The president isn’t a king. He doesn’t have the power to impose tariffs whenever he feels like it

The president isn’t a king. He doesn’t have the power to impose tariffs whenever he feels like it

Ilya Somin writes: Wednesday’s unanimous ruling against President Donald Trump’s expansive “Liberation Day” tariffs by the United States Court of International Trade wasn’t merely a victory for the businesses and consumers opposed to the policy. The decision was much more than that: a victory for the constitutional system of separation of powers—and, even more broadly, for the rule of law in America. The decision came in a case filed by the Liberty Justice Center and me on behalf of five…

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Trump goes after Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society in fury over tariffs ruling

Trump goes after Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society in fury over tariffs ruling

Politico reports: President Donald Trump leveled unusually pointed criticism of a prominent conservative legal activist and organization Thursday as he railed against a ruling that struck down his sweeping tariffs. The president, in a post on his social media platform, slammed Leonard Leo, the former chair of the Federalist Society, calling him a “sleazebag” who “probably hates America.” It was a striking characterization of Leo, who played a key role in working with Trump to shape the conservative Supreme Court….

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Trump is using his vast pardon powers to redefine crime in accordance with his needs

Trump is using his vast pardon powers to redefine crime in accordance with his needs

The New York Times reports: President Trump is employing the vast power of his office to redefine criminality to suit his needs — using pardons to inoculate criminals he happens to like, downplaying corruption and fraud as crimes, and seeking to stigmatize political opponents by labeling them criminals. In the past few days, Mr. Trump has offered pardons or clemency to more than two dozen people embraced by his obstreperous right-wing base, or favored by people in his orbit. Most…

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50+ Venezuelans imprisoned in El Salvador came to the U.S. legally and never violated immigration law

50+ Venezuelans imprisoned in El Salvador came to the U.S. legally and never violated immigration law

Cato Institute reports: Shortly after the US government illegally and unconstitutionally transported about 240 Venezuelans to be imprisoned in El Salvador’s horrific “terrorism” prison on March 15, CBS News published their names. A subsequent CBS News investigation found that 75 percent of the men on that list had no criminal record in the United States or abroad. Less attention has been paid to the fact that dozens of these men never violated immigration laws either. Why This Review Was Needed The US government not…

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First wrongful death case targeting fossil fuel companies over their role in global warming

First wrongful death case targeting fossil fuel companies over their role in global warming

The New York Times reports: As an unusual heat dome sent temperatures in the Pacific Northwest soaring to 108 degrees Fahrenheit on June 28, 2021, Juliana Leon pulled her car over and rolled down the windows, overwhelmed by the heat. Hours later, when emergency medical workers reached Ms. Leon, she had died of hyperthermia, or overheating. Her internal body temperature was 110 degrees Fahrenheit, according to court documents. On Wednesday, Ms. Leon’s daughter, Misti, sued seven oil and gas companies,…

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Ethnic cleansing: State Department plans to create ‘Office of Remigration’

Ethnic cleansing: State Department plans to create ‘Office of Remigration’

Wired reports: As part of a sweeping reorganization of the State Department, the Trump administration is creating an Office of Remigration. Remigration is an immigration policy embraced by extremists that calls for the removal of all migrants—including “non-assimilated” citizens—with the goal of creating white ethnostates in Western countries. The details of the plan are contained in a 136-page notification document sent by the State Department to six Congressional commitees—including the House Foreign Affairs and Appropriations Committees and the Senate Foreign…

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Trump regime and TikTok interfere in Polish presidential election

Trump regime and TikTok interfere in Polish presidential election

  ABC News reports: The “Make America Great Again” roadshow arrived in Europe this week with events in two nations where American conservatives see prime opportunities for a new transatlantic political culture — one molded by President Donald Trump’s right-wing populism and imbued with grand “clash of civilizations” rhetoric. The Conservative Political Action Conference — CPAC — opened its week of European events on Tuesday in Jasionka, Poland, where Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was among the speakers,…

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Trump taps his own former criminal defense attorney, Emil Bove, for federal appeals judge

Trump taps his own former criminal defense attorney, Emil Bove, for federal appeals judge

HuffPost reports: In a pathetic act of cowardice last year, a handful of Democrats tanked one of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees, Adeel Mangi. Mangi, who was a veteran civil litigator in New Jersey, was an objectively impressive and qualified pick. He also happened to be Muslim, so Republicans subjected him to a disgusting monthslong smear campaign aimed at baselessly casting him as an antisemitic terrorist sympathizer. Despite his horrific treatment, Mangi hung in there, racking up endorsements from major…

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Musk, Tesla blast GOP plans to end clean energy tax credits in megabill

Musk, Tesla blast GOP plans to end clean energy tax credits in megabill

Politico reports: Tesla late Wednesday criticized the Republican megabill for gutting clean energy tax credits, a message amplified by CEO Elon Musk hours after he announced he was leaving the Trump administration. “Abruptly ending the energy tax credits would threaten America’s energy independence and the reliability of our grid,” Tesla Energy, the company’s solar and battery division, wrote on X. The House-passed reconciliation package would repeal the Inflation Reduction Act’s residential solar credit at the end of the year and…

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MAHA report fabrications dismissed by White House as ‘formatting issues’

MAHA report fabrications dismissed by White House as ‘formatting issues’

USA Today reports: Citation errors and phantom research used as scientific evidence to bolster Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s landmark “Make America Healthy Again” commission report were apparently due to “formatting issues,” according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a commission that was tasked with investigating chronic illnesses and childhood diseases, which culminated in the “Make Our Children Healthy Again” assessment that was published May 22. However, researchers listed…

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Microsoft bans the word ‘Palestine’ in internal emails

Microsoft bans the word ‘Palestine’ in internal emails

Waqas Ahmed and Murtaza Hussain report: Microsoft has quietly implemented a policy blocking employee emails containing the words “Palestine,” “Gaza,” or “genocide” on its internal Exchange servers, according to No Azure for Apartheid, a group of pro-Palestine Microsoft employees. The automated filter, which silently prevents such emails from reaching recipients was first detected on Wednesday—just after Microsoft’s Build developer conference faced repeated disruptions by the activist group. Microsoft has been rocked by internal dissent over its collaboration with the Israeli…

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Google AI Overviews appears to be trapped in a time warp

Google AI Overviews appears to be trapped in a time warp

Reece Rogers reports: I’ve covered Google’s AI Overviews since its messy rollout last year, when screenshots of absurdly wrong answers started popping up at the top of search results and going viral on social media. Still, when I first saw images of AI Overviews confidently saying that it’s still 2024 in Reddit posts today, I thought they might be altered screenshots. I mean, over a billion Google users currently see the AI-generated results every month. Surely, such an obvious error…

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The Trump regime has launched an attack on knowledge itself

The Trump regime has launched an attack on knowledge itself

Adam Serwer writes: The warlords who sacked Rome did not intend to doom Western Europe to centuries of ignorance. It was not a foreseeable consequence of their actions. The same cannot be said of the sweeping attack on human knowledge and progress that the Trump administration is now undertaking—a deliberate destruction of education, science, and history, conducted with a fanaticism that recalls the Dark Ages that followed Rome’s fall. Every week brings fresh examples. The administration is threatening colleges and…

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Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrests

Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrests

Axios reports: In a tense meeting last week, top Trump aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people a day, according to two sources familiar with the meeting. Why it matters: The new target is triple the number of daily arrests that agents were making in the early days of Trump’s term — and suggests the president’s top immigration officials are full-steam ahead in pushing for mass deportations. The increased pressure on agents comes as…

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