🧵 coverage of Judge #Boasberg’s hearing via Aaron Reichlin-Melnick:
Chief Judge Boasberg begins the hearing. Lee Gelernt & others from the #ACLU are there in person, along with others from #DemocracyForward.
For the government, appearing are Abishek Kambli & August Flentje.
#law #Constitution #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #immigration #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump
ICYMI, this stmnt from #Trump’s US AG #PamBondi is incredible:
"Tonight, a DC trial judge supported Tren de Aragua terrorists over the safety of Americans.…This order disregards well-established authority regarding Trump's power, & it puts the public & law enforcement at risk. The DOJ is undeterred in its efforts to work w/the WH, the DHS, & all of our partners to stop this invasion & Make America Safe Again.”
The issue is compliance w/the #law & has nothing to do with “support” of terrorists.
Judge #Boasberg responded to #DOJ’s Monday motion to vacate the 5PM hearing:
The Court ORDERS that Defendants' 24 Motion to Vacate is DENIED. The hearing will proceed as scheduled. So ORDERED by Chief Judge James E. Boasberg on 3/17/2025.
So, it should start in about 5 minutes.
#law #Constitution #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #Venezuela #immigration #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #AbuseOfPower
In another remarkable move, the DOJ wrote a letter to the federal appeals court that sits over Judge #Boasberg, asking it to remove him from the case entirely given what they falsely described as his “highly unusual & improper procedures.”
The two government filings came on a day of extraordinary resistance to the court by the #Trump admin, which has said that it has not violated Boasberg’s order stopping the flights, but also that he had no authority to issue it in the first place.
#law
In a brazen display of defiance, #Trump’s #DOJ filed papers less than two hours before the 5PM hearing, telling Judge James E. #Boasberg that there was no reason for anyone to come to court because the administration was not going to provide any further information about the #deportation flights.
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#law #Constitution #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #immigration #Venezuela #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
"Top Commerce Dept official sent a blistering email to his former colleagues on his way out the door Sunday warning that #Trump admin is poised to unduly enrich #Musk’s satellite internet co. w $ for rural broadband.
“Stranding all or part of rural America w worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” wrote Evan Feinman, who had directed the $42.5 bil broadband program for past 3 yrs"
Live updates and the latest news as the Senate turns to a government funding bill to avoid a shutdown and Trump's pick to lead the CDC gets a confirmation hearing.NBC News
REPORTER: What responsibility do you feel to the civil servants who have now lost their jobs? Many of them worked at the Dept of Education during your first term. TRUMP: Many of them don't work at all. Many of them never showed up to work.Threads
"On the Monday edition of his program, Fox News host Sean Hannity announced that as a gesture of devotion to Elon Musk, he is buying a Tesla. …
Then Tuesday morning, Donald Trump announced that he too will buy a Tesla, and expressed his belief that it should be illegal for anyone not to buy one."
#Musk #Trump #economy #StockMarket #stagflation #recession #Tesla
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Begun, this new culture war has.Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)
"Tuberville said that more tariffs coming at the start of next month would right the ship. (He did not make clear how exactly this righting would be achieved.)
'They don’t last forever, I mean,' Tuberville added. 'The reciprocals are gonna be, what, April 2nd? So it’ll be good. Bye, bye, bye.'
For what it’s worth, I checked the handy Autopilot app3 to see how Tuberville’s portfolio is performing over the past three months. He was down 6.9 percent as of Monday."
#Musk #Trump #StockMarket
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“'It’d gone way up, you know, probably over-priced,' he said. 'In a short period of time it had really gone up, and so it probably reset itself a little bit.'
Asked whether the market could get back to the same level, Tuberville said, 'No doubt.'
I noted that the consensus has been that the market dive was a direct result of Trump’s tariffs and the economic instability they bring."
#Musk #Trump #economy #StockMarket #stagflation #recession
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"In a Monday interview with Fox News’s Larry Kudlow, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) suggested the stock market’s recent nosedive was reasonable, even justifiable, because things had simply gotten too lucrative.
I asked Tuberville to elaborate on his statement that the market was 'over-bloated.'”
~ Joe Perticone
#Musk #Trump #economy #StockMarket #stagflation #recession
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"While your 401(k) collapses, Trump’s buying Teslas and fantasizing about annexing Canada.
As Donald Trump crashes the markets again, what does he do in response? He holds a Tesla commercial outside the White House, bragging about buying a Tesla for himself and his granddaughter. While Americans watch their pensions and retirement accounts evaporate, Trump’s big solution is to drool over a dashboard and say, 'Wow… computers.'”
~ Ben Meiselas
Trump and Musk turned the White House into a Tesla car lot in an attempt to generate sales after the Tesla stock price plummeted 37% this month.
Musk and Trump are an embarrassment and the reason why America is an international laughingstock.
#musk #trump #Tesla #laughingstock #swasticar
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Keep ‘em coming
Via Kyle Griffin:
Gov. Tony Evers says #Wisconsin is joining a multistate lawsuit against the #Trump admin over the mass firings of federal workers.
The lawsuit argues the admin unlawfully directed federal agencies to fire thousands of probationary employees.
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In new Trump lawsuit, Gov. Evers alleges the thousands of federal workers fired over the last month are illegal and reckless., Journal Sentinel (Journal Sentinel)
The Trump White House has taken its attempt to seize direct control over the entire executive branch to a new level and laid out a startling legal rationale for…Josh Kovensky (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
Reboost ♻️ plz: In light of increased uncertainty on the reliability on the US, European democracies should strengthen their strategic autonomy: this also includes autonomy from #Microsoft #Windows in the public and private sector.
eu-os.gitlab.io proposes to develop together a Community-led Proof-of-Concept for a free/libre replacement of Windows. Follow us on Mastodon and join the Matrix chat at matrix.to/#/#eu-os:kde.org to receive updates and help.
"Assuming that the past six weeks are predictive of what’s next, expect an age of anxiety; expect the elimination of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of jobs; expect the decimation of liberal institutions to go on for all four years of Trump’s second term; expect government services to deteriorate; expect reduced funding of the safety net; and expect more homelessness, hunger and disease."
~ Thomas B. Edsall
"You know what? Elon Musk did say before the election that he was going to inflict pain on the American people. So I guess in that regard, a promise is made, a promise is kept from this administration because people are feeling the pain."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
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Watch the latest episode of the MeidasTouch Podcast ad-free right here on the Meidas+ Substack!Brett Meiselas (Meidas+)
"It was a perfect encapsulation of the chaos that Trump has wrought. As he announced yesterday that he was going to proceed with 25 percent tariffs against Canada and Mexico and hike another 10 percent on China, a widget on the Fox Network showed the Dow Jones crashing in response."
~ Jay Kuo
#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
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Despite a 30-day reprieve and sincere efforts by our trading partners to meet Trump’s demands, he imposed across-the-board tariffs anyway.Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
"Coincidentally, the same day Trump said tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods would go ahead, a story broke that his administration is seeking to ease sanctions on Russia. After appeasing the bear, he has decided to drive his car into the moose. All of us are about to find out what happens next."
~ Martyn Wendell Jones
#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
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Sure, we’ve abandoned Ukraine, launched a trade war with our neighbors, and insulted close allies. But at least we’re screwing over our veterans, too.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"Encouraged by the cheers of his sycophants, empowered by the silence of his enablers, Donald Trump took another step yesterday down the dishonorable and dangerous path of betraying Ukraine and siding with Vladimir Putin."
~ William Kristol
#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
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Sure, we’ve abandoned Ukraine, launched a trade war with our neighbors, and insulted close allies. But at least we’re screwing over our veterans, too.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"On Monday, while President Trump talked about his tariffs, Fox News showed him speaking even as a graphic in the corner displayed the markets sliding. That said it all: No matter how much boasting he does about the economy, the actual metrics are getting worse—and the public knows it."
~ Greg Sargent
#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
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As Trump’s announcement of tariffs causes the markets to slide—even on Fox!—Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg reflects on whether his party is doing enough to capitalize on the moment.The New Republic
As Jen Rubin also notes, what Trump is doing to tank the economy has to be set beside his attack on Ukraine and NATO, which says,
"The message to Moscow is do what you will with Ukraine. We'll deliver them on a silver platter."
Ripping apart the federal government and tanking the economy serves no one better than it serves Vladimir Putin. These are dots that need to be connected.
#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
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"The Federal Reserve of Atlanta came out with a prediction this morning that the first quarter of growth in the United States would be negative, negative 1.5. That's down from 2.8 positive growth just a month ago. That's all the time it took Donald Trump to wreck this economy. I can't sugarcoat this."
~ Jen Rubin
#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
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*Special Alert from the Contrarian*Jennifer Rubin (The Contrarian)
"Bloomberg reported that the tariffs on Canada and Mexico are likely to make US car prices rise by as much as $12,000, since so many parts and pieces of vehicles are manufactured at plants in those countries. In his remarks today, Trump said the manufacturers are just going to have to move all their plants to the US."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
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"Yet the conventions of mainstream journalism make it hard to say directly that the president’s actions are just vindictive and senseless. …
I don’t know how this ends. But U.S. voters will soon be feeling real pain, and I very much doubt that it will end in a Trump victory."
#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #tariffs #recession
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"The newspapers this morning all contain analysis pieces trying to explain why Trump is imposing 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico. You can see the writers struggling, because this is a profoundly self-destructive move — it will impose huge, possibly devastating costs on U.S. manufacturing, while significantly raising the cost of living — without any visible justification."
~ Paul Krugman
#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #tariffs #recession
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The president lacks basic decency, and loathes people who doPaul Krugman
"They want us broke. That means they want a recession, a depression, economic tumult. They want mass unemployment. They want the stock market to collapse. They want us to go broke struggling to pay our bills."
~ Greg Olear
#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
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The time for traditional party politics is over. The Democrats must become a true opposition party. And it must begin today.Greg Olear (PREVAIL by Greg Olear)
"Trump is killing the economy, reducing the U.S. government to rubble, and destroying our relationships with our allies. Putin may love it, but it’s a catastrophe for us and much of the rest of the world."
~ Robert Reich
#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
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Boycott Trump’s address to Congress tonight. If you must go, make good trouble.Robert Reich
"We assess that the Presidency has been captured by Vladimir Putin. Until we see proof otherwise, assume that Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and JD Vance are proxies for Putin, Xi, and their allies. China backs Russia fully.
Russia’s strategic goal is to dismantle the United States. They will pursue this through creating internal turmoil and dysfunction, trying to destroy the dollar and by 'ending' the Federal Reserve."
~ Dave Troy
#Musk #Trump #Putin #economy
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MANAGING FINANCIAL INSTABILITY IN 2025 By David Troy, Publisher + Editor, America 2.0 Published November 7, 2024; Last Updated March 4, 2025 The Trump/Vance administration has the potential to unleash widespread economic harms, many of which are not…Google Docs
"Trump has created a climate of extreme economic uncertainty. And that’s really bad for the economy in the most fundamental way. If you’re tied to the global economy in really any way it’s hard to imagine you’d be making any big spending decisions at the moment. And that plays down to the consumer level. Meanwhile, the administration is at least trying to yank a lot of government spending out of the domestic economy."
~ Josh Marshall
#Trump #StockMarket #recession
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The Atlanta Fed has again lowered its projection for first quarter 2025 GDP. It had been predicting growth of 2.3%. At the end of last week that was revised to…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
"Unbridled Tariff Man was always going to be a big economic risk in a second term, and here we are."
~ Wall Street Journal
#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
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He says the 25% levies on Mexico and Canada will begin Tuesday. Stocks fall.WSJ
"The unease has already led to warnings that the U.S. could be heading for recession, with the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow model estimating real GDP growth for the first quarter of 2025 at -2.8 percent, down from +3.9 percent just four weeks ago."
#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
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"Donald Trump’s introduction of his long-threatened 25 percent trade tariffs on Mexico and Canada has caused global stock markets to drop sharply, with the Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq all falling."
~ Oliver O'Connell, Joe Sommerlad, Ariana Baio
#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
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President delivering address to joint session of CongressOliver O'Connell (The Independent)
"Also today, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta forecast a dramatic contraction in the economy in the first quarter of 2025. Evaluating current data according to a mathematical model, it moved from an expected 2.9% growth in gross domestic product at the end of January to –2.8% today."
#Musk #Trump #Putin #StockMarket #economy #Dow #Nasdaq #SandP #tariffs #recession
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