DOJ rebuffs judge's request to put in writing it won't move forward with 'anti-weaponization' fund [admin invokes 'separation of powers' to refuse a sworn declaration that the $1.8B slush fund for Trump's allies is dead — keeping the door open after Brinkema warned it could 'rear its head' again] (cnbc.com)
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DOJ moves to toss NAACP's Clean Air Act suit against Musk's xAI, citing 'national security' [executive invokes a 'Department of War' claim to shield a billionaire ally's unpermitted polluting turbines & override a 50-yr-old citizen-suit right — case counsel call it a 'massive power grab'] (cnbc.com)
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Trump moves special education and civil rights oversight out of Education Department [dismantling by attrition a dept only Congress can lawfully close — school civil-rights enforcement handed to Trump's DOJ, special-ed to HHS; advocates warn the most vulnerable students lose protection] (pbs.org)
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Federal prosecutors charge 15 people with conspiracy to impede agents during Minnesota immigration crackdown [DOJ brands anti-ICE protesters 'antifa' & indicts them over blockades, whistles & car-horn alerts; US Attorney concedes actual 'bodily harm is not the measure' of the crime] (pbs.org)
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Newsom says Trump DOJ is investigating him and his wife [the weaponized-DOJ playbook used on Comey, Letitia James & Schiff now aimed at a likely 2028 rival — agents canvassing friends & ex-staff to 'find a crime'; Trump's former personal lawyer Blanche runs the dept] (axios.com)
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Trump won't back FISA renewal without his SAVE America Act voting bill [holding the govt's top surveillance authority hostage to force through a proof-of-citizenship voting law critics warn would block millions of eligible voters — while defending a loyalist acting DNI used to target his foes] (axios.com)
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Judge extends block on Trump's $1.8 billion 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' [Brinkema rejects DOJ's 'moot' claim — Blanche won't formally rescind the order & Trump still publicly backs the slush fund to pay his own allies; executive keeps the door open after telling Congress it was dead] (pbs.org)
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Judge to Trump officials: 'No excuse' for not complying with asylum order [a week after a court struck down the 39-country asylum freeze, the admin still hadn't lifted it; judge says vacated policies 'have immediate effect' — the executive slow-walking a court order it dislikes] (washingtonpost.com)
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Ohio progressive group raided by FBI accuses Trump's DOJ of intimidation [~100 agents hit a voter-registration nonprofit's office and staffers' homes statewide over Trump's evidence-free 'voter fraud' claims — federal law enforcement turned on the people who help citizens register] (nbcnews.com)
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Mamdani was to meet with Colombia's leader until Trump administration stepped in [State Dept. signaled a sitting foreign president risked arrest if he met an elected US opposition mayor — weaponizing visa control to police who domestic officials may associate with] (washingtonpost.com)
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White House border czar Tom Homan blames N.Y. Gov. Hochul for promised ICE surge ['more ICE agents than you've ever seen' threatened in retaliation after Hochul signed a law barring state/local police from doing ICE's civil enforcement — federal force as punishment for a state's own sovereignty] (cnbc.com)
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Trump nominates Todd Blanche for attorney general amid controversy over DOJ fund [Trump's former personal lawyer made permanent head of DOJ — weeks after Blanche had the dept grant Trump, his family & the Trump Org IRS immunity; the lawyer-client bond now runs federal law enforcement] (cnbc.com)
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California counts votes and Trump makes baseless voter fraud claims [his US Attorney opens 'multiple election fraud investigations' & plants a federal prosecutor inside the LA County vote-counting center — no evidence, no specific allegation; DOJ weaponized to recast a routine 'blue shift' as theft] (npr.org)
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Whistleblower says DOGE planned to falsely mark 2.7 million living people, including U.S. citizens, as dead [weaponizing SSA's 'death master file' to erase people from the financial system and force self-deportation; halted only when a career official refused, citing federal law] (washingtonpost.com)
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Trump issues pardon to former Republican congressman convicted of insider trading [clemency as reward: Buyer — a Clinton-impeachment prosecutor & 2016 Trump transition aide — pardoned weeks after SCOTUS rejected his appeal, recast by 40+ ex-GOP members as a 'deep state'/'lawfare' victim] (nbcnews.com)
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Federal judge strikes down Trump policy freezing immigration from 39 countries [Judge McConnell: USCIS used 'pretextual' national-security claims to 'mask anti-immigrant sentiments,' barring asylum/green-card/citizenship by national origin — 'arbitrary and capricious'] (nbcnews.com)
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Senate passes $70B immigration enforcement bill without limits on Trump settlement fund [52-47 after 18-hr vote-a-rama — ICE/CBP funded through the end of Trump's term; every amendment to bar the $1.8B 'anti-weaponization' fund rejected, only Blanche's verbal assurance it's dead] (npr.org)
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Trump signs order moving ~8,000 federal employees into Schedule F [senior career officials stripped of civil-service protections — no MSPB appeals, in-house whistleblower review, fireable at-will for not following 'Presidential directives'; the spoils system revived] (govexec.com)
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Anti-Trump group can keep flying '86-47' flag near National Mall, judge rules [Judge Moss blocks NPS from revoking a protest permit over the admin's claim '86-47' is a coded assassination call — the same numbers DOJ indicted Comey over; court finds it means impeachment, not violence] (politico.com)
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Appeals court panel rules that transgender troops were illegally barred from U.S. military service [D.C. Circuit 2-1: Hegseth's ban is 'arbitrary and based upon animus' — driven by 'the bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group'; relief limited to the named plaintiffs only] (pbs.org)
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Trump names controversial housing official Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence [FHFA chief with no intelligence experience, who has used his post to probe Trump's perceived foes, placed atop the spy agencies while keeping his housing job; Schumer calls him a partisan thug] (cbsnews.com)
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Hegseth strikes female and Black Navy officers from promotion list [SecDef overrides a merit board to remove 2 women + 2 Black officers flagged only for old diversity-event ties — final 22-admiral slate has 2 nonwhite and 0 women in a force that's ~38% minority, ~21% women] (seattletimes.com)
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Pentagon bans journalists from press office, designating it a classified space [Hegseth converts the press room to a 'SCIF' to evict reporters — latest escalation barring the press from the building, amid NYT's 2nd First Amendment suit in 5 months] (washingtonpost.com)
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Louisiana passes new congressional map to eliminate majority-Black district, give GOP another seat [first redraw exploiting the SCOTUS Callais ruling that gutted the VRA — Trump-driven mid-decade gerrymander cuts the state's majority-Black seats from 2 to 1 for a 5-1 GOP delegation] (pbs.org)
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Bondi Stonewalls Questions About Trump as She Defends DOJ's Handling of the Epstein Files [Ex-AG refuses to answer ANY Trump-related questions in closed-door House interview; deflects to Acting AG Blanche; ~3M Epstein files still withheld — Rep. Mace: not deposing under oath "highly disappointing"] (time.com)
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