The one's that used to do the cooking now getting cooked like the Turkey's they really are. The latest is one we reported on couple days back Lisa Cook is now as Trump used to say on his old TV Show!
"YOUR FIRED!" The now disgraced and fired American economist who was sworn in as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 2022. Under the Obama/Biden/Harris/Auto Pen/Pelosi, and so on White House.
She is the first black woman to sit on the Board. SO A DEI Hiring as it's not about the color of the person skin it's the character of the person you put in charge that counts, and if they got a high enough IQ for the work. This is why DEI is dangerous, and needs to be mopped out of our system with the rest of the swamp.
The left claims that this is now the Trump path as a Official Push on Mortgage Fraud to Give himself a Political Weapon against his political rivals, and we don't shed a tear. This is why I voted for him 3 times to drain the swamp, clean up the border, get the economy moving again, and protect us from WARS, and keep our country safe. So far so good.
Now as the director of Federal Housing Finance Agency this could win the president an opening on the Federal Reserve board. Bill Pulte finally may have captured a head at the Fed. For weeks, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency has publicly called for the firing of Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, and issued warnings on social media about a crackdown on mortgage fraud.
That crackdown appears to have now ensnared a different member of the Federal Reserve Board, Lisa Cook. On Monday evening, President Trump fired Ms. Cook because of allegations that she falsified records to obtain favorable terms on a mortgage, a step that could give him greater control over the central bank.
After Mr. Trump announced that Ms. Cook was fired, Mr. Pulte celebrated on social media. “Thank you President Trump for your commitment to stopping mortgage fraud and following the law,” Mr. Pulte wrote on X. “If you commit mortgage fraud in America, we will come after you, no matter who you are.”
Mr. Pulte, who has more than three million followers on social media, has used his position at the housing finance agency to attack and investigate Mr. Trump’s political enemies. He has accused Mr. Powell of mismanaging the renovation of the Fed’s headquarters and initiated mortgage fraud investigations into Letitia James, the New York attorney general, who prosecuted Mr. Trump and his companies, and Senator Adam B. Schiff, the California Democrat who led the effort to impeach Mr. Trump during his first term.
Then he seized on Ms. Cook. Last week, Mr. Pulte posted images of her signatures that appeared to show that she improperly designated both a condominium in Atlanta and a home in Ann Arbor, Mich., as her primary residence when taking out loans. In doing so, Mr. Pulte said, Ms. Cook appeared to have “falsified bank documents and property records” that could have allowed her to obtain lower interest rates and more favorable loan terms.
“When someone commits mortgage fraud, they undermine the faith and integrity of our System,” Mr. Pulte wrote on X, adding that he was referring the case to the Department of Justice. Ms. Cook said she would not step down from the central bank’s board, saying that “no cause exists under the law” for Mr. Trump to fire her. A lawyer representing Ms. Cook said he was readying a lawsuit to challenge the firing. She has not been charged with a crime.
Before Mr. Trump fired her, Ms. Cook had issued a brief statement saying she had “no intention of being bullied to step down from my position because of some questions raised in a tweet.” Ms. Cook added that she took “questions about my financial history seriously as a member of the Federal Reserve, and so I am gathering the accurate information to answer any legitimate questions and provide the facts.”
The claims against Ms. Cook come as Mr. Trump has railed against the central bank for being slow to cut interest rates and has looked to staff the central bank with loyalists. He has already picked Stephen Miran, a top economic adviser, to fill a seat that recently opened up after another governor, Adriana Kugler, left her post months before her term was up. Mortgage occupancy fraud can be used to help buyers get lower interest rates or down payments when purchasing a home. According to Cotality, a real estate data provider, mortgage fraud increased slightly in the second quarter of 2025, but just 0.86 percent of all mortgage applications contained fraud.
A 2023 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia found that on average, between 2 and 3 percent of borrowers misrepresent their occupancy status when applying for a mortgage, though it was significantly higher during the run-up to the financial crisis. Most cases of occupancy fraud are uncovered when a borrower defaults on a mortgage, and it tends to be more common with investor-owned homes. In 2024, Mr. Trump was found liable in a New York civil case of fraudulently inflating his net worth in order to get better rates on bank loans.
A New York appeals court panel last week rejected the $500 million penalty the judge in the case imposed and raised questions about the case itself and how it was conducted, but let the judgment stand so Mr. Trump could continue appealing it.
The role of director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency is usually a low-profile one, but that has not been the case for Mr. Pulte, who has transformed the agency into a weapon for Mr. Trump. Mr. Pulte, 37, came to run the housing agency with little housing policy experience. A grandson of William Pulte, who was the founder of PulteGroup, one of the largest American home builders, he did not play an active role at the company, though he did serve as a board member from 2016 to 2020.
Before being tapped by Mr. Trump to run housing agency, Mr. Pulte was best known for running his own investment firm and helping to clean up blighted homes in Detroit not far from where PulteGroup got its start. His main job as the agency’s director is overseeing the government-controlled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which are the twin engines that drive the nation’s housing market.
Fannie and Freddie have been under government control since the federal government had to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis to prevent an even greater collapse of the housing market. Even though the companies are controlled by the government, they operate quasi-independently. But one of the first things Mr. Pulte did was to name himself as chairman of the boards of both companies and oust a number of board members.
In a post on Sunday, Mr. Pulte said reducing fraud was critical to improving the mortgage firms. “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are getting stronger each and every day,” Mr. Pulte wrote. “And once we eliminate mortgage fraud, will be even stronger!” On Monday, he reposted copies of Mr. Trump’s firing letter and hailed the president for becoming the first to ever remove a Federal Reserve governor. He also issued an ominous warning about Ms. Cook’s potential legal fate. “Mortgage fraud can carry up to 30 years in prison,” Mr. Pulte said.
As more drops we will keep you informed. More of these libs will keep getting busted of using the same tactics they lied and tried to lock up Trump on... Payback is a bitch.
Here we go folks about time we got some much needed information on this whole matter in New York about the Letitia James V Donald Trump case and the whole crazy amount of money she wanted to extort from him. Picking another mans pocket for change is bad but when it's to the tune of $500 Million dollars for a non crime where there are no victims, and he did nothing wrong. Well this was clearly done as a political stunt by Letitia "fat ass" James. But there is light for President Trump afterall.
New York appellate court tosses $500 million penalty against Trump in civil fraud case while upholding liability findings against his company and family. Fresh off a major appellate win, President Donald Trump on Sunday tore into New York Judge Arthur Engoron, who oversaw his state civil fraud trial, calling him "incompetent," "crooked" and nearly as "corrupt" as New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Trump's barbs followed an appellate ruling that erased a $500 million penalty in James’ high-profile civil fraud case, handing Trump one of his biggest legal wins yet.
"The Appellate Court removed incompetent Judge Engoron, but he refused to go, or even to acknowledge them," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "He’s a highly overturned, CROOKED Judge, who is retiring into a life of lawsuits, along with his Chief Clerk, soon! He is almost as Corrupt as Leticia James, but not quite!"
Engoron presided over the non-jury trial, and Trump allies accused him of bias against the president-elect, his family and his company. Trump was accused of inflating the value of his assets to get more favorable terms from a lender his real estate business worked with.
The New York Appellate Division tossed the penalty, ruling the fine was excessive and violated the Eighth Amendment. The five-member panel upheld findings that Trump and his company were liable, affirming James acted within her authority and that injunctive relief against the Trump Organization was appropriate. The ruling left liability intact but wiped out the $364 million penalty plus interest, which totaled about $500 million.
Justice David Friedman dissented in part, arguing James’ true aim was political, and the case should be dismissed. He wrote her "ultimate goal was not market hygiene … but political hygiene, ending with the derailment of President Trump’s political career and the destruction of his real estate business." Friedman blasted James’ use of Section 63(12) of New York’s Executive Law, which gives the attorney general broad civil fraud powers.
He called the use unprecedented and political, giving James "essentially limitless power to prosecute her political enemies." Friedman said Trump’s business deals involved sophisticated parties who profited without harming the public and concluded he would "reverse the judgment and dismiss the complaint." With judges split on liability, the case is likely headed to New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals. James said she will appeal. James, a Democrat elected in 2018, has long targeted Trump.
On the campaign trail, she called him an "illegitimate president" and vowed to "use every area of the law" to investigate him and his businesses.
Since Trump returned to office, the Justice Department has opened investigations tied to the case brought against Trump and also over allegations she committed mortgage fraud herself.
James alleges Trump is using the federal government to target her politically. DOJ is also investigating her for alleged mortgage fraud, including misrepresenting her primary residence on loans in Virginia and New York. She denies the claims and calls the probe a "revenge tour" for the civil fraud suit.
She denies wrong doing while being exposed as having actually done what she fraudulently accused the President of doing. Yes folks she literally is guilty from all looks of it for doing the exact thing she claims Trump did. This is beyond comedy gold... This is pure insanity! She had nothing on him and so she made up charges, and look what it did. She exposed herself to being looked into, and now she's busted and we all hope she lands in a prison cell for a long time. She's a national disgrace.
But until her case is solved we shall wait and see where this all ends up. Until more information becomes clear stick around as we will cover it all here.
So "Hambo" as I call this Disgusting person who's mother clearly didn't believe in the right for Abortions when she was pregnant with this moron but yeah we back at it with Letitia James who is in trouble with the law herself has come out and publicly endorsed communist, socialist and all around scumbag "Zohran" for mayor, she believes New York City deserves a Mayor who’s not afraid of Trump and his supporters
She wants a mayor who will help her prosecute Trump supporters for hate crimes? While her herself accuses of Trump on crimes SHE herself committed mind you. She has no shame and the "Zohran" is a well known and self described Communist, Socialist. She wants a Mayor that will also fight for trans to use whatever bathroom they want to use and play on their preferred sports team. Folks how is any of this garbage helping the country in bad economical, and inflation times? This doesn't but it's morons like these two who keep using this lost plot as the only talking narrative they have.. This and Anti Trump b/s is all they talk and push.
Letitia who is now a plaintiff in 30 lawsuits that coalitions of Democratic-led states have brought to challenge a blur of executive orders and other actions in the six months since President Donald Trump returned to office. So she thinks that Judges and Attorneys who are Obama friends and picked and placed by him can over throw the will of the people, and the person we voted for? This chick is crazy! But the latest case is a court challenge against the administration's demand for state-kept data on more than 40 million Americans getting federal food aid, including information about their citizenship or immigration status.
It was filed and announced by state Attorney General Letitia James and the California and Michigan attorneys general on Monday, July 28. What she fails to mention is these cuts are being done to ILLEGALS who have come in since Biden was PRESIDENT in his Puppet Masters who actually ran things were giving them EBT and other money for 3 years and fast tracking them for rights to vote, and drive, and had they rigged it enough and made it so Trump lost in 2024 this problem would have crippled the economy beyond help, and would have destroyed these programs for us Citizens who need them.
Our man Donald Trump and his administration has issued refers on NY AG Letitia James for possible prosecution over allegations of mortgage fraud as James is accused of listing a home in Virginia as her primary residence and listing her father as her husband on mortgage applications. The documents obtained by Fox News which is where we got the report from at the show "The Ingraham Angle," the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) sent a criminal referral to the Department of Justice, accusing James of mortgage fraud Tuesday. The FHFA Director William Pulte said in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi that James appears to have falsified records to meet certain lending requirements and receive favorable loan terms. OOPS!
They cited a property in Virginia that James allegedly claimed as her principal residence and a property in New York she claimed as a four-unit structure instead of five, which he said could mean she was able to get a different and more favorable loan. Fox News contributor and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley told Fox News host Laura Ingraham the irony of James getting accused of falsifying records is "perfectly crushing." "This is a person who prosecuted Trump for everything short of ripping a label off a mattress, and among the charges that were brought in New York, in just the civil but the criminal case, was making false or misleading statements to financial institutions," Turley said. "As for James, if we apply the Letitia James standard that she created, there'd be little question here. This seems pretty straightforward."
He explained the Trump administration is saying this was not her principal residence because, as a New York elected official, she has to say her principal residence is in New York. "The Supreme Court just stated earlier in March, in a case called Thompson, that they want to see knowing false statements under sections, like 10-14, not just misleading statements," Turley said. "These are misleading statements. Either it's your principal residence or it's not. Either you're married to your father or he's your father." The DOJ and James did not respond to Fox News on the matter. The issue has been prosecuted in the past, but as Turley said on the Ingraham Angle, the "documents themselves are quite damning."
🚨🇺🇸 LETITIA JAMES' MORTGAGE NIGHTMARE: FEDS REFER NY'S TOP PROSECUTOR TO DOJ
Federal Housing Director William Pulte formally refers NY Attorney General Letitia James to Justice Department for criminal investigation over alleged mortgage fraud.
Retired NYPD inspector and Fox News contributor Paul Mauro told Fox News Digital he first reported the allegations against James on his Substack almost 10 weeks ago. "The documents presented by Sam Antar, and the research he has done, appear entirely authentic," Mauro said. "In which case, AG James appears to have engaged in the very sort of fraud which she alleged in her ludicrous case against Donald Trump. Let's see now, if indeed, as AG James has stated herself, nobody is above the law." The New York Post reported that the documents show that the property James purchased with her father had both parties listed as "husband and wife" in 1983 and 2000.
"While this was a long time ago, it raises serious concerns about the validity of Ms. James' representations on mortgage applications," Pulte reportedly wrote. James brought forth a civil fraud suit against President Donald Trump, the Trump Organization and its senior leadership in 2022, frequently sitting in the courtroom throughout the proceedings and celebrating the prosecution of Trump in the Manhattan criminal trial over the 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Trump was ordered to pay a $454 million civil fraud judgment in James’ lawsuit against him, which is currently on appeal. So far in 2025, James has spearheaded at least five legal actions against the Trump administration, including leading a coalition of state attorneys general to sue the federal government to halt DOGE’s access to the Treasury Department’s internal systems, and another lawsuit related to the Trump administration slashing grant funding to research institutions and universities.
Why does this always seem to be the pattern here.. Just think this so called anti Trump resistance always looks a certain way, and act in an evil twisted anti American way... Besides the obvious people in congress, and corrpupt DA like FATASS Letitia James, and Fani Willis.
Check out these LOW IQ Demons on social media thinking that the majority of the people are behind their idiotic mindsets.
What does thing thing think Congress does? Well right now the majority of Congress House, and Senate are Republican, and the President is Republican and we're fighting to keep this country great with less inflation, lower taxes, stopping corruption and while Trump is doing the best for this country these liberal idiots keep resisting? Resisting to what you morons? But boy oh boy why is it they all look like side show freaks? Seriously?
| BREAKING: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi just dropped the hammer and my god this is just what we needed! I have had a crush on her for many years and it's only growing! Pam is a lady from my state and I've known her well for years and she is the real deal and doesn't play... I LOVE this news friends you see the DOJ has filed charges against NY, Gov. Kathy Hochul, AG Letitia James, and DMV Commissioner Mark Schroeder. YES, YES, YES!
“New York chose illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops it stops TODAY." I think Sean Combs needs roommates in his new cell... Time to send these to him!
The Biden-era free pass is OFFICIALLY OVER folks and it's the FUCK AROUND & FIND OUT of times... These morons fucked around and now BIG DADDY TRUMP and the Queen of the A/G Pam Bondi are out for blood and we're going to get these people out of the system and repair this country.
This is why I voted 3 times for TRUMP and will do it as many times for MAGA as needs to be done! Who ever continues once Trump has done his years and on MAGA side and keeps this level of excellence up is getting my vote. J.D Vance I'm looking at you kid! But Pam Bondi my god you're so awesome! I've been saying for a long time that Kathy Hochul also needs to face charges and get sued by Trump for slander as she's done her fair share of slandering him for years
🚨 | BREAKING: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi just dropped the hammer.
The DOJ has filed charges against NY, Gov. Kathy Hochul, AG Letitia James, and DMV Commissioner Mark Schroeder.
“New York chose illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops—it stops TODAY."
This is amazing, and great to witness... The SWAMP is being LOCKED OUT! Literally.
So this comes on the heels of the NY DA Letitia James continuing her witch hunt on Trump after multiple warning to step off and back down from her lawless activity. NOW it's come time for her to pay the piper as she's getting closer, and close to getting her fat ass thrown in prison along with Diddy!
Now reports also come out from Roger Stone and others than Letitia James might herself be enrolled in doing herself what she's accused Trump of doing? Well what? You mean she inflated money value of a property? Well this is just hilarious.
President Donald Trump said in an exclusive interview with the New York Post on Saturday that he revoked the security clearance for some former Democratic officials and current legal authorities, following his decision to do the same for former President Joe Biden earlier this week.
So what does this mean? Why It Matters? Well when Trump announced on Friday that he had revoked Biden's security clearance and discontinuing the daily intelligence briefings that Biden had been receiving retaliation for Biden doing the same to Trump in 2021 due to "erratic behavior" and the concern he would disclose sensitive information. Traditionally, former presidents continue to receive intelligence briefings even after leaving office. However, in a post on Friday, Trump claimed that Biden used his tenure to instruct the intelligence community to prevent Trump from accessing national security information after he left office.
But we know Biden and his co-conspirators of corruption need to be cutoff at the knees, and not allowed to know anything going on in anyway when it comes to security Clarence. Also they should do this to the Obama's, Clinton's, and Bush clan... This also should extend to Nancy Pelosi, and A LOT of liberals, and conspirators of being Anti America first.
Trump on Saturday told the New York Post in an exclusive interview that he would revoke the clearance of eight additional Democrats, which the newspaper wrote was meant to "punish" them. Without their clearance, the officials will not be allowed to access classified information or enter federal facilities.
Lawyers Andrew Weissmann, Mark Zaid and Norm Eisen
Each of those listed were at some point involved with investigations into Trump. James and Bragg both brought cases against Trump. James brought a civil fraud lawsuit against Trump's real estate company ahead of the 2024 election. Trump maintains his innocence, and the judgment of now over $500 million, including interest, is on appeal. Bragg led the hush money case against Trump that led to 34 counts of falsifying business records related to payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels that led to a conviction and a largely symbolic "unconditional discharge" sentence. Trump has maintained his innocence and is appealing the case as well.
James is also leading a new lawsuit against Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for its access to sensitive payment systems in the Treasury Department. "This is to take away every right they have [revoking security clearances] including they can't go into [federal] buildings," Trump told the Post, which characterized the revocation as largely symbolic rather than consequential for James and Bragg. However, neither will be able to enter the U.S. attorney's offices for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
What Are People Saying?
Norm Eisen, who now serves as a senior fellow at Brookings, wrote on BlueSky: "I take my inclusion on Trump's list as a backhanded compliment in response to our court successes against his administration this week. And I intend to return it in the best way I know how: by filing many more lawsuits against his and his cronies' wrongdoing."
Brian Krassenstein, entrepreneur and anti-Trump internet personality, wrote on X, formerly Twitter: "These actions are unprecedented in a democracy. This is not about national security it's a calculated move of political retribution and obstruction. By targeting officials involved in investigations and foreign policy, Trump is undermining the rule of law and putting America's security at risk."
Laura Loomer, a conservative activist, wrote on X: "President Trump just REVOKED the security clearances of the following 8 Democrat lawfare agents," adding, "They are now forbidden from walking inside any Federal buildings since they illegally weaponized law fare to carry out election interference. I told you it would be a spicy weekend full of firings and demotions! A little birdie at the White House told me ... Stay tuned! Even MORE is coming this weekend." With nine officials losing security clearances over the past two days, it is possible Trump is not done and will revoke clearance from other former Democrat officials and lawyers especially if Loomer's warning pans out.
So a liberal Judge in New York has put a temporary hold on Elon Musk, and President Trump + DOGE’s Treasury Access.! All this after we find out where the waste of the USAID money is going and liberals are up in arms cause the end of the gravy train is done, and so here Are All The Major Lawsuits Against Trump. Question is what is the left so scared about huh?
A New York judge has temporarily barred Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing a sensitive Treasury payment system, after over a dozen Democratic states sued late Friday the latest in a slew of legal actions as Democrats and others fight President Donald Trump and cost-cutting Elon Musk in court. But what are these people so scared about? Hmmm Remember these activist DA's like Letitia James are known to go and get whatever they want from Liberal Judges and this is who "Judge Paul Englemayer" is and it's no different than the people used against the Trials vs Trump before he won re election. They're always going to find a way to lie, cheat and steal with these liberal NY Judges... Simple as that. This is part of the corruption these liberals keep hiding in.
Feb. 8Judge Paul Engelmayer ruled political appointees and “special government employees”—like members of Musk’s team—must be cut of from access from the Treasury’s systems until another New York-based judge can rule on the issue next week.
Engelmeyer’s ruling came after a group of 19 Democratic state attorneys general sued Trump over DOGE’s Treasury access, arguing the move put personal information at risk, exceeded Treasury’s legal authority and could lead to DOGE unconstitutionally blocking spending that’s already been approved by Congress (a court order in a separate lawsuit said only two DOGE staffers can have read-only access).
Feb. 7A group of states that sued Trump over last week’s sweeping federal grant freeze alleged in a filing they “continue to be denied access to federal funds” even though a judge put the freeze on hold, claiming “scattershot outages” have cut them off from accessing several Biden-era grant programs.
Feb. 7Judge Carl Nichols—, a Trump appointee, blocked a plan to put 2,200 U.S. Agency for International Development staff on paid leave as of Friday, part of Trump’s gambit to wind down the foreign aid agency, multiplenews outlets reported—a temporary reprieve following a lawsuit by a federal employees’ union calling Trump’s efforts to dismantle USAID without Congress’ permission “unconstitutional and illegal.”
Feb. 7The Justice Department agreed to not name the FBI agents involved in the Jan. 6 investigation before a judge rules on two lawsuits from FBI agents that argued the dissemination of the agents’ names could threaten their employment, reputation and wellbeing.
Feb. 7The University of California Student Association sued the Department of Education accusing Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency of illegally accessing “sensitive personal and financial information” of about 42 million federal student loan borrowers.
Feb. 6Boston-based Judge George O’Toole paused a Thursday deadline for over 2 million federal employees to accept a buyout offer—part of Trump and Musk’s cost-cutting push—as he considers whether to grant a request by federal workers’ unions who sued to block the buyouts, extending the deadline until Monday.
Feb. 6Judge John Coughenour in Seattle extended his pause on Trump’s day-one executive order rescinding birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented or temporary immigrants, in response to a lawsuit brought by Democratic-led states, writing, “The president cannot change, limit, or qualify this Constitutional right via an executive order.”
Feb. 6D.C.-based Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said only two Musk-affiliated staffers can access the Treasury Department’s payment system on a “read only” basis, after workers’ unions sued the Treasury amid reports Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency accessed sensitive records. (One of the employees given access has reportedly since resigned over racist tweets.)
Feb. 5A second judge —Deborah L. Boardman of Maryland—blocked Trump’s policy rescinding birthright citizenship, in response to a lawsuit brought by nonprofits representing undocumented pregnant women.
Feb. 4Judge Royce C. Lamberth in D.C. paused Trump’s restrictions on transgender women being incarcerated in women’s prisons and federal prisons providing gender-affirming medical treatment, after multiple inmates sued to block the policy.
Feb. 3District Judge Loren L. Alikhan broadly blocked the Trump administration’s memo halting almost all federal assistance—even after the White House claimed it had been rescinded—while litigation brought by nonprofit groups that receive government funds moves forward.
Jan. 31The Trump administration’s memo pausing most federal assistance was partially blocked, as Judge John J. McConnell Jr. ruled the Trump administration cannot withhold funding from the Democratic-led states that sued to block the funding freeze.
Jan. 26O’Toole prohibited law enforcement from transferring an incarcerated transgender woman to a male prison facility—at least while litigation filed by the inmate moves forward—after Trump stripped transgender Americans of their legal protections, including being incarcerated at prisons aligned with their gender identities.
Jan. 23Coughenour paused Trump’s order rescinding birthright citizenship, the first major ruling against the second Trump administration.
Jan. 20The first lawsuit against Trump’s administration was filed minutes after he was sworn into office, as public interest law group National Security Counselors argued DOGE should be classified as a federal advisory board that has “fairly balanced” membership and follows public transparency rules.
Lawsuits have been filed against a number of other Trump administration directives in cases that haven’t resulted in any rulings yet, including pending cases on Trump’s immigration policies like asylum restrictions, raids on sanctuary cities, immigration officers entering houses of worship, and restricting grants to immigration-related groups. Multiple other transgender rights-focused cases are pending, including litigation against Trump’s transgender military ban and minors receiving gender-affirming care, as well as a lawsuit challenging Trump’s broader restrictions on diversity, equity and inclusion policies. Other lawsuits that are still pending include litigation against the Justice Department targeting agents who worked on Jan. 6-related cases, Trump’s “Schedule F” that makes it easier to fire career civil servants, Trump’s firing of National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne A. Wilcox, the Office of Personnel Management allegedly storing emails on an unsecured server and the government removing health data from federal websites.
Multiple lawsuits are also arguing Trump should not have been able to create Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” by renaming the U.S. Digital Service, while another challenge takes aim at DOGE accessing records at the Department of Labor.
None of the lawsuits against the second Trump administration have yet made it to the Supreme Court, though at least some inevitably will. The high stakes of the lawsuits brought against Trump policies, plus the fact that bringing multiple lawsuits against a single policy may result in conflicting rulings, makes it all but certain the high court will eventually weigh in on some of the legal challenges that are now making their way through the courts. It’s unclear how the 6-3 conservative court, stacked with three Trump appointees, will ultimately rule on any challenges, though legal experts have suggested some of the administration’s moves may be too much for even the conservative-leaning court to get behind. Georgetown Law School professor Stephen Vladeck wrote he was skeptical the Supreme Court would back the administration’s memo halting federal funding, for instance. He noted that while the court was willing to give Trump more power in its recent decision giving him some immunity from criminal charges, it would be “quite another” thing for them to give him “the right to refuse to spend any and all money Congress appropriates.”
Legal experts have also been highly skeptical of the legal justification the Trump administration has used to justify the order nullifying birthright citizenship, which claims the 14th Amendment which guarantees citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” has always exempted the children of undocumented immigrants or non citizens. Mark Krikorian, who runs the Center for Immigration Studies and supports ending birthright citizenship, acknowledged to NBC News in July Trump’s argument is “something that the Supreme Court may well decide against,” and legal experts have previously decried the legal theory behind Trump’s order as a “lunatic fringe argument,” with University of Massachusetts, Amherst, professor Rebecca Hamlin telling NPR in 2018 that any lawyer who believes it is “like a unicorn.”
Trump has already issued a number of major executive actions, and many have not yet been challenged in court, such as him pulling out of the World Health Organization, withholding federal funding from schools that allow transgender women in women’s sports, imposing tariffs on China, removing safeguards around artificial intelligence, and rescinding Biden-era climate change initiatives, including ordering federal agencies not to disburse some funding that was approved by Congress. Musk and DOGE have also undertaken a number of controversial moves that haven’t yet resulted in court action, including DOGE staffers accessing information for Medicare and Medicaid and reportedly using artificial intelligence to search through sensitive internal data for the Department of Education.
Trump has issued a slew of executive orders in the less than three weeks he’s been in the White House, issuing broad orders on issues such as climate change, transgender rights, DEI initiatives, education, immigration, the U.S. military, abortion, the federal death penalty and more. Musk, whom Trump appointed to lead DOGE and has become one of his top advisers, has also drawn widespread controversy as DOGE has burrowed into the federal government and gained access to government information while proposing widespread cuts to spending. With Republicans holding both the White House and control of Congress, the courts have become the primary way for Democrats to issue any sort of check on the Trump administration’s actions, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has pointed to litigation as a key pillar of Democrats’ response to the second Trump presidency. “We’ve seen a flood and an avalanche of outrageous executive actions that have been taken by the administration and by the current president, but that has also prompted a response of righteous litigation,” Jeffries told MSNBC when asked how Democrats would oppose Trump’s policies, saying the litigation strategy “will continue as we move forward.”
Trump has already issued a number of major executive actions, and many have not yet been challenged in court, such as him pulling out of the World Health Organization, withholding federal funding from schools that allow transgender women in women’s sports, imposing tariffs on China, removing safeguards around artificial intelligence, and rescinding Biden-era climate change initiatives, including ordering federal agencies not to disburse some funding that was approved by Congress. Musk and DOGE have also undertaken a number of controversial moves that haven’t yet resulted in court action, including DOGE staffers accessing information for Medicare and Medicaid and reportedly using artificial intelligence to search through sensitive internal data for the Department of Education.
Trump has issued a slew of executive orders in the less than three weeks he’s been in the White House, issuing broad orders on issues such as climate change, transgender rights, DEI initiatives, education, immigration, the U.S. military, abortion, the federal death penalty and more. Musk, whom Trump appointed to lead DOGE and has become one of his top advisers, has also drawn widespread controversy as DOGE has burrowed into the federal government and gained access to government information while proposing widespread cuts to spending. With Republicans holding both the White House and control of Congress, the courts have become the primary way for Democrats to issue any sort of check on the Trump administration’s actions, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has pointed to litigation as a key pillar of Democrats’ response to the second Trump presidency. “We’ve seen a flood and an avalanche of outrageous executive actions that have been taken by the administration and by the current president, but that has also prompted a response of righteous litigation,” Jeffries told MSNBC when asked how Democrats would oppose Trump’s policies, saying the litigation strategy “will continue as we move forward.”
I don't know who is worse Tish James up in NY or Fani Willis in GA. Bot these women suffer deep with TDS and both seem to not be able to read the writing on the wall that their b/s lies and games are over and it's time to call it a day and move on.
They literally are breaking laws to do what they're doing to Trump and what they don't understand is when Trump is sworn in they're FUCKED! So if they're smart which they're not they would just drop it all issue an apology and WALK AWAY... But these are what we call "DUMB HOOD RATS" who were put in a position to do harm to not just Trump but the entire country and whoever they wanted to mess with.
But looks like the tide is turning as a Fulton County Superior Court has issued a default judgment against District Attorney Fani Willis for refusing to turn over records that could document her collusion with the J6 committee and Special Counsel Jack Smith.
The court order states: "By finding the Defendant in default, the Court has effectively declared that she violated the ORA [Open Records Act]. The Court further ORDERS the Defendant to conduct a thorough search of her records for responsive materials within five business days of this Order's entry."
"Within the same five-day period, the Defendant is ORDERED to provide the Plaintiff with copies of all responsive records that are not legally exempt or excepted from disclosure. If the Defendant must or chooses to withhold any portion of a requested record, she is instructed to adhere to the procedures outlined in the ORA." However, the Fulton County D.A. claims that such records don't exist, potentially putting her at legal risk of perjury and obstruction of justice.
The court makes it clear that it has substantive reason to believe Willis is withholding records: "Defendant is further ORDERED to provide an explanation why such correspondence does not exist in Defendant’s records (or why it is being withheld)."
However, if Willis does turn over the records, it could provide proof of a criminal conspiracy. Oh, the irony.
Mean while in NY this moron fat woman who thinks she's above the law AG Letitia James is still in LALA Land thinking she's going to take Trump down... She now is get this folks! She's vowing war?
New York attorney general Letitia James vows war on Trump in hostile press conference https://t.co/BKA9AMtxyj
She ran on getting Trump by any means! She's an idiot who is trying to make a criminal out of Trump with a crime that doesn't exist! She continues even tho she's lied over and over and it's been seen on video.
Both Fani and Letitia are lunatics. But my god it's amazing how these people just won't give it up. The mentality shows that they don't get it still or what's the deal? The writing is on the wall as soon as Trump is in office he will make all this junk just go away if they don't step down.
To talk about going to WAR with a President? Who the hell do these idiots think they are? They talk about not letting someone be above the law and yet they break the law, and they're all acting nonstop like they're above the law.
Don't know about you folks but Trump was wrong about one thing! I will never get tired of seeing our side win! LOL Now hear this! The Judge grants Jack Smith request to dismiss Jan. 6 charges against Trump... After the appeal was dropped in the Florida docs case Trump says lawfare against him was a 'political hijacking,' but says he 'persevered against all odds, and WON' So yes he did as now a judge has dropped again all the charges against President-elect Donald Trump in the D.C. case against him, following a request that Special Counsel Jack Smith made on Monday.
The decision concerns the investigation into the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol breach. Fox News Digital previously learned of Smith's request earlier on Monday. "The Government has moved to dismiss the Superseding Indictment without prejudice," U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote in a decision. "Defendant does not oppose the Motion…and the court will grant it." Jack also filed a motion to drop his appeal in his classified records case against Trump a case that was tossed in July by federal Judge Aileen Cannon.
Jude Cannon ruled Smith was unlawfully appointed as special counsel. The moves come after Smith had already filed a motion to vacate all deadlines in the 2020 election interference case against Trump in Washington, D.C. a widely expected move, but one that stopped short of dropping the case against Trump completely. Smith had said his team planned to give an updated report on the official status of the case against Trump on Dec. 2. Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges in the case and took the fight to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing on the basis of presidential immunity. The high court ruled that Trump was immune from prosecution for official presidential acts, forcing Smith to file a new indictment. Trump pleaded not guilty to those new charges, too. Trump's attorneys have been seeking to have the election interference charges dropped in Washington, D.C., alleging that Smith was appointed unlawfully.
"The American People re-elected President Trump with an overwhelming mandate to Make America Great Again. Today’s decision by the DOJ ends the unconstitutional federal cases against President Trump, and is a major victory for the rule of law," Trump spokesman and incoming White House communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement. "The American People and President Trump want an immediate end to the political weaponization of our justice system and we look forward to uniting our country." Trump pleaded not guilty to all charges stemming from both of Smith’s investigations.
Smith is expected to resign as special counsel before Trump takes office. Trump posted to his Truth Social Monday afternoon that the cases against him "are empty and lawless and should never have been brought." "These cases, like all of the other cases I have been forced to go through, are empty and lawless, and should never have been brought. Over $100 Million Dollars of Taxpayer Dollars has been wasted in the Democrat Party’s fight against their Political Opponent, ME," Trump posted. "Nothing like this has ever happened in our Country before." Although the case will still go forward for Trump’s two co-defendants, valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos de Oliveira, the order satisfies Smith’s request to terminate an appeal in the case as it concerns Trump. In both cases, Smith cited Trump’s upcoming inauguration and Department of Justice guidelines that prohibit the prosecution of sitting presidents. Smith also moved to dismiss Trump’s election meddling case without prejudice. Smith was contesting Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to dismiss the case in the classified materials case, which found that the special counsel had been appointed illegally.
Liberals clung to hope that the appeal would be successful, claiming that Judge Cannon’s decision counters 50 years of prior rulings regarding special counsel regulations, and the court has previously reversed one of her decisions. “Nonetheless, it brings to an end for Trump a serious case focused largely on his conduct after leaving the White House. It was potentially the stronger of Smith’s two cases after a Supreme Court ruling that determined former presidents retain broad immunity for their conduct while in office. Prosecutors brought both Espionage Act and obstruction of justice charges against Trump after he repeatedly refused requests to return White House records, including defying a subpoena,” The Hill reported.
Trump said "state Prosecutors and District Attorneys, such as Fani Willis and her lover, Nathan Wade (who had absolutely zero experience in cases such as this, but was paid MILLIONS, enough for them to take numerous trips and cruises around the globe!), Letitia James, who inappropriately, unethically, and probably illegally, campaigned on ‘GETTING TRUMP’ in order to win Political Office, and Alvin Bragg, who himself never wanted to bring this case against me, but was forced to do so by the Justice Department and the Democrat Party."
🚨 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to drop President-elect Trump’s classified documents case in Florida pic.twitter.com/lTsKthn5FB
Trump reportedly has a plan in place to fire the entire team of Jack Smith, including the prosecutor himself, and investigate the results of the previous election in which he was defeated by President Joe Biden. The president-elect plans to even get rid of the career attorneys who are typically protected from political retribution, The Washington Post reported. Trump “wants to clean out ‘the bad guys, the people who went after me,’” a source close to the president-elect said. The special prosecutor’s team consists of dozens of attorneys, FBI agents, and staff who were likely assigned to the cases and did not choose to be on his team, the report said. “President Trump campaigned on firing rogue bureaucrats who have engaged in the illegal weaponization of our American justice system, and the American people can expect he will deliver on that promise,” Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary for the president-elect, said to The Post.
“House Republicans previously told Justice Department officials that anyone who had worked on the Trump cases with Smith should preserve all of their communications in a move that signaled that Smith, among others, could be targeted by congressional investigators,” the report said. “Trump also apparently plans to use the DOJ to investigate the 2020 election in which he lost to President Joe Biden but has continued to claim that his loss was due to widespread cheating. Many investigations have found no proof of the widespread voter fraud Trump and his GOP allies claimed,” it said. Smith is likely to step down from his position after ending his cases against President-elect Donald Trump, according to reports. A Justice Department source told CNN that Smith is in talks with DOJ leaders about how best to wind down the Jan. 6 case as well as an appeal of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling over the summer to throw out his classified documents case against the soon-to-be 47th president.
“Trump has threatened to fire Smith, but Smith expects to be gone before Trump takes office,” CNN reported. “The talks between Smith and DOJ leaders extend beyond Trump’s criminal cases to questions about what to do with other defendants in the classified documents case as well as the special counsel’s office and what happens to its budget and staff,” the outlet continued. Smith is required to submit a report on his work to Attorney General Merrick Garland. It remains unclear whether the timing of Smith’s departure will be affected if the report needs to be reviewed and approved by the intelligence community, according to sources familiar with the discussions, CNN said. Smith is working to finalize the report before Trump takes office, as Garland will need to approve it and decide whether any part of it will be released publicly, one source said. The New York Times was the first to report Smith’s plans to resign from his post.
As president, Trump is afforded protections against prosecution that he didn’t have as a private citizen. Longstanding Justice Department policy dictates that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted for crimes, and a Supreme Court ruling this summer confirmed that Trump has “absolute” immunity from prosecution for actions taken within his core constitutional powers as president, CNN said. Before his departure, Smith will need to determine how to resolve the two criminal cases he initiated against Trump. In Florida, Smith has appealed Cannon’s decision to dismiss the classified documents case, which found that Smith was unconstitutionally appointed as special counsel and that the funding for his office also violated the law. In Washington, D.C., Smith’s team is moving forward with the criminal case accusing Trump of orchestrating a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election following the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity, CNN noted.