A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on February 6, 2025.
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The day’s throughline was simple: Trump’s team kept testing the limits of executive power, and the limits kept pushing back. That is not a governing strategy so much as a rolling admission that the first draft was reckless. The courts, and now the FEC fight, showed the same basic flaw: if you make the move before you’ve squared the law, the backlash writes itself.
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A federal judge in Washington state blocked Trump’s birthright-citizenship order with a nationwide preliminary injunction, dealing the administration a sharp early setback. The ruling put a hard brake on one of Trump’s most aggressive immigration moves and signaled that the White House had raced ahead of the Constitution and the courts.
Trump moved to remove Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub, and the legality of the move was instantly challenged. The episode reopened the fight over whether the White House can treat an independent elections watchdog like just another loyalist post.