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Matt @mrxrules.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Maybe if they used some of that $45B to improve processing instead of on detention they could speed up the backlog and deal with cases in a timely fashion instead.

“The Court recognizes that the Executive Branch faces enormous challenges in preventing and deterring unlawful entry into the United States and in adjudicating the overwhelming backlog of asylum claims of those who have entered the country,” Moss wrote. “But the INA, by its terms, provides the sole and exclusive means for removing people already present in the country.”

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Matt @mrxrules.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Isn't that an admission of guilt? None of the RIF legal requirements include "administration’s priorities", they all require some plan and documented agency changes.

“This is because your termination, in the context of the government-wide effort to reduce the federal service through probationary terminations, was more likely effected in accordance with the new administration’s priorities than a decision personal to you,” the email said.

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Matt @mrxrules.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This part is so important. The two most powerful people in congress doing their best to make themselves and congress irrelevant.

The only institution capable of responding to this with any alacrity is Congress. But Congress is also led by Republicans, and both the Senate majority leader, John Thune, and the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, have declined to take any steps to arrest the president’s illegal arrogation of power or Musk’s destructive effort to run the federal government. Thune and Johnson, acting with the support of Republicans in both chambers, have, in effect, renounced their power over the purse and abnegated their powers of oversight. Their Congress is supine, submissive and subordinate, less the equal of the president than a tool of the executive branch — a subject of his will.

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