NEW: In the Mahmoud Khalil case, Judge Farbiarz orders the government to give him a COMPLETE LIST of every time since 1975 it has invoked the secretary of state's power to deport someone for foreign-policy reasons—including a description of each case's facts and a copy of the official determination.Why won’t the courts let Trump do what he wants to do?
BREAKING: Second Circuit panel, one day after arguments, unanimously rejects government's arguments and orders that Rumeysa Ozturk be transferred to Vermont no later than May 14.I mean, really!
A victory for Rümeysa Öztürk! She will be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont while her case is heard—including a hearing for potential release on bail this Friday.Justice Sotomayor probably won’t reimpose the stay. I kind of doubt the full court will, either. This can go through the process first.
FULL OPINION: https://ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/71f184bf-df87-4656-a352-5cf664fdb0e2/1/doc/25-1019_opn.pdf#xml=https://ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/71f184bf-df87-4656-a352-5cf664fdb0e2/1/hilite/
Last month, a Department of Government Efficiency aide at the nation’s consumer watchdog agency was told by ethics attorneys that he held stock in companies that employees are forbidden from owning — and was advised not to participate in any actions that could benefit him personally, according to a person familiar with the warning.We don' need no steenken' ethics lawyers!
But days later, court records show, Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old software engineer who has been detailed to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since early March, went ahead and participated in mass layoffs at the agency anyway, including the firings of the ethics lawyers who had warned him.
Experts said that Kliger’s actions, which ProPublica first reported on last week, constitute a conflict of interest that could violate federal criminal ethics laws. Such measures are designed to ensure that federal employees serve the public interest and don’t use their government power to enrich themselves. At the CFPB, which regulates companies that provide financial services, there are strict prohibitions on the investments that employees can maintain.If only we had a government agency that would prosecute federal criminal cases fairly, without fear or favor.
News from the Sometime After Hell Freezes Over, Then Dept.
The United States and Israel have discussed the possibility of Washington leading a temporary post-war administration of Gaza, according to five people familiar with the matter.If Congress allows this…I give up. Not clear they will, though:
The "high-level" consultations have centered around a transitional government headed by a U.S. official that would oversee Gaza until it had been demilitarized and stabilized, and a viable Palestinian administration had emerged, the sources said.
Still:MEEKS: Does trade deficits constitute a national emergency?
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 7, 2025
BESSENT: Yes
MEEKS: Do you know that for the last four decades we have trade deficits and nobody said it was a national emergency? pic.twitter.com/MyMBeGT8me
It’s still hard for me to process that we voted last November to chomp down on the cyanide capsule
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 7, 2025
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