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Trump Retribution: As Scandalous as It Will get
The Trump administration is corruptly focusing on Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) with criminal investigation the utilization of the identical tactic it has aged in opposition to Recent York Attorney Overall Letitia James: allegations of mortgage fraud.
Fannie Mae has reportedly made a criminal referral in opposition to Schiff to the Trump Justice Department. President Trump happily touted the news about his worn impeacher on social media.
In every other technology, this is in a position to be the defining narrative of the day. The President of the US working the DOJ out of his White Condo and the utilization of it to starting up politically motivated criminal investigations of his Democratic foes.
Trump’s now not focusing on valid any Democrats. He’s focusing on precisely who he has promised to specialise in: Democrats who came after him. James, among other things, won that huge $300+ million fraud case in opposition to the Trump Org. Schiff, then in the Condo, become the lead prosecutor in the main Trump impeachment and has continued to be a first-rate Trump antagonist.
We don’t desire to peel reduction the layers of the underlying mortgage fraud allegations. Why become the the Federal Housing Finance Company, which oversees Fannie Mae, taking a stare at James and Schiff in the main location? Unbiased suddenly, we’re speculated to mirror?
The WaPo obtained from an anonymous administration reliable a confidential Fannie Mae memo take care of to Federal Housing Finance Company Director Bill Pulte: “The memo said that on Might perhaps also merely 12, Fannie’s monetary crimes investigations unit obtained a document seek facts from from FHFA’s inspector frequent bearing on Schiff’s dwelling, including requests for mortgage facts and other documents.”
Every person is conscious of what’s occurring right here.
In Varied Trump DOJ Info …
- Criminal protection attorneys were lobbying the Trump DOJ’s “Weaponization Working Neighborhood” to are attempting to safe their customers off the hook, Bloomberg reports. In an ironic twist, the attorney for the Utah plastic surgeon accused of advertising counterfeit Covid vaccination cards said the team grew to become her down when she requested it to intervene. It become finest later, when tension become constructing over the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy thought, that Attorney Overall Pam Bondi all at present brushed off the case in opposition to the doctor.
- After the federal judges in the Northern District of Recent York declined to elongate the period in-between time duration of U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III, the Trump administration has orchestrated things (legally, I deem) so as that Sarcone may per chance well perhaps proceed in the position for a miniature duration.
‘Legalistic Noncompliance’
College of Michigan law professors Daniel Deacon and Leah Litman fetch a original apt research paper out (I promise to finest now not often inflict apt research papers on you) that tries to supply some shape and create to the Trump administration’s defiance of court docket orders. They dub the observe “legalistic noncompliance” and look the scheme in which it has manifested itself on the ground in the three ways:
In the main, the manager deploys specious arguments—arguments that seem facially believable but in point of fact lack make stronger—in repeat to evade enforcement of judicial orders. The 2d entails the utilization of tactics, including apt-sounding claims that obvious facts can not be shared, as a technique to abate investigation into whether or now not the administration is mainly complying. The third includes occasions where the administration has, in the face of a judicial repeat, aged assorted apt scheme in repeat to build a protection substantially much just like the one enjoined.
Texas Walkout Redux?
Condo Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries and DNC Chair Ken Martin held a convention name Monday night time with 40 Democrats in the Texas Condo of Representatives, and whereas they stopped searching asking them to dash out of the particular session later this month to dam a Republican redistricting scheme, “they left the affect that it wants to be regarded as,” the NYT reports. Texas Democrats famously fled the tell to disclaim Republicans a quorum in the end of the mid-decade redistricting fiasco of 2003.
It’s now not valid Texas, where Republicans hope a newly drawn plan will serve them gather 5 extra seats. “There may per chance be every other states we’re going to safe one other three, or four or 5 moreover. Texas may per chance be the largest one,” President Trump said the day prior to this.
The relaxation to take care of it up to the Condo and now not lose the GOP’s trifecta of White Condo, Senate, and Condo take care of an eye on.
Census Citizenship Query Is Baaack
The census citizenship declare is raising its head all over again. Condo Republicans fetch launched three payments this 365 days that may per chance well perhaps exclude noncitizens for the functions of apportioning Condo seats and Electoral College votes, NPR’s Hansi Lo Wang reports. The census citizenship push in the end of President Trump’s first time duration become foiled by apt challenges.
W. Virginia Abortion Pill Ban Upheld
The 4th Circuit Court docket of Appeals upheld West Virginia’s near-complete ban on the abortion pill mifepristone. “The choice marks the main time a federal appeals court docket has allowed a tell to strictly restrict the drug, teeing up a key take a look at of states’ powers to ban medication accredited by the Food and Drug Administration,” the WaPo reports.
Medicaid Cuts Already Launch to Chunk
Hospitals are closing or actively mad about doing so, slicing programs, and laying off personnel. Deliberate Parenthood is warning sufferers it is going to now not ranking Medicaid insurance protection and in a single save says it is going to’t provide products and companies to Medicaid recipients at all, even supposing the patient doesn’t exercise Medicaid to pay. And lawmakers in as a minimum 5 states are planning particular sessions to revamp their already-enacted budgets and resolve the vogue to take care of the cuts, including what cuts they must own and the vogue to put collectively the original Medicaid work requirement.
Trump Attack on Larger Ed: Wolverines Version
- College of Michigan: In its trumped up “investigation” of foreign donations, the Trump administration has made an intensive and invasive seek facts from for records, including “personnel facts on university college students and employees, records on research initiatives, tax records and records on other partnerships with foreign universities, governments and other entities,” the NYT reports.
- Columbia College: The university may per chance well perhaps settle with the Trump administration as soon as next week, paying hundred of millions of bucks in fines and put into effect varied “reforms” to re-commence sever off federal funding, the NYT reports.
- George Mason College: The Trump administration has opened two anti-DEI investigations into the public university in Virginia, after it helped pressure the resignation of the president of the College of Virginia.
A Memoir From the Academic Trenches
Those of us now not in academia and much removed from scholar existence may per chance well perhaps now not fully love how grim things become on campus. President Trump’s attack on bigger education is a worthy portion of the narrative, but it’s valid indubitably some of the dramatic changes which fetch swept universities. Political scientist Paul Musgrave wrote a thoughtful essay to are attempting to bring to non-teachers the scale and scope of the changes:
I win it entertaining to display to other folks who are irregular with academia or how scholarship in point of fact works how devastating these changes are. These disruptions, cumulatively, seem—from my standpoint—to be extra dramatic in their leads to a miles shorter time than the impact of computerization and the Internet on bigger education. Furthermore, there doesn’t appear to be any reason to deem that U.S. policymakers are mad about, or even sad about, any of those changes. Quite the opposite: they’re pouring gasoline on the flames. Warnings regarding the hazards and long-time duration outcomes drop on ears deafened by an ideology that says that those consequences are brilliant or by an incapacity to believe that actions fetch consequences.
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