How the #Trump Administration Is Giving Even More #TaxBreaks to the #Wealthy

The #Treasury Department & #IRS are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big #corporations & the #ultrarich.

#law #SeparationOfPowers #aristocracy #plutocracy #WealthGap #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/trump-administration-tax-breaks-wealthy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

How the #Trump Administration Is Giving Even More #TaxBreaks to the #Wealthy

The #Treasury Department & #IRS are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big #corporations & the #ultrarich.

#law #SeparationOfPowers #aristocracy #plutocracy #WealthGap #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/trump-administration-tax-breaks-wealthy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

She ruled that the proof-of-citizenship directive is an #unconstitutional violation of the #SeparationOfPowers, dealing a blow to the #Trump admin & its allies who have claimed such a mandate is necessary to restore public confidence that only Americans are voting in #US #elections.

#law #ElectionLaw #VoterSuppression

Many of those #tariffs — including revised rates for countries that have struck agreements with the US or have been targeted by one of Trump's recent #trade letters — are set to snap back into place Friday.

#Trump also invoked #IEEPA as his authority to impose tariffs on #Canada, #Mexico & #China over alleged cross-border threats.

#law#Constitution#SeparationOfPowers#Congress#NealKatyal

Trump rolled out that policy in early April, but after markets convulsed in response he quickly delayed the higher #tariffs from taking effect.

#law#Constitution#SeparationOfPowers#Congress#NealKatyal

"And our #Constitution was very clear in saying…there's one branch that has the #power to tariff & it isn't the president & it isn't the #courts. It's the #Congress of the #UnitedStates," Katyal said.

The case, known as V.O.S. Selections v. Trump, centers on whether #Trump exceeded his #authority by invoking an emergency-powers #law to impose a slew of far-reaching tariff policies.

#law#SeparationOfPowers#NealKatyal #tariffs

"And that is something no president in 200 years has ever thought. The tariff power goes all the way back to the Revolutionary War &… the protests in the Boston Tea Party & the like," #Katyal said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

#law#Constitution#SeparationOfPowers#Congress #tariffs

A federal appeals #court is hearing arguments Thursday in a case that could kneecap Trump's global tariff regime.

#Trump has held up the case as a life-or-death moment for his #trade agenda. The plaintiffs in the case say the president has usurped the power of #Congress to set #tariffs.
…

#law#Constitution#SeparationOfPowers#NealKatyal
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/31/trump-trade-tariffs-lawsuit-hearing.html

Such situations have prompted some former #judges to do something most generally do not—speak out. More than two dozen retired judges appointed by Republican & Democratic presidents have formed the #ArticleIII Coalition to push back on attacks & #disinformation about the #courts.

#Trump #law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower

Robert J. Cindrich, who helped found the group, said the country is not yet in a #ConstitutionalCrisis [really?] but that the strain on the courts is immense. Citing the admin’s response to orders, as well as its attacks on judges & law firms, Cindrich said, “The judiciary is being put under siege.”

#Trump #law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower

Such situations have prompted some former #judges to do something most generally do not—speak out. More than two dozen retired judges appointed by Republican & Democratic presidents have formed the #ArticleIII Coalition to push back on attacks & #disinformation about the #courts.

#Trump #law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower

Meanwhile, about 66,000 tons of #food #aid is in danger of rotting in warehouses, #AIDS cases are forecast to spike in #Africa & the government projected the cuts would result in 200,000 more cases of paralysis caused by #polio each year. Already, children are dying unnecessarily in #Sudan.

#Trump #law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower

“This is not the first time the court closes its eyes to noncompliance, nor, I fear, will it be the last,” #Sotomayor wrote. “Yet each time this court rewards noncompliance with discretionary relief, it further erodes respect for #courts & for the rule of #law.”

#Trump#SCOTUS #law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower

Justice #Sotomayor echoed that concern in a recent dissent when she accused #SCOTUS of “rewarding lawlessness” by allowing #Trump officials to deport immigrants to countries that are not their homelands. The conservative majority gave the green light, she noted, after Trump officials twice carried out deportations despite lower court orders blocking the moves.

#law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower

The #SCOTUS June decision to scale back the ability of lower #courts to issue #NationwideInjunctions, & the administration’s success at persuading the justices to overturn about a dozen temporary blocks on its agenda in recent months, might only embolden #Trump officials to defy lower courts, several #legal experts said.

#law #judiciary#Constitution #democracy#SeparationOfPowers#Autocracy#AbuseOfPower

The board is also concerned that the budget that Secretary of #State#MarcoRubio is requesting from #Congress for the next fiscal
year #cuts spending for the Bureau of #Educational & #Cultural Affairs, which includes the #Fulbright program, to $50 million from $691 million this fiscal year. [Holy crap!!! That’s insane]

#law#FirstAmendment#AcademicFreedom#SeparationOfPowers#Trump #tyranny#AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism#AmericanAutocracy

The memo written by the board says that members are resigning “rather than endorse unprecedented actions that we believe are impermissible under the #law, compromise #US national interests & #integrity, & undermine the mission & mandates #Congress established for the #Fulbright program nearly 80 years ago,” according to a copy obtained by The Times.

#FirstAmendment#AcademicFreedom#SeparationOfPowers#Trump #tyranny#AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism#AmericanAutocracy

In addition, the #State Dept is reviewing the applications of about 1,200 scholars from other countries who have already been approved by the board to come to the #UnitedStates, the people said. Those foreign #scholars were also supposed to receive acceptance letters around April.

#law#Fulbright#FirstAmendment#AcademicFreedom#SeparationOfPowers#Trump #tyranny#AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism#AmericanAutocracy

The board approved those scholars over the winter after a yearlong selection process, & the #State Dept was supposed to send acceptance letters by April, the people said. 🚨🚨🚨 But instead, the board learned that the office of public diplomacy at the agency had begun sending REJECTION letters to the #scholars based mainly on their #research topics, they said.

#law#Fulbright#FirstAmendment#AcademicFreedom#SeparationOfPowers#Trump #tyranny#AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism#AmericanAutocracy

The members are concerned that political appointees at the #State Dept, which manages the program, are acting illegally by canceling the awarding of #Fulbright #scholarships to almost 200 American #professors & #researchers who are prepared to go to #universities & other #research institutions overseas starting this summer, …including Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH).

#law#FirstAmendment#AcademicFreedom#SeparationOfPowers#Trump #tyranny#AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism#AmericanAutocracy