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fromSlate Magazine
2 days ago

Trump Is Exploiting the Shutdown to Set Up Something Truly Terrifying

The Trump administration redirected billions of appropriated funds to pay troops during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act and undermining Congress's power of the purse.
fromAbove the Law
2 days ago

Trump Sued Again For Illegally Destroying The Digital Equity Act (And A Bunch Of Useful Programs That Helped His Own Supporters) - Above the Law

The law, passed as part of the infrastructure bill, was slated to bring millions in new broadband grants and digital literacy tools, education, and training to Americans (of all kinds). The bill helped everybody (including Trump-supporting rural veterans and rural residents), but because Trump's team seemed to assume that the word equity meant "help minorities," the program was the brutal victim of our mad, incoherent, con man king and his army of mindless earlobe nibblers.
US politics
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 days ago

Amy Coney Barrett Pressed On What the Supreme Court Would Do If Trump Defied It

Amy Coney Barrett rejects becoming a cultural icon, emphasizes solitary judicial work, and stresses institutional consequences of court rulings amid executive aggrandizement concerns.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 days ago

House Republican Warns Trump Not to Fall Into This Trap' of Weaponizing IRS, DOJ to Go After His Political Foes

Government agencies should never be weaponized against political opponents, regardless of past abuses or presidents.
#supreme-court
US politics
fromwww.esquire.com
1 week ago

I Welcome Any Sign From Congress That It Is a Coequal to Our Renegade President

Republican lawmakers are publicly unraveling amid Epstein stonewall and shutdown disputes, prompting confrontations and bipartisan pressure to force release of Epstein documents.
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 week ago

Stephen Miller Defiant When Asked to Clarify His Legal Insurrection' Attack on Judge

No, it's simply a factually accurate statement that when a judge assumes for him or herself the powers that have been delegated by the Constitution to the president, that that is a form of illegal insurrection.
US politics
US politics
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

Donald Trump's Shutdown Power Play

Recurrent government shutdowns empower presidents to bypass Congress and risk undermining the Constitution's separation of powers.
#copyright-office
US politics
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

Rule By Lawsuit: Inside 2025's Executive-Order Wars - Above the Law

Federal courts repeatedly blocked or limited many administration executive orders this year, making the judiciary the primary arbiter of contested presidential power.
#foreign-aid
fromFortune
1 month ago
US politics

Trump is leaning on an obscure 1970s-era budget loophole to keep $5 billion in foreign aid frozen

fromFortune
1 month ago
US politics

Trump is leaning on an obscure 1970s-era budget loophole to keep $5 billion in foreign aid frozen

fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

Amy Coney Barrett Claims There's Nothing Unprecedented About Trump's Judiciary 'Conflicts'

Let's see, so, conflicts between the president and the judiciary are not new, Barrett said. They existed between Andrew Jackson and the Supreme Court. Even Abraham Lincoln, you know, there was some conflict. There was some conflict between FDR and the Supreme Court. So, I think that when we talk about the separation of powers and the balance of power and there being a tug and a pull between the branches of government this is a dance that we've seen before.
US politics
fromIntelligencer
1 month ago

Imagining an Imperial Democratic President

For the left, there is little more terrifying than an emboldened Donald Trump. Deep into the first year of his second term, he has behaved like an imperial president, thriving off new precedents set by the Supreme Court to shred democratic norms. He has gutted the federal bureaucracy, wantonly dispatched the National Guard to Democrat-run cities, unilaterally imposed tariffs, unilaterally launched a missile strike on Iran, and wrongfully deported an immigrant to El Salvador.
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US politics
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Trump Is Inventing Fake Emergencies to Gain Real-World Power

Manufactured emergencies enable expansive executive power, allowing rapid bypass of legislative limits and judicial checks, facilitating authoritarian consolidation.
#judicial-independence
fromFortune
1 month ago
US politics

Court tosses Trump lawsuit against Maryland federal judges, saying allowing it to continue would 'offend the rule of law'

fromFortune
1 month ago
US politics

Court tosses Trump lawsuit against Maryland federal judges, saying allowing it to continue would 'offend the rule of law'

US politics
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

Court throws out lawsuit by Trump administration against all Maryland federal judges

A federal judge dismissed the Trump administration's lawsuit against Maryland's entire federal bench over an order halting immediate deportations of migrants seeking review.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Court tosses Trump lawsuit against Maryland judges over US deportations

In a 37-page ruling, US district judge Thomas Cullen of Virginia's western district who was nominated and confirmed to his position during Donald Trump's first presidency wrote that any fair reading of the legal authorities cited by defendants leads to the ineluctable conclusion that this court has no alternative but to dismiss. To hold otherwise, Cullen added, would run counter to overwhelming precedent, depart from longstanding constitutional tradition, and offend the rule of law.
Law
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

US judge rejects Trump's lawsuit against Maryland federal court system

Cullen normally serves in the federal court system for the western district of Virginia, but since all 15 judges in Maryland's district court system were named as defendants in the case, someone from outside the state had to be brought in to resolve the case. The lawsuit was a highly unusual, broad-strokes attack on the federal judicial system in Maryland, where Trump's immigration agenda has faced several high-profile setbacks.
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US news
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

The DOJ sued the federal district bench in Maryland. A judge just dismissed the case

A federal judge dismissed DOJ's lawsuit against all Maryland federal judges, finding such suits violate precedent, separation of powers, and the rule of law.
fromAxios
1 month ago

"Authoritarian power grab": Democrats erupt as Trump moves to fire Fed governor Lisa Cook

"It's an authoritarian power grab that blatantly violates the Federal Reserve Act, and must be overturned in court," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, in a statement.
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US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

JB Pritzker Unloads on Trump and His Complicit Lackey Stephen Miller' Over Guard Deployment

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker called President Trump's planned National Guard and military deployment to Chicago illegal, unconstitutional, and an effort to intimidate political rivals.
LGBT
fromAdvocate.com
2 months ago

Court blocks Trump admin's anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions on grants for domestic violence and homeless shelters

A federal judge has blocked Trump administration conditions on grants for organizations serving domestic violence survivors and LGBTQ+ youth.
US politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 months ago

Trump asks his attorney general to release small part of Epstein court documents to ease MAGA backlash

Donald Trump threatens legal action against The Wall Street Journal over a letter linked to Jeffrey Epstein, dismissing it as fake.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

America's famed checks-and-balances' governance system is failing | Jan-Werner Muller

The US supreme court allowing the president effectively to abolish the Department of Education only reinforces this sense; Sonia Sotomayor, in her dissent, explicitly wrote that the threat to our Constitution's separation of powers is grave.
US politics
US politics
fromwww.npr.org
3 months ago

Supreme Court says Trump's efforts to close the Education Department can continue

The U.S. Supreme Court permits the Trump administration to proceed with dismantling the U.S. Department of Education despite ongoing legal challenges.
US politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 months ago

A judge circumvents Supreme Court ban and blocks Trump's order against birthright citizenship

A New Hampshire judge temporarily suspended Trump's order to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants.
US politics
fromArs Technica
3 months ago

Supreme Court overturns 5th Circuit ruling that upended Universal Service Fund

The article critiques the Consumers' Research position regarding revenue-raising statutes and their constitutional implications.
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 months ago

Conduct Unbecoming': Veteran Group Leader Rips Hegseth For Politicizing the Military' With Wild Attack On the Media

That's America's secretary of defense. To use a military term, it's conduct unbecoming. He looks rattled. He obviously looks thin-skinned. He's extremely aggressive and volatile.
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#copyright
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
4 months ago

The U.S. Copyright Office used to be fairly low-drama. Not anymore

The U.S. Copyright Office is currently embroiled in controversy following the firing of its head, highlighting tensions over copyright and AI.
fromPatently-O
4 months ago
Intellectual property law

Perlmutter v. Trump: Does the President Control the Copyright Office?

The lawsuit filed by Shira Perlmutter challenges President Trump's authority over constitutional institutions like the Library of Congress.
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
4 months ago

The U.S. Copyright Office used to be fairly low-drama. Not anymore

The U.S. Copyright Office is currently embroiled in controversy following the firing of its head, highlighting tensions over copyright and AI.
Intellectual property law
fromPatently-O
4 months ago

Perlmutter v. Trump: Does the President Control the Copyright Office?

The lawsuit filed by Shira Perlmutter challenges President Trump's authority over constitutional institutions like the Library of Congress.
Law
fromAbove the Law
4 months ago

Executive Order Against Jenner & Block Is 'Null And Void' - Above the Law

Judge Bates ruled the Trump administration's Executive Order unconstitutional, asserting it violated the First Amendment and separation of powers.
Non-profit organizations
fromwww.npr.org
5 months ago

DOGE tried assigning a team to the Government Accountability Office. They refused

GAO's refusal emphasizes the importance of maintaining the separation of powers between legislative and executive branches.
SF politics
fromNextgov.com
5 months ago

Legislative watchdog rebuffs DOGE efforts to install on-site team

DOGE's attempt to oversee GAO has been rejected, reaffirming GAO's independence and separation of powers.
US politics
fromIntelligencer
6 months ago

How Could the Kilmar Abrego Garcia Standoff End?

The escalating legal standoff raises crucial questions about judicial power and executive authority regarding immigration cases.
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
6 months ago

This Is Why Dictatorships Fail

The Constitution's separation of powers is crucial to prevent any individual from holding absolute authority, as demonstrated by recent executive tariff decisions.
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