A quick review…
A federal blocked Trump’s plan to use the USPS as a gatekeeper to screen mail-in voters.
They wrote: “Unauthorized by the Elections Clause, the Final Rule clashes with Congress’s statutory scheme, and is unconstitutional where it intrudes not only on Congress’s Elections Clause powers but also that power left to the States.”
In other words, the plan is both illegal and unconstitutional. And the judge agreed that the rule threatens the voting rights of millions of American citizens.
But the administration continues its strategy of judge-shopping so we’ll see what the next one says. They’re not conceding the point. Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, on the Arch front, a federal judge ordered the administration to give the court at least 48 hours’ notice before doing anything except dig pits to identify cultural artifacts at the site.
And noted that in April the administration agreed to provide 14 days’ notice before any construction started, an agreement ordered by the court.
But the administration’s announcement this week that work was about to begin suggests that they’re pushing the project forward regardless. Without required permitting. Or obeying the law that requires Congress to pass a law allowing another memorial in this protected area of DC.
Shouldn’t he be required to finish at least one project successfully before starting a myriad more?
Questioned about the war in Iran, Trump told reporters that it is actually not a war but “a military conflict because it’s small potatoes for us.”
Tell that to the families of the 18 dead service members in a war he bears sole responsibility for.
He also denied that military personnel are seeing record long deployments. And continues to insist that the US controls the Strait of Hormuz.
Meanwhile, while the administration continues to insist there is no shortage of munitions for this war we’re winning, government investigators forced about 50 members of the US military’s Joint Staff—about 2,000 officials who coordinate operations and policy with commanders around the world—to take lie detector tests to determine if they had been the source of the munitions leaks to journalists.
Mass polygraph tests have never been administered to the top ranks of the US military in modern history.
The Defense Department and the National Institutes of Health have signed an agreement to collaborate on biodefense and pandemic preparedness. This could mean moving as much as $2B from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—roughly one-third the budget of the agency—to the Pentagon.
Pete Hegseth has been trying to push through Congress a short-term injection of $350B. This on top of the additional $150B congressional Republicans gave the Pentagon last year.
The NIH as a Pentagon piggy bank.
One senator on the Senate Appropriations Committee accused the Defense Department of “trying to rob N.I.H. of billions of dollars that Congress provided for medical research so that it can pad the Pentagon’s budget.”
Our president continues to misunderstand not only that trade has made the US wealthy, but also the concept of trade itself.
“We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with other countries,” he said. “We lose with Mexico $195 billion a year. They have nothing that we have to have, I mean, hot tamales, tomatoes, a couple of things.”
Plus machinery, agricultural products, vehicles, auto parts, electronics and other non-taco related items.
His ignorance is staggering.
And last but not least, on Friday the WH debuted computer games on their official website.
One is with a white man in a suit picking up Black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits.
They tried to rip off Tetris with one about building Trump’s wall, but Tetris was having none of that. It disappeared as the real Tetris posted:
“At Tetris we believe in the power of connection and bringing people together, not dividing them. To our fans everywhere: we love you, we see you, and we’re grateful to have you in our community.
“P.S. The Tetris Company was not involved in the creation of ‘Build the Wall’.
“P.P.S. We take copyright infringement very seriously.”
And this is just a taste of last week.
We’re watching an administration unravel. The captain of the ship is heading for the lifeboat. While he kicks the rest of us out.
Karma is coming for the GOP.
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