Giantone
02-10-2025, 04:01 PM
Trump fires boards of U.S. military service academies
https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-fires-boards-u-military-154441907.html
President Donald Trump on Monday said he had ordered the firings of the boards of visitors for all of the U.S. military’s service academies, the outside advisory panels that help oversee academic programs and student life, saying that the government’s training grounds for military officers had been invaded by so-called “woke” ideology.
“Our Service Academies have been infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues over the last four years,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “I have ordered the immediate dismissal of the Board of Visitors for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard.” The president did not immediately announce the appointment of new members to the boards.
Giantone
02-10-2025, 04:07 PM
Now's a good time to recall John Roberts' warning about court orders being ignored
John Roberts chided both sides for raising the prospect of judicial defiance in December, but one side may need a reminder.
https://www.msnbc.com/
In his last year-end report, Chief Justice John Roberts called out what he deemed several areas of “illegitimate activity” threatening judicial independence. One of them was “threats to defy lawfully entered judgments.”
The report from just six weeks ago is worth revisiting in light of recent statements seemingly supporting such defiance from Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance, following several Trump administration trial court losses early in its second term.
Giantone
02-10-2025, 05:53 PM
https://news.yahoo.com/news/alarm-jd-vance-says-federal-030350722.html
Alarm as JD Vance says federal judges ‘aren’t allowed’ to control president
Experts and officials expressed alarm on Sunday after Vice President JD Vance suggested federal courts “aren’t allowed” to limit the White House’s “legitimate power.”
The controversy began on Sunday morning, when Vance tweeted his views on executive power.
“If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal,” he wrote on X. “If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's legitimate power.”
Giantone
02-10-2025, 05:57 PM
Reuters
Trump to loosen enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials
https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-loosen-enforcement-us-law-204530479.html
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday planned to sign an executive order that directs the Justice Department to pause prosecutions of Americans accused of bribing foreign government officials while trying to gain business in their countries.
According to a copy of a fact sheet seen by Reuters, the order is aimed at restoring American economic competitiveness by ordering "revised, reasonable enforcement guidelines for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) of 1977."
Giantone
02-11-2025, 07:32 AM
Surprised this wasn't his first move, I mean trump and ethics go together so well!
Dictators do this.................
Bloomberg
Trump Fires Top Ethics Official Overseeing Conflicts of Interest
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump has fired the head of the federal Office of Government Ethics, which oversees disclosure and potential conflicts of interest involving top government officials, according to a post on the agency’s blog.
OGE’s director supervises compliance with federal rules that require nominees to high-ranking posts, including cabinet officials, to disclose their assets and divest those that pose potential conflicts of interest. That’s proven to be a complicated task in an administration whose figures include hedge fund managers, investment bankers and financiers. In the first Trump term, OGE declined to certify Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross were in compliance with ethics laws.
Giantone
02-11-2025, 02:37 PM
HuffPost
American Bar Association Says Trump Is Not Following The Rule Of Law
https://news.yahoo.com/news/american-bar-association-says-trump-174218714.html
No, shit!
Giantone
02-11-2025, 05:26 PM
Dictator at work..............................
https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-submits-regulations-weaken-191825433.html
Politico
Trump administration submits regulations to weaken federal worker protections
NC_Skins
02-11-2025, 08:17 PM
Did this really need a second thread? Also, I don't think communist is what you are looking for. The term is Fascism. Fascism seeks to dismantle the government while creating a single power as dictator. Communism is expanded government and chooses its leaders via a board/committee every several years.
sdskinsfan2001
02-11-2025, 08:20 PM
Did this really need a second thread? Also, I don't think communist is what you are looking for. The term is Fascism. Fascism seeks to dismantle the government while creating a single power as dictator. Communism is expanded government and chooses its leaders via a board/committee every several years.
Welcome to G1's enemy list.
Giantone
02-11-2025, 08:47 PM
Did this really need a second thread? Also, I don't think communist is what you are looking for. The term is Fascism. Fascism seeks to dismantle the government while creating a single power as dictator. Communism is expanded government and chooses its leaders via a board/committee every several years.
Probably right. Yes we needed another thread. The trump cult has their own thread I did this to document his attempt to destroy the Country. As SDskinfan proved he can't be held to his word (which I knew). Unlike other threads all are welcome here.