The agricultural chemist George Washington Carver, head of Alabama’s famed Tuskegee Institute, arrives in Dearborn, Michigan at the invitation of Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company. Born to slave parents in Missouri during the Civil War, Carver managed to get a high …read more
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Air traffic controllers in Washington, D.C., detect UFOs over the White House and US Capitol building. More appear a week later, but the government dismisses the sightings as a harmless weather phenomenon.
On July 18, 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act. This act revised an older succession act that was passed in 1792 during George Washington’s first term.
The original Succession Act designated the Senate president pro tempore as the first in line to succeed the president should he and the vice president die unexpectedly while in office. If he, for some reason, could not take over the duties, the Speaker of the House was placed next in the line of succession. In 1886, during Grover Cleveland’s administration, Congress removed both the Senate president and the Speaker of the House from the line of succession.
From that time until 1947, two cabinet officials (their order in line depended on the order in which the agencies were created) became the next in line to succeed a president should the vice president also become incapacitated or die. The decision was controversial. Many members of Congress felt that those in a position to succeed the president should be elected officials and not, as cabinet members were, political appointees, thereby giving both the Republican and Democratic parties a chance at controlling the White House.
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In 2026, Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the IRS that was anything but ordinary. According to multiple news reports, the lawsuit was paired with a pre‑negotiated settlement that would have granted Trump sweeping personal benefits. The agreement would have blocked IRS audits of Trump, his family, and his companies, released him from future government claims, and created a nearly $1.8 billion “Anti‑Weaponization Fund” — all without a real legal dispute ever being litigated.
But U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams stepped in.
In a detailed 56‑page ruling, she found that Trump and the IRS were not genuinely adverse parties. She wrote that the lawsuit was collusive, filed for an improper purpose, and engineered to give judicial legitimacy to a deal that the IRS had no authority to grant. Because the case lacked a true constitutional controversy, she voided the entire settlement and barred it from being used in any future proceeding.
Her decision prevented a massive shift in IRS power and stopped an agreement that could have insulated Trump from oversight for years. Judge Williams’ ruling stands as one of the clearest examples of the judiciary blocking an attempt to misuse federal agencies for personal benefit — and it remains a critical reminder of why independent courts matter.
The cost to taxpayers? or possible grift
The deal he tried to push through would have:
All of this was negotiated before any real litigation happened.
Hopefully, Judge Williams’ ruling will set a precedent for other judges. It wasn’t just about one settlement — it was about preventing a structural shift toward unchecked executive authority.
Voters need to read her opinion
Sources: X.com, internet news, AI, Yahoo, Reuters, US News, PBS news
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