Trump Threatens Elon With Monster of His Own Making
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After Elon Musk and Donald Trump embarked on a public tour in Co-rod, who especially involved the richest man in the tweeter world which he “went too far” in some of his criticisms of the president, the couple is back this week. Musk – As we are going to enter below – has increased its public criticism from the reconciliation packaging Les Républicains du Senate try to go through the upper room, mainly criticizing its enormous cost and targeting of incentives to the own energy tax of the Biden era.
Trump became very interested in the amount of government subsidies that the various Musk companies have been receiving since the billionaire left the Trump administration at the beginning of last month, handing over the ransacking of the federal government to technical technologies which he had installed at the Ministry of Government Effectiveness (DOGE). Around midnight last night, Trump resumed his public reflections on the contracts and subsidies of the Musk government. In a social position of truth, he threatened to take the Monster Doge that Musk created and train him on Musk himself.
“Elon can get more grant than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon should probably close his shop and return home to South Africa,” said Trump. “More rocket, satellite or electric cars’ launches, and our country would save a fortune. Perhaps we should have made a good, hard, look at this? Big Money to save !!!”
Trump doubled these veiled deportation threats when they asked them about the reescalat quarrel on Tuesday morning.
Musk, for his part, continued to line up against X legislation in the face of Trump’s threats, suggesting that the Senate Republicans who vote to adopt the bill allow “the slavery of debt”.
The substance of current tensions between the two billionaires is lower than the situation as a whole: sycophandic fidelity is the only protection guaranteed in Trump’s White House, whether or not you had to dismantle the federal government.
The Doj says it will try denaturalizations
An MJ memo of June 11 made public during the weekend has established denaturalizations of American citizens as one of the five main priorities for applying the civil division.
“At a fundamental level, it also supports the overall integrity of the naturalization program, ensuring that those who have illegally acquired citizenship, including those who obtained it by fraud or concealment of material information, do not maintain the advantages of illegal purchases,” said the memo, which has not disclosed the possibilities of the Mo in the event of any Citizens applications. This is an argument on which the administration also relied in its attacks against visa and green criticisms of the card of the War of Israel in Gaza.
Josh Kovensky of TPM explained how denaturalizations could work – or not to work – last year. NPR has more about Doj’s note last month.
Ice ou eles of Dems
After the recent arrests of several high -level elected democrats seeking to monitor immigration detention centers, the Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) has officially implemented a new policy that the Democratic members of the Congress must provide one week’s notice before visiting the facilities. Politics go against the federal law, which allows elected officials to visit the unexpected detention centers to surveillance.
Some DEMS already suggest that the decision could be illegal.
“No matter how you read it, the DHS and the ice violate the law a blatant way,” said representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS) in a Times press release. “They think they are responsible for anyone, but following the federal law is not optional. What are they hiding from the American people? ”
Large and beautiful invoice still stuck
The debate on the bill continues on Tuesday as the senators rush through the vote of the amendment, the last step before the passage. The process developed suggests that the head of the majority in the Senate John Thune (R-SD) has not yet locked the votes he needs.
Great, beautiful mystery
NBC asked a handful of republican senators how the bill was found, as the Morning Memo noted yesterday, not only the reduction in incentives for the Biden-Ered inflation law for clean energy projects, but imposing a new tax of wind and solar excise, even leaving some badly at ease. No one seemed to know.
“It’s a secret, I suppose,” said senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
It was as if the provision had been “broadcast” in the bill before the procedural vote on Saturday to start the debate, said senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
Musk intensifies his war on the package
Elon Musk previously led as a budget falcon during the Bradière against Trump’s signature legislation, and this continues. Now, he mixes in a non -rather coherent mixture ideologically coherent from other criticisms on the bill, including the criticism of his assault against clean energy. “He gives documents to the industries of the past while seriously damaging the industry of the future,” he said on Saturday about the wind and solar excise tax of the bill.
“A massive strategic error is made at the moment to damage the solar / battery energy that will leave America extremely vulnerable in the future,” he said in another tweet.
Speaking of musk
The Washington Post:
For months, Elon Musk’s Doge Service have placed the information systems of the federal government, traveling the arcanic internal files which, according to the billionaire, guided his waste hunting. Now that Musk has moved away from its government role, some of these data could be precious in another way – by giving the richest man in the world a competitive advantage over his rivals in the private sector.
A Washington Post review revealed that in at least seven major departments or agencies, DOGE obtained the power to see the files containing trade secrets of competitors, non -public details on government contracts and sensitive regulatory actions or other information.
Trump drops the costume
The president renounced his ridiculous attempt to legally punish the sounder Ann Selzer for having strongly underestimated his general electoral performance in Iowa.
The Supreme Court takes up significant cases for the next mandate
The Supreme Court will intend to challenge the campaign financing regulations and a law of the Nixon era from which they arise, which restrict the amounts that political organizations can spend in coordination with individual candidates for functions. Although the case represents another chance for the High Court to demolish campaign financing regulations, it could also unpredictable the landscape of political spending that has existed since 2010 Citizens United Decision, in which super heat pumps and dark money groups can pour huge sums in races. The probable demolition by the Supreme Court of Restrictions on the expenses of political parties could see that the money sent by the parties.
Republican groups brought legal action in 2022 in collaboration with the Senator JD Vance campaigns then and another Senate candidate.
Probably an innocent error
While the governor of southern Dakota, the now secretary of the DHS, Kristi Noem, considerably completed her income with dark money from a political non -profit organization that she has not disclosed. Propublica:
In what experts have described as a very unusual arrangement, the non -profit organization sent funds to a personal company in Noem which had recently been created in Delaware. Payment totaled $ 80,000 that year, a significant increase in its government salary of around $ 130,000. Since the non -profit organization is a so -called dark silver group – which is not required to disclose the names of its donors – the original source of money remains unknown.
More about Friday’s scotus decision on national injunctions
Steve Vladeck law professor:
But the more the Supreme Court in general (and this court, in particular) does what it wants, when it wants, the more it bets its future legitimacy on continuous public support to be subject to its whims. It is a very different vision of judicial supremacy that I attribute – and a vision which is not only deeply unstable in the long term, but which seems particularly poorly adapted at the political and constitutional trexful moment in which we find ourselves.
ILYA SOMIN law professor:
The true heart of the question here is not the technical debate on historical analogies, but a fundamental principle of the constitutional government: the State must not be authorized to engage in systematic large -scale violations of the Constitution, in particular with regard to fundamental constitutional rights, such as the rights of citizenship of the right of birth in this case. And the courts must be able to impose the necessary remedies to prevent this. This principle is much more important than any historical detail on the exact nature of the available remedies [in] British courts in 1789.
Historian John Ganz:
I am not a lawyer or an academic, but what jumped me in the dissent of Jackson judge is a footnote where she cited a book of 1941 from Ernst Fraenkel called Double state: a contribution to the theory of dictatorship. Fraenkel was a lawyer for social democratic work in Weimar Germany who was pushed out of his profession for his Jewish history after the Nazi crisis in power. In Double state, It provides a theory of nature of the legal order within the framework of the Nazi regime: on the one hand, there was a “normative state”, which would support each day, the rule of procedural law, and on the other hand, there was “the state of prerogative”, which led by arbitrary violence and coercion against the proscribed enemies of the State “, which reigned by arbitrary violence and coercion against State proscribed enemies “
Remember Bill Moyers
I (John) wrote yesterday an article reflecting yesterday on the unique and urgent warnings of journalist Bill Moyers on the democratic crisis in which we find ourselves now.
There have also been a lot of other good memories published in recent days.
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