Leaked Trump administration draft legislation calls for America to abandon World Trade Organization rules, and would give President Trump extraordinary and unilateral power to set tariffs on a country-by-country basis. That would make it a nonstarter in Congress, but it’s also called the “United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act” (the FART Act, if you will) so maybe just an unintended release, you know? Embarrassing.
Hundreds of thousands of people around the country joined Families Belong Together marches this weekend to protest the Trump administration’s family detention and separation policies at the border. Tomorrow’s Pod Save America episode features interviews with Ady Barkan, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Mayor Eric Garcetti (D), and more from the Los Angeles March.
The Department of Health and Human Services is refusing to provide updated statistics on the number of separated children that have been reunited with their families, in case you were wondering why those marches were needed.
Disgraced RNC Finance Chair Elliott Broidy has stopped making payments to his former mistress pursuant to a hush-money agreement Michael Cohen orchestrated, and Michael Avenatti, whose client, Stormy Daniels, got $130,000 in hush money from Donald Trump, is encouraging the mistress to break her silence.
In the fall, the Supreme Court will hear a case about whether the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment allows states and the federal government to try the same person separately for the same offenses. “If the court overrules its prior precedent, it could make it more difficult for a state to try someone who has been pardoned by the federal government if trial proceedings had already begun for the federal offense," said University of Texas Law School professor Stephen Vladeck. Michael Cohen, set your Google alert now.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt avoids emailing in order to avoid creating a “paper trail,” but he does send fawning snail mail to—you guessed it—executives in the oil and gas industries. Meanwhile, a former top aide to Pruitt told investigators that Pruitt asked her to get his wife a job that paid over $200,000 at the Republican Attorney Generals Association. She responded that it would be unethical. HOW IS HE STILL THERE? HOW HOW HOW. (Sorry. Just hit us again.)
This weekend, a man pulled a gun on people protesting against Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy in Huntsville, AL, while yelling “womp, womp” over prayers being delivered to the crowd.
LeBron James scored a four-year, $153.3 million contract with the Los Angeles Lakers, and GOP Congressman Devin Nunes found a new way to roll out the welcome mat…