President Trump 2.0: The NEW one and only politics thread

[micropolitan guy]

Is there any actual evidence that this occurred?

Who needs evidence? They just say ship, like Haitians are eating family pets in Ohio, and their idiot base (and the media) laps it up.

 

[Justin_Rice]

No Bluesky embedder

The Administration is openly declaring itself above the law, unaccountable to any sort of duly enacted provision, statute or Constitutional principle.

Do any of our resident "both-siders!" care?

 

[BTExpress]

Is there any actual evidence that this occurred?

"Two former White House sources" said "a key aide to former President Joe Biden" used the autopen.

So it's either a 100% slam dunk or a nothingburger, depending on whom you voted for.

 

[Webster]

The Administration is openly declaring itself above the law, unaccountable to any sort of duly enacted provision, statute or Constitutional principle.

Do any of our resident "both-siders!" care?

Not the first crap. I'm proud to work for a law firm which has been targeted by Trump for the sin of having a policy where we look to identify recruits from non-standard sources.

 

[garrow]

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US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building

Employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an independent agency. The organization’s CEO, George Moose, said, “DOGE has broken into our...

www.nbcwashington.com

 

[FileNotFound]

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US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building

Employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an independent agency. The organization’s CEO, George Moose, said, “DOGE has broken into our...

www.nbcwashington.com

If we still had a Congress, it might actually step up and do something about this.

 

[Della9250]

 

[DanOregon]

"As part of the Administration's ban on DEI, only polar bears will be allowed to compete in the National Park Service's "Fat Bear Week," because for too long the competition was seen as a way to boost BLACK bears and BROWN bears at the exclusion of Polar Bears," a source close to the NPS has disclosed.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

"Two former White House sources" said "a key aide to former President Joe Biden" used the autopen.

So it's either a 100% slam dunk or a nothingburger, depending on whom you voted for.

As in "a key aide decided to issue the pardons and use the autopen without authorization" or "Biden directed a key aide to do it?"

 

[BTExpress]

The former, if true. But nothing concrete. And denied by other former staffers.

The Biden aide, who did not respond to requests for comment, would frequently make mention of what "the boss" wanted, the source said, but compatriots would have "no idea" if it was true because the internal culture was to not ask questions.

"I feared no one as much as I feared that [staffer]. To me, [the staffer] basically was the president," the person said. "No one ever questioned [the staffer]. Period."

"Everyone" was suspicious of this individual exceeding their authority when claiming to speak for the president, the source said. "But no one would actually say it."

"I think [the aide] was using the autopen as standard and past protocol," The Post's informant said.

"There is no clarity on who actually approved what — POTUS or [the aide]."

A second Biden White House source agreed that the person was suspected of ashuming the then-president's positions and handing down orders without it being clear if they actually had communicated with the commander-in-chief.

Several other former staffers, including those who in the past have offered unvarnished ashessments of what they view as the shortcomings of the ex-president and his core staff, described the allegation as absurd and said they never saw the person abuse their authority.

 

[WriteThinking]

The Administration is openly declaring itself above the law, unaccountable to any sort of duly enacted provision, statute or Constitutional principle.

Do any of our resident "both-siders!" care?

Does anyone in Congress care?

Enough to try to do anything about it?

 

[WriteThinking]

A good read from the point of view of judges/courts.

'A troubling, outrageous gesture': Retired judge sounds alarm on Trump admin attack on courts

Two federal judges — one in Maryland, one in California — have ordered the Trump administration to reinstate tens of thousands of fired federal workers. In one of the rulings, District Judge William Alsup said, "It is a sad day when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that's a lie," unquote. The White House responded by saying, quote, "The Trump Administration will immediately fight back against this absurd and unconstitutional order."...

NANCY GERTNER: The marshals are supposed to be the enforcer of judgments. And as you say, they are under the supervision of the Department of Justice. Their authorizing legislation, however, says that the marshals shall enforce the law. And so there's a division here. On the one hand, the authorizing statute says they shall enforce the law. And even if Pam Bondi says, you know, "I'm sorry, that law doesn't matter. We're going to skip over that law," they still have an obligation to enforce the law. If they did not, then we would have a constitutional crisis.

Saying that doesn't describe what that would mean. A constitutional crisis, what does that mean for all of us? I mean, then, it would mean, really, a marching on Washington, deluging all of our congressmen and representatives. It could mean mash demonstrations. I mean, it's almost the end of law. And at that point, people have to make it clear, as the population in Israel did, as populations in Poland did, that this is beyond the pale. This is not what our Constitution was meant to accomplish.