🚨BREAKING: Federal judge refuses to dismiss indictment re Adams and asks for amicus briefs. This is completely nutso! Prosecution is totally within discretion of Trump, like it or not. Expect an appeal. 1/
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Federal judge enters preliminary injunction barring Trump Administration from canceling DEI grants, requiring DEI certifications, or enforcing a federal statute, False Claims Act. 1/
🚨🚨🚨Court grants motion to enforce TRO in favor of Plaintiff NGOs who are complaining grants were improperly withheld but reuses to hold Trump Administration in contempt. The order is incomprehensible. 1/
3/ Trump Administration "won": Unions cannot challenge firing decisions in this lawsuit because Congress established a separate agency and mechanism to resolve those disputes & unions must go there first. Notes 75K employees took the "RESIGN" option.
🚨BREAKING: Government files response in opposition to NGOs motion to enforce TRO & hold Trump Administration in contempt. THREAD below explains more about the case & last night's emergency motion for contempt. Read that first (along with sub-thread). 1/
3/ Plaintiffs entire basis of complaint & TRO is the Administrative Procedures Act, but APA requires final agency action & under current precedent, we just don't have one here. Most other courts have totally floated over that issue by quoting various language suggesting there is.
🚨AFL-CIO filed Motion for Expedited Discovery seeking details of inner-workings. However, whether AFL-CIO has a claim rests on legal question & not factual question so watch Trump oppose & file Motion to Dismiss for lack of jurisdiction (no standing). 1/