Scott Bessent confessed to Larry Kudlow how the Trump Administration is trying to sustain their illegal tariffs: by collecting enough revenue from them (and lying about how much they're really collecting) that SCOTUS won't dare uphold the law.| emptywheel
Stephen Miller is warning ICE to meet a new target number of arrests per day—or else.| The New Republic
Conflict with Trump’s lawlessness is inevitable—and the fight cannot be ducked.| The New Republic
While the administration’s escalations in the Golden State are fear-inducing, they are mostly indicative of a White House that is failing to enact its authoritarian agenda.| The New Republic
Miller reportedly engineered the raids that sparked the protests that have engulfed the city in recent days—likely because he wanted a pretext to send in federal troops.| The New Republic
California lawmakers are set to consider a bill that would require the state's public universities to give admission priority to the descendants of slaves.| AP News
WASHINGTON — Texas and 15 states including Florida Friday filed a suit in federal court to block the Biden administration’s program that protects long-term undocumented people married to U.S. citizens from deportation and grants them a pathway to citizenship. States in the suit, which was filed in United States District Court for the Eastern District of […]| Florida Phoenix
