Trump Corruptly Targets Schiff With Criminal Investigation

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Trump Retribution: as corrupt as possible

The Trump Administration targets Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) with a criminal investigation using the same tactic he used against the Attorney General of New York Letitia James: allegations of mortgage fraud.

Fannie Mae would have made a criminal reference against Schiff at the Ministry of Justice Trump. President Trump joyfully praised the news of his former accuser on social networks.

In any other era, it would be the decisive story of the day. The President of the United States who directs the Doj out of his White House and uses it to launch criminal surveys with political motivation on his democratic enemies.

Trump does not target any democrat. It aims precisely who he promised to target: the Democrats who seized him. James, among others, won this massive fraud case of $ 300 million against Trump Org. Schiff, then in the House, was the principal prosecutor at Trump’s first indictment and continued to be a chief antagonist of Trump.

We do not have to take off the layers of allegations of underlying mortgage fraud. Why the Federal Housing Finance Agency, who supervises Fannie Mae, looking at James and Schiff in the first place? Just unexpectedly, are we supposed to believe?

The WAPO obtained from an anonymous administration manager, a confidential address of Mae Fannie Mae to the director of the Federal Housing Financing Agency, Bill Pulte, said that on May 12, the Fannie financial crimes in financial crimes in the Inspector General of the FHFA, including the requests for loan files and other documents. “”

We all know what’s going on here.

In other news from Trump Doj …

• Criminal defense lawyers were putting pressure on Trump’s Doj’s “working working group” to try to withdraw their customers, reports Bloomberg. In an ironic touch, the lawyer for the UTAH plastic surgeon accused of having sold false cocvid vaccination cards said that the group had refused it when it had asked it to intervene. It was not until later that when the pressure was based on conspiracy theory Jeffrey Epstein, that the Attorney General Pam Bondi suddenly rejected the case against the doctor.
• After the federal judges of the Northern District of New York refused to extend the interim mandate of the American prosecutor John A. Sarcone III, the Trump administration orchestrated things (legally, I think) so that Sarcone can continue in the role for a limited period.

“ Legalistic non-compliance ”

Law professors at the University of Michigan, Daniel Deacon and Leah Litman, have a new legal research document (I promise to rarely inflict on you legal research documents) which tries to give some form and form the challenge of the Trump administration of judicial orders. They nicknamed the practice “legalist non-compliance” and observe how he manifested himself in the field in three ways:

In the first, the executive deploys specious arguments – arguments which seem more plausible but lack in fact support – in order to escape the application of judicial orders. The second consists in using tactics, including complaints with legal sounds that certain information cannot be shared, to hinder the survey to find out if the administration is in fact compliant. The third is made up of opportunities when the administration, faced with a judicial order, used different legal means in order to carry out a policy substantially similar to that enjoined.

Texas Salledout Redux?

The head of the minority of the Hakeem Jeffries House and the president of the DNC, Ken Martin, held a conference calling on Monday evening with 40 Democrats in the House of Representatives of Texas, and although they stopped asking them to leave the special session later this month to block a republican redistribution program, “they left the impression that it should be considered,” reports the NYT. The Democrats of Texas fled the State to refuse the Republicans a quorum during the redistribution of MI-Decennia of 2003.

It is not only Texas, where the Republicans hope that a newly drawn card will help them collect five additional seats. “There could be other states that we are going to get three, or four or five more. Texas would be the biggest,” said President Trump yesterday.

Everything to keep in the room and not to lose the trifecta of the GOP of the White House, the Senate and the control of the room.

The question of census citizenship is baaack

The question of census citizenship increases the head again. The Republicans of the Chamber presented three bills this year which would exclude non-citizens for the purpose of the distribution of seats in the Chamber and the votes of the Electoral College, reports Hansi Lo Wang of NPR. The census citizenship of the census during the first term of President Trump was thwarted by legal challenges.

W. Virginia Pilum Inter defending

The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has confirmed the almost total ban on virginie-Western on the abortion pill. “The decision marks the first time that a federal court of appeal allowed a state to strictly limit the medication, creating a key test of states powers to prohibit drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration,” reports the WAPO.

Medicaid cuts are already starting to bite

The perspective:

Hospitals close or actively plan to do so, programs cutting and staff dismissal. Planned Parenthood warns patients that he can no longer accept Medicaid insurance and in a region, says that it cannot provide services to the beneficiaries of Medicaid, even if the patient does not use Medicaid to pay. And legislators in at least five states provide special sessions to reorganize their already registered budgets and determine how to manage the cuts, including cuts they should be promulgated and how to administer the new work requirement of Medicaid.

Trump attack on Ed Higher Ed: Wolverines Edition

• Michigan University: In its “investigation” against foreign donations, the Trump administration made an in -depth and invasive request for files, including “Staff files on students and university employees, research files, tax files and files on other partnerships with foreign universities, governments and other entities,” reports the NYT.
• Columbia University: The university could settle with the Trump administration next week, paying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and implementing various “reforms” to restart federal funding, reports the NYT.
• George Mason University: The Trump administration opened two anti-dei surveys on the public university of Virginia, after helping to force the resignation of the president of the University of Virginia.

A report of academic trenches

Those of us who are not in the academic world and very far from student life may not fully appreciate how things have become on the campus. President Trump’s attack on higher education is a large part of history, but it is only one of the dramatic changes that have swept universities. The political scientist Paul Musgrave wrote a thoughtful test to try to transmit the scale and the scope of changes to the non-academic:

I find it hard to explain to people who do not know the academic world or on how the stock market really works how devastating these changes are. These disruptions, cumulatively, seem – of my perspective – to be more dramatic in their effects in a much shorter time than the impact of computerization and the Internet on higher education. In addition, there is no reason to think that American decision -makers are concerned about changes, or even sad, one of these changes. On the contrary: they pour gasoline on the flames. Warnings concerning the risks and long -term effects fall on the deaf ears by an ideology which says that these consequences are desirable or by an inability to imagine that actions have consequences.

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