The Supreme Court delivered a setback to President Donald Trump, rejecting his attempt to fire Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook, while in a separate case giving him a freer hand to exert control over other hitherto independent federal agencies.
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is deepening the state’s embrace of artificial intelligence by signing a deal with San Francisco-based Anthropic that will make Claude the first generative AI platform available across state agencies and local governments. The deal comes at a politically charged moment. While the Trump administration has moved to restrict the rollout of […]
President Donald Trump reacted to a major Supreme Court loss Monday by pressuring five Republican senators to flip their positions and vote to pass the SAVE America Act. On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration and upheld a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted if they’re postmarked by Election Day […]
President Donald Trump pledged to “continue the fight” in his appeal of a New York jury’s unanimous ruling that he defamed and sexually assaulted writer E. Jean Carroll and owes her $5 million in damages, despite the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case. Trump previously asked the Supreme Court to overturn the case, […]
President Donald Trump's new appointee is raising alarm among staff inside the Department of Homeland Security and many are willing to quit over the appointment. The Daily Beast reported on Monday that Trump has tapped an obscure state trooper from Oklahoma to run U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), citing a piece from PunchUp. Senior officials say that they were shocked deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller was not appointed to the role.Richard “Lance” Schroyer is a former highway patrol officer and Marine, his biography says. Officials inside of DHS think that the real puppetmaster of ICE has been Miller, and they thought he was the likely nominee along with border chief Tom Homan. The Beast noted that the Senate hasn't confirmed a head of ICE since the Obama administration. However, they did approve DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. According to insiders, Schroyer's announcement sent shockwaves through DHS. “He’s Markwayne’s guy,” one senior official told PunchUp.“Everyone was blindsided by the selection [of Schroyer], including Homan and Miller,” one source said. There is a concern that it could be a signal that Miller's power over immigration and deportations is being whittled away. “He may be getting boxed out,” the source added.That said, the Homan wing isn't doing well either. It “seems Homan is losing some power,” another senior ICE official told PunchUp. He evidently wasn't "a fan" of Trump's idea to rebrand ICE as "NICE."“Everyone loves it, but I have been told by the legendary Tom Homan that the Agents do not love it as much as the other population," Trump wrote on Truth Social on June 20. “I think Homan is going to lose all power," another official said about the matter. Schroyer will take over a massive agency with a significant budget, despite having no experience leading an agency or office of any kind. Three insiders told PunchUp that the rank and file are ready to self-deport from their jobs. “Troops not happy at all. Senior leaders not happy,” said one senior ICE source. “No experience. He was a trooper. But that’s it. Never a boss. Never a leader. Never had to manage a budget. Now he has $78 billion. Now he has 32,000 employees.”Agents, the person said, are ready to walk. “Many say they will retire,” the source said. “You’re gonna see a lot of senior leaders” who “retire, leave,” they told PunchUp. “Because it’ll be a power struggle. A new person in there, no one will know what is going on, and we’re gonna look like idiots.”They think Schroyer is "nice" but that he has “no experience really with 287g ops." He's already been working quietly as a senior advisor to Mullin. Schroyer also worked previously as Mullin's residential security detail. "The pair were so close," the report said, citing a source, and noted that he was invited to have dinner with the family while working on the detail. One agency veteran said that it's part of an ongoing pattern of appointing friends with no experience to jobs. “This guy will be his ‘fish cop,’” the senior ICE official said when speaking to PunchUp. The report recalled previous Secretary Kristi Noem's deputy director of ICE, 29-year-old loyalist Madison Sheahan. She eventually left ICE and ran for Congress but lost in the primary. “Putting his person in with no experience just to have his guy on the inside. He’s going to be the new Noem," the official said.
Every living former Fed chair and former Treasury secretaries filed a rare amicus brief arguing Trump's removal power threatens economic stability.
President Trump on Monday applauded the Supreme Court’s latest expansion of presidential powers, usurping legal precedent in one of the high court’s final rulings of this term. “BIG WIN just moments ago at the Supreme Court, in the Slaughter Case, confirming Presidential Power in our Country to remove Executive Branch Officers and Agency Appointees, or…
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal law allows states to count non-military mail-in ballots received after Election Day. In a 5-4 ruling written by Trump-appointed Justice Amy […]
At issue in Trump v Cook is not whether Lisa Cook can appeal her removal, but rather where her position rests while the appeal is underway. Does she work for the govt? Or is she technically removed from govt, pending appeal? The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Lisa Cook remaining in her position as […] The post Supreme Court 5-4 Ruling Creates Fourth Branch of Government – Trump v Cook appeared first on The Last Refuge.