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United States<p>How Many Court Cases Can Trump Lose in a Single Week?</p><p>Is Donald Trump tired yet of all the losing? During the past week alone, federal judges across the…<br><a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/executivepower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>executivepower</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/POTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>POTUS</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/presidentdonaldtrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>presidentdonaldtrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/presidentoftheUnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>presidentoftheUnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/presidenttrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>presidenttrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/theWhiteHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theWhiteHouse</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/trumppresidency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trumppresidency</span></a><br><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2385168/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2385168/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
United States<p>9 years ago, Marco Rubio explained why Trump’s birthright citizenship order is unconstitutional</p><p>As a presidential candidate in 2016, Marco Rubio defended the conventional understandi…<br><a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/14thamendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>14thamendment</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/birthrightcitizenship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>birthrightcitizenship</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ConstitutionalInterpretation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConstitutionalInterpretation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DepartmentofState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DepartmentofState</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/executiveorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>executiveorder</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Executiveoverreach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Executiveoverreach</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/executivepower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>executivepower</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/FederalCourts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalCourts</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/litigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>litigation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/marcorubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marcorubio</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/secretaryofstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>secretaryofstate</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpAdministration</span></a><br><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2344517/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2344517/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Follow GOLF<p><a href="https://www.fogolf.com/1022434/trump-is-openly-using-the-presidency-to-enrich-the-trump-brand/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fogolf.com/1022434/trump-is-op</span><span class="invisible">enly-using-the-presidency-to-enrich-the-trump-brand/</span></a> Trump is openly using the presidency to enrich the Trump brand <a href="https://vive.im/tags/BusinessAndIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAndIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Donald" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Donald</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/DonaldTrumpGolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrumpGolf</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/DonaldTrumpGolfing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrumpGolfing</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/ExecutivePower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutivePower</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scotland</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/TrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/TrumpGolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpGolf</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/TrumpGolfing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpGolfing</span></a></p>
Brewminate<p>Bayonets. Tear gas. Military uniforms. On U.S. streets.</p><p>The Posse Comitatus Act was supposed to stop this.</p><p>Now it’s a formality — and a fragile one at that.</p><p><a href="https://brewminate.com/bayonets-at-home-executive-power-and-the-historic-erosion-of-posse-comitatus/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">brewminate.com/bayonets-at-hom</span><span class="invisible">e-executive-power-and-the-historic-erosion-of-posse-comitatus/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brewminate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brewminate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PosseComitatus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PosseComitatus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ExecutivePower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutivePower</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CivilLiberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilLiberties</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistoryRepeats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryRepeats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a> also argued the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin had sped past ordinary procedures in its haste to punish Harvard. Lehotsky depicted the admin’s argument as an unbound approach to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutivePower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutivePower</span></a>, one that would effectively allow presidents &amp; their ofcls to do “whatever we want, whatever our priorities are,” without any meaningful guardrails.</p><p>Judge Burroughs seemed to share the worries of Lehotsky, who said the govt was pursuing an “anti-Harvard policy" that would be unlawful under any president.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Friday’s swap was a remarkable development after <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> did not follow a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CourtOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CourtOrder</span></a> — issued as the planes were in flight or preparing for takeoff — to halt &amp; reverse most of the removals in a high-stakes early bid to claim <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutivePower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutivePower</span></a> &amp; prove he was serious about ridding the country of illegal immigrants. The admin never provided a complete list of their identities, &amp; told a series of courts it had no <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> to force or even ask <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a> to return them.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Critics have accused the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin of flouting the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> in its aggressive use of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutivePower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutivePower</span></a>, including by retaliating against perceived enemies &amp; dismantling agencies created by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a>.</p><p>The Trump admin has broadly defended its actions as within the legal bounds of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PresidentialPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PresidentialPower</span></a> &amp; has won several early victories at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SCOTUS</span></a>. A WH spox told Reuters that Trump's actions were legal, &amp; declined to comment on the departures.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/lawless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lawless</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/felon47" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>felon47</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judiciary</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RuleOfLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RuleOfLaw</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>constitution</span></a></p>
beSpacific<p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Claims Sweeping <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Power</span></a> to <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Nullify" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nullify</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Laws</span></a>, Letters on <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TikTok</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Ban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ban</span></a> Show. In purporting to license otherwise <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/illegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illegal</span></a> conduct by <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> firms, Trump set a <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/precedent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>precedent</span></a> expanding <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/executivepower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>executivepower</span></a>, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legal</span></a> experts warned. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/AG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AG</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Bondi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bondi</span></a> told <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> the could lawfully <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/violate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>violate</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/statute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statute</span></a> barring American companies from supporting TikTok based on sweeping claim that President Trump has the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/constitutional" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>constitutional</span></a> power to set aside <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>laws</span></a>, newly disclosed documents show. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/politics/trump-bondi-tiktok-executive-power.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/trump-bondi-tiktok-executive-power.html</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a></p>
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#RussVought has spearheaded the admin’s campaign to assert sweeping #ExecutivePower over #spending, arguing that the Impoundment Control Act, the #law at issue now, is *unconstitutional*.

The #Trump admin has *justified* its cost-cutting measures by pointing out that the #US is $36 trillion in debt, although the type of #funding that ofcls have targeted represents a small fraction of the overall #budget.

[& Trump’s budget outline is projected to increase the debt by trillions more]

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Judge Burroughs acted hours after #Harvard asked her to block the order on Thurs evening. In its request, part of an ongoing lawsuit, the #university also filed a new claim against the #Trump admin.

In court papers, Harvard accused the admin of trying to circumvent an earlier #CourtOrder that had blocked #DHS from banning international enrollment at Harvard. The university said Trump had violated the #law again by invoking his #ExecutivePower against the school when the agency’s efforts failed.

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The proclamation blocked Thurs was issued just the day before. It was the 3rd time in a month that the #Trump admin has tried to use its power to ban #InternationalStudents at #Harvard in what the #university has said is a violation of its #FirstAmendment rights. But it was the 1st time Trump relied on #ExecutivePower rather than agency rules & actions, a sign of how personal the effort to inflict distress on the university has become for him.

#GiftArticle

It’s the #LibraryOfCongress.
But #Trump claims it’s his.
Trump’s new target in his campaign to expand #ExecutivePower: the Library of Congress. Never mind the name—admin attys are now arguing the main #research #library of the #legislative branch doesn’t belong to #Congress at all.
A #legal push to claim the Library as executive turf isn’t a one-off. It’s the latest move in a broader effort by Trump…to erase the…lines that separate the branches of govt.
#law
wapo.st/4dQh5Hm

The Washington Post · It’s called the Library of Congress. But Trump claims it’s his.By Meryl Kornfield

President #Trump’s expansive use of #executivepower faced at least 328 #lawsuits as of May 1 — with judges halting his policies far more often than they allowed them.

Courts entered more than 200 orders stopping the administration’s actions in 128 cases. The court battles are testing the balance of power at the heart of #American democracy. Trump supporters have attacked judges as biased, and his administration has been accused of failing to fully comply with orders
bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-la

Bloomberg · Trump's Legal Battles: Tracking Hundreds of US Court CasesBy Zoe Tillman
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#SCOTUS gestured in this direction in a footnote to a 2020 ruling that suggested that the #Fed may be able to "claim a special historical status" entitling it to a greater degree of distance from presidential control than other #independent agencies

Other legal grounds have been offered for why the Fed should be more insulated from presidential control, including an argument by some conservative judges & advocates that the central bank does not wield substantial #ExecutivePower.