“The White House has set up high-dollar partnerships with YouTube, Meta and Amazon, among others, for Monday’s Easter Egg Roll, underscoring the close relationships the leaders of those tech companies have sought to cultivate with the Trump administration,” CNN reports.
Quote of the Day
“It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the assemblage of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody, there is nothing that can be done. This should be shocking not only to judges but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from the courthouse still hold dear.”
— Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee and conservative icon, in an opinion about the Maryland man wrongly-deported to El Salvador.
Judge ‘Astounded’ Florida Cops Violated Her Order
“A federal judge on Friday said she was ‘astounded’ that Florida authorities violated her order blocking them from enforcing a new state law that targets undocumented immigrants who enter the state,” the Miami Herald reports.
“During a hearing in Miami federal court, it was disclosed that many as 15 arrests have been made by Florida law enforcement officers over the past two weeks in violation of her April 4 order.”
Risk of Financial Panic Tempers Trump on Firing Powell
“President Trump this week revived a longstanding threat against Jerome Powell when he accused the Federal Reserve chair of ‘playing politics’ and moving too slowly to lower interest rates,” the New York Times reports.
“But privately, according to people close to Mr. Trump, the president has for months been aware that trying to oust Mr. Powell could inject more volatility into jittery financial markets.”
Deported Man Told Senator He Had Been in Isolation
“Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said on Friday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported by the Trump administration, reported having been traumatized during nearly three weeks inside a notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador before being transferred to another detention facility where he remains in isolation,” the New York Times reports.
Said Van Hollen: “He said that the conditions were better at this new detention center, but he was still in a total blackout. No news from the outside world. Can’t speak to anybody at all.”
Trump Administration Demands Harvard Records
“The Trump administration accused Harvard University of failing to report large foreign donations to the federal government as required by law, part of a widening effort to target the institution after it refused to comply with President Trump’s demands,” the New York Times reports.
U.S. Citizen Held by ICE Despite Proof of Citizenship
“A U.S. citizen was arrested in Florida for allegedly being in the country illegally and held for pickup by immigration authorities even after his mother showed a judge her son’s birth certificate and the judge dismissed charges,” the AP reports.
“The charge of illegal entry into Florida was dropped Thursday after his mother showed the judge his state identification card, birth certificate and Social Security card.”
Ford Stops Shipments to China Due to Tariffs
“Ford Motor has stopped shipping pricey pickup trucks, SUVs and sports cars to China to avoid tariffs that have shot up in recent weeks, the latest effect on the auto sector from the Trump administration’s escalating trade war,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
New York Times Editor Tearfully Apologizes to Sarah Palin
“Former New York Times opinion editor James Bennet cried on the witness stand in federal court while apologizing to Sarah Palin over a 2017 story that falsely suggested her political action committee was connected to the 2011 Arizona mass shooting that killed six people and severely injured then-Rep. Gabby Giffords,” The Wrap reports.
Said Bennet: “I blew it, you know. I made a mistake.”
The Bukele Playbook
Andrew Sullivan: “In some ways, the core character of the Trump administration can be seen in two Oval Office press conferences with two young, informally-dressed foreign leaders. The first was with Volodymyr Zelensky, president of a country invaded and now partly occupied by Russia, who has courageously kept his country free from total Russian domination.”
“The second was with Nayib Bukele, a man who governs in a permanent emergency, has seized 83,000 people with no due process and put them in brutal gulags, strong-armed his Supreme Court to gain an unconstitutional second term, and is one of the worst human rights violators in Latin America.”
“So it’s obvious which one Trump and Vance prefer, isn’t it? They humiliated Zelensky while lavishing Bukele with encomiums for his collaboration in providing an extra-territorial, extra-judicial, concentration camp for whomever in America Trump wants to grab off the street, bundle into an airplane, and get Stephen Miller to call a terrorist. What’s not to like?”
The Emergency Is Here
Ezra Klein: “Trump intends to send those he hates to foreign prisons beyond the reach of U.S. law. He does not care — he will not even seek to discover — if those he sends into these foreign hells are guilty of what he claims. Because this is not about their guilt — it is about his power.”
“And if he is capable of that, if he wants that, then what else is he capable of? What else does he want? And if the people who serve him are willing to give him that, to defend his right to do that, what else will they give him? What else will they defend?”
The Rise of the Infinite Fringe
Tina Nguyen: “The past decade of politics, to put it bluntly, has been batshit. The past week of politics has been batshit. Heck, the past week of everything in the world that has anything to do with political decisions — diplomacy, trade, manufacturing, having a 401k, owning a car or a computer or a phone or a T-shirt — has been batshit.”
“But if you were asked to use a word that was not a swear, and were given about five minutes to calm down, a good second choice would be ‘disintegrated.’ There’s no clear answer, however, as to why — why it seems like people are living in their own separate realities; why our leaders seem to operate via conflicting conspiracy theories and obscure philosophies; why it feels like a screaming, ephemeral electronic blob called the internet is actually running the world instead of the people supposedly in charge of it.”
Trump’s Thirst for One-Man Rule
E.J. Dionne: “Above all, the tariffs have made clear how all of Trump’s policies fit together: Every step he takes is aimed at concentrating the power of government in his own hands as he seeks to intimidate opponents and move aggressively to eliminate alternative sources of public influence in the legal system, the universities, and the media.”
Head of IRS Ousted Amid Treasury Power Struggle
“The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the latest leader of the agency had been installed without his knowledge and at the behest of billionaire Elon Musk,” the New York Times reports.
“Mr. Bessent believed that Mr. Musk had done an end run around him to get Gary Shapley installed as the interim head of the IRS, even though the tax collection agency reports to Mr. Bessent.”
“Mr. Bessent got Mr. Trump’s approval to unwind the decision.”
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Trump Revamps ‘Schedule F’
“The Trump administration on Friday will announce that it’s moving ahead with a new rule, previously known as ‘Schedule F,’ that will make it easier to remove federal employees it believes are undercutting President Trump’s agenda,” Axios reports.
“By stripping civil service protections from about 50,000 people — roughly 2% of the federal work force — Trump is continuing his far-reaching effort to trim the federal bureaucracy and make it more answerable to him.”
International Travel to the U.S. Falls Sharply
“Overseas travel to the United States has declined sharply since President Donald Trump returned to office,” the Washington Post reports.
“Industry experts say some of the reasons are plain to see: Reports of detentions and deportations, including the weeks-long lockup of European tourists, have sowed fears of bad experiences at the border. Some countries have tightened travel advisories, and Trump’s whiplash tariffs have ratcheted up international tensions.”
Trump Moves to Levy Chinese Vessels
“The Trump administration took steps to impose levies on Chinese vessels docking at U.S. ports, threatening to shake up global shipping routes and escalate the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies,” Bloomberg reports.
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