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wants to RETVRN to the 19th century in every respect
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wants to RETVRN to the 19th century in every respect
Snake Boy hides behind Trump like a scared loser and thinks he's winning when he can't even stand up for himself on an anonymous board
states get a permanent injunction against Trump's effort to defund various US agencies
JOHN J. MCCONNELL, JR., United States District Court Chief Judge. This case concerns the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle federal agencies that are responsible for, among other things, funding museums and libraries, mediating labor disputes, supporting minority-owned businesses, and preventing and ending homelessness in the United States. By now, the question presented in this case is a familiar one: may the Executive Branch undertake such actions in cir vention of the will of the Legislative Branch? In recent months, this Court—along with other courts across the country—has concluded that it may not. That answer remains the same here.https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...257.99.0_2.pdfPlaintiffs are twenty-one states (the “States”) that challenge the legality of Executive Order 14238, “Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy” (“Reduction EO”). The Reduction EO had the effect of dismantling the Ins ute of Museum and Library Services (“IMLS”), the Minority Business Development Agency 2 Case 1:25-cv-00128-JJM-AEM Do ent 99 Filed 11/21/25 Page 3 of 47 PageID #: 5399 (“MBDA”), the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (“FMCS”), and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (“USICH”) by withholding alreadyappropriated federal funding from these agencies, terminating numerous grants and programs that these agencies administer, and placing many of the agencies’ employees on administrative leave.
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Trump, et al broke law and violated the cons ution
The Court determines that the States are en led to further injunctive relief. First, the States have demonstrated actual success on the merits of their claims: Defendants’ implementation of the Reduction EO violated the APA, the Take Care Clause, and the Separation of Powers doctrine.
Defendants are hereby permanently enjoined from taking any future actions to implement, give effect to, comply with, or carry out the directives contained in the Reduction EO with respect to IMLS, MBDA, FMCS, and USICH.
IRS blocked from sharing info with ICE
Trump administration has been violating the APA all year long
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...ice-rcna245262A federal judge in Washington on Friday issued an order blocking the IRS from sharing taxpayer information with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, finding the practice is "unlawful."
The Court "concludes that the Plaintiffs have shown a substantial likelihood that the IRS’s adoption of the Address-Sharing Policy and the IRS’s subsequent sharing of taxpayer information with ICE were unlawful under the Administrative Procedure Act," U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in a 94-page ruling.
"Furthermore, Plaintiffs have shown that the IRS’s disclosure of confidential taxpayer address information to ICE was contrary to law because it violated several provisions of Internal Revenue Code," the judge wrote
rich immigrants can skip the line, and the money goes into a private executive kitty
there's a platinum card too
wildly illegal and uncons utional
anyone who pays $1M will be deemed to have "exceptional business ability"
illegal taxation and spending
Charles I situation
Trump says the Gold Card proceeds will go "an account where we can do things positive for the country. Many billions of dollars"
Trump's new standing pretext for brisk military action anywhere; a newly-braindead drug war
https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...s-destruction/
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Are life-support ambulances WMD now?
Pain patients with valid scripts?
Surgery rooms?
hard to know whether this is aimed more at China or Mexico
it could also be aimed at Canada or India
Trump/Vought's war on regulatory curbs against financial crimes and misdemeanors hit a setback
making the world safer for fraud, waste and abuse is job number one
it rhymes so well with streamlining normal business practices along Trumpian lines
https://prospect.org/2025/12/30/judg...uts-down-cfpb/In an order issued today, a federal judge in Washington clarified that any effort by Acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) director Russell Vought to allow funding to lapse based on a theory that the Federal Reserve has no “combined earnings” from which to draw would violate her previous ruling to keep the agency open.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson intimated that Vought could be held in contempt of court if he used this dubious interpretation of the CFPB’s funding structure.Vought’s reasoning “is contrary to the text and intent of the statute and the way it has been consistently interpreted by both the Federal Reserve and the CFPB,” Jackson wrote.
NIH grant terminations will stand, but grant applications stalled by political directives will be evaluated for scientific merit rather than compliance with executive orders
htps://www.aclu.org/press-releases/nih-agrees-to-evaluate-and-complete-review-on-stalled-scientific-grant-applicationsEarlier this year, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Massachusetts, Protect Democracy, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP filed a lawsuit challenging the abrupt cancellations and stalled application of grants on behalf of individual researchers, along with the American Public Health Association (APHA); the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW); and Ibis Reproductive Health.
This agreement does not impact the first phase of the case, in which the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts found NIH’s directives to be unlawful and vacated grant terminations. In August, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the district court likely lacked jurisdiction to review the termination of research grants by the NIH. However, the Supreme Court declined to stay the district court’s conclusion that the directives violated the Administrative Procedures Act (APA). The District Court’s decision is on appeal and oral argument will be heard in the First Circuit Court of Appeals on January 6, 2026.
The agreement can be found online here.
every time Trump violates the Administrative Procedures Act and the Impoundment Act of 1974 it's per se impeachable
the anti-civilizational oomph of Trump is underrated, even when entirely visible
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...y-closing.html
sounds dramatic, is dramatic
off the top of my head, I would say the US is giving up a lot of influence for not very much money saved if it goes this route
https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...united-states/
Trump is a moron who does not act in the interest of the United States or its people save a few billionaires.
Behind a paywall. So, here's what NASA says will happen.
NASA says historic materials will be preserved as Goddard research library shuts down
when the government can't pass rational basis review it's not really trying
www.do entcloud.org/do ents/26...Judge Mehta rules that Trump/Russ Vought's termination of environmental grants during the shutdown — targeted solely at states that voted for Kamala Harris — violated the 5th Amendment's Equal Protection clause and orders them restored.
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