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“The Daily” podcast weekly reporter round table Trump 2.0: Rewriting Histories Watch or listen to our political round table breaking down President Trump’s latest week in office. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/p...

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Trump Claims Power to Fire Administrative Law Judges at Will The Justice Department said a law protecting the officials from arbitrary removal is an unconstitutional intrusion on presidential authority. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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Is That Legal? A Guide to Trump’s Big Moves So Far. Examining the legality of 38 major actions the president has taken in his first month. w/ @upshot.nytimes.com 's Francesca Paris www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Trump Administration Abruptly Clears Out Migrants It Sent to Guantánamo A transfer operation on Thursday repatriated 177 Venezuelans via a handoff in Honduras, while one migrant was brought back to U.S. soil. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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New: Explainer/analysis of major legal issues raised by Trump sending migrants to Guantánamo Basically: Gitmo is a legally weird place, and as a result, this is a big mess. www.nytimes.com/article/trum...

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What we know about the secretive migrant mission at Guantanamo Bay: The migrants, the mission, the messaging and more. --Many questions are being raised; and we can provide a few answers.

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Trump Team Finds Loophole to Defy Spirit of Court Orders Blocking Spending Freezes Officials cite other legal authorities — not Mr. Trump’s court-blocked directives — to keep withholding foreign aid and domestic grant money. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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Trump Issues Order to Expand His Power Over Agencies Congress Made Independent www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

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I have asked the chief judge of the Federal District Court in DC to unseal dockets, filings and judicial opinions related to fights over attorney-client privilege during the investigations that led to Trump’s indictments in the election & classified documents case. charliesavage.com/2025/02/seek...

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If you to send something to friends and family who don't follow the news closely something that'll bring them up to speed, try this @nprfreshair.bsky.social interview with @charliesavage.bsky.social, who has been covering attempts to expand executive power for 30 years. www.npr.org/2025/02/17/g...

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Did Native Americans Really Name the Fort Wayne Portage “Glorious Gate?” charliesavage.com/2025/02/did-...

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Was Fort Wayne’s Swinney Park really a Native American site for ritualistic torture and cannibalism? charliesavage.com/2025/02/was-...

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In between all the other craziness last week, I recorded an episode of Fresh Air with Tonya Mosley about Trump's actions, the scope & limits of legitimate presidential power, & whether this is a "constitutional crisis." It's airing today. @nprfreshair.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3Zzv...

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A 2-1 panel of the D.C. Circuit has left intact a lower-court order that temporarily reinstated Hampton Dellinger atop the Office of Special Counsel. media.cadc.uscourts.gov/orders/docs/... DOJ has already said it plans to go to #SCOTUS, which would make this the first Trump II case to get there.

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On Trump declaring today that “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” Shades of Lincoln, Nixon, and Bush/Cheney - except those were limited to the context of dealing with national security threats, not what Trump has been up. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u...

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UPDATE: This suit may be moot. The government has notified the court that these Venezuelans who got a judge to thwart their transfer to Guantánamo have been repatriated. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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This is now mooted - the judge revealed in an order on Friday that the government has said the three men were repatriated to Venezuela on Monday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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WSJ editorial board: www.wsj.com/opinion/dani...

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Even with no media access to Guantánamo Bay, we give you a view from the ground. And the names of the 53 Venezuelan men the Trump administration has been holding inside a prison, under U.S. military guard. w/ @charliesavage.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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Courts Start to Impede Momentum of Trump’s Effort to Dismantle Government A mounting wave of lawsuits and court orders is slowing a dizzying effort to tear apart basic structures of the administrative state. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

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The Trump admin says ICE has custody of migrants sent to Guantanamo, but it's DOD guards in Camp 6, a war-on-terror prison. It won't say who is being held incommunicado there, but we are publishing a list of 53 men in Camp 6. w/ @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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Immigrant Aid Groups Seek Access to Migrants Sent by Trump to Guantánamo In a lawsuit, the groups asked a judge to enable lawyers to communicate with the men in case they would like legal representation. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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8 Inspectors General Fired by Trump File Lawsuit Seeking Reinstatement The case is the latest to challenge a wave of actions by President Trump that brazenly violated legal limits on his power. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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Senator Richard Durbin says he has info from "multiple sources" & meeting notes indicating that Kash Patel has secretly helped direct the FBI purge (via Stephen Miller to Emil Bove), and asked for an IG investigation. Says if true, Patel may have perjured himself. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

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Updated story: the judge convened a videoconference hearing and granted the order within an hour of the filing - during the Super Bowl. Not sure I have ever heard of a court moving that fast.

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Venezuelan Migrants Ask Court to Block U.S. from Sending Them to Guantánamo The three men, who are detained in New Mexico, say they “fit the profile” of the type of migrants the Trump administration has started sending to the Navy base. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

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J.D. Vance Says ‘Judges Aren’t Allowed to Control’ Trump’s ‘Legitimate Power’ The declaration by the vice president came as court orders have temporarily blocked parts of the Trump administration’s agenda. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

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Trump Says He’ll Fire F.B.I. Agents Amid Fight Over Those Who Investigated Jan. 6 A court ordered the administration to keep secret a list of F.B.I. officials who had pursued Jan. 6 rioters. Then Trump said he would “surgically” fire some agents. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

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Musk doesn't personally have access to Treasury system data but two DOGElings embedded in Treasury Dept do; so far they haven't shared outside of the department, DOJ tells judge, who appears likely to issue restraining order to freeze status quo www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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Gift link: Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab In the radical opening weeks of his second term, President Trump has appeared to feel little constraint by any need to show respect for the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

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Lawyers for Justice Dept. employees threaten to sue, saying dismissals violate the law. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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This story, and the broader policy stakes series, holds up. www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/u...

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Why does the military need to do training helicopter flights over a major urban area at all? If a helicopter is taking people somewhere they need to go that's one thing, but otherwise why create the (small) extra risk and (major) noise pollution for so many people on the ground?

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New news analysis from me: The prospect of legal challenges to President Trump’s purges may be a feature, not a bug, for adherents of sweeping presidential authority. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...

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Remnants of classified docs case ending www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...

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New legal explainer on Trump's spending freezes and impoundment www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...

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Forgot to post this an hour ago - Trump WH followed through on firing the three D-selected members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, so the watchdog agency is now indefinitely paralyzed for lack of a quorum. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/u...

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Latest on Trump's IG purge. Current best count is 17 IGs covering 18 agencies, but there's some fuzziness about Office of Personnel Management. Some are raising alarms and looking to Congress, where GOP reaction so far muted. Some are considering a lawsuit. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/u...

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Does Bluesky have a place to update social media previews, equivalent to Twitter card validator?

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THREAD: So what did The NYT learn as it dug deeper into the $Trump family crypto play? Here is a look at some of the new things we turned up. First, here a free link to the story David Yaffe Bellany and I posted this morning. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/u...

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