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  1. Unbelievable

    #KennedyCenter Board Decides to Inscribe #Trump Name on Building

    The vote to add “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump” is an aggressive test of a judge’s order to remove his name [& false since he’s done neither yet]

    #law #CourtOrder #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #narcissism #envy #greed #vanity
    nytimes.com/2026/08/13/arts/de

  2. Unbelievable

    #KennedyCenter Board Decides to Inscribe #Trump Name on Building

    The vote to add “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump” is an aggressive test of a judge’s order to remove his name [& false since he’s done neither yet]

    #law #CourtOrder #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #narcissism #envy #greed #vanity
    nytimes.com/2026/08/13/arts/de

  3. The salvo against #LisaCook is the 2nd time just this week that #Trump ​has restarted an effort to take actions that #SCOTUS blocked earlier this year. Trump earlier this ⁠week also issued another order attempting to limit #BirthrightCitizenship after the high court ruled against his previous effort to limit who is ​automatically considered a #US citizen.

    #law #economy #FederalReserve #independence #SeparationOfPowers #US #Constitution

  4. The salvo against #LisaCook is the 2nd time just this week that #Trump ​has restarted an effort to take actions that #SCOTUS blocked earlier this year. Trump earlier this ⁠week also issued another order attempting to limit #BirthrightCitizenship after the high court ruled against his previous effort to limit who is ​automatically considered a #US citizen.

    #law #economy #FederalReserve #independence #SeparationOfPowers #US #Constitution

  5. The #WhiteHouse told #LisaCook in a letter this week that #Trump was "considering" removing her from her role [he can’t] & demanded she respond to ​unproven mortgage fraud allegations [manufactured by #BillPulte] within 3 weeks — allegations her attorney called "baseless."

    #law #economy #FederalReserve #independence #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #US #Constitution

  6. The #WhiteHouse told #LisaCook in a letter this week that #Trump was "considering" removing her from her role [he can’t] & demanded she respond to ​unproven mortgage fraud allegations [manufactured by #BillPulte] within 3 weeks — allegations her attorney called "baseless."

    #law #economy #FederalReserve #independence #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #US #Constitution

  7. Government by Vibes: Governor Okpebholo’s London Roadshow and the Cost of Governing Without Institutions by Lawson Akhigbe

    His administration, he argued, is practical rather than bureaucratic. It is interested in action, not process. The legacy programmes of his predecessor, Godwin Obaseki, have largely been dismantled. EdoBEST has gone. The Security Control Centre has gone. EdoGIS is going. Consultants have gone. Due process, one gathered, has become something to be viewed with suspicion rather than embraced as the machinery through which modern government functions.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/06/gove

  8. Government by Vibes: Governor Okpebholo’s London Roadshow and the Cost of Governing Without Institutions by Lawson Akhigbe

    His administration, he argued, is practical rather than bureaucratic. It is interested in action, not process. The legacy programmes of his predecessor, Godwin Obaseki, have largely been dismantled. EdoBEST has gone. The Security Control Centre has gone. EdoGIS is going. Consultants have gone. Due process, one gathered, has become something to be viewed with suspicion rather than embraced as the machinery through which modern government functions.

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/06/gove

  9. The justices ruled in the case of former #FTC member #RebeccaSlaughter, whom #Trump fired WITHOUT cause despite a provision of #federal #law that requires a reason. The logic of the decision extends to other agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, where Trump also has fired board members.

    #law #Independence #ExecutivePower #HumphreysExecutor #SeparationOfPowers #Congress #democracy

  10. The justices ruled in the case of former #FTC member #RebeccaSlaughter, whom #Trump fired WITHOUT cause despite a provision of #federal #law that requires a reason. The logic of the decision extends to other agencies, including the National Labor Relations Board, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, where Trump also has fired board members.

    #law #Independence #ExecutivePower #HumphreysExecutor #SeparationOfPowers #Congress #democracy

  11. Trump Cancels Housing Bill Signing to Demand Voting Bill Concessions

    Trump Cancels Housing Bill Signing after demanding Congress pass his voting legislation first, delaying action on housing affordability.

    thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-

  12. Instead, she agreed that the #Constitution gives #states & #Congress the authority to regulate #elections, & that Trump’s requirements violated the #SeparationOfPowers.

    The Constitution “does not grant the President any specific powers over elections,” she wrote.

    #law #VoterSuppression #VotingRights #USpol #MafiaState #intimidation #WhiteSupremacy #Trump #citizenship #vote

  13. Instead, she agreed that the #Constitution gives #states & #Congress the authority to regulate #elections, & that Trump’s requirements violated the #SeparationOfPowers.

    The Constitution “does not grant the President any specific powers over elections,” she wrote.

    #law #VoterSuppression #VotingRights #USpol #MafiaState #intimidation #WhiteSupremacy #Trump #citizenship #vote

  14. Senate Votes to Limit Trump’s Iran War Powers in Rare Rebuke

    Senate Votes to Limit Trump’s Iran War Powers as bipartisan senators rebuke the White House over congressional authority and the Iran conflict.

    thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-

  15. While the resolution is largely symbolic 😞, & does not fully carry the force of #law 😞😞, it reflects the growing concerns from a number of #Republican lawmakers in both the #House & #Senate over both the #war & the “deal” #Trump struck with #Iran to end it. The House approved the resolution earlier this month.

    #law #TrumpsWar #IranWar #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #ChecksAndBalances #US #Constitution #democracy

  16. While the resolution is largely symbolic 😞, & does not fully carry the force of #law 😞😞, it reflects the growing concerns from a number of #Republican lawmakers in both the #House & #Senate over both the #war & the “deal” #Trump struck with #Iran to end it. The House approved the resolution earlier this month.

    #law #TrumpsWar #IranWar #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #ChecksAndBalances #US #Constitution #democracy

  17. The #Senate for the first time approved a #WarPowers resolution Tuesday seeking to block #US #military action against #Iran, as lawmakers warily watch #Trump’s “efforts” to “resolve” a conflict that the admin launched on its own & now needs #Congress to #fund.

    It was the TENTH time the Senate has tried to stop the #war, & the outcome, on a vote of 50-48, was a stunning turnaround from past efforts.

    #law #TrumpsWar #IranWar #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #US #Constitution

  18. The #Senate for the first time approved a #WarPowers resolution Tuesday seeking to block #US #military action against #Iran, as lawmakers warily watch #Trump’s “efforts” to “resolve” a conflict that the admin launched on its own & now needs #Congress to #fund.

    It was the TENTH time the Senate has tried to stop the #war, & the outcome, on a vote of 50-48, was a stunning turnaround from past efforts.

    #law #TrumpsWar #IranWar #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #US #Constitution

  19. The Office of #SpecialEducation & #RehabilitativeServices, which oversees the Individuals With #Disabilities #Education Act, or #IDEA, will move to #RFKJr’s Department of Health and Human Services [#HHS], these people said. The Office for #CivilRights will move to the #DOJ.…An Education Department spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    #Trump #idiocracy #law #legislation #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach

  20. The Office of #SpecialEducation & #RehabilitativeServices, which oversees the Individuals With #Disabilities #Education Act, or #IDEA, will move to #RFKJr’s Department of Health and Human Services [#HHS], these people said. The Office for #CivilRights will move to the #DOJ.…An Education Department spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

    #Trump #idiocracy #law #legislation #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach

  21. #idiocracy

    The #US #Education Department plans to move the offices that oversee #SpecialEducation services & #CivilRights out of the agency, part of the #Trump admin’s effort to close the department by moving all its functions to other parts of the government… [& further divide the classes creating a dumb servile class & a wealthy educated elite class].

    The announcement was expected later in the day.

    #law #legislation #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach
    washingtonpost.com/education/2

  22. #idiocracy

    The #US #Education Department plans to move the offices that oversee #SpecialEducation services & #CivilRights out of the agency, part of the #Trump admin’s effort to close the department by moving all its functions to other parts of the government… [& further divide the classes creating a dumb servile class & a wealthy educated elite class].

    The announcement was expected later in the day.

    #law #legislation #Congress #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveOverreach
    washingtonpost.com/education/2

  23. Suspending #HabeasCorpus was one of two radical ideas #StephenMiller had been pushing that alarmed Mr. Scharf. The other was invoking the #InsurrectionAct to deploy the #military to enforce the #law on #US streets as #protests grew against #deportation sweeps.

    Scharf wrote confidential memos to Wiles on both topics….

    [article is long, but I recommend reading it]

    #Trump #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #ExecutivePower #Constitution #democracy #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

  24. Suspending #HabeasCorpus was one of two radical ideas #StephenMiller had been pushing that alarmed Mr. Scharf. The other was invoking the #InsurrectionAct to deploy the #military to enforce the #law on #US streets as #protests grew against #deportation sweeps.

    Scharf wrote confidential memos to Wiles on both topics….

    [article is long, but I recommend reading it]

    #Trump #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #ExecutivePower #Constitution #democracy #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

  25. He had helped develop the #Trump team’s legal arguments behind the successful effort to get the Mar-a-Lago #ClassifiedDocuments indictment thrown out, as well as the arguments behind the presidential #immunity case that prevailed at #SCOTUS. He had embraced the most contentious elements of Trump’s agenda, but was quickly coming up against the limit of what the #Constitution, in his reading, could be made to bear.

    #HabeasCorpus #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutivePower #democracy

  26. He had helped develop the #Trump team’s legal arguments behind the successful effort to get the Mar-a-Lago #ClassifiedDocuments indictment thrown out, as well as the arguments behind the presidential #immunity case that prevailed at #SCOTUS. He had embraced the most contentious elements of Trump’s agenda, but was quickly coming up against the limit of what the #Constitution, in his reading, could be made to bear.

    #HabeasCorpus #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutivePower #democracy

  27. The man who outlined his concerns in the memo, Mr. Scharf, was no resistance figure. A trim, balding, Harvard-trained lawyer who had run for office in Missouri, he had bemoaned John McCain as too moderate for the 2008 Republican nomination, & believed #Trump had been vindictively prosecuted after his 2020 election loss.

    #HabeasCorpus #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #Constitution #ExecutivePower #democracy #immigration

  28. The man who outlined his concerns in the memo, Mr. Scharf, was no resistance figure. A trim, balding, Harvard-trained lawyer who had run for office in Missouri, he had bemoaned John McCain as too moderate for the 2008 Republican nomination, & believed #Trump had been vindictively prosecuted after his 2020 election loss.

    #HabeasCorpus #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #Constitution #ExecutivePower #democracy #immigration

  29. Yet to a greater degree than previously known, admin ofcls, encouraged by #Trump, actively weighed taking that step in the early months of his 2nd term—this time to accelerate mass #deportation of immigrants…
    Flush with a 2024 election victory, Trump & members of his team wanted to test how far the emboldened president’s authority could be pushed, setting off previously unreported internal struggles over where the limits should be.

    #HabeasCorpus #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Constitution

  30. Yet to a greater degree than previously known, admin ofcls, encouraged by #Trump, actively weighed taking that step in the early months of his 2nd term—this time to accelerate mass #deportation of immigrants…
    Flush with a 2024 election victory, Trump & members of his team wanted to test how far the emboldened president’s authority could be pushed, setting off previously unreported internal struggles over where the limits should be.

    #HabeasCorpus #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Constitution

  31. Scharf’s memo, in its unassuming way, was a blinking red warning light. The 2nd #Trump White House was deliberating an explosive new claim of #PresidentialPower: the suspension of habeas rights for unauthorized #immigrants.

    The suspension of #HabeasCorpus has occurred just a handful of times in US history, & always under the most dire circumstances of #war or #invasion.

    #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #Constitution #democracy #StephenMiller #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

  32. Scharf’s memo, in its unassuming way, was a blinking red warning light. The 2nd #Trump White House was deliberating an explosive new claim of #PresidentialPower: the suspension of habeas rights for unauthorized #immigrants.

    The suspension of #HabeasCorpus has occurred just a handful of times in US history, & always under the most dire circumstances of #war or #invasion.

    #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #Constitution #democracy #StephenMiller #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

  33. Dated April 29, 2025, & stamped “confidential,” the memo was careful & lawyerly but amounted to a warning against end-running the rule of #law. The subject line read: “THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.”

    #HabeasCorpus — the centuries-old right to force the government to justify, before a judge, why it has locked a person up — is enshrined in Article I of the #Constitution.

    #Trump #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #democracy #StephenMiller #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

  34. Dated April 29, 2025, & stamped “confidential,” the memo was careful & lawyerly but amounted to a warning against end-running the rule of #law. The subject line read: “THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.”

    #HabeasCorpus — the centuries-old right to force the government to justify, before a judge, why it has locked a person up — is enshrined in Article I of the #Constitution.

    #Trump #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #democracy #StephenMiller #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

  35. Last spring, Will Scharf, an arch-#conservative lawyer serving as the White House staff secretary, wrote a secret memo to the chief of staff that reflected growing unease in the West Wing about one of the extreme measures being weighed by #StephenMiller, the powerful adviser driving Trump’s #deportation campaign.

    #Trump #HabeasCorpus #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #Constitution #democracy #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

  36. Last spring, Will Scharf, an arch-#conservative lawyer serving as the White House staff secretary, wrote a secret memo to the chief of staff that reflected growing unease in the West Wing about one of the extreme measures being weighed by #StephenMiller, the powerful adviser driving Trump’s #deportation campaign.

    #Trump #HabeasCorpus #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #Constitution #democracy #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

  37. In a first, #House votes to block #Trump from ordering further strikes on #Iran. The #Senate advanced a similar war #powers #resolution last month on a procedural vote, reflecting growing impatience with a #conflict #Congress hasn’t authorized....it took how long, and will result in what?? #GOP #maga #trump #republicans #mikejohnson #warpowers #politics #government #separationofpowers

  38. In a first, #House votes to block #Trump from ordering further strikes on #Iran. The #Senate advanced a similar war #powers #resolution last month on a procedural vote, reflecting growing impatience with a #conflict #Congress hasn’t authorized....it took how long, and will result in what?? #GOP #maga #trump #republicans #mikejohnson #warpowers #politics #government #separationofpowers

  39. But on April 1, the #DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel published an opinion arguing that, in passing the #law, #Congress overstepped its authority to regulate the #ExecutiveBranch. Therefore, it contended, “the #PRA is unconstitutional, & the President need not further comply with its dictates.”
    #law #transparency #accountability #PresidentialRecordsAct #SeparationOfPowers

  40. But on April 1, the #DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel published an opinion arguing that, in passing the #law, #Congress overstepped its authority to regulate the #ExecutiveBranch. Therefore, it contended, “the #PRA is unconstitutional, & the President need not further comply with its dictates.”
    #law #transparency #accountability #PresidentialRecordsAct #SeparationOfPowers

  41. #GiftArticle

    The deal #Trump reached with his subordinates relies on a mechanism created by #Congress that legal experts warned was subject to manipulation.

    …The whole enterprise is a jarring shock to conventional understanding of the #constitution, raising…profound questions of #PresidentialPower. If allowed to stand, Trump will have managed simultaneously to thwart Congress’s #PowerOfThePurse & the ability of the #courts to police the #SeparationOfPowers.

    #law
    nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/poli

  42. #GiftArticle

    The deal #Trump reached with his subordinates relies on a mechanism created by #Congress that legal experts warned was subject to manipulation.

    …The whole enterprise is a jarring shock to conventional understanding of the #constitution, raising…profound questions of #PresidentialPower. If allowed to stand, Trump will have managed simultaneously to thwart Congress’s #PowerOfThePurse & the ability of the #courts to police the #SeparationOfPowers.

    #law
    nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/poli

  43. ⚖️ America was founded as a constitutional republic, not a monarchy, theocracy, or personality cult.

    This opinion piece examines how MAGA-style authoritarianism, blind loyalty, attacks on democratic institutions, and disregard for separation of powers threaten the very framework that keeps government accountable to the people.

    Read more:
    https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/u-s-politics/trumpism-and-constitutional-collapse



    #Trumpism #Constitution #Democracy #SeparationOfPowers #MAGA #USPolitics #Trump
  44. ⚖️ America was founded as a constitutional republic, not a monarchy, theocracy, or personality cult.

    This opinion piece examines how MAGA-style authoritarianism, blind loyalty, attacks on democratic institutions, and disregard for separation of powers threaten the very framework that keeps government accountable to the people.

    Read more:
    https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/u-s-politics/trumpism-and-constitutional-collapse



    #Trumpism #Constitution #Democracy #SeparationOfPowers #MAGA #USPolitics #Trump
  45. Trumpism and Constitutional Collapse: How America Might Be Stronger If MAGA Had Never Reached Power

    Trumpism and Constitutional Collapse examines MAGA authoritarianism, constitutional overreach, separation of powers, religious freedom, and why America’s republic depends on leaders serving the Constitution rather than one man.

    thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-

  46. The move frees a trial judge to act on the #Trump admin’s pending request to dismiss Bannon’s conviction & indictment “in the interests of justice” [rewriting history].

    The dismissal would be largely symbolic. #SteveBannon served a 4-month prison term after a #jury #convicted him of #contempt of #Congress in 2022. A federal appeals court in Washington upheld the conviction.

    #SCOTUS #law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower

  47. The move frees a trial judge to act on the #Trump admin’s pending request to dismiss Bannon’s conviction & indictment “in the interests of justice” [rewriting history].

    The dismissal would be largely symbolic. #SteveBannon served a 4-month prison term after a #jury #convicted him of #contempt of #Congress in 2022. A federal appeals court in Washington upheld the conviction.

    #SCOTUS #law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower

  48. WTAF!?

    #SteveBannon wins #SCOTUS order likely to lead to dismissal of his #criminal #conviction for refusing to #Congress.

    “Prodded” [instructed] by the #Trump admin, the justices threw out an appellate ruling upholding Bannon’s conviction for defying a #subpoena from the #House committee that investigated the #Jan6, 2021 #insurrection by Trump supporters.

    #law #SeparationOfPowers #LegislativeBranch #oversight #ChecksAndBalances #SubpoenaPower
    apnews.com/article/supreme-cou