For the first time in U.S. history, two of the eight seats on the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff are filled by interim officers, thanks to Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s eight-month-long hold on military promotions

The judge in former U.S. President Donald Trump's upcoming trial over his handling of classified documents made two key errors in a June trial, one of which violated a fundamental constitutional right of the defendant and could have invalidated the proceedings, according to legal experts and a court transcript.

New: Judge Aileen Cannon made multiple errors in a criminal trial 4 days after she was tapped to preside over Trump’s charges. The mistakes, including improperly closing the courtroom, raise questions on how she’ll approach the Trump case. w/ @SarahNLynch

Yesterday, FTC Chair Lina Khan sent a letter to Chairman Jim Jordan raising serious concerns about his staff's unethical effort to intimidate and harass FTC career staff 1/8

The letter outlines the extensive cooperation the FTC has undertaken to comply with legitimate congressional oversight, including Chair Khan sitting for a five hour hearing only weeks ago 2/8

But over the last month his staff has demanded to individually interrogate FTC career civil servants without providing any clear need to pull these employees away from the work they are doing to protect American consumers 3/8

Only once in the 109-year history of the FTC has a career civil servant ever been deposed by a Congressional committee.

Chairman Jordan's team demanded to depose 23. 4/8

This intimidation campaign has dismayed career employees.
“They already don’t have enough time to do the important substantive work on behalf of the American people, without getting roped into a fishing expedition,” according to a senior FTC official. 5/8

FTC career staff are represented by FTC lawyers. But in an egregious violation of the rules, Jordan's staff began directly harassing these employees, demanding they schedule time to be deposed without the benefit of their legal counsel. 6/8

There is bipartisan support for FTC priorities, including stopping Chinese owned companies from harming American farmers. 7/8

The Chair concludes by saying that she stands ready to respond to legitimate concerns the committee has, but efforts to intimidate and harass career civil servants as a response to policy disagreements raises grave concerns 8/8

Welp, @twitter name so coming off the building right now but @elonmusk
didn’t get permit for the equipment on the street so @SFPD
is shutting it down.