The March 25, 2025 Executive Order—entitled “Addressing Risks from Jenner &
Block” (the “Order”)—is an unconstitutional abuse of power against lawyers, their clients, and the
legal system. It is intended to hamper the ability of individuals and businesses to have the lawyers
of their choice zealously represent them. And it is intended to coerce law firms and lawyers into
renouncing the Administration’s critics and ceasing certain representations adverse to the
government.
2. The Order is one of the latest in a series of materially identical executive orders—
one of which has already been enjoined by a court in this District—targeting law firms without
process based on their representation of clients in matters adverse to the President or his
Administration and/or their associations with individuals who have criticized the President. The
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board recognized that the President is taking these actions “to
intimidate elite law firms from representing his opponents or plaintiffs who challenge his policies.”
See The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, Trump, Perkins Coie and John Adams, W ALL ST . J.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has criticized a Canadian province's decision to remove Tesla from a rebate program on electric products.

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Eby announced on Wednesday that Tesla products would no longer be part of British Columbia's CleanBC or BC Hydro rebates, which can grant up to 50 percent of the cost to people who install a charging station at home, according to the BC Hydro website.

In a statement, Eby said: "The Government of B.C. and BC Hydro are taking action to preference Canadian goods in our rebate programs going forward and to exclude, where practicable, U.S. produced goods.

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Musk responded on social media by calling the move "crazy", retweeting a post that suggested he should cut off Canadian access to SpaceX and Starlink in retaliation.

The Democratic Party is planning an extensive series of town halls in Republican-held districts in all 50 states to draw attention to the Republican leadership’s recent warning that G.O.P. lawmakers should avoid such open forums.

The initial wave of what Democrats are branding “People’s Town Halls” is planned to target nine House Republicans in battleground districts, from Arizona to Pennsylvania, who Democrats believe will be vulnerable in the 2026 midterm elections.

The incursions into Republican territory come as the Democratic Party tries to find its political footing after a turbulent first 50 days of President Trump’s second term, and as Republicans control every facet of the federal government — and are exercising their power aggressively.

Party officials said the first nine town halls were just the start, with the goal of eventually holding events across the country to highlight some of the less popular proposals pressed by the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson's chief of staff, Hayden Haynes, was arrested and charged with DUI following President Donald Trump's address to Congress late Tuesday night.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s chief of staff, Hayden Haynes, could not complete a sobriety test after twice striking a black Chevy Suburban with his white Tesla sedan, said an affidavit from the officer who arrested him for driving under the influence. The officer who responded just after midnight — an hour after President Trump completed his joint address to Congress — said that Haynes “was slurring his words when voice activating his vehicle to open the glove compartment,” had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath and said he’d had four drinks over a four-hour period, Politico reports.

Haynes needed help putting his glasses in his pocket, and was unable to complete the remainder of the field sobriety test because he was swaying from left to right. Asked to provide a urine sample, Haynes dropped the cup into the toilet, and when given another cup, he could not provide a sample. "The Speaker has full faith and confidence in Hayden’s ability to lead the Speaker’s office,” said a Johnson spokesperson. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) jokingly made reference to the case when speaking about Republican opposition to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. "They're not that into DEI. But they love DUI," he said. "We gotta stop those DUI hires on Capitol Hill."

At the time of his departure, he summed up his reasoning, telling Cochise Regional News:“This is a toxic environment. I have to think about my health and stress." Though Bartelsmeyer had made public statements questioning the validity of the 2020 election, he said his time in Cochise County had opened his eyes to the corrosive dangers of disinformation.

Second Cochise County Elections Director to resign post in 2023 offers grim assessment as we enter 2024 election season: "this is a toxic environment."
Bob Bartelsmeyer speaks with CRN concerning threats, and the malignant atmosphere of conspiracy theories and elections denialism spurred by county supervisors, others...

An Open Letter to Juan Ciscomani:

Why are you lying about indefensible cost-cutting, which exacerbates the problems you claim to care about?

In your recent Green Valley News interview with Dan Shearer (2-23-25), e.g., you claim that the cutting “the president is doing [via DOGE] is exactly what he ran on [and] exactly what he said he was going to do. And the people in Arizona, and in [your] district specifically, elected him to do that.”

That is false.

Candidate Trump at least superficially ran to make “America” great, not our enemies, not Ebola, and not lawlessness and unbridled corruption. Many Arizonans in good faith elected him president, not his Billionaire crony Elon Musk. Further, when polls last fall showed that only 4% of voters liked what was in Project 2025 (read: these cuts), candidate Trump distanced himself completely from it. He denied all knowledge, claiming he would never even read it. He called those parts of it he had heard about, “ridiculous and abysmal.”

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We found that Cruz’s dragnet had swept up numerous examples of scientific projects funded by the National Science Foundation that simply acknowledged social inequalities or were completely unrelated to the social or economic themes cited by his committee.
Among them, for example, was a $470,000 grant to study the evolution of mint plants and how they spread across continents. As best we can tell, the project ran into trouble with Republicans on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation because of two specific words used in its application to the NSF: “diversify,” referring to the biodiversity of plants, and “female,” where the application noted how the project would support a young female scientist on the research team.
Other projects our AI assistant led us to included:
Developing a device that could treat severe bleeding. It seems to have caught the committee’s attention for using the words “victims” — as in gunshot victims — and “trauma.”
Creating biosensors to detect infectious diseases. The grant appears to have been tagged for the repeated use of “POC,” an acronym often used for “people of color” but in this context meaning “point of care” — that is, the place where people receive medical treatment — and “barrier,” referring to a part of the biosensor itself.
Designing eye-tracking technology for diagnosing and treating concussions. It appears to have gotten flagged for referencing “traumatic” brain injuries and the “status,” meaning the condition, of patients.
It’s “very frightening,” said Charlotte Lindqvist, a biology professor at the University at Buffalo who is conducting the research on mint plants.

The glitch was first highlighted in a viral post on TikTok, when the speech-to-text tool sometimes briefly flashed up the word “Trump” when they said “racist”, and was later repeated by others on social media.

“We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers dictation and we are rolling out a fix,” an Apple spokesperson said.

The company blamed the bug on its tool displaying words that have “phonetic overlap” before the “intended word” is identified, which in this case included words with the “r” consonant.

The bug also called into question Apple’s artificial intelligence capabilities, only a day after the company announced a $500bn (£395bn) investment in the US, widely interpreted as a move designed to appeal to Donald Trump’s government.