Snapshot · Pod Save America
The 6-3 Supreme Court ruling allows the Trump administration to rescind Temporary Protected Status for 350,000 Haitian immigrants, potentially enabling their deportation.
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Before diving into the substance, Leah Litman flags a procedural indignity: for decades, the Court has operated on an unwritten but firm tradition of resolving all argued cases before the Independence Day holiday. This court, despite its performative reverence for historical tradition, couldn't even manage that. It's a small point, but a revealing one — these justices claim originalism and tradition as guiding stars while failing to honor one of the institution's most basic customs.
The Supreme Court ruled that courts can no longer check whether the executive branch followed the law before ending TPS — effectively making federal statutes optional for any president. Leah Litman says Trump or any official could now openly defy these laws without legal consequence.
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France built 56 nuclear plants in the 1970s and now has the cheapest energy in Europe, making it independent of Russian or Middle Eastern energy geopolitics.
Estonia has a single tax form, a law preventing the government from asking citizens for the same information twice, and a flat rate of tax — enabling competitive taxation.
Portugal's Lisbon, once a city with a major heroin problem, legalised drugs and redirected enforcement spending into rehabilitation and housing, dramatically reducing crime.
The first Boland Amendment banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras passed the House unanimously — yet the Reagan administration ignored it.
Over just two years, Saudi Arabia alone donated $32 million to the Contra rebels, giving loosely affiliated factions millions they had no way to spend on arms.
The National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty raised $6.3 million for the Contras but only $3.3 million reached them — a shockingly low 52% program expense rate.
Richard Secord and Albert Hakim marked up their arms shipments to the Contras by as much as 300%, making enormous personal profits from the covert operation.
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, tapped to run the entire covert Contra support operation, had no prior experience in covert operations whatsoever — he was learning as he went.
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