Jim Himes: "This administration acts with an unbelievable cocktail of incompetence and illegality."
March 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Jim Himes: "This administration acts with an unbelievable cocktail of incompetence and illegality."
The illegality sometimes gets lost amidst all the idiocy, malevolence, and mendacity
This is blatantly unconstitutional (besides all the other things it also is)
* TRUMP SAYS ALL FEDERAL FUNDING WILL STOP FOR COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS THAT ALLOWS "ILLEGAL" PROTESTS
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The illegality sometimes gets lost amidst all the idiocy, malevolence, and mendacity
More straight up illegality by ICE. This is crime.
And here in NYC today another shocking escalation by Trump.
The law *explicitly allows* unannounced visits by congressmembers to federal facilities.
This is yet another breach of democratic norms by an increasingly rogue administration. Don't normalize this.
The law *explicitly allows* unannounced visits by congressmembers to federal facilities.
This is yet another breach of democratic norms by an increasingly rogue administration. Don't normalize this.
2 New York Representatives Are Denied Access to ICE Facility
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
More straight up illegality by ICE. This is crime.
BREAKING: We won! 3rd Circuit affirms illegality of Habba appointment
We @democracydefendersfund.org are honored to work on this case with the wonderful folks at Lowell & Associates, Gerald Krovatin & many others 👇
We @democracydefendersfund.org are honored to work on this case with the wonderful folks at Lowell & Associates, Gerald Krovatin & many others 👇
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
BREAKING: We won! 3rd Circuit affirms illegality of Habba appointment
We @democracydefendersfund.org are honored to work on this case with the wonderful folks at Lowell & Associates, Gerald Krovatin & many others 👇
We @democracydefendersfund.org are honored to work on this case with the wonderful folks at Lowell & Associates, Gerald Krovatin & many others 👇
Aside from the blatant illegality here, you’ll get this right after your tariff dividend, your freedom dividend, Trump’s health care plan, and your $2 gas
Trump: "We're making a fortune. So if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000. It will be called the Trump Dividend. Congratulations."
September 10, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Aside from the blatant illegality here, you’ll get this right after your tariff dividend, your freedom dividend, Trump’s health care plan, and your $2 gas
8/ the levels of illegality having a group of people who don’t even seem to be US government employees doing it.
February 2, 2025 at 5:19 AM
8/ the levels of illegality having a group of people who don’t even seem to be US government employees doing it.
Just brazen illegality
HIGHER ED EXTORTION: Trump offers “compact” to top universities—including Vanderbilt. Grants in exchange for: fewer foreign students, conservative gender policies, protected GOP ideology & speech limits on staff.
Will Vandy to submit to bullying for a bag of cash? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
Will Vandy to submit to bullying for a bag of cash? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
October 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Just brazen illegality
"It's criminal." Nina Olson, former national taxpayer advocate at the IRS, emphasizes the illegality of the IRS sharing taxpayer data with ICE.
April 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
"It's criminal." Nina Olson, former national taxpayer advocate at the IRS, emphasizes the illegality of the IRS sharing taxpayer data with ICE.
Astounding levels of illegality.
This is what its like to work in the Trump administration now. When a career official objected to declaring that living immigrants were dead on legal and ethical grounds, security guards went to his office and told him to leave.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead
A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Astounding levels of illegality.
It was illegal but DHS rewards illegality
December 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It was illegal but DHS rewards illegality
Is the backup plan "illegality"??
It's illegality, isn't it?
It's illegality, isn't it?
December 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Is the backup plan "illegality"??
It's illegality, isn't it?
It's illegality, isn't it?
Attn: President Trump fired at least 12 inspectors general—independent watchdogs tasked by Congress with rooting out abuse and illegality within federal agencies.
January 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Attn: President Trump fired at least 12 inspectors general—independent watchdogs tasked by Congress with rooting out abuse and illegality within federal agencies.
i know they are doing it, you don’t have to tediously remind me, but the illegality still matters
February 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
i know they are doing it, you don’t have to tediously remind me, but the illegality still matters
Plotting illegality.
Plotting crimes.
Plotting crimes.
Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."
February 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Plotting illegality.
Plotting crimes.
Plotting crimes.
Another illegality to be dealt with.
September 24, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Another illegality to be dealt with.
Murphy to @gregsargent.bsky.social: "If we’re going to sign on to a full year budget, it must have constraints on corruption & illegality. We cannot sign onto a budget that basically puts a bipartisan endorsement of the illegality. We’re literally signing our own political death warrants if we do"
October 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Murphy to @gregsargent.bsky.social: "If we’re going to sign on to a full year budget, it must have constraints on corruption & illegality. We cannot sign onto a budget that basically puts a bipartisan endorsement of the illegality. We’re literally signing our own political death warrants if we do"
"Standing" is a sufficiently malleable doctrine that the patent illegality of the government action should matter in close cases.
August 31, 2026 at 8:43 PM
"Standing" is a sufficiently malleable doctrine that the patent illegality of the government action should matter in close cases.
This is a celebration of cruelty and illegality: bombing civilians overseas and deploying the military against civilians at home. Quite deplorable.
September 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is a celebration of cruelty and illegality: bombing civilians overseas and deploying the military against civilians at home. Quite deplorable.
The illegality is breathtaking
September 15, 2026 at 10:40 PM
The illegality is breathtaking
Wow, bonus extra illegality on top of the existing illegality
January 13, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Wow, bonus extra illegality on top of the existing illegality
More illegality.
U.S. Military Kills 4 People in Boat Strike in Caribbean www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...
U.S. Military Kills 4 People in Boat Strike in Caribbean
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2026 at 1:24 PM
More illegality.
this thing on here of people responding to arguments about legality/illegality of an action with nihilistic declarations that it doesn’t matter is infuriating and i share josh’s frustration with it
FFS, folks, nothing in this thread says *anything* about what I expect other actors to do about it. That is a separate question. But before we ask how other institutions will respond to blatant illegality, we first need to make the argument that something is blatantly illegal.
January 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
this thing on here of people responding to arguments about legality/illegality of an action with nihilistic declarations that it doesn’t matter is infuriating and i share josh’s frustration with it
Trump's Illegality in Venezuela; Hegseth's Unconstitutional Attempt to Punish Senator Mark Kelly
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youtu.be/0LiTxqVR7rg?...
Trump's Illegality in Venezuela; Hegseth's Unconstitutional Attempt to Punish Senator Mark Kelly
YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner
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January 10, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Trump's Illegality in Venezuela; Hegseth's Unconstitutional Attempt to Punish Senator Mark Kelly
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youtu.be/0LiTxqVR7rg?...
Mamdani: "New York City is leading a coalition of city and counties to sue the federal government for the gross illegality of their new public charge rule, and the irreparable damage that it will cause."
September 14, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Mamdani: "New York City is leading a coalition of city and counties to sue the federal government for the gross illegality of their new public charge rule, and the irreparable damage that it will cause."