A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
3 verified reports published on March 24, 2025.
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The day’s biggest Trump-world screwups all came from the same basic instinct: if the law gets in the way, treat the law like the obstacle, not the boundary. That’s a quick way to win the cable-news argument and a slower way to lose in court, in Congress, and with anyone who still expects the federal government to behave like a federal government.
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On March 24, 2025, the Trump administration told Judge James Boasberg it would invoke the state secrets privilege and not provide more detail about Venezuelan deportation flights. The judge was already pressing for timing information to determine whether the government had violated his March 15 order.
The Trump administration told a federal judge on March 24 that it would not provide additional information in the case over Venezuelan deportation flights, citing the state secrets privilege. The dispute centers on whether officials complied with an earlier order from U.S. District Judge James Boasberg.
A March 24 court filing showed Treasury still had to explain who inside DOGE had access to payment systems, what vetting they had received, and what authority let them be there in the first place. That is not exactly the kind of paperwork you want attached to the people poking around the federal checkbook.