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December 2025

A Gift From You to You: Finding Balance

There's something lodged in most of our brains that believes we should be focusing all the time. It believes we should be doing hard, focused work most of the time, and the rest of the time, focused on reading, learning, socializing, exercising, meditating, eating healthy foods. And when we're not focusing on one of these kinds of things, we feel guilty because we believe we should be.

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The NLRB – Down, but Not Out

The epic saga that has arisen from President Trump’s firing of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member Gwynne Wilcox back in January of 2025 turned another chapter when on December 5, 2025, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the Administration’s position that it could remove Ms. Wilcox from the Board. The impending Supreme Court case of Trump v. Slaughter (which involves President Trump’s firing of an FTC commissioner) should squarely put before the Court the question of whether the executive branch can terminate – at will and without cause – members of independent agencies (potentially overturning 90 years of precedent stemming from Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, 295 U.S. 602 (1935)).

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