🛑 🏛️ In the event of a government shutdown, it's not just federal employees & contractors who face upheaval. WIC, the USDA program that provides health care services and food to millions of low-income women and their children, will end immediately, Deena Zaru Pettiford reports in ABC News.
#ElonMusk’s EV company Tesla allowed racial #harassment of its #Black employees to run rampant at its Fremont, CA, plant & retaliated against some workers who complained, the federal agency charged w/ enforcing #CivilRights#laws alleged in a #lawsuit Thurs.
How Judge Tanya S. Chutkan became #Trump’s latest #target
Trump’s #lawyer stood in court in late Aug before Tanya S. Chutkan & told her he planned to challenge Trump’s case as a #PoliticallyMotivated#violation of the #FirstAmendment that would be decided by residents of a hopelessly “biased” city.
“I can’t wait,” #Chutkan responded dryly.
…in the mid of a pres race where the defendant is the leading #Republican contender & tied in “polls” w/the incumbent Dem (cuz…polls…believed? after 2016?) #Trump is accused of #illegally trying to keep (#Biden) out of #power. #Chutkan …will try Trump in the same courthouse where she became a #UScitizen…, where she became a #federal#judge, where she blocked his admin on #DeathPenalty & #abortion policies & where she ordered his records be given to lawmakers investigating the…(insurrection).
At the #federal courthouse in DC, a woman called the chambers of the judge assigned to the #Trump#ElectionInterference case & said that if Trump were not re-elected next yr, “we are coming to kill you.”
#FBI agents have reported concerns about #harassment & #threats being directed at their #families amid intensifying #anger among Trump supporters about what they consider to be the #weaponization of the #DOJ. “Their children didn’t sign up for this,” a snr FBI supervisor testified to #Congress.
by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott & Alex Mierjeski @ProPublica
#Thomas has attended at least two #Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a #political network that has brought multiple #cases before the #SupremeCourt.
That puts #Thomas in the extraordinary position of having served as a #fundraising draw for a network that has brought cases before the #SupremeCourt, including one of the most closely watched of the upcoming term.
Thomas never reported the 2018 flight to PalmSprings on his annual #financial#disclosure form, an apparent #violation of #federal#law…. A #Koch network spox said the network did not pay for the #PrivateJet. Since Thomas didn’t disclose it, it’s not clear who did pay.
But the #CodeOfConduct only applies to the lower courts. At the #SupremeCourt, justices decide what’s appropriate for themselves.
“I can’t imagine — it takes my breath away, frankly — that he would go to a #Koch network event for #donors,” said John E. Jones III, a ret #federal#judge appointed by President George W. #Bush. Jones said that if he had gone to a Koch summit as a district court judge, “I’d have gotten a letter that would’ve commenced a #disciplinary proceeding.”
A DIVIDED AMERICA WHERE STATES DECIDE WHAT IS TAUGHT IN THEIR STATE AND NOT AS A COUNTRY?
INSTEAD OF REEVALUATING THE EDUCATION PROCESS AND CURRICULUM EACH STATE HAS THEIR OWN? LMAO!. OH THAT'S RIGHT! REPUBLICANS LIKE IMPORTING INTELLIGENT PEOPLE RATHER THAN EDUCATING AMERICA'S OWN!
Ken #Chesebro claims in a new court filing that the #FakeElectors from #Georgia who claimed to be "duly elected & qualified" weren’t lying because they had been elected ... by the #Republican Party.
This is a false. It runs afoul of both #federal (Electoral Count Act) & state #law. There are very specific requirements for #electors to be both “elected” & “qualified.”
The heads of Canada's five largest grocery chains have "agreed to work with" the federal government to stabilize food prices, Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Monday.
I'm starting to really like Jamelle Bouie's writing on politics. While he still essentially has a liberal perspective (as opposed to a radical or left perspective) he's really good at identifying and criticizing liberal process, technicality and hypocrisy-based criticisms of the right.
These are criticisms that don't address the gulf in values, morality, or outcomes, but focus instead on things like finding hypocrisies, or showing how the right is failing to live up to the constitution. 1/
If Donald #Trump wins a second term, he & his allies want to revive a plan to allow a #president to #fire#CivilService workers who are supposed to be hired on #merit. The Biden administration is trying to thwart it.
The rule addresses a move #Trump tried to make late in his presidency by issuing an EO known in shorthand as #ScheduleF. It would have empowered his admin to strip #JobProtections from #career#federal#employees — who are supposed to be hired based on #merit & cannot be arbitrarily fired. While the EO said agencies should not hire or fire Schedule F employees based on #political affiliation, it effectively would have made these employees more like political appointees who can be #fired#AtWill.
First, the #categorization of #political views along a single left-right #axis is almost #useless. This has long been known, and alternatives exist that present a much more accurate picture, but the traditional #media is #addicted to "#left this" and "#right that" and is lazy, so they'll probably never get better.
So, to start looping back to #Canadian#politics - it's a bit of a journey...
All of the semi-serious or serious #national#federal#political parties - #Conservative, #Green, #Liberal, New Democrat in alphabetical order - fall in the upper-right quadrant of the chart. They're not even particularly close to the center; the closest to the center would be the Conservatives, but they're only a tiny bit closer than the Liberals, a bit more than the others.
#Attorneys for Trump on Monday asked US District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan to disqualify herself from presiding over his federal #ElectionObstruction case, asserting that Chutkan in past cases involving #Jan6, 2021, riot defendants made statements that give the appearance that she has prejudged Trump’s guilt.
The fundamentals of the 2024 campaign are still taking shape, but one thing is already clear: A flurry of #court actions might cost #Republicans the #House majority.
Otherwise some Cities would try the same as one did with Bulldogs and tried to outlaw them with an absurd dog tax of €3.000 p.a. which OFC got canceled by courts as it was clear that it's an illegally high #paywall ...
The chances of #Jan6#insurrection#republicans flipping in the #rico indictments just went through the roof. My estimate is over 1000% now that the State Trials in #georgia will be scheduled live on national TV.
None of these traitors will have their indictments moved to #federal jurisdiction.
Republicans in congress will attempt to distract or cancel the TV coverage of the Georgia indictments with #impeachment of #potus
Good call by the #court! But don't get excited or complacent yet. There are still #fascists and #bigots in Texas that want #queer people #invisible and/or #dead and they won't stop until they think they've succeeded.
The U.S. federal government is headed into a shutdown. What does it mean, who’s hit and what’s next? (www.cnbc.com)
A shutdown happens when the U.S. Congress fails to pass some type of funding legislation that is signed into law by the president.