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"The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit the settlement were not collusive."
https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...97154.68.0.pdfEleventh Circuit refuses to block the district court's sanctions order in the "$1.776 billion Weaponization Fund Settlement" case
"The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit the settlement were not collusive."
impoundment is still illegal and still uncons utional
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/ar...rs-revoke-810mThe Trump administration must spend the $810 million that it said last week it planned to cancel, according to a report released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office.
The congressional watchdog’s decision contends the White House budget office doesn’t hold the ability to claw back that funding without approval from Congress.
“Any withholding of appropriated funds beyond their date of expiration, regardless of size, subverts both the cons utional process for enacting federal law and Congress’s cons utional power of the purse,” wrote GAO General Counsel Edda Emmanuelli Perez.
A federal law known as the Impoundment Control Act allows the White House to ask Congress to cancel funding that lawmakers previously approved and the president signed into law.
Lawmakers have 45 days after the rescission request is sent to decide whether they want to approve it in full or modify the proposal. Congress declining to take any action means lawmakers have rejected the plans and the administration must spend the money.
A request sent during the last 45 days of the federal fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30, is known as a pocket rescission.
The Trump administration believes that sending a rescissions request during that timeframe allows it to cancel the funding regardless of whether lawmakers sign off on the plan.
The GAO has disagreed with that opinion before and reiterated it Tuesday in itsfive-page decision.
“The Cons ution vests in Congress the power of the purse, and Congress did not cede this important power through the ICA,” Perez wrote.
Trump DOJ has SCOTUS on speed dial
https://bsky.app/profile/stevevladec.../3mwojkhijhs24By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in.
lol yoni tried to act like Trump was using the Impoundment Act at the beginning of this term. In asked him to produce the do ents that are required for the administration to produce. Grok couldn't find any so I never heard from yonibot again.
Russ Vought is still claiming power under the Impoundment Act!
The basic argument seems to be that POTUS can impound every single appropriation and pocket rescission whole budgets
Not if they don't do the paperwork.
Trump steals US appropriations
misappropriation of funds to propagandize you
"creative ways to steal the power of the purse"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...rch-funds.htmlThe National Science Foundation, one of the biggest sources of federal research funding, withheld $1.4 billion that Congress had intended for research over the course of the past year, according to internal data reviewed by The New York Times.
The extraordinary move — holding back about one-fifth of the N.S.F.’s primary research budget — is the latest sign of how the Trump administration is finding creative ways to work around Congress.
more of the same
revolt against the cons ution and a coup of the US republic
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...erica-instead/
US foreign policy as family business and crony capitalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...-android-shareThe Trump administration’s talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
The deal, which is contingent on approval from the U.S. government and the Kremlin, is for a sprawling set of oil fields, refineries and gas stations around the world owned by Lukoil, one of Russia’s biggest energy companies.
The leading group seeking the deal includes an American investor, Todd Boehly, who has donated $2 million to President Trump’s political causes; two Middle Eastern groups that have done business with Mr. Kushner or Mr. Witkoff’s family; and an arm of the U.S. government itself.
non-denial denial
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarador...e-equity-fund/CNN reported Thursday that Kushner’s private equity company, Affinity Partners, is the largest stakeholder in a Tel Aviv firm, Phoenix Financial, that invests in companies that provide Israel with military equipment, according to records the network reviewed.
Affinity doubled its stake in Phoenix shortly before Trump began his second term, sold a quarter of its stake in the company in July for more than $340 million and still owns a 7.4% share of the firm worth more than $1 billion as of July.
In his voluntary diplomatic role in the Trump administration, Kushner has helped broker a peace deal between Israel and Hamas, though Israel has continued to launch daily strikes against Gaza.
Kushner accused CNN of suggesting his work in the Middle East “somehow benefited investments in Israeli defense companies,” insisting in a post on X Friday, “I have no role in deciding what Phoenix buys or sells.”
Kushner told Forbes last year, when we reported he became a billionaire, that he maintains “a very active dialogue” with Phoenix, which he called “the JPMorgan of Israel.”
Kusher, who referred to Phoenix as Affinity’s “best investment” in the interview with Forbes last year, said in his X post Friday, Phoenix “has performed very well for Affinity and our investors, up more than five times since our initial investment.”
funding the government with private donations is a violation of the Antideficiency Act and is corruption per se
https://www.esquire.com/news-politic...-trump-russia/A company linked to a major Trump donor received authorization from the Treasury Department to complete an acquisition involving a sanctioned Russian bank, according to public records. The Texas-based Dynamic Frontier Holdings purchased Teghut, one of Armenia’s largest copper mines, this summer. Dynamic Frontier’s manager is Konstantin Sokolov, a Russian-American businessman who was one of three dozen private donors to ...... wait for it ...
President Donald Trump’s $350 million White House ballroom project.
"mean librul media is making me look bad"
https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/polit...ouse-press-ban“[T]he President determined that Plaintiff news networks had published stories that adversely affect national security, including publishing possibly classified or sensitive information,” the Justice Department argued. “In doing so, these outlets each demonstrated their willingness to publish information that undermines national security. Restricting access to the White House removes one avenue for these outlets to obtain such harmful information.”
flop sweat and desperate loser
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trump-ec..._copyURL_shareThe Moves That Backfired on Trump and Drove Interest Rates and Inflation Higher
The president’s advisers said fiscal restraint and deregulation would bring down prices and borrowing costs. Then came tariffs, war and an investment boom.
routine self-dealing
Trump Organization billed the Secret Service $17,000 per month (averaging roughly $567 per night) to rent a three-to-four-room cottage on the club grounds for the protective detail, billed continuously even when Trump was elsewhere.
Protect the Union, enforce the cons ution
The Department of Justice was created in 1870 with an explicit mission to protect civil rights and enforce the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.
The DOJ went after the Klan hard, securing thousands of indictments and 600+ convictions within the first year alon
more illegal impoundment, says GAO
$1B worth
https://www.washingtonsun.com/whiteh...-federal-fundsCongress’s watchdog arm has found that the Trump administration illegally withheld federal funds last year from federal government programs at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services.
In 2025, the Trump administration prevented the two agencies from distributing more than $1 billion appropriated by Congress, in prohibitions known as impoundments, according to two decisions that the Government Accountability Office sent to Congress on Wednesday.
"hiring foreign workers is fraud"
so much for freedom of contract
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...ard-suspensionMicrosoft is suspended from applying for permanent residency for workers employed through a US visa program for high-skilled workers, JD Vance announced on Thursday.
The US vice-president accused the tech company of abusing the H-1B system, which allows those on the visa to work while they apply for and are in the process of obtaining a green card.
“Our message to Microsoft is, you’re a great American company, but you’ve got to hire great American workers,” Vance said at a press conference announcing the suspension. “You cannot lay off American workers and then replace them with foreign indentured servants.”
Microsoft said the vast majority of its workers were American and 80% of the H-1B applications it filed in the last year were for extensions or status changes for people who already worked for the company.
“Microsoft only files H-1B pe ions for those who meet the rigorous standards of this visa category,” the company wrote in a statement. “We pay our employees some of the highest compensation in the tech sector, and our wages are among the highest of all H-1B filings. We pay our H-1B employees the same as any other employees doing comparable work.”
The US labor department also said Adobe had been similarly suspended.
“We will not accept any new or process any pending permanent labor certification applications involving these companies,” said Keith Sonderling, the US labor secretary, in a statement.
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