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Bureau: Washington
Three Saturday artifacts answer the contradiction the May 2 letter opened — and Trump rejects all three before Sunday lunch.
Three artifacts on three different dockets, all turning on the same question: who gets to decide what a statute means when the executive disagrees.
Twenty-two scientists were dismissed by email nine days ago, the rationale was Arthrex, the precedent is ACIP, and the National Academies have not yet filed.
Ranking Senator Whitehouse named the Antideficiency Act on Interior's $928 million offshore-wind payoff to TotalEnergies, the document deadline passed April 23, and Sunday brings no Senate response.
Blanche has run the Justice Department for over eighty days without a permanent nomination, and the 210-day Federal Vacancies clock now runs into Q3.
Hegseth claims a ceasefire pauses the War Powers Resolution clock — five former officials say the statute does not work that way and the Pentagon has produced no opinion to back the claim.
The 45-day FISA stopgap runs out June 12, the privacy-warrant coalition is dead, and the Senate has not produced the three-year bill it promised.