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[No, POTUS doesn’t have such authority but we will have to wait for the courts to sort it out]
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The irony is that the FTC is the agency whose independence was affirmed in Humphrey's Executor. So while in other cases, we apply Humphrey's by analogy (extremely close ones), the current law is unambiguous that, at least for the FTC, the president cannot fire the board.
 
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I see Paula White is there. Right then and there in the Oval Office would have been a great time for her to start speaking in tongues.

"We break every demonic altar that has been erected against the election! Angels are being dispatched right now... (begins speaking in tongues) shalabakatarabasa... I hear the sound of victory! I hear the sound of victory!"
 
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War-Torn Congo Has a Deal for Trump: Kick Out Rebels, Get Minerals​

U.S. president’s ally Erik Prince in separate talks to help embattled Congolese government​



“… In a Feb. 8 letter to Trump, Félix Tshisekedi, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, offered mining opportunities for the U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund, an entity Trump had launched a few days earlier.

“Your election has ushered in the golden age for America,” Tshisekedi wrote in the letter, which has been seen by The Wall Street Journal.

“Our partnership would provide the U.S. with a strategic advantage by securing critical minerals such as cobalt, lithium, copper and tantalum from the Democratic Republic of Congo.”

In exchange, Tshisekedi asked Trump for a “formal security pact” to help his army defeat M23, a Rwandan-backed rebel group that recently routed Congolese soldiers, United Nations troops and private mercenaries and seized key cities in Congo’s mineral-rich east.

The Congolese letter didn’t specify what kind of military backing it wants from the U.S. A White House official said it doesn’t “provide details on the private correspondence to the president.”

The offer comes at the same time Tshisekedi is in negotiations with Erik Prince, a Trump ally who founded the controversial private-military company then called Blackwater.

If the talks succeed, Prince would help the Congolese government collect and secure taxes from mining operations, according to Congolese and Western officials. …”
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I feel like someone wrote a book about this.
 

Judges Fear for Their Safety Amid a Wave of Threats​

Federal judges are worried that online threats against those who oversee high-profile cases challenging Trump administration policies may lead to real-world violence.

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Threats Rise Against Judges Overseeing Trump Policy Cases, Fueling Safety Concerns

Federal judges are worried that online threats against those who oversee high-profile cases challenging Trump administration policies may lead to real-world violence.
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I don’t know why, but I remain more than a little shocked that Rubio has become this sort of goon. But here we are.
 
nycfan said:


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I don’t know why, but I remain more than a little shocked that Rubio has become this sort of goon. But here we are.
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Anyway, Rubio is putting a lot of pressure on the word “house” in this interview.

He is describing as “housed” sending people present in the United States, who had not been adjudicated in any way under any form of due process as being gang members or criminals, to be imprisoned for an indeterminate amount of time in a notoriously violent prison facility (that uses inmates as slave labor) by a foreign government as a substitute for mere deportation of those people to their home country.

And he is claiming some nebulous foreign policy right to sweep people off American streets and send them to be held captive in a foreign slave prison because some unnamed federal official identified those people as members of a gang. He doesn’t even clarify whether they know if all these people were illegally present in the United States.

Plus he seems to be saying they delivered to El Salvador people present in the United States who the self-described dictator of El Salvador wanted sent there for prosecution, again with zero due process. And that the courts don’t have any right to pause or otherwise examine this because the Trump Administration labels it a foreign policy decision, which overrides any right to due process of any of the people they pick up it inside the United States.
 
Here is one example of information trickling out about a Venezuelan asylum seeker who has been sent to El Salvador to be imprisoned there without due process based on allegations of gang membership:

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Of course his lawyers are going to paint their client in as good a light as possible — maybe he is in a gang. But we don’t know because he was denied due process and sent to a prison in El Salvador.

Marco Rubio claims that an ICE official’s determination that this man is in a gang that Trump just declared a terrorist organization invading America overrides any due process rights because the Trump Administration has labeled all their decisions about who is in this gang as a “foreign policy” matter.
 
nycfan said:
Here is one example of information trickling out about a Venezuelan asylum seeker who has been sent to El Salvador to be imprisoned there without due process based on allegations of gang membership:

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Of course his lawyers are going to paint their client in as good a light as possible — maybe he is in a gang. But we don’t know because he was denied due process and sent to a prison in El Salvador.

Marco Rubio claims that an ICE official’s determination that this man is in a gang that Trump just declared a terrorist organization invading America overrides any due process rights because the Trump Administration has labeled all their decisions about who is in this gang as a “foreign policy” matter.
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WSJ Editorial Board:


“… In any event, the Administration can appeal whatever ruling Judge Boasberg hands down, and the case will go up the appellate chain, perhaps as far as the Supreme Court. What the Administration can’t do is defy a court order without being lawless itself.

Also troubling is the U.S. reliance on Mr. Bukele, the Salvadoran president who has trampled due process in his war against crime. Gang violence is down and he’s popular, but his methods border on the barbaric. The country was desperate, but Mr. Bukele has destroyed independent legal institutions rather than restore the rule of law.

The U.S. is paying Mr. Bukele $6 million to handle the 300 gang members, and Mr. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have praised him as if he’s an American hero. “We will not forget!” Mr. Trump declared.

As our Mary O’Grady has reported, Mr. Bukele gave 60,000 “tourist” visas to Ecuadorans and 32,000 to Indians in 2023 to enter his country. The migrants then paid cartels to take them to the American border. That contributed to the Biden-era migrant surge.

It isn’t clear why Mr. Trump had to get in a prison bed with Mr. Bukele when he could have sent the gang members to Guantanamo for immigration hearings and American due process. …”
 
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