Only KBJ Recognizes the Historic Stakes of Trump’s Purges

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A devastating decision of the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court, with only judge Ketanji Brown Jackson dissident, paved the way for the Trump administration to make federal workers who will devastate government capacity.

The High Court’s decision to suspend an order from the lower court blocking dismissals in 21 government agencies while the Trump administration actually calls Greenlight purges. It risks leaving certain government services and capacities so exhausted that they cannot be restored even if workers finally prevail in court.

Jackson seems to be the only justice aware of these risks, and she dropped in a howl of a dissent which allowed the historic moment: “In my opinion, it was not the bad decision at the wrong time, especially given what little court knows what is really going on on the ground.”

The decision of the other judges, warned Jackson, “will allow an apparently unprecedented dismantling and the unauthorized congress of the federal government to continue to rely, causing irreparable damage before the courts could determine whether the president has the power to engage in the actions he proposes.”

Purge and replace

Under the Trump administration, the Ministry of Energy has hired three well -known scientists for their annoyance on anthropogenic climate change, reports the NYT:

Trump Retribution may have taken a new dark turn

In a slightly original but especially credible report, Fox News Digital said that the Ministry of Justice had launched criminal investigations on the former CIA director, John Brennan, and the former FBI director James Comey, two of President Trump’s oldest nemes, for their roles in the Trump-Russia investigation from his first mandate.

Key data points:

• The Brennan investigation is partly focused on the fact that he would have made false statements in the congress.
• “The director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, referred evidence of reprehensible acts by Brennan to the director of the FBI Kash Patel for potential proceedings,” reported Fox.
• Two sources have described for foxes to the FBI vision on duo’s interactions as a “conspiracy”.

This news comes after the CIA published last week a revisionist report ordered by Ratcliffe on the assessment of the Intel 2017 community that Russia has embarked on a campaign of secret influence to help Trump win in 2016.

Tulsi Gabbard has his own reprisal system

The working group that the director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has set up, among other things, to apply the executive decree of the armament of President Trump wishes to access emails and cat newspapers of the main Intel agencies, apparently as a means of punishing disloyalty, reports the WAPO:

The unprecedented interest in data from the managers of the Office of the National Intelligence Director has surprised certain senior officials of the agency, who expressed concerns about the counterintelligence and the risk of confidentiality of the aggregation of what could be a large amount of sensitive information which may include references to the interceptions of electronic communications on targets abroad, have indicated that several American officials and others efforts. …

Certain senior intelligence officials are also concerned about private that the effort could be used to continue the perceived disloyalty to the Trump administration, in particular to identify the people who have implemented the policies of the previous administration.

The judge takes note of the UN report on the Salvador

The new United Nations report that El Salvador has broken “legal jurisdiction and responsibility” for prisoners by the United States in the United States in the United States continues to have repercussions.

The report was submitted in the original case of the DC extraterrestrial enemies Act, but on his own initiative, the American district judge Stephanie Gallagher of Maryland immediately took note of the report in a separate case.

Gallagher has been on stone for months by the Trump administration in the case of the Venezuelan man named Cristian wrongly deported to El Salvador in March in violation of a pre -existing settlement agreement approved by the court. She ordered the administration to facilitate the return of Cristian, but she continued to provide wave and non -reactive situation reports pointing her finger on El Salvador for not having provided more information.

In a severe letter to lawyers in the case, Gallagher wrote:

In the situation reports submitted under the ordinance of this Court on June 5, 2025, the defendants contributed several times to the directive of this Court to provide information concerning the measures they have taken and will take to facilitate the return of Cristian to the United States. Instead, the defendants have repeatedly made oblique references to their “help” request from the American State Department (back), which “[ed] In negotiations to facilitate the return of Cristian “and” assumed responsibility on behalf of the United States government for … diplomatic discussions with El Salvador. “”

Gallagher ordered the Trump administration to explain to him next Tuesday, why, in the light of the United Nations report, he continues to insist that the diplomacy of the State Department is required to facilitate the return of Cristian.

In the meantime, another new development suggests that the United States has control of the prisoners it has sent to Cecot. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, worked on an agreement for brands to exchange around 250 Venezuelan migrants that the United States expelled in Salvador for several Americans and dozens of political prisoners held in Venezuela, reports Le Nyt.

Today in strange plots

• WAPO: Canadian troops arrested in an alleged plot to seize part of Quebec
• The Guardian: Ten accused of attempted murder after pretending to be an ambush to the ice agents in Texas on July 4
• WAPO: A impostor Marco Rubio uses an AI voice to call high -level civil servants

Imymi

Josh Kovensky of TPM examines the discourse that vice-president JD Vance pronounced the Claremont Institute during the weekend of July 4, a more recent and darker version of his brand of blood and soil nationalism.

The lawyers of Mypillow Guy Mike Lindell were sentenced to AI deposits

A Federal Judge of Colorado inflicted a fine of lawyers for the founder of Mypillow, Mike Lindell, for depots elegantly filled with errors in a defamation case against him by an employee of Dominion voting systems. The judge ruled that the explanations of lawyers on errors failed and would not have taken place “in the absence of the use of generative artificial intelligence or raw carelessness by the Council”.

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