Daily Kos

The administration’s efforts to force states to let President Donald Trump control elections keep getting shot down by courts unwilling to warp the Constitution to grant Trump’s wishes, so it’s changing tactics.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche really, REALLY doesn’t want to put it in writing that the slush fund is dead. He won’t put it in writing for Congress, and he won’t put it in writing for the federal court handling one of the cases challenging the fund.

After the Trump administration upended the world’s largest foreign aid provider last year, terminating thousands of programs and firing nearly all of its staff, its plan for the agency was clear: Eliminate it entirely.

A federal judge has blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials, calling it an effort to “harass and retaliate against them.”

It’s the latter half of June, which means everyone is bracing for disaster, thanks to the Supreme Court saving all the big cases for the end of the term. This year, they’ve sat on a lot of them, though they do this so often now that having 17 cases remaining is actually lower than previous years.