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President Trump, as always, is voicing the barely veiled strategic maneuvering underneath this novel legal interpretation.
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Trump Conveniently Lands On New Legal Theory That He Claims Could Deprive Feds Of Backpay

At a time when Republicans want to turn the screws on government-loving...

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 18h

Trump drove civil servants out of government, attacked universities/news outlets, turned the CDC into an anti-vax megaphone & inflated ICE into an untrained secret police force. In lockstep, SCOTUS discredits the experts before it, the better to extend the regime's hostility towards LGBTQ kids

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 18h

“Was there a time when many medical professionals thought that certain people should not be permitted to procreate because they had low IQs?” Alito mused, invoking the era of eugenics. Eg: Doctors have been wrong before, so we couldn't possibly trust medical consensus (that opposes my beliefs) now.

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 18h

In this case, no amount of medical consensus can convince the Court’s majority that conversion therapy is a harmful practice — they poke holes in the mountain of evidence on the anti-conversion therapy side and elevate pseudoscience on the other.

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 18h

The political right's greatest project is discrediting experts. Only in a "do your own research" world can their cultural preferences - anti-abortion, anti-gender affirming care - claim equal legitimacy to the left's medically-backed positions on those issues. SCOTUS is a full partner in that effort

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The Supreme Court's conservatives advanced the right's greater project of discrediting experts Tuesday, feigning that there is no medical consensus against conversion therapy.

The Medical Science Is Always ‘Uncertain’ When It Pushes Against Supreme Court’s Bias

If you came into Tuesday’s oral argument over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 18h

The Supreme Court's conservatives advanced the right's greater project of discrediting experts Tuesday, feigning that there is no medical consensus against conversion therapy.

The Medical Science Is Always ‘Uncertain’ When It Pushes Against Supreme Court’s Bias

If you came into Tuesday’s oral argument over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban...

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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 20h

A career federal prosecutor in Virginia is reportedly poised to decline to bring a criminal case against New York Attorney General Letitia James on bogus mortgage fraud charges drummed up by the Trump administration.

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Lindsey Halligan Will Have to Overrule Career Prosecutors to Indict Letitia James

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 20h

A career federal prosecutor in Virginia is reportedly poised to decline to bring a criminal case against New York Attorney General Letitia James on bogus mortgage fraud charges drummed up by the Trump administration.
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Lindsey Halligan Will Have to Overrule Career Prosecutors to Indict Letitia James

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1d

Chicago’s new lawsuit against imminent National Guard deployment paints a city besieged by disproportionate federal force.

Chicago Tells Of Escalating State Violence, Including A Killing, As It Challenges National Guard Occupation

Chicago’s new lawsuit against imminent National Guard deployment paints a city besieged...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1d

Josh Marshall writes that Trump is operating in a manner fairly close to warlordism, holding on to power — if not legitimacy — by hoarding state resources for loyalists and depriving opponents of any of them.

Power Is the Order of the Day, and Other Beds Trump Has Made

One of the biggest challenges I’ve had in the last nine months...

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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 1d

The White House told law enforcement across the country to investigate or charge groups advocating views that it disagrees with, like “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity.”

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1d

Funders or groups that promote 'anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity' could be treated as domestic terrorists, under recent directives from the Trump administration.

The Trump Admin’s Mostly Unnoticed Move to Crack Down on the Opposition

Last month, the White House issued two executive orders that direct federal...

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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 1d

Just a normal weekend in Trump's America:
~Major new constitutional clash erupts in Oregon as Trump admin defies court order over nat'l guard
~Finding “realistic likelihood” that Abrego Garcia is victim of vindictive prosecution, judge calls out DAG Todd Blanche
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A Major New Constitutional Clash Erupts in Oregon

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1d

When this administration wants to control independent institutions, its go-to strategy is to attempt to move the interaction between those institutions and the government into the realm of “the deal,” where normal rules do not apply.
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The Trump Administration’s New Protection Racket for Higher Ed

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1d

Over the weekend, the Trump administration’s attempt to deploy the National Guard in Oregon blew up into a constitutional clash as serious as any we’ve seen so far this year.
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A Major New Constitutional Clash Erupts in Oregon

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1d

A federal judge handed down a ruling from the bench Sunday night to shield Portland from additional National Guard deployments, which she said was the move of an administration "circumventing" her earlier order.
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Judge Hands Down Second, Emergency Ruling Protecting Portland From National Guard Occupation

A federal judge handed down a ruling from the bench Sunday night...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1d

A federal, Trump-appointed judge granted Portland’s request for temporary protection from imminent National Guard occupation Saturday night.
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Trump-Appointed Judge In Portland Case: Admin ‘Risks Blurring The Line Between Civil and Military Federal Power’

A federal, Trump-appointed judge granted Portland’s request for temporary protection from imminent...

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 2d

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Judge Hands Down Second, Emergency Ruling Protecting Portland From National Guard Occupation

A federal judge handed down a ruling from the bench Sunday night...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 2d

BREAKING: A federal judge handed down a ruling from the bench Sunday night to shield Portland from additional National Guard deployments, which she said was the move of an administration "circumventing" her earlier order.

Judge Hands Down Second, Emergency Ruling Protecting Portland From National Guard Occupation

A federal judge handed down a ruling from the bench Sunday night...

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 2d

DOJ's Hamilton pipes up that he wants a stay pending appeal or an administrative stay - judge says no to both - hearing concludes. Phew

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 2d

Judge will hand down new TRO that "prohibits the relocation, federalization, or deployment of any National Guard under federal command" "within the state of Oregon"

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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 2d

Kate is liveblogging a highly unusual Sunday evening federal court hearing as Portland, Oregon and California attempt to block the Texas and California National Guards from being sent to Portland. (The administration is also trying to send the Texas Guard to Chicago.)

Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 2d

1) Trump-appointed judge rules admin cannot deploy Oregon National Guard to Portland 2) Trump admin deploys California Guard there instead, circumventing her ruling 3) CA joins Portland/Oregon in filing for a second temporary restraining order 4) judge schedules emergency hearing (about to start)

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 2d

In real time during hearing, Judge Immergut grants Oregon/California's motion for another temporary restraining order - now talking through scope of relief based on "conduct of defendants," which she sees in "direct contravention" to first order

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 2d

Oregon's Kennedy says they need broader relief now, given the 11th hour mobilization of the Texas Guard — now says they need protection from the Guard of every state/DC to protect from this "gamesmanship," "rhetorical whack-a-mole"

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 2d

Hamilton keeps saying CA Guard already "properly federalized" so it's fine to deploy them in Portland — judge says that's not the point, you need a "colorable claim" in Portland but they don't have one, "we've already been over this"

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