FYI, this is a midterm election that is coming up. The senators and representatives who will have been elected will be sworn in on Jan 2, 2027 in their respective chambers. Nothing significant to the constitution is scheduled for Jan 6. That’s only in presidential election cycles.

This action also forces the appeals to start over.

ICE spokesperson Jason Chudy said the agency arrested Javar because he allegedly failed to disclose a criminal conviction when applying for his immigrant visa in 1995. Chudy declared that Javar was “therefore ineligible to remain in the United States now.”

This is the kind of stuff that previous administrations overlooked and used their discretion on. This administration is mainly applying the immigration law strictly according to the letter. The immigration laws themselves really suck and they have for a long time.

Yeah. You gotta ask “what did you allegedly do?”

The good ole bunker + ballroom combo in the Reich Chancellery…

It is his job to have the final say, after the lower appeals courts have had their final say. That hasn’t happened yet. This case is still being litigated in the district court.

That’s why Roberts said “likely unlawful.” Because the only question under consideration right now is which way to go until the lawsuit ends. The standard for that is “likely (un)lawful” because you can’t decide if it’s lawful until you decide if it’s lawful. (If that makes any sense).

Do you all remember when they forced all one stars and above to attend a political rally at the Pentagon? And Trump and Hegseth would pause for the applause lines. And the generals just sat there at attention betraying no facial expressions whatsoever.

Yeah. This military is not personally loyal to Trump.

Edit: but do keep in mind that coups are usually led by middle-ranking officers, not general officers.

$600 of the $1373 is a deposit to mitigate risk of future missed payments… The electricity itself is really high, but it’s not that high.

This is also Tulsa in the summer.

The 6-3 SCOTUS ruling was in a lawsuit that challenged the exec order on its face. That is to say, the lawsuit was asking the federal courts to declare that the EO is illegal and void. The supreme court said just having an EO is too wishy washy to be an actual harm or injury that you can sue for.

But… During the time of this litigation, the post office has finalized the new rules that implement the EO. So now there are rules on the books that actually do things that affect people… Actual harms that can be the basis of a new lawsuit.

And that’s exactly what happened. The plaintiffs amended their complaint to challenge the rule instead of the EO, and they’re going to ask for their TRO and prelim injunction very shortly now.

TLDR: the supreme court is once again finding the lamest and most legalistic reasons to hand this president small “victories” real fast, while they duck and dodge on saying anything about the real issues.

Qualified immunity is a concept that applies to state law enforcement officers. Feds of all kinds have a different form of immunity that is generally stronger than qualified immunity.

See Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents.

The newest One Weird Trick is to name the little patio in front of the Kennedy Center as the “Donald J. Trump Plaza” (which can then be inscribed onto the building).

The US beef supply is squeezed because some big droughts from a couple of years ago forced ranchers to sell off a lot of their herds.

Now, they don’t have the herds to supply the demand, and you can’t just magick more cows into existence. Once the problem exists, it takes a bunch of time to grow calves into cows.

The problem is exacerbated by a dynamic where the current high prices encourage ranchers to sell their cattle instead of keeping them around to grow the herd.

This month, the government responded to Streever’s lawsuit, confirming his allegations while attempting to rebut them.

My God, these DOJ lawyers are bad these days.

Shhhhh! We can’t talk about the national debt until a D is in charge.

Yeah. This is about Trump’s motion to reconsider at the supreme court. The court already denied his petition, but he gets one more “pretty please change your mind” motion. This is the very end of the line for the $5 million case.

The supreme court is still considering whether to take up Trump’s petition in the $83 million case.

Whatever factual admissions he made in the federal plea can usually be admitted as evidence in the state case. That could really blow up a case, but I assume that Mr. Mangione’s excellent legal team has already figured out what consequences there are and briefed him on that.

Yeah. It’s so bad that they’re offering $25k signing bonuses for lawyers.

Used to be, DOJ didn’t have to do that because they had massive numbers of excessively qualified applicants climbing over each other to apply.

The C32A, the plane Trump actually went on, pretty much has all of the same stuff as the VC25A. It’s just based on Boeing 757, which is a single aisle airliner.

Can’t vote from home.

32% is very comparable to Nixon right before he resigned, and GWB at his lowest depths. As far as I know those are pretty much the lowest presidential approval ratings ever recorded.

The fact that Trump has now joined this club is really significant in terms of making things happen politically in America.