New York City Mayor Eric Adams remains a registered Democrat, but on Monday he repeatedly refused to rule out running for reelection as an independent, Politico reports.
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Judge Lashes Out at Trump Administration
“A federal judge lashed out at the Trump administration Monday for not turning around planes as Venezuelan migrants sued over a plan to deport them under the Alien Enemies Act, and refusing to answer questions about the flights,” The Hill reports.
“It was a remarkable hearing in which a Justice Department attorney repeatedly declined to provide details about the flights that landed in El Salvador Saturday evening, saying he was ‘not authorized’ to do so, a rare instance of an attorney rebuffing a judge’s questions.”
New York Times: Judge seems skeptical of Justice Department’s defense of deportation flights.
Trump Yanks Secret Service for Hunter and Ashley Biden
President Trump announced he was pulling Secret Service details for former President Joe Biden’s adult children, Hunter and Ashley.
Trump on a Collision Course with the Courts
“Donald Trump is trying to show the world what he wants it to see: a president wielding unlimited and uncheckable power,” Politico reports.
“Trump’s challenge to the authority of Congress and the courts has increased in velocity and intensity in recent days. It reached a crescendo this weekend, when Trump invoked wartime powers to summarily deport Venezuelan nationals he deems to be terrorists, and his White House amplified a foreign strongman’s mockery of the judge who tried to pause the deportations.”
“That skirmish was only the latest in an increasingly ominous confrontation between Trump’s White House and the other two constitutional branches. In short, the most significant test of America’s system of checks and balances in Trump’s second term has arrived. And the outcome is less certain than ever.”
CNBC: Trump deportation order to face scrutiny at court hearing.
Trump to Release 80,000 Pages of JFK Files
President Trump announced he will release 80,000 pages of unredacted files Tuesday about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, after promising on the campaign trail to declassify the documents, The Hill reports.
Said Trump to reporters: “You got a lot of reading. I don’t believe we’re going to redact anything.”
A New Project to Track Polls
With FiveThirtyEight now shuttered, the New York Times has begun a new effort to track public opinion surveys, starting by collecting all polls on President Trump’s job approval.
Trump Won’t Return Statue of Liberty
“The Trump administration will not entertain a French politician’s request to return the Statue of Liberty to France,” Politico reports.
Said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt: “Absolutely not. My advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to remind them that it’s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now. They should be grateful.”
Trump Administration Says Order Not Enforceable
The Justice Department made an extraordinary argument to a federal judge today that an oral order he issued during a court hearing Saturday afternoon “is not enforceable,” CNN reports.
The argument — submitted in a 6-page filing to US District Judge James Boasberg shortly before a hearing on the issue is set to get underway later today — argued that “an oral directive is not enforceable as an injunction.”
Washington Post: Trump officials test limits of courts’ power to constrain their actions.
Brown Tells International Students Not to Travel
“Brown University is advising its international staffers and students to reconsider foreign travel plans after an assistant professor at its medical school was deported this weekend, the latest Trump immigration crackdown action to impact an elite American college,” The Hill reports.
Trump Says Xi Will Visit Washington Soon
“President Donald Trump said Chinese leader Xi Jinping would visit Washington soon amid brewing trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies,” Bloomberg reports.
Pam Bondi Is Trump’s Most Besieged Cabinet Member
“Nearly six weeks into her tenure, Attorney General Pam Bondi finds herself in the unenviable position of being the sole Trump Cabinet member absorbing consistent political heat from critics on both the left — who are decrying cuts to the nation’s top law enforcement agency — and on the right — who remain furious about her failure to deliver on one of their great white whales: The Jeffrey Epstein files,” the Miami Herald reports.
“By all indications, Bondi’s position remains secure with President Donald Trump, who called her ‘fantastic’ on Thursday and gave her a glowing review during a visit to the Justice Department Friday. The longer-term question is how much more patience and grace Trump’s base will grant Bondi, who already bears scars as the central figure in arguably the administration’s earliest blunder.”
GOP Lawmaker Moves to Impeach Judge
“Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) said he would be pushing to impeach the federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to halt deportations of Venezuelan gang members over the weekend,” The Hill reports.
Trump Weighs Recognizing Crimea as Russian Territory
“The Trump administration is considering recognizing Ukraine’s Crimea region as Russian territory as part of any future agreement to end Moscow’s war on Kyiv,” Semafor reports.
“Administration officials have also discussed the possibility of having the US urge the United Nations to do the same… Such a request would align the Trump administration with the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has long seen Crimea as his nation’s territory.”
French Politician Wants the Statue of Liberty Returned
A French Parliament member is demanding that the U.S. return the Statue of Liberty to France, who gifted it to the Americans in the 1880s, Fox News reports.
Said center-left politician Raphaël Glucksmann: “We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So, it will be just fine here at home.”
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Trump Border Czar Doesn’t Care What Judges Think
“Border czar Tom Homan said he doesn’t care what the judges think about the deportation flights of Venezuelan gang members as the administration faces a legal battle over the flight,” The Hill reports.
Said Homan: “I’m proud to be a part of this administration. We’re not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care.”
Trump to Investigate People Pardoned by Biden
“President Trump questioned the validity of pardons granted by President Joe Biden before he left office, signaling that the new administration could move to investigate those given legal immunity by his predecessor,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Any move to investigate or prosecute the individuals pardoned by Biden would mark a significant escalation of Trump’s defiance of longstanding legal norms.”
“Trump asserted early Monday morning in a social-media post that Biden’s pardons were ‘void, vacant, and of no further force of effect’ because they were signed with an autopen.”
Judge to Press White House Over Deportation Flights
“A federal judge is set to press Trump administration lawyers at a 5 p.m. hearing about whether the White House violated a court order in deporting migrants with little to no due process,” the New York Times reports.
“The judge wants to know the location of any flights at the time he ordered a halt to deportations under an obscure wartime law. The White House denied violating the order.”
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