““JD “I don’t give a shit” Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the “highest and best use of the military.” Did he ever read To Kill a Mockingbird?” Paul wrote on X on Saturday night. “Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation??”
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They are looking for answers as to why the administration elected to fire on the cartel, rather than rounding them up, and some are wary the strike could expand the president’s authority to call upon his war powers. There have also been questions about details of the attack and desire for proof that the boat itself was actually what the administration says it was.
“What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial,” Paul said of Vance’s Saturday post.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/07/rand-paul-clashes-with-jd-vance-over-us-strike-on-venezuelan-boat-00549080
“Navarro was indicted in June 2022 after the House held him in contempt of Congress. He was convicted by a jury a year later.
The Justice Department separately sued Navarro to recover emails he sent on private accounts but related to government business. The Justice Department similarly abandoned that effort after Trump took office earlier this year.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/07/peter-navarro-justice-department-lawsuit-00549930
“The high court’s majority offered no explanation for its decision to grant the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to block the district judge’s order. However, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote separately in support of the decision, saying it was reasonable to briefly question people who meet multiple “common sense” criteria for possible illegal presence — including employment in day labor or construction, and limited English proficiency.
The court’s three liberal justices dissented. ”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/08/supreme-court-ice-raids-ruling-00550551
“Trump assailed FEMA within days of entering office over its response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene last year in North Carolina. Since then, he has thrown the nation’s disaster agency — and state leaders — into turmoil by threatening to close the agency. He established a council comprised of Cabinet members to make recommendations about the future of FEMA.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who has echoed Trump’s rhetoric, oversaw the elimination of 10 percent of the agency’s workforce and of popular FEMA grant programs that allocated billions of dollars a year to communities for projects that could protect them against natural disasters. DHS oversees FEMA.
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Trump in recent months has said he intends to weaken FEMA and shift disaster response to states starting in 2026.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/08/fired-fema-chief-relationship-trump-officials-00548907
““Moreover, Trump’s attacks against Carroll were not isolated; rather, they continued throughout the pendency of the nearly five-year litigation and became more extreme and frequent as the trial approached,” the panel wrote. They noted that he continued his attacks even after he was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation and even during the second trial itself.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/08/trump-e-jean-carroll-appeal-ruling-00550333
“While religion is not banned in public schools, the Supreme Court ruled in 1962 that state-sponsored prayer in public schools violates the First Amendment.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/08/trump-says-hell-direct-education-department-to-protect-praying-in-public-school-00550550
“Chief Justice John Roberts is allowing President Donald Trump to put a Joe Biden-appointed member of the Federal Trade Commission out of her post while the Supreme Court considers a longer-term resolution of the legal battle over her firing.”
So, whether it’s legal or not, Trump gets to go ahead and do it, and even if it turns out to not be legal, much damage will be done and the law ineffective.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/08/john-roberts-rebecca-slaughter-trump-firing-00550758
Although crime in DC has been down, it has still been very bad. The streets are quieter since the Feds came to town, but this isn’t a long term solution. Some residents are living in fear of the Feds, especially Hispanics, including ones here legally because the Feds will arrest people they falsely suspect are illegal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW65phBjzi0
Trump administration eliminates the SEC crypto fraud unit, then Trump appears to make tons of money on illegal crypto schemes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybTPyNwIFv0
This Supreme Court makes many large and vague rulings, and then insults lower judges when they have trouble interpreting them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPibtWESIus