Tag: Executive Power
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Trump Plane
Our nation celebrates its birthday this week while the president flies in a gift from a royal court. Yesterday on July 1, Donald Trump took the first flight on his brand new Air Force One, a $400 million Boeing 747 given to the United States by the royal family of Qatar. The Air Force has…
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Fire at Will
They had fought a king to escape that power, but today the Court handed it back. Today the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Slaughter in a 6-3 decision that Donald Trump can fire the leaders of independent federal agencies at will, erasing a precedent that had stood for 91 years. In 1935, Franklin Roosevelt…
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Vote By Mail Attack
The federal government is trying to control who gets a ballot. Yesterday Postmaster General David Steiner told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the Postal Service will not deliver ballots to voters in states that refuse to turn over their voter lists to the federal government ahead of time. Michigan Senator Gary…
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Reflecting Pool Criminals
One wonders how much state power is now being exerted simply to keep one man from ever having to admit that he was wrong. On Saturday, Donald Trump announced that the United States Park Police had arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. He called it a serious crime against a national…
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FBI Raids
These are the things we will look back on when we wonder where the groups who help people register to vote have all gone. On Thursday, June 11, FBI agents searched the Cleveland office of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a group that has been helping people register to vote since 2007. They say more than…
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At Will
A government workforce that can be fired for any reason is a government workforce that serves one man. Wednesday, Donald Trump signed an executive order stripping civil service protections from roughly 8,000 career federal workers. He placed them in a new category called Schedule Policy/Career. They are now at-will employees. Their agencies can fire them…
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Special Guest Extremist
These are the things we will look back on, when we ask how far was too far, and who spoke up? For a time, Gregory Bovino was the public face of Donald Trump’s deportations, with prominent appearances in immigration raids in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis. After federal agents killed American citizens Renee Good and…
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UFC White House Fight
These are the things we will look back on and try to explain — how the country’s treasured spaces were taken, one by one, by a single man to mark his birthday. In two weeks, on June 14th, a UFC match will be held on the South Lawn of the White House. Since 1777, June…
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The Slush Fund
This system is being constructed before our eyes. This week, Donald Trump’s Justice Department settled a lawsuit against plaintiff Donald Trump. The price: 1.776 billion taxpayer dollars, a formal apology, and a memo declaring the IRS can never audit his old tax returns. The 1776 million is now a fund the Justice Department is calling…
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Enemies of the State
The government has now named its political opponents as enemies of the state. On May 6 the White House released its 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy. It is the first such document of Trump’s second term. The strategy names three primary threats. Narcoterrorists. Islamist terrorists. And, in the document’s own words, “violent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and…
Notes To My Future Self 