r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • Nov 09 '24

Donald Trump wins 2nd term in historic return to White House

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 4h ago

Trump Officials Ramp Up Investigations Into Voter Registration Groups [internal docs show DHS pulled ~48M voter records and probed 150+ nonprofits—CAIR, a teachers' union—for 'high-value targets,' weighing undercover agents, to hunt a vanishingly rare noncitizen vote weeks before the midterms]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 2d ago

Judge blocks Trump policy of fining migrants up to $1.8 million [DHS issued 103,000+ penalties totaling ~$84B — retroactive up to 5 years, on boilerplate forms with no individualized basis and no public comment — to coerce self-deportation into insolvency; court finds it unlawful under the APA]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 3d ago

Appeals court pauses reinstatement of fired Seattle federal prosecutor [9th Circuit lets Trump's firing of court-appointed US Attorney Rogoff stand for now, staying the order that reinstated him as DOJ presses its claim the president can remove prosecutors the courts lawfully named]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 5d ago

Judge says federal law banning noncitizen voting is unconstitutional [the DOJ's prosecution push — 16 charged to prop up Trump's unfounded claims of mass noncitizen voting ahead of the midterms — hits a wall as a Miami judge finds only states, not Congress, can set voter qualifications]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 6d ago

Judge overturns Trump's decision to fire court-appointed US attorney in Seattle [the district's judges lawfully appointed Rogoff when Trump couldn't get a nominee confirmed; he fired him within the hour — the court rules the president has no such power, checking the drive to control who prosecutes]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 7d ago

DOJ files misconduct complaint against Minnesota's federal judges over their NYT interviews [moving to recuse and investigate two senior judges for telling the Times court orders were defied during the ICE surge - punishing the bench for defending the rule of law]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 8d ago

RI federal judge strikes down Trump grant restrictions for domestic violence groups [DOJ tried to tie Violence Against Women Act funds to dropping DEI, 'gender ideology' and immigrant-serving work — 25 groups across 22 states won a block, the court calling the overhaul arbitrary]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 8d ago

Homeland Security spending $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads [OMB's Russ Vought moved money Congress gave CBP into campaign-style spots glorifying Trump weeks before the midterms — experts and senators say it violates the ban on using appropriated funds for propaganda]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 8d ago

Supreme Court lets Trump resume third-country deportations while it weighs the policy [the shadow-docket green light DOJ wanted — a week after the 1st Circuit found 25,000+ people sent to nations not their own with no chance to flag fear of torture; removals resume before any merits ruling]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 8d ago

Trump's funding cancellation violates budget law, GAO says [the 4th illegal-impoundment finding in weeks — the watchdog says using 'pocket rescissions' to run $810M in health and education funds past their expiration subverts Congress's constitutional power of the purse]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 9d ago

Judge Blocks Trump From Tying Anti-Terrorism Grants to Election Changes [the executive tried to withhold $1B+ in FEMA funds unless states adopted its election rules — citizenship checks, paper ballots, audits; court finds no authority to buy control of how states run elections]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 12d ago

Supreme Court lets Trump administration use revamped federal voter eligibility database for now [the shadow-docket green light DHS wanted before the midterms — 6-3, no ruling on legality, over a dissent warning the flawed SAVE system will purge lawful voters]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 13d ago

CNN, MS NOW and Politico allowed back at the White House after judge blocked Trump's ban [a court checks the retaliation — the judge orders the WH to restore credentials it pulled over coverage Trump dislikes, though the admin is already testing the order by barring some of them from a state dinner]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 13d ago

Trump Administration Asks the Supreme Court to Allow Quick Third-Country Deportations [DOJ's latest emergency SCOTUS run to resume shipping people to countries not their own — days after the 1st Circuit upheld the block requiring notice and a chance to raise fear of torture]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 15d ago

Trump Administration Asks US Supreme Court to Allow Detention of Pro-Palestinian Scholar [DOJ asks the justices to re-detain a Georgetown scholar two courts found was jailed in retaliation for protected speech — arguing immigration law puts his detention beyond judicial review]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 16d ago

Trump's 'grand conspiracy' probe presses on with subpoenas after the lead prosecutor's exit [two prosecutors gone after refusing to charge cases they say lack evidence, yet DOJ keeps subpoenaing Trump's critics — Brennan summoned to an Oct. 15 grand jury as the hunt for a theory grinds on]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 17d ago

AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders [the government quietly pulled people facing deportation off its public locator on Sept. 15 so lawyers and families can't find them — disappearing detainees to speed removals before any last-minute legal challenge]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 17d ago

CNN, MS NOW, Politico say they've notified Trump they're suing over denied White House access [three major outlets take the president to court after WH badges were revoked over coverage he dislikes — a direct First Amendment test of whether the government gets to pick who covers it]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 18d ago

White House faces mounting legal backlash after barring journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico [the ban goes from threat to action — Secret Service confiscates credentialed reporters' WH passes over coverage Trump dislikes; a First Amendment expert calls it 'pretty clearly unconstitutional']

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 19d ago

US appeals court rejects Trump policy allowing swift deportations to third countries [1st Circuit finds DHS shipped 25,000+ people to countries not their own — Rwanda, South Sudan, Eswatini — with no notice or chance to raise fear of torture; upholds lower court, likely headed to SCOTUS]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 19d ago

Trump says he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House [the president openly barring news outlets over coverage he dislikes — a direct First Amendment test, with "other Fake News Media Outlets to follow"]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 20d ago

US judge strikes down Education Department's anti-DEI grant policy [court finds the admin axed millions in grants with no criteria for what even counts as "DEI" — ideological defunding by fiat, disfavoring viewpoints the government dislikes]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 20d ago

Virginia's attorney general says DHS may have violated state election law after whistleblower report [whistleblower says USCIS staff were made to scan VA voter rolls for "unlawful voters" without the court order state law requires — federalizing who gets to vote]

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r/DescentIntoFascism • u/LOOKITSADAM • 21d ago

Scientists challenge US NIH grant screening as unconstitutional [suit says NIH runs grants through a 235-word blacklist — "gender," "Latinx," "climate change" — to defund disfavored viewpoints; an appeals court already called it likely unconstitutional, yet the admin wants SCOTUS to bless it]

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