Weekend Update! 🥚 🐣 😱✡️🌻✡️🌻✡️😱 🥚 🐣

The Supremes: I know, it’s Saturday but a lot of things happened during the wee hours so here goes.  At 1 AM, the Supreme Court blocked, or at the very least temporarily blocked, the Trump administration from deporting foreign nationals under the Alien Enemies Act. To state the obvious, SCOTUS doesn’t typically issue orders at that hour, especially on a holiday weekend, but apparently enough of them felt compelled to act since our government, led by Trump, abetted by some combination of his mini-Goebbels deflector shield Stephen Miller, Nazi Barbie Kristi Noem and Border Czar Tom Homan, was about to fly a plane full of Venezuelans migrants to his favorite El Salvador gulag, because apparently that’s the thing to do during the Christian holy week and the run up to Easter Sunday.  It wasn’t just the timing of the SCOTUS order that was unusual, it was issued before the government had a chance to respond, an indication that enough of the Justices understood that they had to act before any planes took flight because as we’ve already seen getting these planes turned around or any of the immigrants back isn’t easy. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Justices Alito and Thomas dissented but since the order was issued in the dead of the night, the reasons for their dissent have yet to be put in writing. That said, my guess is that they’ll say something about Trump being allowed to do what ever he wants because he’s their King of Kings.

Veritas:  The other story that emerged last night is about the Harvard fight. According to the NY Times the letter that sent Harvard over the edge, the missive that included a series of onerous demands about hiring, admissions and curriculum, was “unauthorized” and sent to Harvard by the Trump team in error.  That claim is hard to believe given that the emailed letter came from a senior official’s email account, was on official letterhead, and was signed by three federal officials but then again these are the same twisted Keystone Kops whose defense team invited The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg on to their “top secret” Signal call.  Prior to receiving the letter, Harvard officials had thought that they were coming close to an agreement with Trump officials, but the letter’s demands were so over the top, that Harvard felt they had no choice but to fight back. This whole story is even more farcical when you consider that Trump followed up by freezing more than $2 billion in grants, funding that largely supports medical research at the university, and then further doubled down by asking the IRS to look into stripping Harvard of its tax-exempt status.  I’d be remiss if I didn’t also mention that the IRS’s fourth acting head, Gary Shapley, who been in place for a few days,  just a fraction of a Scaramucci, is this week’s winner of the Head of Lettuce award. Apparently, he’d been appointed at the suggestion of DOGE guy Elon Musk without any consultation or input from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent who upon learning of the appointment threw a tizzy fit that resulted in the dismissal.  The newest, or should I say, fifth acting IRS Commissioner is Michael Faulkender, the current deputy secretary for the Treasury Department. Trump’s nominee, Billy Long, the tax scam marketer, is still awaiting Senate confirmation.

Back to the Weekend:  There’s plenty more afoot, like the firing of the guy who so aggressively destroyed US AID that even Little Marco AKA Secretary of State couldn’t tolerate him anymore; the resurrection, it’s Easter weekend after all, of a few of the people that Musk’s crowd had marked dead by the Social Security Administration; the firing of yet another member of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s inner circle; and the elimination of the people who make sure our food is safe, but all that will wait until Monday.

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