KA Washington Post editorial appeared earlier this week headlined "Trump's efforts to intimidate the legal profession cannot stand."
Within 48 hours later, those efforts were not merely standing. They had worked — at least in one case. |
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BY BRETT SAMUELS AND REBECCA BEITSCH |
The Trump administration is on a collision course with the courts after a week spent taunting a federal judge and escalating a battle over whether his orders have been defied.
Administration officials on March 15 rebuffed an oral order from U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg to turn around or halt flights of Venezuelan migrants headed to a Salvadoran prison. |
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Defenders of the Department of Education are turning to the courts to save it after President Trump signed an executive order to abolish it and on Friday said he would move some of its most critical loan programs to the Small Business Administration (SBA).
Trump cannot abolish the department without an act of Congress, and it is not clear that legislation doing so could get through Congress. |
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President Trump axed security clearances and revoked access to classified information for several political figures on Friday, including his election rivals Hillary Clinton and former Vice President Kamala Harris as well as former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).
Trump said in a late Friday memo that he "determined" it is no longer in the "national interest" for Clinton, Harris and Cheney, along with at least 12 other high-profile individuals have access to classified information. |
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The Voice of America (VOA) workers, reporters, unions and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, contending that shuttering the U.S.-funded news agencies violated several laws and asked the court to reinstate VOA.
The lawsuit, which was filed late Friday in the Southern District of New York, was brought by a handful of unions, RSF and six VOA reporters against U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), VOA's parent company, acting director Victor Morales and special adviser Kari Lake. VOA's White House bureau chief Patsy Widakuswara is the main plaintiff in the case. |
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The Department of Homeland Security on Friday eliminated numerous civil rights offices, ending oversight of its immigration policies and avenues for public complaints.
The department said it was conducting wide scale layoffs at DHS's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which ensures the agency protects "individual liberty, fairness, and equality under the law" in its policies and actions. |
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is positioning herself in a leading role among Democrats as discontent grows among the party's base in the second Trump era.
Ocasio-Cortez is on the road with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as part of their "Fighting Oligarchy" tour aimed at rallying Democrats. The progressive congresswoman has also been one of the loudest critics of Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer's (D-N.Y.) decision to vote for a House GOP-drafted government funding bill last week, so much so that she's been floated as a potential primary challenger against him. |
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BY MIRANDA NAZZARO AND CAROLINE VAKIL |
Weeks of violent protests at Elon Musk's Tesla showrooms and charging stations are fueling concerns political tensions could be reaching a boiling point amid anger and frustration over Musk's efforts to slash the federal bureaucracy.
From vandalized Teslas to gunshots at dealerships, protests have popped up across the nation amid anger and frustration over Musk's efforts to slash the federal bureaucracy. |
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick raised alarm over "fraudsters" receiving Social Security benefits, as Trump allies have ramped up rhetoric about potential waste in the program amid a major restructuring effort at the agency that oversees the program.
During an appearance on the "All-In" podcast that was released on Thursday, Lutnick said the government doesn't "have to take one penny from someone who deserves Social Security, not one penny for someone who deserves Medicaid, Medicare." |
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OPINION | Much has been written about the Trump administration's attack on the Voice of America, with the service's supporters reflexively defending it by romanticizing its reputation from World War II and the Cold War. VOA for years has skated on that reputation, and since it doesn't broadcast in the U.S., few here know differently.
No one huddles in the basement any more listening to VOA on a scratchy transistor radio while the Gestapo or KGB patrol the street outside. Much of the news it produces can be heard on other international broadcasters. It has some good enterprising reporters, yes, but civil service hiring rules hinder recruiting the best and the brightest. |
OPINION | Joe Rogan, America's most popular podcaster, recently hosted Darryl Cooper, a Holocaust revisionist and pseudo-historian known for defending Nazi Germany. For almost three hours, Rogan gave Cooper a platform to defend Hitler, downplay the Holocaust and even joined Cooper in describing the current surge in antisemitism as mere Jewish "overreaction."
This came just weeks after Rogan similarly let "independent researcher" Ian Carroll spew antisemitic diatribes about Jewish world domination. Comedian Theo Von, another massively popular podcaster, this month gave far-right activist Candace Owens a platform to spread antisemitic conspiracy theories about a worldwide Jewish pedophile ring. |
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What is the Department of Government Efficiency?
It's a question that has come up over and over again in the avalanche of court cases challenging the authority of Elon Musk, the world's richest man, to conduct a full-throttle effort to gut and remake the federal government. |
During Donald Trump's first presidency, China was determined not to yield to American pressure over trade like Japan did in the 1980s.
Now, faced with an even greater economic assault from the second Trump presidency at a time of sluggish growth at home, Beijing may take a page from Tokyo's playbook — on one specific issue it sees as in its own interest. |
Hundreds of bicycle advocates were at an annual summit this month in Washington, D.C., when their cellphones lit up over breakfast with an urgent email warning that President Donald Trump's transportation department had just halted federal grant funding for bike lanes.
As the administration targets green energy projects championed by former President Joe Biden that boosted transit, recreational trails and bicycle infrastructure, several states are banding together to advance those priorities on their own. |
BY MARY ILYUSHINA, LIZZIE JOHNSON AND ROBYN DIXON |
Negotiators from Russia and Ukraine will both be in Saudi Arabia for ceasefire talks on Monday, but they won't be meeting face-to-face — illustrating the gulf that separates the warring sides despite White House assurances that they have "never been closer" to peace. The U.S.-mediated talks will focus on a proposed maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, according to Yuri Ushakov, a top foreign policy aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Negotiators will be in separate rooms, relying on intermediaries to carry messages back and forth. |
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