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Trump could keep an acting attorney general for months

President Donald Trump will have wide latitude to keep his preferred pick leading the Justice Department after his firing of ally Pamela Bondi, including scenarios that could entirely avoid a Senate confirmation process well into the future. Any permanent attorney general nominee could face a tough path to confirmation in…

Roll Call

Senate payout provision defies typical legal concepts, experts say - Roll Call

Congress flouted several legal principles with an unusual provision creating a streamlined path for senator lawsuits, experts said.

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Spending law unenforceable if the president wants to violate it - Roll Call

There is little Congress can do to enforce a law designed to safeguard its power of the purse if the president disregards it.

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Trump shutdown workarounds test a 150-year-old law

Trump's spending tactics push legal boundaries.

Axios

US food banks rush to stock supplies amid the Snap lapse: ‘We’re going to garner all the resources we can’

Food insecurity for millions of Americans is set to spike, with Trump officials saying Snap benefits will cease as the government shutdown enters its second month

The Guardian - US

Trump's military pay move puts Congress in the back seat on spending - Roll Call

Trump’s latest budget maneuver — paying military salaries out of unrelated research funding — makes lawmakers’ appropriations authority practically irrelevant, critics argue.

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Kirk Killing Sparks Fierce US Free Speech Debate

For Americans, the words are practically sacred: the First Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees freedom of speech.

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White House rescission strategy worries some GOP appropriators - Roll Call

Key House GOP appropriators are raising concern about the White House’s use of an untested budgetary tool to end some foreign aid funds.

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How SCOTUS let Trump think he's a king

Trump's assertions of broad, unchecked executive power are a predictable result of the court's "immunity" decision

Salon

Legal questions surround Trump's talk of political prosecutions - Roll Call

Donald Trump’s return to the White House will put him in a position to push for criminal charges against his political opponents.

Roll Call

SCOTUS leaves public open to biz abuses

A series of Supreme Court rulings gutted the government's ability to protect consumers and the environment

Salon

How Supreme Court’s immunity ruling ‘transforms’ US presidency

Experts say shielding official presidential action from prosecution undermines rule of law and enables abuse of power.

Al Jazeera

Supreme Court put onus on Congress to enforce 'Insurrection' ban - Roll Call

The opinion that cleared the way for Trump to appear on 2024 ballots also made it unlikely the underlying issue will be reopened anytime soon.

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‘The main event’: 2020 election indictment is most serious against Trump

Legal experts say charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 vote are more damaging than other cases Trump is facing.

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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

Los Angeles Times

Unprecedented FBI search of Trump’s home shows seriousness of information sought

WASHINGTON — Few specifics are known about what the FBI sought during Monday’s daylong search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

The Guardian - US

Climate crisis is ‘battering our economy’ and driving inflation, new book says

Climatenomics lays out how ‘supply chain disruptions’ has become a euphemism for the effects of climate change

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