Ann Murphy

@murphtrials.bsky.social

Law professor. Wild about trials.

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Corruption in plain sight.

Rep. Mike Levin@levin.house.gov

Stop what you are doing because you need to read this. Billions of dollars in oil trades were perfectly timed to Trump’s decision to back off attacking Iranian power plants. Trump announced the reversal just 15 minutes after those trades were placed.

bloomberg.comCFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil TradesChairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Glad to see this.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social

Nine FBI agents who were fired for their work on the Trump classified documents case are suing the bureau and director Kash Patel for what they say was unlawful retribution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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@kyledcheney.bsky.socialReposted by @murphtrials.bsky.social

A judge has thrown out the Trump administration's lawsuit against New York City over its sanctuary policies, rejecting the federal govt's claim that the city's policies violated the Supremacy Clause.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.comMemorandum & Opinion AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim – #79 in United States v. City of New York (E.D.N.Y, 1:25-cv-04084) – CourtListener.comMemorandum & Opinion AND Order on Motion to Dismiss for Failure to State a Claim
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And it has worked.

ProPublica@propublica.org

Ahead of the 2024 election, @andykroll.bsky.social got his hands on some secret tapes of Trump's budget director, Russell Vought. One thing Vought said hit Kroll like a ton of bricks: that he wanted to put government workers “in trauma.” Listen to this episode: https://propub.li/4yO4q11

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. … When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.” —Russell Vought, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget
@murphtrials.bsky.social

This is criminal.

ProPublica@propublica.org

Dr. Debby Day said her bosses at Cigna gave her a stark warning: Work faster, or the company might fire her. She said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers.” (Published April 2024 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

propublica.orgA Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her.Cigna tracks every minute that its staff doctors spend deciding whether to pay for health care. Dr. Debby Day said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s ho...
@governorferguson.bsky.socialReposted by @murphtrials.bsky.social

The federal government has seen an exodus of scientific experts and alarming shifts in policy that place Washingtonians’ health at risk. In Washington state, science still matters.

@robertscotthorton.bsky.socialReposted by @murphtrials.bsky.social

Trump promised Ukraine Patriot missile replacements and then failed to deliver them, rendering Kyiv vulnerable to the Kremlin's ballistic missiles. Ukraine has run out of missiles for the US-made Patriot air defense system, leaving it more vulnerable to Russian ballistic missile attacks.

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