More evidence that they only thing standing in the way of a dictatorship is a thin black robe:
A federal judge in Virginia has ordered the U.S. government not to deport a Georgetown University academic pending further litigation. The scholar, Badar Khan Suri, an Indian citizen, was detained Monday night, his lawyer said. The Homeland Secu…
More evidence that they only thing standing in the way of a dictatorship is a thin black robe:
A federal judge in Virginia has ordered the U.S. government not to deport a Georgetown University academic pending further litigation. The scholar, Badar Khan Suri, an Indian citizen, was detained Monday night, his lawyer said. The Homeland Security Department said he was spreading Hamas propaganda, but did not provide evidence to support that claim, and he has not been charged with a crime.
A federal judge has just derided as “woefully insufficient” efforts today by the Trump administration to provide him with flight data about planes of Venezuelan immigrants that officials sent to El Salvador last weekend. The judge, James E. Boasberg, had set a deadline of noon today for the Justice Department to give him details about when the planes took off, left U.S. airspace and landed. But after the department sent him a sealed filing largely repeating information it had already provided, the judge ordered the department to explain to him in clear terms why the administration’s actions had not violated his original order from Saturday pausing the deportation flights.
A federal judge in Maryland temporarily blocked top officials at the Social Security Administration from granting Elon Musk and his team access to the agency’s data systems. The order further required anyone on Musk’s team who had already sifted through sensitive financial data to “disgorge and delete” any of that material in their possession.
Lawyers representing the State Department said in a filing that they expected to finish paying a group of aid organizations that had their funding frozen by U.S.A.I.D., by Friday, as a judge had ordered. The agency said that by April 29 it would pay out the rest of the roughly $670 million owed to other groups not involved in the lawsuit for work they completed before mid-February.
.I still don't get how what happened at U.S. A.I.D (and now Education) isn't clearly impoundment of congressionally appropriated dollars. Seems like judges don't want to touch that until the Comptroller General weighs in (who seems to be taking their sweet time)?
Maybe the Comptroller doesn't want to get fired before his 15 year term is up so is waiting to see what happens? Only Congress can shutter statutory departments and organizations like USAID and DoEd. So they still exist but they are trying to bring their activity as close to 0 as possible (which is also illegal impoundment of funds). I don't get why they turned on USAID so abruptly. Maybe Musk wants to reignite HIV/AIDS to scourge subsharan Africa as revenge for turning the screws on the Apartheid Government of his homeland. I'm not even joking.
Yeah the right wing has always used foreign aid as a scapegoat but there's some backstory to Musk's seemingly personal U.S.A.I.D. vendetta that we may not fully know until years from now.
No worries – Speaker Mike Johnson is on this! Surely he is about to lodge a vociferous bipartisan condemnation of Trump usurping power that rightfully resides in the United States Congress.
More evidence that they only thing standing in the way of a dictatorship is a thin black robe:
A federal judge in Virginia has ordered the U.S. government not to deport a Georgetown University academic pending further litigation. The scholar, Badar Khan Suri, an Indian citizen, was detained Monday night, his lawyer said. The Homeland Security Department said he was spreading Hamas propaganda, but did not provide evidence to support that claim, and he has not been charged with a crime.
A federal judge has just derided as “woefully insufficient” efforts today by the Trump administration to provide him with flight data about planes of Venezuelan immigrants that officials sent to El Salvador last weekend. The judge, James E. Boasberg, had set a deadline of noon today for the Justice Department to give him details about when the planes took off, left U.S. airspace and landed. But after the department sent him a sealed filing largely repeating information it had already provided, the judge ordered the department to explain to him in clear terms why the administration’s actions had not violated his original order from Saturday pausing the deportation flights.
A federal judge in Maryland temporarily blocked top officials at the Social Security Administration from granting Elon Musk and his team access to the agency’s data systems. The order further required anyone on Musk’s team who had already sifted through sensitive financial data to “disgorge and delete” any of that material in their possession.
Lawyers representing the State Department said in a filing that they expected to finish paying a group of aid organizations that had their funding frozen by U.S.A.I.D., by Friday, as a judge had ordered. The agency said that by April 29 it would pay out the rest of the roughly $670 million owed to other groups not involved in the lawsuit for work they completed before mid-February.
.I still don't get how what happened at U.S. A.I.D (and now Education) isn't clearly impoundment of congressionally appropriated dollars. Seems like judges don't want to touch that until the Comptroller General weighs in (who seems to be taking their sweet time)?
Maybe the Comptroller doesn't want to get fired before his 15 year term is up so is waiting to see what happens? Only Congress can shutter statutory departments and organizations like USAID and DoEd. So they still exist but they are trying to bring their activity as close to 0 as possible (which is also illegal impoundment of funds). I don't get why they turned on USAID so abruptly. Maybe Musk wants to reignite HIV/AIDS to scourge subsharan Africa as revenge for turning the screws on the Apartheid Government of his homeland. I'm not even joking.
Yeah the right wing has always used foreign aid as a scapegoat but there's some backstory to Musk's seemingly personal U.S.A.I.D. vendetta that we may not fully know until years from now.
No worries – Speaker Mike Johnson is on this! Surely he is about to lodge a vociferous bipartisan condemnation of Trump usurping power that rightfully resides in the United States Congress.
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