Who didn't see this coming?

We're fine. Everything is fine. Just fine.

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DOJ personnel don’t comment on anything beyond the four corners of a charging document in order to avoid prejudicing a defendant’s rights. Here’s the policy. The Attorney General of the United States violated it yesterday.

A few more from Sherwood Gardens.

#communitygarden #Sherwoodgardens #springtulips #gardens #maryland

A beautiful Saturday in Sherwood park.

#tulips #gardening #springflowers #communitygardening #flowersinthepark #Maryland

Justice Sotomayor defends courts amid criticism from Trump and his allies At the same time, the liberal justice conceded the limits of the courts' "soft power," which relies upon persuading people that rulings are based on reasoned applications of the law.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
Justices take an oath. Not to who nominated them to court OR to a POTUS. Their oath is to the Rule of Law.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- Aristotle

Now's the time for courage and honor.

Mike Pence just reposted an old article he wrote about the limitations on the powers of a president. For some reason. Here is a part of it.

USAID Lifesaving Aid Remains Halted Despite Rubio’s Promise A new directive puts further exemptions on hold. Aid workers also say the U.S. government has made it impossible to pay partners around the world.

Top USAID officials are trying to create a false narrative that life-saving aid has continued despite Trump’s blanket halt to foreign aid. Our @nytimes.com reporting shows the exact opposite. USAID even issued an internal email to stop applications for waivers: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

A Marine vet thought he found a 'home' working at the VA. Now he's one of 1,000 fired. Andrew Lennox, who was terminated from the VA, noted the irony of the VA claiming it had fired some veterans to help veterans.

I’m going to continue to work until my computer access is revoked,” Lennox said. “Then I’m going to volunteer. I’m going to keep working as best I can to support the veterans. That’s what I’m here for.”

taskandpurpose.com/news/veteran...

3 men claiming to be from DOGE show up at San Francisco City Hall, demand records San Francisco city officials are investigating after three men who claimed to be from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) showed up at City Hall on Friday demanding records from offices bef...

So you can just say you work at DOGE and pillage anything from our documents you want. The law truly doesn't exist anymore! Cool!

NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block.

The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US.

A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans.

Again, this isn't about efficiency.

Absolutely unbelievable. Just imagine if this had happened on Biden’s watch. The Republicans and the media would be in an uproar — and rightfully so.

But it’s on Trump’s watch, so crickets. 🦗

This sentence is doing a lot of work: "It may also be up to the judicial branch of government to find a way to ensure that its own decisions are enforced." Compliance and enforcement are far from guaranteed during rule of law backsliding.

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):

1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*

2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything

3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can

4. Citizens march en mass

I’ve seen commentary casually claim that a majority of Ukrainians now support territorial concessions for peace. That’s not true. Check out the data in this thread. 👇👇👇