Outgoing presidential administrations apparently make all kinds of rule changes at the last minute. Once in place, they can be difficult for the successor to undo. From what I've read, this has been the case since at least the Carter administration.
So I don't get something. Why does a rule change trump state law?
Here's one example where folks where medical folks won't have to offer the morning after pill.
Another one where the outgoing EPA administrator forbids regulating carbon dioxide emissions.
The Homeland Security angle.
There is
other coverage out there.
It's one thing when congress passes a law, it's a whole different thing for some outgoing political appointee to invalidate state laws by sending out a memo... Perhaps these things should be somehow restricted in the window between the election and the inauguration when there is zero political pressure restraining the lame duck.
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