A federal judge has issued a restraining order against #KariLake & the #Trump admin barring the cancelation of funding for #RadioFreeEurope.

The decision to terminate, the judge says, appears to violate the #law & the intent of #Congress.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25868558/rfetro.pdf

The #Senate Select Cmte on #Intelligence hearing is a regular briefing intelligence ofcls provide #Congress on worldwide threats & was scheduled before #JeffGoldberg’s report from The Atlantic.

But the controversy is likely to dominate the session.

Testifying:

#DNI Tulsi Gabbard

#CIA Dir John Ratcliffe

Timothy D. Haugh, #NSA

#Defense Intelligence Agency dir Jeffrey A. Kruse

#FBI director Kash Patel

#NationalSecurity #USpol #geopolitics
https://www.c-span.org/event/senate-committee/dni-director-gabbard-fbi-director-patel-other-security-officials-testfy-on-global-threats/431845

#DHS Secy #KristiNoem [dog killer] told a Cabinet meeting Monday that the dept would move to “eliminate” the govt’s #disaster relief agency, #FEMA, days after #Trump signed an EO directing state & local govnts to “play a more active & significant role” in responding to catastrophes.

#Noem, whose dept oversees FEMA, has previously vowed to “get rid of FEMA the way it exists today”; Trump has said he would close the agency entirely, which would require an act of #Congress.
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2025/dhs-sec-kristi-noem-says-administration-will-move-to-eliminate-fema

"HAMPTON, Iowa — Republican Sen. Chuck #Grassley fielded questions from a packed room of heated Iowans on Friday who urged him to 'stand up for what's right' in the face of the Trump administration's massive federal downsizing.
“My question, which I think is on our minds here, is where is #Congress?” asked one audience member, which was met with cheers from the audience at the Franklin County Courthouse in central Iowa." USA Today https://www.yahoo.com/news/where-congress-sen-chuck-grassley-193007091.html
#HealthCare ##USPolitics

EARLY VOTING OPEN NOW IN FLORIDA

#FLORIDA VOTE DEMOCRATIC

From Now until April 1st EVERYONE in the Fedi should make a post about this special election because it can flip the #US #House to DEMOCRATIC. Make a post & tag FLORIDA Special Election.

Vote GAY VALIMONT District 1 #FL1

Vote JOSH WEIL District 6 in #FL6

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/politics/elections/2025/03/20/florida-special-elections-vote-by-mail-ballots-deadline-early-voting-dates-times/82562641007/

"DOJ moves to boot federal judge from Perkins Coie case"

Next move for the #Trump regime: if a #judge doesn't rule in your favor, use the power of the Federal Government to seek their removal from cases, which petition then justifies appealing anything that comes from such cases.

I suspect #impeachments of #judges who don't do as they're told by the executive branch, using Trump's captive #GOP #Congress, will be next.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/21/doj-federal-judge-perkins-coie-case-00243928

Exclusive: #Section230 May Finally Get Changed as Lawmakers Prep New Bill

By Paris Martineau

As early as next week, Senators plan to introduce the first bipartisan bill to repeal Section 230, the landmark #internet #law

Martineau spoke w/congressional aides to get the details of the ambitious effort, which internet experts described as akin to #extortion

#Congress #Senate
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/exclusive-section-230-may-finally-get-changed-lawmakers-prep-new-bill

"That’s one way to think about these arguments: they’re not necessarily being offered in the sense that this court or any other court would really believe them, so much as this gives them a way to say they’re complying while also telling the court that you better not push us. ...
People expect too much if they expect the courts to try to aggressively defend legislative prerogatives when #Congress won’t do that."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-constitutional-crisis-fails-to-capture-trumps-attack-on-the-rule-of-law

#constitutionalviolations
#Trump
#ConstitutionalCrisis

Well, it’s done…

#Trump Signs Order Aimed at Closing #Education Dept.

Trump signed an #ExecutiveOrder that he said would “begin eliminating the federal Department of Education once & for all,” although the agency cannot be closed without the approval of #Congress. Some critical functions, including those related to student loans & special education funding, are *expected* to continue to be run out of the reduced agency.