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USDA cancels $500M in food deliveries, leaving food banks scrambling
>https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/03/21/food-banks-funding-cuts-usda-trump/
Federal judges blocking Donald Trump:
Amir Ali
Loren AliKhan
John Bates
Amy Berman Jackson
Deborah Boardman
James Bredar
James Boasberg
Theodore Chuang
Jia Cobb
Rudolph Contreras
John Coughenour
Jesse Furman
Beryl Howell
Brendan Hurson
Angel Kelley
Lauren King
Royce Lamberth
Joseph Laplante
John McConnell
George O'Toole Jr.
Julie Rubin
Ana Reyes
Sparkle Sooknanan
Leo Sorokin
Jeannette Vargas
Jamal Whitehead
Trump administration seeks to disqualify judge in law firm case
The judge overseeing Perkins Coie’s lawsuit responding to President Donald Trump’s executive order should be disqualified from the case, a lawyer for the administration said.
DC federal Judge Beryl Howell’s comments calling Trump an authoritarian and about the Robert Mueller investigation at a recent hearing should disqualify her, Richard Lawson, a deputy US associate attorney general, argued in a brief Friday.
“This court has repeatedly demonstrated partiality against and animus towards the president,” Lawson said. “Reasonable observers may well view this court as insufficiently impartial.”
The motion comes after Judge Howell, appointed by President Barack Obama, issued a temporary restraining …
"might reasonably be questioned."
>https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/trumps-justice-lawyer-seeks-to-remove-perkins-coie-suit-judge
Congressman Andy Biggs Proposes Legislation to Limit Federal Judges' Jurisdiction on Nationwide Injunctions In a significant development within the legislative landscape,
Congressman Andy Biggs (R-AZ) has introduced a new bill aimed at reshaping the jurisdictional powers of federal judges.
>https://trendsnewsline.com/2025/03/21/video-news-biggs-proposes-bill-to-limit-federal-judges-nationwide-injunctions/
Strategic autonomy is all well and good. But what happens when your adversaries go after the bubbly?
French President Emmanuel Macron’s push for a stronger, more united Europe better equipped to deter Russia’s war machine and retaliate to trade threats from the United States and China is facing a major test as Beijing and Washington target France’s famous alcohol products.
China has for months been mulling duties on European brandies, including cognac, a move widely seen as retaliation for Paris’ vehement support for EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.
France is the EU’s top exporter of wine and spirits, and the sector is particular influential in French politics and society.
With one of its most valuable exports now in the White House’s crosshairs, French leaders appear to be getting cold feet on the whole unity thing.Prime Minster François Bayrou and his government are instead publicly urging Brussels to spare Kentucky bourbon from any possible European response.
>https://www.politico.eu/article/france-push-strategic-autonomy-crumbles-under-donald-trump-booze-tariffs/
German parliament approves Merz's radical spending plan
>https://www.firstpost.com/world/german-parliament-approves-merzs-radical-spending-plan-that-is-making-eu-nervous-13873439.html
European Union governments have expressed fears that the radical spending plans announced by Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting will end up skewing the bloc’s single market and could give the country an unfair competitive edge.
>https://www.politico.eu/article/germanys-friedrich-merz-radical-spending-election-berlin-green-energy-fund/
“Now the Germans have decided that they do whatever the hell they want. Since the [EU] rules approved six months ago don't suit them now, they do the opposite, of course without having negotiated anything at the European level,” said Italy's Finance Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti at a party event on Saturday.
How Berlin's fiscal flip stunned Brussels and spooked its allies
>https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-budget-policy-eu-fiscal-rules-defense-spending-infrastructure/
European nations are finding out that the unelected bureacrats in the European Union don't mean a thing.
Trump effect
Hegseth beefs up warship presence in the Middle East will have 2 aircraft carriers in region
>https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/03/21/hegseth-beefs-warship-presence-middle-east-and-will-have-2-aircraft-carriers-region.html
DEPORT THEM ALL
Illegal Ugandan accused of 'savagely' assaulting pregnant woman
>https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/03/21/illegal-ugandan-accused-of-savagely-assaulting-pregnant-massachusetts-woman-arrested/