Much has happened. Here are some of the things. This is a morning tpm memo. Subscribe to the email versionField
Cleaning: Doj Edition
Hits simply continue to come to the Ministry of Justice, including the FBI:
- The dismissal of the second prosecutor in the US prosecutor’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia was revealed. In addition to Michael BearMayan Song career prosecutor's office was stopped Since the lawyer of Trump Lindsay Halligan has become a new American lawyer. The song was the chief deputy of the previous American lawyer Eric Zibert, who was supplanted by President Trump. The song was agreed to lower To the role of the prosecutor's office, but later was subsequently discontinued.
- Against the backdrop of assumptions that dismissal was associated with internal resistance in the office of the US lawyer on charges of the former director of the FBI James Komi, Wapo notes General thread The Ben'ary and Song connection: they worked as senior advisers to the then-Advocate Lieza Lieutenus during the Biden administration. Monaco, like No. 2 in the Ministry of Justice, watched Trump’s persecution, which last week demanded that Microsoft dismiss her as a president for global matters.
- FBI Director Kash Patel dismissed The new agent -chair in Quantico for demonstrating the gay flag on his table last year During the previous task as an employee of the FBI support – before Trump became president. Patel called this a “inappropriate demonstration of political signs in your working area” in an email, having fired an interns and ending with his career in the FBI.
Patel closes the FBI anti -ecstromism project with ADL
In the pompous post on social networks, Patel finished partnership for training and exchange of intelligence with the antidiffamation league this week. In the process, he smeared the ADL and the former director of the FBI James Komi, claiming that “James Komi wrote“ love letters ”ADL and the FBI agents built with them – a group that controlled shameful operations in the Americans,” – patel PublishedThe field “This era is over. This FBI will not cooperate with political fronts disguised as a guard dog. ”
Putting the threat of the internal terrorist memo of Trump
Professor Law of Georgetown Steve Vladek Explains Like President Trump Executive action On internal terrorism there is both a trick and a threat to constitutionally protected speech and political activity: “That's why it is so important for groups that the government is aimed at being repulsed – and not only to quietly agree and stop participating in constitutionally protected activities from the fear that they will be punished for this. And therefore it is so important to understand how little fear is that they will be punished for this. And therefore it is so important to understand how little [it] In fact, in order to change the potential legal consequences that these groups face. ”
Explanation: Trump's executive action occurred through the presidential note, and not an executive order, as I originally wrote.
Warning from Chris Murphy
IN Interview of the podcast With Greg Sargent from the new republic, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) warns that we are quickly approaching the moment when the space for significant political opposition President Trump is limited by authoritarian restrictions:
I believed that he was never going to cancel the elections in 2026 or 2028 – he was not going to do this. Türkiye still has elections, Hungary still has elections, Russia still has elections. Leaders in these countries simply limit this space in which the opposition can work, so they never have enough space to win national elections. If we are not yet, we are really very close. That is why the only way out of this is to force them to pay a political price every time they increase pressure on the opposition.
Weight Deportation Violations of civil rights are watching
- The evidence provided in the court that ended this week Shown That the transnational criminal division in DHS is secretly aimed at the protesters in the campus, including the Tufts Rumeysa Ozturk student, who was shot down from the city street near her house in Massachusetts in March, the incident captured on the video. The trial in front of the district judge US William Yang, who ended his An unforgettable decision The government also reported that the deputy chief of staff of the White House Stephen Miller talked with senior officials in the State Department and in DHS more than a dozen times in March to discuss reviews of the student visa, the WAPO reportsField
- Under strong pressure from the Trump administration, Apple remote Applications for tracking ice from your application store, including ICEBLOCK.
- Chris Hayes deeply went to the “Cavano Stop” last night:
Will universities hang together or hang separately?
Nine universities offered the illegal “compact” President Trump to provide federal funding in exchange for a policy favorable for Trump, Carefully followed On the eve of the deadline on October 20, to accept it to see how they answer. In a bad sign, Chairman of the Council of Regents of Texas University welcome The proposal as “honor.”
The remaining nine schools:
- Brown
- Dartmut
- WITH
- Penn
- Uva
- Vanderbilt
- Arizona
- USC
Quote of the day
“This is extortion, simple and simple.” –Erwin ChestrinskyThe dean of the Law School at the University of California in Berkeley, about the compact Trump with universities proposed by President Trump
They are a disobedient
Secretary HHS Robert F. Kennedy -Jr. dismissed Dr. Zhanna Marrazzo, Director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, which was prescribed on administrative leave in March along with two other directors of the institute. Marrazzo filed a complaint against the exposure three weeks before the date of her letter of termination, and her lawyer claims that the dismissal was return. The other two directors have been discontinued since then.
Trump notifies the Congress “War” with drug cartel drugs
The Trump administration has Notified Congress that the United States is in the official “Armed conflict“With drug cartels, adding that nyt called “A new detail for a finely formulated legal substantiation of the administration” for attacks on the wakefulness of drugs in the Open Sea.
Legal rationale remained subtle in the classified briefing of the Armed Forces Committee in the Senate this week, General Advisor to Pentagon Erla Matthews, WSJ Reports (emphasis on mine):
Matthew repeatedly called Trump of some Latin American drug cartresses as foreign terrorist organizations, which, according to him, provided the Ministry of Defense with unilateral powers to use military force against them, some of the people said. Matthews refused to provide a written excuse for strikesWhich, according to experts, is necessary for transparency and accountability.
Details of choice on the fiasco sword Eisenhauer
It is still not entirely clear that Todd Arrington’s refusal to violate the law and transfer Eisenhower with a sword for President Trump to give King Charles the main or even capable of his dismissal by the director of the Eisenhower presidential library. But how the request for a dream came to him is Brov-hill By itself:
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Hyper-male in the era of Trump
NOW: “The lawyer Pete Highset against military personnel accused of war crimes, and Trump's pardon of them helped to introduce the era of military aggression and ignore the rule of law.”
A woman named Archbishop Kenterbury for the first time
Sarah Mallally is The first woman To be called the archbishop of the Canterbury, spiritual leader of the Anglican church around the world.
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