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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, April 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM EDT Former federal prosecutors are up in arms over the nomination of Ed Martin for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Martin, who is currently serving as interim U.S. attorney for the district, first drew controversy for backing Donald Trump's false claims that Democrats stole the 2020 election. He also sided with Jan. 6 defendants who attempted to interrupt the counting the Electoral College votes. NBC News obtained a "Statement of Conscience and Principle" from more than 100 former assistant U.S. attorneys explaining why Martin is unfit to serve in his appointed capacity. The veterans, all from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, claim Martin "poses a threat to the full and fair administration of justice and the rule of law." They urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject his nomination and "depart from its usual practice and hold a public hearing" on Martin's nomination, complete with witness testimony, to educate members on his lack of fitness. April 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM EDT Republicans in the Senate voted 52-48 on a budge blueprint pushing a one-two combo of steep tax cuts and spending increases for immigration enforcement and the military, while demanding a $5 trillion increase to the debt limit. Every Republican except Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) voted for the measure, despite the ongoing economic freefall Thursday in U.S. and global markets. April 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM EDT A Thursday afternoon hearing in federal court grew heated as an attorney for President Donald Trump's administration was peppered by tough questions from U.S. District Judge James Boasberg. According to Politico, Boasberg -- who was initially appointed to Washington D.C. superior court by former President George W. Bush before his elevation to the federal bench by former President Barack Obama -- convened the hearing to find out whether the administration deliberately disobeyed his ruling to return three deportation flights that he ordered to be sent back to the United States. Venezuelan immigrants on those flights were being deported under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which has only been invoked three times in U.S. history and was last used during World War II. The administration has said that those deported were members of the violent gang "Tren de Aragua," though it has later acknowledged that at least one of the men on the flights was deported and jailed in an El Salvadoran mega-prison by mistake. April 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM EDT While Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Gen-Z-aged software programmers are firing federal employees (including veterans), a computer code appears to have been responsible for the laying off of 30 medical-related employees, including more than 10 laboratory leaders, at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). NINDS' office of Human Resources scrambled to quickly re-hire the wrongly fired staff this week after a coding error mislabeled employees with incorrect position codes. April 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM EDT This week, President Donald Trump rolled out double-digit tariffs on every country, with additional tariffs on other trade partners affecting virtually all imported goods. And even though financial markets are currently reeling, Trump said he's not worried. "I think it's going very well," the president said of the stock market Thursday before leaving the White House for his Florida golf resort. "We have an operation, like when a patient gets operated on and it's a big thing. I said this would exactly be the way it is." April 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM EDT US economics editor Simon Rabinovitch said the financial blast of "Liberation Day" would not have happened in President Donald Trump's first administration. "This time around, he clearly is surrounded by people who, in part, agree with him, people like (presidential counselor) Peter Navarro and others who are enabling him, who are not standing in his way, in the way that happened in Trump 1.0, so this is really the basest, worst instincts of Donald Trump, completely unencumbered by anybody reasonable," Rabinovitch told MSNBC anchor Katy Tur. "And I think the market reaction that we're seeing today is simply proof of that." April 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM EDT The White House has been adamant: President Donald Trump's sweeping mass tariffs, which he is imposing on nearly every country across the globe, are a line in the sand -- non-negotiable, not up for discussion, debate, or deviation. "This is not a negotiation," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN on Thursday, "emphasizing that the tariffs are part of a national emergency response to countries that have, in her view, harmed American workers for decades," according to Newsweek. April 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM EDT On Thursday, attorneys representing President Donald Trump's administration will appear in federal court for a hearing pertaining to a controversial deportation order. And one former federal prosecutor doesn't think the administration will fare well. The Trump Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is having to defend its deportations of immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered couldn't be done without fully weighing arguments for and against the invocation of the Act (which was last used during World War II). During an interview with CNN host Brianna Keilar, Michael Moore -- who former President Barack Obama appointed as U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia -- said he wouldn't want to be on the government's side of Boasberg's courtroom given what he believes will happen in the hearing. Moore opined that Boasberg has likely "had enough" of the administration's disregarding of his rulings. April 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM EDT Republican strategist Stuart Stevens, who is a senior advisor for the Lincoln Project, is arguing that monied interests and economic giants are complicit in ruining the nation as they blindly follow a president determined to sink markets in both the United States and around the world. "Why does [Blackstone Group CEO] Stephen A. Schwarzman support this guy? Why does [JP Morgan Chase CEO] Jamie Dimon support him? What has this done to their clients? What has it done for the wealth and the money they are handling for other individuals, which they are entrusted with? I find it absolutely inexplicable," Stevens said. April 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM EDT President Donald Trump disrupted the global trading system on Wednesday by introducing a sweeping set of global tariffs. He argued that the United States is experiencing a serious economic crisis due to trade imbalances with various countries around the world. But some economic experts disagree. Scott Lincicome, vice president of general economics at the Cato Institute, told the New York Times in a report published Thursday that declaring the current trade deficit a national emergency is "beyond a stretch." April 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM EDT Declaring a "national emergency that threatens our security and our very way of life," President Donald Trump, after markets closed on Wednesday afternoon, announced sweeping tariffs on nearly every nation across the globe""tanking stock market futures in the U.S. and abroad, unleashing global "chaos," and pushing the so-called "fear index" to "extreme." Just 24 hours after what he dubbed "Liberation Day," the President, on Thursday afternoon, will land at Miami International Airport and head straight to his Trump National Doral Golf Club for the LIV dinner, ahead of this weekend's golf tournament, which he is expected to attend. April 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM EDT Vice President JD Vance said Thursday it will take some time for President Trump's policy on tariffs and spending cuts to "fix things." "We are not going to fix things overnight," Vance admitted during an interview on Fox News. |
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