We have waited too long. Our America is deceased.

I wonder if future history books will teach American children how great America ONCE was. About the original monuments and the White House, as it was conceived by our founding fathers?

The White House announced the construction of the 90,000-square foot ballroom in late July, and demolition began suddenly on the East Wing in late October when workers were spotted tearing down the wing of the White House.

"The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion," the panel wrote in the order.

The White House appealed Thursday's order and three-judge appeals panel granted a stay of Leon's order to give the judges time to consider the White House's emergency motion for a broader, more lasting stay of Leon's injunction.

Leon revised his ruling this week -- after the appeals court ruled that he needed to clarify his order -- to say that security-related work could go on, particularly below ground.

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The “shadow papers,” according to the Times, represent the inner workings of a conservative court that has become increasingly mysterious within the last decade and it prefers to render decisions without argument or public scrutiny.

, while a third liberal justice asked the court to slow down its EPA rollback, while conservative Justice Samuel Alito is already prepared to rule in favor of continued mercury poisoning.

Further private correspondence reveals liberal justice Elena Kagen was “not buying” Roberts’ insistence that immediate action by the court was necessary to save power companies the costs of upgrading or shutting down dated technology

Trump’s own EPA. The Times also reports that the fact that most power plants were already in compliance “or well on their way” to reducing mercury emissions appeared to anger the chief justice all the more.

Roberts also accuses the Democrat-led E.P.A. of sidestepping the court overturning an Obama administration rule limiting coal plant mercury emissions — which are a proven neurotoxin according to President Donald

Among some of Roberts’ correspondence are claims that “solar plants are not built in a day” but that renewable energy facilities are virtually here to stay once constructed and do “irreparable harm” to Congress’ power to kill or discourage them.

The Times notes that the conservative court has increasingly relied upon that argument to discourage energy evolution and cleaner air standards.

dirty coal plants in favor of newer, cleaner energy tech. His argument was that agencies can’t make decisions of vast “economic and political significance” if Congress explicitly grants them that power.

an effort to unravel new clean air standards by the Obama administration, the communications reveal Chief Justice John Roberts sought to invoke the “major questions doctrine” to block federal regulations seeking to shut down

The Times reports these confidential papers are normally not disclosed until after a judge’s death, meaning the “public might not learn what happened, and why, for decades” after a decision.

in which the court has used truncated procedures cloaked in secrecy to block or allow major presidential initiatives in terse rulings.”

The debate yielded an order halting the program by a 5-to-4 vote — without any explanation,” reports the Times. “Legal scholars have called the episode the birth of the modern shadow docket,

“Over five days in the winter of 2016, the justices of the Supreme Court exchanged an extraordinary series of confidential memos about how the court should address an ambitious climate change initiative from President Barack Obama.

but the New York Times managed to nab confidential correspondence from 2016 that provides insight on the furtive court’s effort to dismantle an EPA crackdown on poisonous airborne mercury.

The conservative U.S. Supreme Court increasingly relies on the secretive shadow docket to derail clean air standards and remove guardrails on a Trump White House,

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New court filings show attorneys for Trump and the IRS are now discussing a possible settlement tied to claims that his tax returns were unlawfully leaked to the media in 2019 and 2020.

Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service may be heading toward a pause instead of a courtroom showdown.

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The news of diGenova's role comes after CNN reported Friday that the Justice Department removed the career Miami federal prosecutor leading the investigation after she had resisted pressure to quickly bring charges against Brennan, according to people briefed on the matter.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is upping his efforts to deliver on the president's top Justice Department priorities, including prosecuting his political enemies, as he seeks to keep the job after Bondi's ouster.

The investigation into Brennan focuses on one of the president's longest standing political grievances - the 2017 intelligence assessment that found ​Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help him.