Originally published at: Only KBJ Recognizes The Historic Stakes Of Trump’s Purges
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. A Devastating Supreme Court Decision The Supreme Court, with only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting, cleared the way for the Trump administration to proceed with mass layoffs of federal workers that will devastate governmental capacity.…
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WTF is Jeffries doing?
…https://www.rawstory.com/hakeem-jeffries-2673040779/…
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Purge? What purge? Nothing to see here as the retribution and destruction continue apace . . . (but Sasha will keep looking anyway)
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No wonder TSF loves Jackson.
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The Trump administration is keeping the reduction in force (RIF) plans secret in defiance of the law that requires they be made public in advance. The Supreme Court majority seems untroubled by this. Let’s just assume Trump is following the law until after the irreparable damage is done, that’s their opinion.
A leaked internal White House document in March provided an overview of RIF plans across various federal agencies.
Department of Commerce: 30%
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): 50%
Department of the Interior: 25%
Department of Justice: 8%
Department of the Treasury: 30%
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): 10%
Internal Revenue Service (IRS): 33%
Small Business Administration (SBA): 43%
National Science Foundation (NSF): 28%
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All I can say as I sit and watch this from France is, Lord God Almighty, you people are in a real mess over there in the States, aren’t you?
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Weird to think that these people have been living among us the whole time. Starting to feel like the Rowdy Roddy Piper character in
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One of the issues that the Supreme Court was expected to deal with during the Trump presidency was the Unitary Executive Theory. This deals with whether the president can “do whatever the hell he wants” within the executive branch. It now appears the Court has done an end around to avoid the final step in declaring Trump king. Instead of a direct ruling, they have done a series of rulings that taken as a whole affirm the Unitary theory. And yes, only Jackson is willing to point this out.
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Exsqueeze me, but the FBI has ZERO influence on the murder rate.
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MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell’s Lawyers Fined For AI Filings
A federal judge in Colorado fined lawyers for MyPillow founder Mike Lindell for egregiously error-filled filings in a defamation case against him by a Dominion Voting Systems Employee. The judge ruled that the lawyers’ explanations for the errors fell short and would not have occurred “absent the use of generative artificial intelligence or gross carelessness by counsel.”
The Colorado judge - Nina Wang - is the wife of the owner of the company where I work. I’ve met her several times - a smart, ethical woman. Glad she spanked these charlatans.
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I’m pretty sure that the DOJ target has been met – it has in my section, and the year isn’t over yet.
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I don’t know, especially since Mamdani overwhelmingly won Jeffries’ district in NYC’s Democratic primary.
Clearly, Jeffries’ brother, Hasan sees things differently…
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I wrote this on yesterday’s thread about the same moment the MM came out. In case you want my take on the craziest story ever imagined about two superpowers…and the Chumpootin mess. I believe there have been many books written about how the superpowers would shift/align, often with dystopic futures and told in a stern, historical tone about the inevitability of titanic collisions, etc.
But instead, we get this…something so stoopid and idiotic…an embarrassment in history perhaps without equal.
…Trump Stages Another Boffo Reality TV Episode In LA Park - #602 by dicktater…
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The overriding pattern of capitalism is that capitalism is entitled to workers at the lowest possible absolute cost; even zero cost.
want to work hard & do these jobs. Of course they will"
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What seems odd is the RIF weighting given the hostility towards the different agencies. EPA only 10%? Why not 75%? (No - I’m not advocating that.)
And given the desire to weaponize the DOJ, you’d think they’d be ramping up staffing in order to conduct all the bogus investigations they’re calling for.
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That is a truly scary Supreme Court decision, and once again it shows the extent to which they’re rewriting the law to mean whatever Trump wants it to mean.
When Congress charters an Executive Branch agency, passes legislation to require it to accomplish tasks X, Y, and Z, and adequately funds the agency to accomplish those tasks, the President cannot be faithfully executing the laws if he works to prevent that agency from carrying out those tasks. Mass layoffs that disable the agency’s capability of carrying out those tasks - how does that not fall into that category?
This Supreme Court decision is totally off the rails.
When all three branches of government collaborate in its destruction, there’s going to be destruction. I can only hope that the participants in this destruction, from all three branches, are someday tried for treason and experience appropriate penalties.
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