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  • Judge says Trump lacked authority to dismantle U.S. Institute of Peace

    05/19/2025 11:58:13 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 57 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | May 19, 2025 | Derek Hawkins
    Administration officials and members of billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service — aided by local and federal law enforcement agencies — seized the institute’s privately owned headquarters in March and summarily removed its leaders.“The President’s efforts here to take over an organization outside of those bounds, contrary to statute established by Congress and by acts of force and threat using local and federal law enforcement officers, represented a gross usurpation of power and a way of conducting government affairs that unnecessarily traumatized the committed leadership and employees of USIP, who deserved better,” Howell wrote in her 102-page opinion.The judge said...
  • What Trump has promised to do on ‘day one’ as president

    09/21/2024 11:07:48 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 47 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | September 21, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT | Derek Hawkins , Clara Ence Morse and Eric Lau
    Trump has made 41 distinct promises for his first day in office, including mass deportations and banning transgender women from sports.Donald Trump has a long list of executive actions he says he wants to carry out on his potential first day back in the White House. Among them: Begin mass deportations, eliminate perks for electric vehicles and ban transgender women from women’s sports. Since launching his bid for a second term, Trump has made 41 distinct promises about what he says he wants to do “on day one” as president, and he has mentioned those promises more than 200 times...