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The day
so far ( Yesterday)
Federal
judges blocked aspects of Trump’s agenda on voting, immigration and DEI in
education. One blocked Trump’s efforts to add a proof of citizenship
requirement to the federal voter registration form, a change that voting rights
advocates warned would have disenfranchised millions of voters. Another
partially blocked the Department of Education from enforcing a memo issued
earlier this year that directed any institution that receives federal funding
to end discrimination on the basis of race or face funding cuts. And on
immigration, a judge ordered the Trump administration to make “a good faith
request” to the government of El Salvador to facilitate the return of a second
man sent to a prison there back to the US, saying his deportation violated a
court settlement. Another blocked the administration from withholding federal
funding from several so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions that have declined to
cooperate with the president’s hardline immigration crackdown.
Trump issued
a rare rebuke against Vladimir Putin, and said he has his own deadline for the
Russia-Ukraine war and that he still thinks the Russian leader will listen to
him. In a sign of his growing frustration, Trump turned his criticism to the
Putin today, urging him to stop his attacks on Ukraine. He wrote in a Truth
Social post: “I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary,
and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Lets get
the Peace Deal DONE!” Full story here. Trump told reporters he remains
optimistic about striking a peace deal: “We are thinking that, very strongly,
that they both want peace,” Trump said, “but they have to get to the table.”
Meanwhile Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he believed that a document with proposals
for ending the war that emerged from Wednesday’s talks in London was now on
Donald Trump’s desk. The Ukrainian president, who was the subject of Trump’s
ire yesterday, reiterated that anything unconstitutional (i.e. recognising
Russia’s annexation of Crimea) would be unacceptable.
Trump
refuted China’s insistence that the two countries have not engaged in talks on
trade. The president told reporters at the White House, declining to say to
whom he was referring. “It doesn’t matter who ‘they’ is. We may reveal it
later, but they had meetings this morning, and we’ve been meeting with China.”
Earlier on Thursday China had denied multiple assertions from the White House
that the two countries were engaged in active negotiations over tariffs.
The Trump
administration asked the US supreme court to allow implementation of his order
banning transgender people from serving in the military. The justice department
in a filing requested that the court lift US district judge Benjamin Settle’s
nationwide order blocking the military from carrying out Trump’s prohibition on
transgender service members while a legal challenge to the policy proceeds.
Settle found that Trump’s executive order likely violates the US constitution’s
fifth amendment right to equal protection under the law.
Legislators
are pleading with Trump to reconsider his decision to deny federal disaster
relief funds to the people of Arkansas, which saw dozens of people die from a
series of deadly tornados last month. Full story here.
Pete Hegseth
reportedly had Signal installed on a desktop computer in his Pentagon office,
adding yet another layer to the mushrooming scandal that is Signalgate. Hegseth
and his aides apparently discussed “how they could circumvent the lack of
cellphone service in much of the Pentagon and more quickly coordinate with the
White House and other top Trump officials using the encrypted app”. But it was
also “a work-around that enabled him to use Signal in a classified space, where
his cellphone and other personal electronics are not permitted”. The defense
secretary also denied reports that he has ordered the installation of a makeup
studio in the Pentagon for his television appearances, with a defense official
insisting the secretary of state does his own makeup.
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