Kyle Cheney

kyledcheney.bsky.social

17 February 2025 16:47

The judge says Trump's EO on transgender health care would create a perverse situation in which a cisgender person could get puberty blockers to treat cancer but a transgender person could not get puberty blockers to treat cancer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Kyle Cheney

kyledcheney.bsky.social

17 February 2025 16:47

JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

jamelle

jamellebouie.net

11 February 2025 01:51

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

Josh Marshall

joshtpm.bsky.social

11 February 2025 01:51

Not that anything matters but the DOJ letter ordering prosecutors to drop the Adams case misstates the actual policy/rationale about indictments near to an election. (Again, the whole thing is comically corrupt. So hard to say if this matters.) It also says they need Adams to cooperate with ICE ...

mtsw

mtsw.bsky.social

10 February 2025 18:41

they're trying to steal the money before any of the court orders can be enforced. Hail to the thief