Reagan Judge Blasts Trump Citizenship Repeal Order - The Friday AM Quickie 1/24/25

By Corey Pein — Jan 24, 2025

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THE BIG NEWS

Trumpocalypse: Chaos and Fear Grip Health Agencies as Trump Halts Research

'Blatantly Unconstitutional': Federal Judge Appointed By Ronald Reagan Puts Temporary Block on Trump's Order Rescinding Birthright Citizenship "'We will most likely have a crisis of thousands of stateless children born in the US, not only from Venezuela, but from any immigrant that gives birth and their country does not have an embassy in the US,' said Juan De la Vega, an immigration attorney in Miami." via the Associated Press, NBC News, the Washington Post, and Bolts Magazine.
Trump Seeks Closure of Pentagon Office That Aims to Limit Killings of Civilians Two centrist Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, yesterday came out against creepy Pete Hegseth's confirmation as Defense Secretary; CIA director nominee John Ratcliffe, meanwhile, was confirmed 74-25. via the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and NBC News.
GOP Effort to Whitewash History of Jan. 6 Insurrection Complicated By GOP Sexual Harassment Budding Theocrat House Speaker Mike Johnson's office advised Republicans not to subpoena former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson in order to prevent "public disclosure of 'sexual texts from members who were trying to engage in sexual favors' with Hutchinson." via the Washington Post, Politico, and the New York Times.
Ahead of March for Life, Trump Pardons 23 Protesters Who Blocked Access to Abortion Clinics Those who received pardons included Lauren Handy, described by prosecutors as "an active anti-abortion extremist," and who, according to police, had five fetuses in her home at the time she was indicted. via the Associated Press and the Washington Post.
Marco Rubio Heads to Panama Next Week to Bully Them Over the Canal The new Secretary of State also ordered staff to "suspend" passport applications requesting changes to their "sex marker" or requesting the nonbinary "X" gender identification. via NBC News, the Washington Post, and the Guardian.
Kremlin Officials Hope Tulsi Gabbard Will Steer Trump Russia's Way in Ukraine Talks Ukrainian President Volodymyr "Zelenskyy was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful," Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox News last night. "He shouldn't have done that, because we could have made a deal." via the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and NBC News.
Saudi Crown Prince MBS, 'Who's a Fantastic Guy,' Promises $600 Billion in US Trade After Trump Says It's a Requirement for Him to Visit The investments could come in the form of a weapons deal – or perhaps another sweetheart deal for Jared Kushner's firm. via the AP and NBC News.
Trump Orders Declassification of Records on Killings JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr. "Now do UFOs," Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer responded. via the Washington Post and HuffPost.

MORE STORIES TO WATCH

Violence Disrupts Gaza Aid Deliveries

The United Nations says more than 3,800 aid trucks have entered Gaza since the ceasefire with Israel took effect on Sunday – "a massive increase compared with the volume of aid going in each day during the war," per the Washington Post. But security is still lacking, and gangs of organized looters have clashed with Hamas and police guarding the trucks. The New York Times reports that American and Egyptian security contractors will manage the Netzarim corridor crossing, which displaced Palestinians in Gaza's south must pass to return to whatever's left of their homes in the north. It isn't clear who's paying for the contractors, but "Israel hopes that the private security contractors will eventually form the nucleus of a larger international force, backed by Gulf states like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, that will run Gaza in the future." Meanwhile in the West Bank, hundreds of Palestinians are fleeing an Israeli assault that commenced as soon as the Gaza ceasefire took effect.

Law & Order Roundup: Trump FBI Pick Kash Patel Courts QAnon

Utah Cops and Prosecutor Joined Oath Keepers Leadership Meetings – Even After Its Founder Was Charged with Seditious Conspiracy "The meetings – whose minutes record discussions on 'Helicopter Landing Zone (HLZ) Bird Training,' 'Hand to Hand Training' and the 'role of an armed responder' – show how deeply intertwined the organization had become with conservative politics, law enforcement and the legal establishment in the cities of Utah’s metropolitan Wasatch Front region and beyond." via the Guardian.
Body Cam Video Shows St. Louis Cops Joking Around After Leaving Gunshot Victim to Die Ty Warren and Austin Fraser no longer work for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, but neither has formally responded to a complaint from the Missouri Attorney General's Office alleging gross misconduct and reckless disregard. via the Washington Post.
Colorado Crime Lab Scientist Charged with 102 Felonies for Falsifying DNA Tests Longtime Colorado Bureau of Investigation employee Yvonne "Missy" Woods, 64, "deleted, omitted or manipulated DNA data in at least 1,003 criminal cases during her 29-year career." via the Denver Post and the Colorado Sun.
Alternative Crisis Response Programs Show Promise in Dozens of Cities "We might show up for the barking dog, but then we get there and there's like seven years of issues between the neighbors," says Raven Cruz Loaiza, a coordinator for Dayton, Ohio's Mediation Response Unit. "Once, I ended up sitting on someone's front lawn while I held this man, rocking him as he sobbed. Everything in his life had just caught up to him." via the Appeal.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

'Disaster Gentrification': Landlords Gouge Los Angelinos Displaced By Fires Donald Trump, who has bizarre and nonsensical ideas about California's water resources, will tour wildfire-damaged areas today; the weekend forecast calls for rain at last. via the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, and the New York Times.
Instagram and Facebook Have Begun Blocking Posts By Abortion Pill Providers Meanwhile in Mississippi, first-term Democratic state Sen. Bradford Blackmon has introduced a bill titled the "Contraception Begins at Erection Act" to goad Republicans who've sought to ban reproductive health care. via the New York Times and NBC News.
Elections Minus Democracy: North Carolina GOP Aims to Throw Out 60,000 Votes to Cement Court Majority Democratic Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs beat Republican Jefferson Griffin in the November election by 734 votes, but her best chance of keeping the seat may be in the federal courts, as the state GOP conspires to overturn the result. via the Washington Post.
Las Vegas Hotel Workers Win New Contract After 10-Week Strike Culinary Local 226 and Bartenders Local 165 led one of the longest labor actions in Nevada in more than a decade. via the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Los Angeles Times.

SOME NUMBER

40 million

That's how many Reddit users susbcribe to the more than 50 subreddits that started banning links to Elon Musk's hate speech platform, X, in response to the oligarch throwing a Nazi salute at Donald Trump's inauguration, according to NBC News. "I acknowledge that this action is largely just virtue signalling," one moderator explained. "But if somebody starts popping off Nazi salutes at the presidential inauguration of a purported 'first world' country, then virtue signalling is the least I can do."

DON'T MISS MR CLIPS‌

AOC Reveals How Democrats Bungled 'TikTok Ban' Into a Trump Win

It's weird that the Nazi-saluting defense contractor who owns a popular social media site hasn't prompted a similar "national security" review.

'Woke' Pope Has Republicans Losing Their Minds

The Pope? How many divisions has he?

PARTING WORDS

"I am not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others."

-- Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, DC, speaking to Time Magazine about the White House's demand that she apologize to Donald Trump for asking him to show mercy and compassion to immigrants, transgender kids, and other vulnerable people in her sermon at the National Cathedral on Tuesday.

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