Many things have happened. Here are some of the things. This is the morning memo of TPM. Register For the e-mail version.
Calls into question his allegiance
Lawyer DCUS, Jeanine Pirro, saved an in -office federal magistrate who had reprimanded her prosecutors for their conduct in another case where a large jury refused to instill.
In a screed on X, Pirro said that judge Magistrate Zia Faruqui “said his allegiance to those who violate the law on several occasions.”
The very unusual remarks of an American lawyer intervened after Faruqui called the prosecutors in the office of Pirro for having overloaded cases before the Federal Court in the context of the performative takeover by President Trump of DC Pirro ordered his office to invoice affairs before a federal court which would have already been published before the DC Superior Court. In several cases, the major federal juries have refused to inform these cases.
“It is not fair to say that they lose credibility. We have exceeded this now,” said Faruqui, according to the AP. He added later: “There is no credibility left.”
Faruqui was particularly exasperated that criminal defendants had an extension in prison while the prosecutors did not obtain accusations. In an order on Thursday, he wondered if the Doj Trump lasted by the long -standing principle that he should only bring cases winning.
“Since there has been an unprecedented number of cases that the American lawyer rejected in the last ten days, which have all been detained for a certain period, the court wonders if this principle always applies,” wrote Faruqui.
The Smackdown of Faruqui sparked an exaggerated explosion of Pirro on X: “This judge was sworn in to follow the law, but he allowed his policy to regularly blur his judgment and his requirement to follow the law. America voted for safe communities, law and order, and this judge is the antithesis. ”
Trump does exactly the headlines he wants
The main media continue to fight to distinguish their coverage from legitimate criminal surveys of “probes” with political motivation of the Doj Trump:
- WSJ: Doj opens a criminal investigation on Fed’s Cook, assigns assignments
- ABC News: The Ministry of Justice opens a criminal investigation into the Governor of the Lisa Cook Federal Reserve
- NBC News: The Ministry of Justice takes new measures in the Lisa Cook survey
No, Trump cannot unilaterally rename the DOD
President Trump would have been to “rename” the Ministry of Defense as the Ministry of War, media coverage massively treated a change of name as something he can do unilaterally. It’s not. The ministry has been appointed by the congress and the congress should authorize any change of name.
As The Guardian reports:
A project of information sheet on the White House on the Trump brand change initiative implicitly recognizes that only the congress can officially change the name of the ministry, affirming that the order would authorize the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, to propose legislation that would make the change permanent. In the meantime, the order asks Hegseth and the Ministry to start using the “Ministry of War” as a secondary title in official correspondence, public communications and executive branches. The order also authorizes Hegseth to qualify as “war secretary”.
Day quote
“These governments will help us find these people and explode them. They could do it themselves, and we will help them do it. ” – Secretary of State Marco Rubio, praising the policy without law to unleash soldiers against criminal gangs
No more children’s moves to come this weekend?
Lawyers who jumped to stop the downturn in the night of unaccompanied Guatemah Children who said last weekend a federal judge in a new file on Thursday evening according to which they reported that the Trump administration “can imminently seek to withdraw children who are not accompanied by other nationalities” on the next weekend.
Scotus Watch: FAPELM Edition
- In a public appearance, just two weeks after the district judges’ fustification for not having dealt with the decisions of the Supreme Court’s shadow files as a binding precedent, judge Brett Kavanaugh admitted that emergency decisions are sometimes lacking in clarity because they are a compromise product and a lack of consensus among the judges. Criticizing the district judges so as not to divide the blurred and unexplained positions of judges is precisely what has federal judges in a tumult.
- During his book tour, justice Amy CONEY BARRETT insisted in Bari Weiss that the country is not in a constitutional crisis: “I do not know what a constitutional crisis would look like. I don’t think we are currently in a constitutional crisis. ”
- Meanwhile, chief judge John Roberts The active struggle of legal action by a legal defense organization founded by Stephen Miller who seeks to declare that the administrative and political weapons of the federal judicial system are part of the executive branch in an attempt below the radar to strengthen the hand of President Trump on the judicial branch.
Only the best people
- EJ AntoniTrump’s controversial choice to manage the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “exploited an deleted Twitter account that has presented sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, derogatory remarks on homosexuals, conspiracy theories and raw insults for the criticisms of President Donald,” said CNN.
- If he is confirmed, the candidate of the Federal Reserve Stephen Miran plans to keep his job as an economic advisor superior to the White House, simply taking a leave to serve the Fed at a time when President Trump tries to submit the central bank firmly under his thumb.
Rinse and repeat: loyalty prevails over integrity
Navy secretary, John Phelan, restored the former representative Ronny Jackson (R-TX) to the rank of counter-admiral, the WAPO reported on the basis of a letter that Jackson published on social networks. Jackson, who was a White House doctor in Obama and Trump before being elected to the House, was the subject of a 2021 -year -old Inspector General report on allegations of misconduct who had previously sank his appointment to be secretary to veterans. In response, he was downgraded to the captain, a move that Jackson has long affirmed was politically motivated because he came early in the presidency of Biden, even if the allegations had appeared well before.
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