The psychopaths running the government are not going to let a crisis go to waste. They're taking advantage of the shutdown to cut SNAP benefits and fire civil servants — or they would if courts would let them. Plus, the Ninth Circuit and even the Supreme Court (GASP!) are putting the kibosh on Trump's plan to flood blue states with troops. And still, Lindsey Halligan, the wannabe US Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, is finding new and creative ways to screw up the prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey.

Links:

Massachusetts v. USDA [SNAP benefits]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71783393/commonwealth-of-massachusetts-v-united-states-department-of-agriculture/

AFGE-AFL CIO v. US [shutdown RIFs]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71502325/american-federation-of-government-employees-afl-cio-v-united-states

Drake v. UMG [trial docket]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69546009/graham-v-umg-recordings-inc

Oregon v. Trump [Ninth Circuit]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71554902/state-of-oregon-et-al-v-trump-et-al

SCOTUS Docket: Chicago Troop Deployment

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25a443.html

US v. Comey

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71459120/united-states-v-comey/?order_by=desc

US v. Ramirez [Essayli]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71166841/united-states-v-ramirez/?order_by=desc

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