The private energy industry cannot get the permits to build anything these days in blue states. Trump would need to invoke the Defense Production Act to get that done. And that might in fact be a better vehicle than just having the DOE try to do it themselves. This would also blow away permitting stonewalling from places like New York, New Jersey, California, Illinois, and Massachusetts.

Elissa Slotkin is attempting to flip the script and cry victim after pushback on her lawfare threats: "The goal is to intimidate....these are authoritarian tactics." Projection and deflection levels here are stratospheric.

Recent reports on Starshield satellite communication disruptions in Ukraine raise serious concerns and must be investigated.   I joined @SenatorShaheen, @SenThomTillis, and six of our Senate colleagues in calling for the @DeptofWar Inspector General to determine what happened with this critical capability and protect American personnel. It remains in our national interest to help Ukraine defend itself from Putin’s aggression.

Donald Trump confirms again that he stands on the side of a bloodthirsty thug & the enablers of Russia’s war machine & against the majority of Americans, their representatives in both houses of Congress, & our European allies. 1/ apnews.com/article/russia-sa…

Just now: Judge Reyes withdraws her request for DOJ to re-file yesterday's submission with any other DOJ attorneys who are willing to sign it. Reyes says she made decision after thinking about it more, consulting with her clerks.

Also, there are good and commendable reasons why DoJ leadership might decline to have career attorneys sign something like a recusal motion. It burns a lot of bridges even in the best case, and it is good if leadership is willing to take the heat for their subordinates.

Judge Reyes is in the process of going to war with the DOJ over their squirrelly/dishonest filings in the East Potomac golf course case. She is pushing DOJ lawyer into the corner and then pushing more. There's an acrid scent of contempt and Rule 11 in the courtroom.

‘I don’t care what you think’: Judge tees off on DOJ official over Trump golf course politi.co/4sbIQ4l

REYES is on the bench. Trump personally attacked her this morning on Truth Social. Reyes begins by asking whether any DOJ attorneys in the room are willing to sign the brief that Stanley Woodward filed on DOJ's behalf last night. This is getting testy fast. Woodward says he is instructing them not to answer. REYES says she's giving them an order. Woodward says this is untenable. Reyes gives him until 3pm to file a brief explaining why she can't ask other DOJ attorneys who is willing to sign the brief.

There are few things that will prove more persuasive to a judge than calling her "histrionic."

Spare me the pearl-clutching — especially from Republican Members of Congress and online MAGA grifters who have cheered President Trump's weaponization of the government against those he doesn’t like, as recently as last week. This is a subject I know something about: Less than a year ago, Trump directed the DOJ and FBI to investigate me, and then tried to criminally indict me for a 90 second video, exercising basic free speech. The same free speech you’re exercising now, lying about what I said in this clip. If not for an anonymous group of grand jury members standing up for America's laws, I’d be criminally indicted for sedition. President Trump has turned the government against people, with raucous support from you and virtually all D.C. Republicans. So spare us the manufactured outrage. America must be a place where the rule of law still matters. Those laws should apply to everyone equally. If you have aided in the corrupt use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to benefit the President or his family, or you have violated the law in order to carry out guidance from the President, you should be held accountable. And given how rampant that corruption appears to the average American, people looking to work for his Administration should realize that while the Supreme Court has granted the President immunity, it has not done the same for those who do illegal things at his behest.

Voter rolls are maintained by the states, but the federal government under President Trump has made preventing noncitizen voting a priority. State audits have shown that noncitizen voting is extremely rare, though it does happen. In Utah, Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson found a total of 52 noncitizens and likely noncitizens out of more than 2 million voters. That’s about 0.002%. A top Justice Department official told 60 Minutes: “We've had investigations ongoing for over a year [into cases of noncitizen voting], and it takes time. There are literally thousands of them out there that we are looking at.” cbsn.ws/4i55KFD