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House passes Ukraine aid bill in another GOP rebuke of Trump’s foreign policy
The vote comes after the House passed a resolution earlier this week against President Donald Trump’s war against Iran.
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Judge orders The Kennedy Center to remove Trump's name from its venue by June 12
The Kennedy Center is moving to comply with a federal court order to remove President Donald Trump's name from the iconic Washington arts venue. The center's general counsel instructed staff to immediately change email signatures, letterhead, and documents to reflect the original name — the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts — with interior and exterior signage to be changed by June 12, according to reports by CBS News. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruled the Trump-appointed board overstepped its authority when voting in December to rename the venue "The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts," according to NBC News. Judge Cooper said, "Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it." In addition to its name change, the center remains undecided about whether to proceed with a $257 million renovation scheduled to begin July 5. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum initially resisted compliance. During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union", Burgum explained he wasn't sure whether the order would be appealed and called it "controversy on both sides."Trump subsequently posted he would withdraw from the center, calling it "broken, unsafe and busted," according to Spectrum News 1. Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
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Trump DOJ may lose 'powerful arrow' as judge challenges conviction: analyst
The Trump administration has a "very serious chance" of losing a powerful weapon against judges, predicted legal journalist Adam Klasfeld. In a recent episode of Legal AF, Klasfeld spoke about the case against Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee circuit court judge who distracted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents while she sent the immigrant they were seeking out a side door."It's a shocking thing when a judge is arrested," Klasfeld reflected. "It showed the Trump administration's priorities to go after any judge that they believe is standing in the way of ICE enforcement.She was convicted by a jury of obstructing an official proceeding in December, but her legal team filed a motion for an acquittal of that charge. "She has a very serious chance of an acquittal here," Klasfeld said, explaining that recent cases have changed the legal precedent establishing ICE arrests with an administrative warrant as an official proceeding. If a federal judge agrees to acquit Dugan, it will take away "one of the most powerful arrows in the quiver of the Trump DOJ to target judges who want to preserve the integrity of their courthouse," Klasfeld said. "It can deprive the Trump DOJ of one of the few victories it has had in a high-profile case, particularly a politically charged high-profile case," Klasfeld added. "If an ICE arrest based on an administrative warrant is not a proceeding, then that sword of Damocles hanging over local county and state judges around the country, that is removed. That is removed from the Trump DOJ's quiver."
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Trump’s Name Is Disappearing From More Than Just the Kennedy Center
Lawyers are ordering staff to remove Trump from email signatures, letterhead, webpages, brochures, promotional materials, press releases, signs, and more.
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Trump DOJ arrests Oklahoma man for alleged death threats against John Thune: report
An Oklahoma man has been arrested on nine felony charges for allegedly making death threats against Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD).According to Politico, while the motive of 63-year-old David Shuck has not been publicly released, the Justice Department "described the case as part of an initiative related to an order President Donald Trump signed last September, known as NSPM-7, targeting 'domestic terrorism and organized political violence'" — with an emphasis specifically on "Antifa" and other left-wing protest activity.NSPM-7 has raised alarm bells from legal observers, who have warned it could be used to target Trump's political critics.Another criticism of the operation, per the report, is that it characterizes Antifa "as an organized entity when it is a vague label applied to a wide range of dissenting groups and people."Shuck, who, according to the report, previously served 18 months in prison for a marijuana grow operation, is out of jail on $10,000 bond as of press time.Death threats against public figures have been an ongoing issue for years, and have targeted officials in both parties. In one of the most bizarre recent examples, a U.S. Senate candidate was arrested last month over threats to kill President Donald Trump.
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Local officials in Nancy Guthrie case delayed FBI help: Patel
FBI Director Kash Patel told NewsNation it is up to local authorities if they want to accept FBI help.
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(VIDEO) Trump Says He Couldn’t See Biden’s Cognitive Decline and That Biden Was “Fine” – “He Was the Same Guy… He Was Never the Sharpest Guy”
President Trump on Thursday told reporters that Joe Biden was "the same guy I had been watching for a long time" when he last met with Biden in 2024, denying that he was having cognitive health issues. Clearly, Biden was out to lunch for four years, but Trump says he was just "never the sharpest guy." This is a departure from Trump's previous antics of imitating Biden on stage at his rallies. The post (VIDEO) Trump Says He Couldn’t See Biden’s Cognitive Decline and That Biden Was “Fine” – “He Was the Same Guy… He Was Never the Sharpest Guy” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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Todd Blanche exposed Trump's IRS settlement for what it really is: ex-prosecutor
President Donald Trump's acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche, went to bat for one of the surviving parts of Trump's "settlement" with the IRS in his $10 billion lawsuit, and, in so doing, only cemented how improper it was, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman wrote for his "Talking Feds" Substack.Specifically, Litman said, he defended the provision that excuses Trump and his family from IRS audits going forward.Blanche, under pressure from lawmakers, "declared that 'nothing has changed' in that provision. But he talked out of both sides of his mouth," wrote Litman. To start with, "he characterized the provision as a freestanding 'Attorney General order,' independent of the settlement. In virtually the same breath, however, he defended it as part of 'that settlement.' He told the subcommittee, 'Anytime the IRS settles with an individual taxpayer or another company as part of the settlement, it’s standard, it’s typical…to get rid of past ongoing audits.'"In reality, Litman argued, Blanche's own words here show "that the whole settlement arrangement is collusive and, therefore, not a real case or controversy under the Constitution."The problem, he said, is that in an actual lawsuit, "one party can’t simply declare that the settlement is off. The disavowal would be legally worthless. The other party would be quick to enforce the benefit of its bargain." In the case of the IRS "settlement," Litman said, "there was no bargain — just a benefit — to Trump. They were on the same side of the 'v.,' which is why Blanche could purport to speak for them both."This comes after dozens of retired judges urged the court hearing the original IRS case to reopen it and examine whether it was a fraudulent use of the court system.
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