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From a source: Former NYC mayor, ex-Turkish Airlines high flyer, recently minted Albanian citizen Eric Adams on a flight from West Palm Beach to NYC the other weekend
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South Carolina Senate Republicans became the first to buck President Trump’s demand for a post-Callais redraw Tuesday, sinking the amendment that would have tacked redistricting on after the official end of the legislative term.
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Redistricting Effort Fails in South Carolina after Five GOP Defections
South Carolina Senate Republicans became the first to buck President Trump’s demand...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/scotus-helps-louisiana-republicans-obliterate-black-dem-district-ahead-of-midterms
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In March 2025, Noem and Miller scheduled a meeting to “Realign Elements of Foreign Aid for Border Enforcement and Repatriation." It was one time of many the Trump admin attempted to route aid funds to its border crackdown. TPM is reporting the meeting and other details for the first time.
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How the Trump Admin Tried to Turn Foreign Aid Funds Into Deportation Cash
On the first day of his second-term in office, Donald Trump issued...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the-trump-admin-tried-to-turn-foreign-aid-funds-into-deportation-cash
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1. there is no war 2. but if there is a war, it costs $29 billion.
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Trump Officials Claim The War That Isn’t Happening Now Costs $29 Billion
Acting Department of Defense Comptroller Jay Hurst on Tuesday said the cost...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-officials-claim-the-war-that-isnt-happening-now-costs-29-billion
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TPM Wins 2026 New York Press Club Award for Undocumented Underground Series
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TPM Wins 2026 New York Press Club Award for Undocumented Underground Series
TPM’s own Hunter Walker has won a 2026 New York Press Club...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tpm-wins-2026-new-york-press-club-award-for-undocumented-underground-series
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It is wild how shameless this has become.
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Supreme Court Unblocks Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Map, Showing That Alito Was Lying
The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a stay on an old Alabama...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-alabama-alito-stay
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Texas Republicans leaned into a slate of policies that election conspiracy theorists tend to recommend. It led to the chaos we saw in the recent primary election.
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Dallas Republicans Warned That Texas Was Turning Blue. Then They Wrecked an Election.
DALLAS – For this city’s Republican Party, the 2026 primaries were supposed to...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dallas-county-march-primary-gop-allen-west
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Allen West put the demands of 2020 election conspiracy theorists into practice for a Dallas primary in March. The result was a fiasco; now the same people who pushed voter fraud conspiracy theories want him prosecuted
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Dallas Republicans Warned That Texas Was Turning Blue. Then They Wrecked an Election.
DALLAS – For this city’s Republican Party, the 2026 primaries were supposed to...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dallas-county-march-primary-gop-allen-west
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Gorka's long-awaited and much-postponed counterterrorism strategy (he is the White House "counterterrorism czar," after all) is heavy on targeting the left, and anyone else "whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist."
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Gorka Fumes Against the Left in New Counterterrorism Strategy
Sebastian Gorka released a new counterterrorism strategy on Wednesday, singling out “violent...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gorka-fumes-against-the-left-in-new-counterterrorism-strategy
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Indiana Republicans Who Wouldn’t Cave to Trump Pressure See Sweeping Losses in Primaries
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Indiana Republicans Who Wouldn’t Cave to Trump Pressure See Sweeping Losses in Primaries
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s redistricting failure in Indiana, he...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/indiana-republicans-who-wouldnt-cave-to-trump-pressure-see-sweeping-losses-in-primaries
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The Roberts Court has been wildly inconsistent in applying its own principle that federal courts should not intervene in redistricting cases too close to elections. The court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais came after mail-in voting in the House primary elections were already under way.
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Roberts Court Tosses GOP One More Midterm Gift
Partisan Hackery Destroying the Voting Rights Act wasn’t enough. The Supreme Court...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/roberts-court-tosses-gop-one-more-midterm-gift
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BREAKING: SCOTUS grants the Callais plaintiffs' request to issue the judgment now, meaning the ruling goes into effect and back to the district court immediately. This was done over a strong dissent from Jackson — prompting Alito (w Thomas & Gorsuch) to author an opinion concurring with the grant.
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Also... kinda seems worth noting that half the reason so many Silicon Valley VCs lined up behind Trump was because a pretty toothless AI policy plan from Biden that basically told companies "be more thoughtful." If the Biden admin had talked about pre-vetting models, it would have been a HUGE story.
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When federal agents came to the home of David Morens on Monday with an arrest warrant for allegedly concealing federal records related to the debate about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, they behaved as if the 78-year-old retired scientist was a violent criminal.
https://scim.ag/4cIEXhc
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Guns and bulletproof vests: How federal agents arrested Fauci aide
David Morens, 78, was stripped and handcuffed for email violations
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David Super, a professor at the Georgetown Law School, called the administration’s argument “absurd.” Through the naval blockade, the White House is still using the military for the purposes of the law.
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Experts Brush Off Hegseth, Trump’s Latest Arguments for Blowing Through Today’s War Powers Deadline
The Trump administration is trying to wriggle out of a legal requirement...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/experts-brush-off-hegseth-trumps-latest-arguments-for-blowing-through-todays-war-powers-deadline
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NEW: A House Dem task force focused on Trump's efforts to manipulate elections has identified 150 scenarios for how he might interfere with the vote They're running war games and preparing responses ranging from snap legal filings to floor fights at the Capitol
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside The ‘Red Team’ House Dem Task Force That’s Running War Games And Taking On Trump’s Election Threats
The last time President Donald Trump lost an election, he fought back...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-democrats-election-wargames-trump
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Every part of President Trump’s attempts to commandeer the independent U.S. central bank has blown up in his face.
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Fed Nominee Warsh Advances But Powell Says He’ll Stay On, Frustrating Trump’s Bid For Control
On the same day that Trump’s nominee for Fed chair advanced after...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fed-nominee-warsh-advances-but-powell-says-hell-stay-on-frustrating-trumps-bid-for-control
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Allegra Kirkland
16 days ago
Today in two sentences via
@kateriga.bsky.social
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Supreme Court Rules in Lockstep with Trump Admin’s Vision of a Whiter America
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Supreme Court Rules in Lockstep with Trump Admin’s Vision of a Whiter America
The Supreme Court exposed the grisly underpinning of the Trump administration Wednesday...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-trump-callais-tps
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16 days ago
Three major developments in Donald Trump’s retribution campaign yesterday laid bare more than ever before—as hard as that may be to believe—the depths to which the DOJ will go under acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to do the president’s bidding.
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Trump’s Retribution Cases Are Fundamentally Weak
How Low Can They Go? Three major developments in Donald Trump’s retribution...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trumps-retribution-cases-are-fundamentally-weak
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Hunter Walker
16 days ago
There's been a lot of debate on here about whether it's "doomer" to pay attention to the president's desire to stop elections. This digs into how people who have to deal with this view the situation. They're not ignoring it - and they're not giving up either.
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The Voting Rights Act is dead smh "The Roberts Court finally achieved its years-long goal of killing the Voting Rights Act, publishing a ruling that, the liberal justices say, will make proving racial discrimination in redistricting virtually impossible."
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Alito Pens Decision That ‘Eviscerates’ The Voting Rights Act
The Roberts Court finally achieved its years-long goal of killing the Voting...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/alito-callais-voting-rights-act
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Unsurprising authorship. Alito is the most corrupt member of the Court - though it's hard to rank among the six GOP members.
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Alito Pens Decision That ‘Eviscerates’ The Voting Rights Act
The Roberts Court finally achieved its years-long goal of killing the Voting...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/alito-callais-voting-rights-act
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The gutting of the Voting Rights Act makes this work much more important.
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside The ‘Red Team’ House Dem Task Force That’s Running War Games And Taking On Trump’s Election Threats
The last time President Donald Trump lost an election, he fought back...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-democrats-election-wargames-trump
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The multi-decade campaign to destroy the Voting Rights Act reaches its conclusion.
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Alito Pens Decision That ‘Eviscerates’ The Voting Rights Act
The Roberts Court finally achieved its years-long goal of killing the Voting...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/alito-callais-voting-rights-act
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Of all the various theories of court reform, I think term-limits for justices, with a new one appointed on a schedule, like every four or six years or something, is something normies will get behind. It's hard to cast that as court-packing. People hate how old everyone in positions of power is.
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How to Fix the Supreme Court
Term limits for justices, a binding ethics code, and cameras in the courtroom are just a few of the reforms Congress should adopt.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-fix-supreme-court
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17 days ago
Details here about: -A few of the more than 150 scenarios House Dems are prepping for -What WH pressure on red states not to certify some congressional elections would result in -A potential floor fight over the next Congress on Jan 3rd, 2027 -and more
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside The ‘Red Team’ House Dem Task Force That’s Running War Games And Taking On Trump’s Election Threats
The last time President Donald Trump lost an election, he fought back...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-democrats-election-wargames-trump
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Our conversation, which took place earlier this month, is the most in-depth look thus far at House Democrats’ efforts to confront threats to the vote.
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside The ‘Red Team’ House Dem Task Force That’s Running War Games And Taking On Trump’s Election Threats
The last time President Donald Trump lost an election, he fought back...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-democrats-election-wargames-trump
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Inside House Democrats’ task force on countering interference in the midterms, w/
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside The ‘Red Team’ House Dem Task Force That’s Running War Games And Taking On Trump’s Election Threats
The last time President Donald Trump lost an election, he fought back...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-democrats-election-wargames-trump
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House Democrats have formed a task force to game out how Trump might meddle with the midterms, and what to do if Republicans refuse to seat new, Democratic members of Congress in January.
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside The ‘Red Team’ House Dem Task Force That’s Running War Games And Taking On Trump’s Election Threats
The last time President Donald Trump lost an election, he fought back...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-democrats-election-wargames-trump
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Have you heard the good news, friend?
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Trump admin informed Congress last week that it would use money originally appropriated for global health to deal with the costs of shutting down USAID, including paying off contractors who were screwed by the DOGE rampage and are now suing. Congress, reasonably, is calling this "impoundment."
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Senate Dems Accuse Admin of ‘Impoundment’ Over USAID Funds
As the Trump administration puts the finishing touches on its plans to...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/senate-dems-accuse-admin-of-impoundment-over-usaid-funds
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Fun fact: The Elvis impersonator who was arrested for sending ricin to Obama often recommended my work on Facebook. Fortunately (for me!), he was innocent. A different Elvis impersonator sent the ricin to frame the innocent Elvis impersonator b/c the latter falsely claimed to be a member of Mensa.
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The special services soldier appears not to have understood that insider betting on Polymarket and similar fora is reserved as a privilege for members of the president's family and immediate entourage.
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DOJ arrests soldier who made $400,000 betting on Maduro's removal: Sources
Authorities have arrested an U.S. soldier involved in the capture of Nicolas Maduro for allegedly pocketing more than $400,000 by betting on his capture, sources say.
https://abcnews.com/US/doj-arrests-soldier-made-400000-betting-maduros-removal/story?id=132325426
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Super interesting piece from
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about the history of immigration panics in Texas and elsewhere
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David Kurtz
22 days ago
In March, the FBI began investigating NYT reporter Elizabeth Williamson after her February story on the use of bureau resources by Director Kash Patel’s girlfriend.
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FBI Investigated NYT Reporter Who Wrote About Kash Patel’s Girlfriend
WTAF In March, the FBI began investigating NYT reporter Elizabeth Williamson after...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/fbi-investigated-nyt-reporter-who-wrote-about-kash-patels-girlfriend
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Will shoppers get tariff refunds? House Dems tried to get the Trump admin to commit to repaying consumers who paid tariff-inflated prices this last year. Based on the admin's response, it's not happening.
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RFK Jr. Is Consistent on One Thing: Denying Cuts Have Been Made to Medicaid
This is your TPM evening briefing.
https://wherethingsstand.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/rfk-jr-is-consistent-on-one-thing
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F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend
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F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/politics/fbi-times-reporter.html?smid=bs-share
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These Getty Images of Vance's ill-fated Hungary trip really captures what's amusing about both leaders.
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Although the proposal was approved on Tuesday, the state Supreme Court has been waiting to see if the measure would pass before ruling on a handful of legal challenges brought against it by Republicans.
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‘Fairness Won’: Virginia Voters Just Gave Dems a Win in the National Redistricting Wars
In yet another loss for president Trump and his floundering gerrymandering blitz,...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fairness-won-virginia-voters-just-gave-dems-a-win-in-the-national-redistricting-wars
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Kevin Roberts at Heritage praises Paul Gottfried and Chronicles.—
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Paleos Ascendant?
The Takeover at the Heritage Foundation
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/paleos-ascendant?utm_source=activity_item
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The Federalist's editor in chief wrote a hagiographic biography of Alito that is premised on the idea that leftists are trying to kill conservatives at all times.
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Inside the Parallel Universe Where a Nonpartisan Alito Is Under Assault from the Rabidly Violent Left
At first glance, Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway’s Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/alito-hemingway-book
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A bunch of right-wing influencers spent several hours yesterday freaking out that Amazon had "censored" Camp of the Saints. Except maybe Amazon didn't. The whole episode turned Camp of the Saints into a bestseller.
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Far-right Exults at Brief Amazon ‘Suppression’ of Favorite Racist Book
For the publisher of a book that is both derided as racist...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/vauban-amazon-camp-of-the-saints
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JUST IN: FBI Dir Kash Patel loses libel suit he filed against former FBI agent Frank Figliuzzi for saying Patel "reportedly" has been "visible at nightclubs far more" than at FBI HQ. Judge George Hanks (Obama/TXSD) says it was "rhetorical hyperbole." Doc:
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#38 in Patel v. Figliuzzi (S.D. Tex., 4:25-cv-02548) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Granting 25 Opposed MOTION TO DISMISS FOR FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM (Signed by Judge George C Hanks, Jr) Parties notified. (knp4) (Entered: 04/21/2026)
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsd.2011606/gov.uscourts.txsd.2011606.38.0.pdf
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Senate Republicans keep looking for a way to save face and vote for Trump's fed pick, who insists he will be independent. But Trump keeps repeating that he won't be. And so everyone is stuck.
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Warsh Hearing Reveals How Tightly Trump Has Tied Himself in a Knot on Fed Control
President Donald Trump’s own words were repeatedly used against him Tuesday during...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/warsh-federal-reserve-chair-hearing-reveals-how-tightly-trump-has-tied-himself-in-a-knot
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Mollie Hemingway's new Alito book, a gushing hagiography of the Court's most open partisan, reveals the depth of right-wing fantasies about leftist violence. Fascinating look at the threats a movement premised in grievance but in complete control has to invent
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Inside the Parallel Universe Where a Nonpartisan Alito Is Under Assault from the Rabidly Violent Left
At first glance, Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway’s Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/alito-hemingway-book
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25 days ago
This lead from
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Nicole LaFond
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While congressional Republicans have done a lot to help erode Congress’ power as a check on the executive branch during Trump II, Vought has made their authority-ceding easy. More from
@emineirmakyucel.bsky.social
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Vought Still Thinks Trump Admin Doesn’t Have to Listen to How Congress Allocates Money
This is your TPM evening briefing.
https://wherethingsstand.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/vought-still-thinks-trump-admin-doesnt
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Roger Parloff
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GOVT ASKS DC CIRCUIT TO VACATE CONVICTIONS AND REMAND FOR DISMISSAL IN OATH KEEPERS AND PROUD BOYS CASES. Stewart Rhodes, Ethan Nordean, everybody. ...
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