck down only two laws, both in 1935.
A rescission proposal sent to Congress within 45 days of the end of a fiscal year, so the frozen funds expire before Congress has to act. GAO has found the maneuver unlawful under the Impoundment Control Act, most recently on 29 September 2026.
The minimum number of members a board or commission needs in order to act. The NLRB needs three of its five seats filled; the FEC needs four of its six commissioners to vote on enforcement, rules, or advisory opinions.
A budget process that lets Congress pass tax, spending, and debt limit changes with a simple majority in the Senate, outside the filibuster. It starts with instructions in a budget resolution, and the Byrd rule strikes provisions with no budgetary effect.
A layoff of federal employees under OPM rules that rank workers by tenure, veterans' preference, length of service, and performance to decide who is released. Often shortened to RIF.
The president's authority to fire executive officers, and how far Congress can limit it. In Trump v. Slaughter (29 June 2026) the Supreme Court held that for cause protection for FTC commissioners is unconstitutional, so the president can remove members of most independent agencies at will.
An excepted service classification, first created by executive order in 2020, that removes civil service job protections from career employees in policy influencing roles. Revoked in 2021, reinstated by order in January 2025, and made final by OPM rule in 2026 under the name Schedule Policy/Career.
The 2026 name for Schedule F. Career employees placed in it keep their jobs but lose adverse action appeal rights, so they can be removed without the usual civil service process.
Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, which lets the president impose an import surcharge of up to 15 percent for up to 150 days to address balance of payments problems. A 10 percent surcharge ran under it from 24 February to 24 July 2026.
Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which lets the president restrict imports the Commerce Department finds threaten national security. It underlies the steel, aluminum, and auto tariffs.
Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which lets the U.S. Trade Representative impose duties or other measures on countries whose trade practices are found unfair or burdensome to U.S. commerce.
A provision of the Tariff Act of 1930 allowing new duties of up to 50 percent on imports from countries found to discriminate against American commerce. It went unused for decades before the 2026 tariff on Canadian goods.
Conduct the National Labor Relations Act forbids to employers or unions, such as threatening, firing, or bribing workers over organizing, or refusing to bargain in good faith. Charges are filed with the NLRB.