U.S. government agrees to drop tax claims against Trump in broadening of IRS lawsuit settlement | PBS News

The settlement, which marks an extraordinary use of executive power, goes beyond resolving litigation and effectively helps shield the president from further examination of his finances and legal conduct… 

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Democrats intend to "fight every element of this self-dealing settlement." 

"Not only is this another heinously corrupt act by the most corrupt administration in history, it's clearly a violation of the law that prohibits interference by executive branch officials in IRS audits."

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/u-s-government-agrees-to-drop-tax-claims-against-trump-in-broadening-of-irs-lawsuit-settlement

 

Trump to meet with US congressional leaders in last-ditch effort to avoid shutdown

Schumer, talking to NBC's Meet the Press, said he was "hopeful we can get something real done" – but was uncertain of the mood they would find Trump in when they sat down for the 2pm ET discourse.

"If the president at this meeting is going to rant, and just yell at Democrats, and talk about all his alleged grievances, and say this, that, and the other thing, we won't get anything done," Schumer said.

"We don't want a shutdown. We hope that they sit down and have a serious negotiation with us."

According to CBS News on Sunday, meanwhile, Trump is not hopeful the meeting will lead to an agreement…

Costa said: "Inside the White House, sources are saying president Trump actually welcomes a shutdown in the sense that he believes he can wield executive power to get rid of what he calls waste, fraud and abuse."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/28/trump-congress-leaders-government-shutdown

 

TENSE: Bernie Sanders Directly Confronts Trade Representative About Trump’s “lie” to justify tariffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h46WFqAyyrU

 

Rep. Jamie Raskin sets the record straight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l1HFDv3S0o

Outrage after JD Vance claims judges are not allowed to check executive power | Trump administration | The Guardian

…In fact, article III of the US constitution confers a power known as judicial review, which gives federal judges the authority to rule on cases involving the president, as well as other branches of government. 

Vance's comments drew widespread criticism. 

Daniel Goldman, a Democratic representative from New York, responded on X: "It's called the 'rule of law'. Our constitution created three co-equal branches of government to provide checks and balances on each other ('separation of powers')….

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/jd-vance-judges-trump

With federal vaccine decision, the 5th Circuit lawlessly transferred executive power to a rogue judge.

"The public interest is not served," Higginson wrote, "by a single Article III district judge, lacking public health expertise and made unaccountable through life tenure, telling the President of the United States, in his capacity as CEO of the federal workforce, that he cannot take the same lifesaving workplace safety measures as these private sector CEOs."…

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/federal-vaccine-5th-circuit-executive-power-rogue-judge.html

Proponents of Post-Trump Curbs on Executive Power Prepare New Push - The New York Times

…The bill is expected to cover nearly a dozen issues. Among them: It would make it harder for presidents to bestow pardons in bribery-like contexts and to spend — or secretly freeze — funds contrary to congressional appropriations. It would speed up lawsuits over congressional subpoenas. And it would strengthen the Constitution's ban on presidents taking "emoluments," or payments, from foreigners…

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/us/politics/executive-orders-trump.html

Bill Barr gets a surprisingly harsh dressing-down from one of his long-time colleagues - Raw Story

A former colleague blasted Attorney General William Barr for misleading the public about special counsel Robert Mueller's findings to help complete his lifetime goal of establishing a presidency with "unchecked" executive power. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/bill-barr-gets-a-surprisingly-harsh-dressing-down-from-one-of-his-long-time-colleagues/

Trump’s not claiming executive power. He’s going for divine right - The Washington Post: Opinion

It's almost as if the president is goading Democrats to impeach him...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-not-claiming-executive-power-hes-going-for-divine-right/2019/05/14/c439cff8-7687-11e9-b3f5-5673edf2d127_story.html