We’ll see how long this lasts

#Iran #MOU was signed on Wednesday by #Trump & #Iran president, #US official says

Trump ​& Iranian ‌President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday ​signed a ​memorandum of understanding ⁠aimed at ​ending the war ​with Iran, a US official told ​Reuters.

The ​memo had been signed ‌digitally ⁠on Sunday by VP #JDVance ​& ​Iran's ⁠chief negotiator Mohammad ​Baqer Qalibaf ​& ⁠witnessed by Trump, the ⁠ofcl ​said.

#TrumpsWar #IranWar #economy #Energy
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-mou-was-signed-wednesday-by-trump-iran-president-us-official-says-2026-06-17/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Still working the flattery & gifts angles, #Germany Chancellor Friedrich #Merz on Tuesday gave #US President Donald #Trump a soccer jersey with his name & the number 47 on the back 🤮 at the #G7.

https://apnews.com/live/trump-g7-iran-updates-06-16-2026

Inside the White House, #StephenMiller, the influential deputy chief of staff, saw an opening for an idea he had raised previously: What if #Trump simply claimed the #power to suspend #HabeasCorpus?
Then the locked-up immigrants would be blocked from receiving hearings or even from seeking court orders to prevent their removal from the country. This was an opportunity for Trump to both speed up deportations, & to assert vastly expanded power over a legal system that was getting in his way.

#law

“It prevents, in effect, governmental actors from detaining, imprisoning or executing individuals arbitrarily,” Scharf wrote.
… #SCOTUS had allowed the admin to continue its use of the #AlienEnemiesAct as the basis for deporting Venezuelans in the #US illegally. But also ruled that the migrants were entitled to challenge their #deportations in court before being expelled. The detainees, the court held, could file lawsuits citing #HabeasCorpus to challenge the basis for their removal…

#Trump #law

Dated April 29, 2025, & stamped “confidential,” the memo was careful & lawyerly but amounted to a warning against end-running the rule of #law. The subject line read: “THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.”

#HabeasCorpus — the centuries-old right to force the government to justify, before a judge, why it has locked a person up — is enshrined in Article I of the #Constitution.

#Trump #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #democracy #StephenMiller #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

Last spring, Will Scharf, an arch- #conservative lawyer serving as the White House staff secretary, wrote a secret memo to the chief of staff that reflected growing unease in the West Wing about one of the extreme measures being weighed by #StephenMiller, the powerful adviser driving Trump’s #deportation campaign.

#Trump #HabeasCorpus #law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #Constitution #democracy #WhiteSupremacy #immigration

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Frustrated by #Courts, #Trump Weighed Suspending a #ConstitutionalRight

Secret memos show that the White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit #HabeasCorpus rights for undocumented #immigrants.

#law #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ChecksAndBalances #Constitution #democracy #StephenMiller #WhiteSupremacy #immigration
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/politics/trump-scharf-habeas-corpus-insurrection-act.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qVA.lXuS.MD3Zz-LZfw_p&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Don’t get your hopes up

The #US & #Iran reached an initial agreement Monday that would extend their shaky “ #ceasefire” & lead to the reopening of the #StraitOfHormuz, but significant challenges remain, including whether #Israel will continue its offensive in #Lebanon.

Details of the agreement were not immediately released, but it appeared it would not be implemented until it is signed, which Pakistan said would happen Friday in Geneva.

#TrumpsWar #IranWar #Trump
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-war-oil-june-15-2026-77406473da38c6c126818610a219dc20