Is anyone surprised? Bueller? Bueller?
A top Justice Department official nominated by President Donald Trump to fill a federal appeals court vacancy allegedly suggested the Trump administration should defy judicial orders that sought to restrict their aggressive efforts to deport undocumented immigrants earlier this year, according to a whistleblower complaint from a fired DOJ career official.
The 27-page complaint, provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Justice Department’s top watchdog and obtained by ABC News, alleges that Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove and other top DOJ officials strategized how they could mislead courts regarding the administration’s immigration enforcement efforts and potentially ignore judges’ rulings outright.
The allegations from Erez Reuveni – who was fired from the department in April after he appeared in federal court in Maryland and admitted to a judge that the government had mistakenly deported accused MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador – were delivered to the Senate on the eve of a confirmation hearing for Bove to serve on the powerful 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Also not a surprise: “Alligator Alcatraz”. (Formatting as in the cite.)
A new migrant detention facility officials are calling “Alligator Alcatraz” is slated to open in Florida’s Everglades next month, according to Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier .
The federal government on June 23 approved a proposal to open a 5,000-bed detention facility on 39-square miles of land in the Everglades, Uthmeier said in an interview posted on X .
“The perimeter’s already set by mother nature,” Uthmeier said. “A lot of people thought maybe it was just a joke, but we’re serious.”
Here’s what we know so far about the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz.”
What is ‘Alligator Alcatraz’?
So-called “Alligator Alcatraz” will be a site as part of a new detention facility located in the Everglades in South Florida.
The facility sits on a 39-square mile vacant airfield with a roughly 11,000 foot runway. It will have 5,000 beds and open in early July, Uthmeier said. He also said the facility is intended to be temporary.
“We’ll have some light infrastructure, a lot of heavy duty tent facilities, trailer facilities,” Uthmeier said. “We don’t need to build a lot of brick-and-mortar.”
Uthmeier said he believes the facility will house both detained migrants from Florida as well as from other states around the country.
Where is ‘Alligator Alcatraz’?
The detention facility is proposed to be on the site of the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida, Uthmeier said in a video on X.
“This is an old, virtually abandoned airport facility right in the middle of the Everglades,” he said.
Among all the other problems with this, anyone want to bet there was an environmental impact statement even started for this inanity?
The felon says no vacations until the Big Bullshit Bill passes!
President Donald Trump on Tuesday told Senate Republicans to lock themselves in a room if necessary to work out their differences and pass the megabill that will fund his second-term agenda.
“To my friends in the Senate, lock yourself in a room if you must, don’t go home, and GET THE DEAL DONE THIS WEEK,” Trump posted on his social media platform while on his way to the NATO summit in the Netherlands. “Work with the House so they can pick it up, and pass it, IMMEDIATELY. NO ONE GOES ON VACATION UNTIL IT’S DONE.”
Both the Senate and House are under pressure to reconcile differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill and get it to Trump’s desk by July 4.
No word on if he issued this statement from a golf course.
What do you know? The flexing of OPM (Other People’s Muscles) was rather ineffective.
The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by seven people briefed on it.
The assessment, which has not been previously reported, was produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s intelligence arm. It is based on a battle damage assessment conducted by US Central Command in the aftermath of the US strikes, one of the sources said.
The analysis of the damage to the sites and the impact of the strikes on Iran’s nuclear ambitions is ongoing, and could change as more intelligence becomes available. But the early findings are at odds with President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also said on Sunday that Iran’s nuclear ambitions “have been obliterated.”
Two of the people familiar with the assessment said Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed. One of the people said the centrifuges are largely “intact.” Another source said that the intelligence assessed enriched uranium was moved out of the sites prior to the US strikes.
“So the (DIA) assessment is that the US set them back maybe a few months, tops,” this person added.
The White House acknowledged the existence of the assessment but said they disagreed with it.
Yeah. Let’s enter into another war because the felon and his co-conspirators disagree with the professionals.
Co-conspirator Kennedy ordered to shut his lying mouth. Let’s jump to the germ of the matter.
“Congressman Pallone, 15 years ago, you and I met. You were, at that time, a champion of people who had suffered injuries from vaccines. You were very adamant about it. You were the leading member of Congress on that issue,” said Kennedy.
“Since then, you’ve accepted $2 million from pharmaceutical companies in contributions, more than any other member of this committee,” he continued. “And your enthusiasm for supporting the old [Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices], which was completely rife and pervasive with pharmaceutical conflicts, seems to be an outcome of those contributions.”
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), ranking member of the health subcommittee, immediately raised a point order, saying Kennedy was “impugning Mr. Pallone.”
Subcommittee Chair Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) asked that the clock be paused. After a brief back and forth with committee members and staffers, he acknowledged it was a valid point of order and asked Kennedy to retract his remarks about Pallone.
Another grilling of co-conspirator Kennedy was even more blunt.
Rep. Kim Schrier (D-Wash.) accused Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of lying to Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) when he told the senator he would maintain a key federal vaccine advisory committee “without changes.”
During a budget hearing held by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, Schrier, a pediatrician, described the dire impacts of skipping childhood vaccinations for illnesses, such as whopping cough.
“You know what’s great? There’s a vaccine that prevents this,” Schrier told Kennedy. “We rely on the advisory committee on immunization practices, a panel of experts, to recommend which vaccines people should get at which ages and the like.”
“Now I know Sen. Cassidy had concerns about your views on this, and so when he voted to confirm you as Secretary of HHS on Feb. 4, he explained that decision by saying on the Senate floor that, ‘If confirmed, you will maintain the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes,'” Schrier recounted.
“But then two weeks ago you fired all 17 experts on that very committee. Mr. Secretary, question for you, did you lie to Sen. Cassidy when you told him you would not change this panel of experts?” Schrier asked.
The Second Felonial Era is, of course, the administrative equivalent of a headless chicken.
Federal agencies are rehiring and ordering back from leave some of the employees who were laid off in the weeks after President Donald Trump took office as they scramble to fill critical gaps in services left by the Department of Government Efficiency-led effort to shrink the federal workforce.
The Trump administration’s quiet backtracking from the firings and voluntary retirements — which are also paired with new hires to fill vacancies those departures created — come as federal agencies are still implementing their “reduction-in-force” plans as part of a push for spending cuts.
Experts warned that even though the Trump administration has backtracked on some of its efforts to shrink the federal workforce, the rapid rehirings are a warning sign that it has lost more capacities and expertise that could prove critical — and difficult to replace — in the months and years ahead.
The felon and his co-conspirators are throwing a tantrum becuase they’re not being allowed to deport people to a concentration camp in South Sudan.
WASHINGTON — A fight over the fate of a group of migrants the Trump administration wants to deport to South Sudan flared up again on Tuesday as the Justice Department accused a federal judge of “unprecedented defiance” of a Supreme Court decision the previous day.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a motion at the Supreme Court seeking clarification of the Monday evening decision that lifted nationwide restrictions on the administration’s ability to send migrants to “third countries” they have no connection to.
The move from the Trump administration comes as the government itself has been accused of violating court orders, including by the judge handling the deportation case, Massachusetts-based U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, who has come under heavy fire from MAGA world.
Immediately after the Supreme Court action, Murphy said in a docket entry that he did not believe the justices blocked his May 21 order that prevented the men being sent to South Sudan.
The detainees are currently being held in a U.S. facility in Djibouti. Plaintiffs says all eight are subject to Murphy’s order, although previously only six were mentioned in his May decision.
Murphy’s understanding was that the high court had blocked only his earlier ruling that set nationwide rules giving those affected a “meaningful opportunity” to bring claims that they would be at risk of torture, persecution or death if they were sent to countries the administration has made deals with to receive deported immigrants.
The military had to fake up anothr attack to keep the felon from giving away all the information about the actual attack.
The U.S. military was able to carry out its strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday without Iran firing back, but leading up to the daring mission, U.S. officials feared Donald Trump would tip off Tehran.
The president had been speaking openly with reporters and posting on social media about Iran for more than a week as the conflict between Israel and Iran escalated. He held off revealing his ultimate intention, but appeared to be toying with the Iranians.
In the end, the Trump administration was able to pull off the mission, but according to the New York Times
Look, I fully agree this attack was illadvised, morally wrong, and illegal, but if you’re going to carry out a military attack, what say you do it in a military manner?
Remember back in the First Felonial Era when the felon was only concerned about “his numbers” not looking bad? Check out the Second Felonial Era’s numbers!
A bombshell CNN poll found that a clear majority of Americans disapprove of President Trump’s decision to launch airstrikes in Iran .
The poll found that 56 percent of Americans disapproved of military action in Iran, while only 44 percent were in favor. It also found that 58 percent of those surveyed believe Trump’s actions will make Iran a bigger threat to the U.S.
The vast majority of Democrats (88 percent) and most independents (60 percent) said they opposed the strikes, while most Republicans (82 percent) broadly approved. But just 44 percent of Republicans said they strongly approved of Trump’s actions—a much smaller cohort than the 60 percent of Democrats who strongly disapproved.
US Army veteran suffering from PTSD “self-deports”.
A U.S. Army veteran, awarded the Purple Heart for injuries sustained in combat, has self-deported to South Korea after being informed he could no longer remain in America under President Donald Trump ’s hardline immigration policies .
Sae Joon Park, 55, a green card holder who has lived in the U.S. since the age of seven, departed on Monday following a removal order stemming from drug possession and failure to appear in court charges from over 15 years ago.
Park attributes these past offenses to years of untreated post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which he developed after being wounded in action in Panama in 1989.
“I can’t believe that this is happening in America,” Park told NPR in an interview before his departure. “That blows me away, like a country that I fought for.”
Having arrived in the U.S. from South Korea in the late 1970s, Park grew up in Los Angeles. Seeking direction, he enlisted in the U.S. Army after high school.
“I wanted direction and [to] better myself and maybe help serve the country,” he explained.
At 20, he was deployed to Panama as part of the 1989 U.S. invasion to topple Manuel Noriega’s regime. During a firefight, he was shot.
“I realized I was shot,” he recounted. “So I’m thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m paralyzed.’ And then thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m not just paralyzed. I’m dying right now.’” A bullet was miraculously deflected by his dog tag, saving his life.
There’s more at the article. Try to remember that PTSD was not as well-known at the time, IIRC.
First we had Jewish space lasers and now we have Biden T-storms! (The bolding is mine.)
President Donald Trump got a little tongue-tied speaking with reporters on Air Force One , appearing to suggest his predecessor had left the United States vulnerable to attacks by forces of nature.
Asked by one journalist about the threat of Iranian retaliation on U.S. soil following strikes against three nuclear sites in the Islamic Republic over the weekend, the president was quick to pin the blame on Joe Biden.
*“*Biden let a lot of supercells into the United States. He was an incompetent president. He had no idea what he was doing,” Trump said in audio of the exchange obtained by Fox News.
“It was gross incompetence,” he went on. “Among everything else, he let a lot of supercells in, many from Iran. But hopefully we’ll take care of them. What Biden did to this country should never be forgotten.”