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Trump’s Odious New Demand of the Civil Service: Loyalty Oaths

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Timothy Noah

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Trump’s Odious New Demand of the Civil Service: Loyalty Oaths

3 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Timothy Noah

The 1939 Hatch Act prohibits government employees from using their position to engage in partisan activity, and prohibits their membership in any organization that advocates the overthrow of the United States. At the dawn of the Cold War, President Harry Truman used the latter provision to authorize investigations of government employees concerning their loyalty to their country, and also the administration of oaths declaring such loyalty.
Trump’s Odious New Demand of the Civil Service: Loyalty Oaths

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Timothy Noah

The 1939 Hatch Act prohibits government employees from using their position to engage in partisan activity, and prohibits their membership in any organization that advocates the overthrow of the United States. At the dawn of the Cold War, President Harry Truman used the latter provision to authorize investigations of government employees concerning their loyalty to their country, and also the administration of oaths declaring such loyalty.
Meet Elon Musk’s Puppet Master: Russell Vought

3 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Timothy Noah

Elon Musk may have “left Washington” last week, but the Department of Government Efficiency won’t miss a step. That’s because Musk was never running DOGE in the first place. I’m not suggesting that Amy Gleason was in charge. Gleason, you may recall, is the government official whom the White House last February named as a sort of papier-mâché acting DOGE administrator as part of its legal sleight of hand to shield Musk from litigation.
A Trade Court Stopped Trump’s Tariffs. Why Didn’t Congress?

4 weeks ago | newrepublic.com | Timothy Noah

It took something called the United States Court of International Trade, which before today I couldn’t locate on a map (it’s a glass cube in Lower Manhattan’s Foley Square), to halt President Donald Trump’s tariff binge. This is what “no” sounds like. The law to stop Trump’s trade war mayhem, much like the judicial body that finally used it, was hiding in plain sight. In 1977, Congress passed the International Emergency Economic Powers Act or IEEPA.
A Trade Court Stopped Trump’s Tariffs. Why Didn’t Congress?

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Timothy Noah

It took something called the United States Court of International Trade, which before today I couldn’t locate on a map (it’s a glass cube in Lower Manhattan’s Foley Square), to halt President Donald Trump’s tariff binge. This is what “no” sounds like. The law to stop Trump’s trade war mayhem, much like the judicial body that finally used it, was hiding in plain sight. In 1977, Congress passed the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA.
The Supreme Court Wants to Crush Regulation-But Not the Fed

1 month ago | newrepublic.com | Timothy Noah |Hafiz Rashid

When my daughter Alice was six, she looked down at a roasted half-chicken on her plate, visualized it for the first time as the body of a once-living creature, and announced that she would henceforth be a vegetarian—“except for bacon.” I thought of Alice last Thursday when the Supreme Court ruled, in an unsigned emergency-docket opinion, that a president may fire any member of an independent federal agency—except at the Federal Reserve.
House Republicans Just Touched the Third Rail

1 month ago | portside.org | Timothy Noah

House Republicans Just Touched the Third Rail Published May 22, 2025 Among the more striking changes in American politics over the past half-century is the evolution of Medicaid into a “third rail.” House Republicans, as they rushed early Thursday morning to cut not quite $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next 10 years, were at best only dimly aware of this. They’re in for a terrible shock.
House Republicans Are About to Touch the Third Rail

1 month ago | newrepublic.com | Timothy Noah

Among the more striking changes in American politics over the past half-century is the evolution of Medicaid into a “third rail.” House Republicans, as they rush to cut not quite $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next 10 years, are at best only dimly aware of this. They’re in for a terrible shock.
The GOP’s Budget Hawks Will Bankrupt the Country

1 month ago | newrepublic.com | Timothy Noah

Five Republican members of Congress—Chip Roy of Texas, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, and Lloyd Smucker of Pennsylvania—voted in committee Friday against the Trump budget reconciliation package because it didn’t do enough to reduce the deficit. As a result, the measure failed, 16–21.