Or putting the right people in place to advise him. I don’t think the grey matter is there to do it on his own.
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The first thing the Dems should do if they take the House is set up a Commission into corruption in public office and they should let his administration know now that that is what they intend to do.
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They deserve everything they get…
Buy a mobile from a mobile provider not a grift from the President.
Anyhow they are making the Bolosarno’s look upstanding, I do wonder which dufus offspring will run in his place.
Ivanka or Baron (if he actually speaks I’ve never seen him move his mouth).
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Actually, I think they start impeaching the most egregious officials - though DoJ is currently run by someone who has not been approved by Congress, and therefore not subject to impeachment. Hegseth is a likely target.
I think what this term has brought to light is there is no law that can be effective at reigning this in if you have a congress unwilling to satisfy its article I responsibilities. Obviously we saw some of that in his first term, especially at the end with the second impeachment vote, but this term its just a total vacuum where oversight and checks and balances are supposed to be. Senator Cassidy who recently lost his primary is a textbook example - voted to approve RFK despite knowing he was a dangerous charlatan who would do serious damage to our public health system, and just this week did an about turn to change his vote on the war powers resolution the moment he lost office and had nothing left to preserve.
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Question for people more knowledgable about US politics than me. Trump blocked the IRS from ever presenting tax evasion against him and him family.
Surely a future administration can just reverse this, right?
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It is very murky and like a lot of Trump related legal issues there isnt a good answer because of how unprecedented the shit he’s doing it so the legal theories are described as “untested”
I think the main avenues you look at it is that the IRS has the authority to audit people given to them by law from an act of congress. The executive branch cannot unilaterally over rule that. So there is a sense to say that an incoming admin could look at the agreement, determine it was illegal and nullify it. That doesnt follow that the IRS would then necessarily do a full investigation because that would then look targeted (though justified). It would be politically toxic. With the broad cuts to IRS investigatory resources it is questionable what capacity theyd have to do it. And it would be open to legal challenge by Trump which would almost inevitably end up at the Supreme Court. At the outcome there is not decided by law but just whether this specific case is worth them torching precedent to get the political win they want so who knows how that would play out.
This sort of crossing the lines of executive power into where congress has defined statutory authority is open to challenge by what is called the administrative procedure’s act. This is a basically a thing that is supposed to protect congress’ ability to pass laws and have the executive branch follow them. But again as obvious as this looks, the novelty of the specific circumstances leave a lot of questions over who would actually have the standing to start such a case. To file this sort of case you have to demonstrate harm and the courts can be pretty picky about that. It is not enough for me Citizen x to say the country was harmed by such self dealing. It may not be enough for congress to say their powers were hurt by such a violation of their statutory authority. Essentially its another case where if the supreme court decided they wanted to let him get away with it they could.
#NOTALAWYER
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The fact that Blanche has not been ratified by Congress as Attorney General does produce a bit of a weak point in any kind of argument that there was an absolute discharge
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The Department of Labour’s Faith Leader Is Now Also in Charge of Its Civil Rights Enforcement
The person leading the Department of Labor’s controversial monthly worship services has now taken over one of the agency’s most important offices.
Kenneth Wolfe, the director of the DOL’s faith center, is now also leading the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), the office tasked with making sure that federal contractors comply with anti-discrimination laws. Wolfe’s appointment was quietly announced earlier this month, after the agency released its proposed 2027 budget in April, which would eliminate the office entirely.
Because it oversees federal contractors, the OFCCP had jurisdiction over “roughly 20 to 25 percent of the > American workforce,”…
…For many years, it was the agency’s primary mechanism for enforcing civil rights laws.
Holy forking shirtballs
Martin has now finally conceded this is exactly what happened and has belatedly, embarrassingly, released the report as is.
Unfucking real
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After he missed that goal he got up and yelled “the people at the Bulwalk arent even real Democrats!”
Ive skimmed what they’e realized and there is no mention of Israel/Gaza and no mention of Biden - his age, unpopular decision to run again, his awful debate performance, the lack of acknowledgement from party bigwigs of it being a problem.
What a joke
I like listening to this girl… Good head on her shoulders
This is part answer here highlighted…
As for blocking any future tax investigation against Trump himself alongside his delusions for creating, and thus protecting the Trump family dynasty from the IRS… It seems if the slush fund is sanctioned, then the other part of the agreement (which is being called the ‘weasel deal’), will be extremely difficult to overturn further down the road… but we live in hope some bright spark; and Raskin might be the guy to do it; gets them banged to rights at some future juncture…
Viz:
Rep. Jamie Raskin vows to drag all the men behind Trump’s slush fund for J6 terrorists before his committee, moving to issue subpoenas to top Trump officials!
During a hearing of the House Oversight Committee today, Raskin tore into major Trump figures for trying to arrange a nearly two-BILLION dollar slush fund for the January 6th terrorists who attacked our capital and were imprisoned for it.
“We’ve got many questions for everybody involved in this brazen and corrupt transaction,” Raskin said at the start of the hearing. “I move that the committee now immediately subpoena those involved in the creation or execution of the nearly $1.8 billion slush fund.”
“These individuals all possess critical insights into Trump’s self-dealing scheme with his own agencies to create this fund and reward his supporters and friends,” said the Maryland congressman, who is the top Democrat on the panel.
Raskin made a motion to subpoena five top Trump administration officials: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, IRS Chief Executive Officer Frank Bisignano and Treasury Department General Counsel Brian Morrissey.
While it’s unclear if he – or anyone – can stop this from happening, devoted defender of the public Jamie Raskin is making sure it at least won’t be easy for them to get away with this outrageous theft of public funds.
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He needs Republicans on the committee on board though to issue subpoenas.
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https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2057884219678904417?s=20
Trump said of Don Jr, “he is a person I have known for a very long time” which is possibly the funniest thing Ive ever heard him say
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Knew it would be golf related.
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Ok @Iftikhar own up.
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