Originally published at: SCOTUS Has No One To Blame But Itself For Alien Enemies Act Mess
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Wow, What A Weekend Events have moved so quickly since the last Morning Memo on Friday that I am going to keep today’s installment at a pretty high level of summary, especially since it was…
I gotta say this factoid brought a smile:
New reporting on Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s firing of Peter Marocco, the guy who dismantled USAID, reveals Marocco learned of his termination when he returned to Foggy Bottom from a meeting at the White House and was refused entry to the building because he was no longer an employee there.
Given the experience of 1) USAID employees; 2) the Institute of Peace employees; and 3) the HHS employees who learned they had been terminated when their badges would not allow their entry, I can’t resist a “what goes around comes around” response.
Off topic, but that picture looks like Kagan threw up in her mouth a little.
She probably did if that was from the SOTU.
The firehose of news and madness is full bore today…hang on to your hats
Roberts looks like he’s contemplating balls and strikes and whether he may have misunderstood what stare decisis really means.
The official public position of the administration is every single employee in the Pentagon is undermining and working against the SecDef. Every single one.
An X account run by the Department of Defense shared Leavitt’s claim, reiterating: “This is what happens when the ENTIRE Pentagon is working against you and against the MONUMENTAL change that you are trying to implement.”
[Pope Francis] has died at 88, the day after
celebrating Easter with the faithful in St. Peter’s Squarehaving to entertain JD Vance.
Did Vance ask him why he hadn’t thanked the president?
I’m not Catholic, but Pope Francis was one of the most human and humane of the popes in my lifetime - probably the only one Mahatma Ghandi might have approved of (“I like your Christ but I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.”)
Apparently telling JD where to stuff it was his last contribution for humanity.
And apologized…
It seems that the notion of being “supreme” has gone to the heads of Alito and Thomas.
Pope Frank, multiple times the Christian as the prosperity gospel shits pretend to be. If there is a god and heaven she will embrace him.
18 intelligence agencies, determined in a secret assessment early this month that the Venezuelan government is not directing an invasion of the United Statesby the prison gang Tren de Aragua,
AEA does not apply if there is no invasion. Further, people seeking to join your club are not typically considered as enemies.
That MAGA claim to be afraid of brown people does not make attempted immigration an invasion either.
Imagine Vance being one of the last people you see at the end of your life.
Glad I’m not an employee in the Pentagon. I’d hafta resign due to Leavitt’s insult.
Having to interact with him might cause me to say “fuck it, I’m out.”
Gee, honey, just how did the Pentagon persuade Hegseth to include his wife in that second Signal security breach?
This is not something that happened to Hegseth, it is something he and his wife did.
They’re going to have Cat Turd leading agencies soon.
On a brighter note, at least their incompetence will save us.
I’m from the Thumper’s mother school of behaviour: If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. My limits can be tested, however.
It is truly unfortunate that on his final day, Pope Francis felt compelled to exchange words with fake Catholic, fake human being JD Vance. He should have been spared that.
Pope Francis was a kind person. May he RIP.
I wouldn’t. I’d smile, rub my hands together and chuckle.