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🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court keeps lower court order that undid Trump effort to fire Special Counsel Dellinger in place. Trump administration's motion to reverse is held in abeyance until after TRO expires on 2/26. Subscribe to Democracy Docket to stay informed. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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"The court kept the order in place while at the same time staying the Trump administration’s application in place — essentially punting on the issue." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

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From the get go of the second Trump administration, it was clear that the president would try to pass a bunch of executive orders without any clear indication that he, or his trusted advisors, actually knew if it was legal. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/wha...

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Elon Musk’s DOGE operation has gained unprecedented access to Americans’ financial data—but what happens when that data is weaponized? History offers a chilling lesson. @j_vittori explores the risks in a guest essay on my Substack. Read here: www.avindman.com/p/how-is-dog...

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The senior military officer purges will put our troops in danger. Trump put a part-time airmen incharge of the military, jumping a slew of 3 and 4-stars with 30-40 years of military experience. Our enemy couldn’t be happier.

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From Bad to Worse: Pentagon's Friday Night Massacre; and Trump Pushes Putin's Wars This video evaluates the disastrous Pentagon firings, politicization of the military and filling the ranks with Trump loyalists, and Trump delaying the end of the Russia-Ukraine war. open.substack.com/pub/alexande...

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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

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Alina Habba, who is ostensibly a lawyer, claims on Fox & Friends that Trump "made the law" with his executive orders (executive orders are not laws -- only Congress can make laws)

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The worst part of this North Korean style sycophancy is that we all know Lutnick doesn’t believe a word of this and Trump knows Lutnick doesn’t believe a word of this.

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New in PN: AOC shows how to fight back and stand strong "Prominent figures standing up can undermine the climate of fear that MAGA relies on to impose terror. AOC’s work on behalf of her constituents and refusal to be intimidated are models of resistance other Democrats would do well to imitate."

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Important for understanding implications of the Defense Department purge. Who will be their replacements? Recall this report from December: "Prospective occupants of high posts inside the Pentagon" were asked "whether they believed the 2020 election was stolen."

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Better not call it a “vaccine” or it might not get approved. Maybe market it as a recreational drug.

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OVERNIGHT: Donald Trump’s media company, citing President Donald Trump’s executive order, sues a Brazilian judge who is involved in the potential prosecution of Donald Trump’s political ally Jair Bolsonaro.

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BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.

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JUST IN: A 9th Circuit appeals court panel has denied the Trump administration’s bid for emergency relief from the injunction blocking President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.

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NEW: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from immediately deporting 8 asylum seekers who say they're fleeing violence, torture, rape and other horrors in their home countries. But one may already be on her way home. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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BREAKING: Court pushback against Trump executive actions reaches intelligence community as judge halts firing of CIA & ODNI personnel involved in DEI. Judge Anthony Trenga (GWBush appointee)in Alexandria grants administrative stay blocking dismissals of 11 officials www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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NEW: Appeals court rejects Trump bid for stay lifting block on his executive order to end birthright citizenship. 9th Circuit judges split on rationale. Issue is headed to #SCOTUS, but now? w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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JUST IN: As Kash Patel's confirmation vote for FBI chief looms in Senate, DC federal judge (Kelly) rules against bid to force out special counsel Jack Smith's report on Trump classified docs probe & what Patel said. Cannon order still bars release. Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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NEW: CBS seems to be using the Disney defense in Trump's suit v. "60 Minutes." Says co-plaintiff @RonnyJacksonTX, apparently added to get case to Judge Kacsmaryk/TXND, agreed to arbitrate his claim. Not clear why but probably Jackson has Paramount+. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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JUST IN: Judge Randolph Moss in DC blocks deportation of 8 immigrants from US, in response to emergency motion filed late last night. Administrative stay issued after DOJ couldn't immediately say what provisions the 8 were to be removed under under. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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I lost my job at the National Science Foundation yesterday, along with 167 of my colleagues, including some dear friends. This was the best job I've ever had, and I thought it would be my last. The PI community has been sympathetic and supportive, without exception. I will miss working for you.

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This is what I was talking about last week.

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Scoop: Inside Hakeem Jeffries' plan to dampen Trump's first big speech https://www.axios.com/2025/02/19/trump-speech-congress-hakeem-jeffries-guests #axios #news #usnews

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here's today's post: "long live me! blithers Mad King Donny" — what kind of delusional shit is this. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

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Poor JD. I guess he just wasn’t ready.

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They are going to interrogate federal law enforcement officers and employees with polygraph tests to try to find out if they are talking to the press.

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The key point that was made in this clip is that it happened organically. We don’t come from the consultant class, we get zero legacy media hype, we don’t get invited on shows & don’t want to be on TV, no big money donors writing checks. It all happened one person at a time. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

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Trump is rewriting the history of Russia’s invasion: Ukraine is not a victim but a villain and Zelensky not a latter-day Churchill but a “dictator without elections” who started the war. He seems to be laying a predicate for abandoning an ally under attack www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Congrats, America. We're now on Putin's side.

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Fired Department of Labor IG Larry Turner found $191B in improper COVID unemployment payments, much of it fraud, and was hunting down $135B more when he was fired. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Again, Trump fired SBA Inspector General Mike Ware after he found $200 billion in fraud in Trump's COVID programs and returned $40B to the US Treasury. Instead, Trump brought in a bunch of fascist boys who know nothing about accounting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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From the weekend: (I guess it still is weekend for you all, huh?) One reason Emil Bove says Eric Adams' case must be dismissed is so he can have clearance to get immigration info. Which is nutty, since Trump stripped Alvin Bragg and Tish James' clearance. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/16/e...

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NEW: Trump’s FEMA administrator just sent out an email ordering all employees to stop sending things to the media without prior authorization. It was immediately sent to me by a FEMA employee without prior authorization to share with you.

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On X, DOGE now has a separate “DOGE IRS” account, which it’s using to crowdsource ideas on “finding and fixing waste, fraud and abuse relating to the Internal Revenue Service.”

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Over the weekend, Trump's DOJ made this claim in defending DOGE's constitutionality: DOGE and Elon Musk do NOT have “authority to make decisions for the U.S. government.” They just have "influence" in giving "advice," the govt claims. https://buff.ly/4gJpKLh

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During an ongoing hearing, an attorney challenging DOGE's constitutionality makes her case for a judge to act quickly: According to WaPo's review of internal docs, "Phase 3" of staffing cuts begins on Wednesday, she notes.

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Asked about 1,000s of federal employees being fired, a govt lawyer responds: "I have not been able to look into that independently or confirm that." Chutkan responds incredulously: "The firing of thousands of federal employees is not a small or common thing. You haven’t been able to confirm that?"

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The Trump DOJ's lawyer says the states have no evidence that Elon Musk has "any formal or actual authority" over the government's actions. Judge Chutkan seems skeptical of that argument: "I think you stretch too far."

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Judge Chutkan says she plans to rule on the request for a TRO in the case challenging DOGE's constitutionality within 24 hours. She also plans to set a schedule for the requested preliminary injunction. By the hearing's end, she still appeared skeptical of the TRO, without deciding.

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This is Judge Chutkan expressing skepticism over a key government defense to the Appointments Clause challenge of DOGE and Elon Musk's authority, an issue of potentially more lasting significance than the current battle over the TRO. ⬇️

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More resignations imminent, @NYTimes.com reports: "The four officials — Maria Torres-Springer, the first deputy mayor, and Meera Joshi, Anne Williams-Isom and Chauncey Parker, all also deputy mayors — oversee much of New York City government."

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Nick Akerman, an ex-Watergate and SDNY prosecutor, wants to file an amicus brief opposing dismissal of the Eric Adams corruption case—and asking the judge to haul Emil Bove into court and possibly sanction him for "making improper and unethical demands." Doc https://buff.ly/416cCKD

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ICYMI: @weissmann11.bsky.social and I break down what’s next for Trump’s DOJ after its illegal and unethical pressure campaign on the SDNY: www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/...

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Trump’s “sweeping freeze on U.S. foreign assistance has threatened programs intended to counter al-Shabab bombmakers, contain the spread of al-Qaeda across West Africa and secure Islamic State prisoners in the Middle East.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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