Press release is dated Jan 15. The folks who made this happen are gone now.
If you'd like to see what the new admin's FTC is spending your tax dollars on instead of this, take a look here: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases
If you'd like to see what the new admin's FTC is spending your tax dollars on instead of this, take a look here: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases
(Sounds like hyperbole, as it’s not like non political people just all got replaced.)
This is not hyperbole.
Give it 6-12 months and we'll see how the courts react to challenges and if Congress suddenly grows a spine. And if a mid-term swing back to normalcy seems likely.
Trump already "deported" legal american citizens his first term. Trump supporters openly insist on "deporting" a legal american citizen who dared to tell Trump that he's a meany.
The Constitution is just a piece of paper. None of the people in the Trump admin care about it or respect it. It will not save us. The guardrails are all gone.
And you're right, ICE could well be on its way to turning into the Stasi.
When there is an opening and there are already 3 from the President's party traditionally the President asks the Senate leader of the other party who should be nominated and the Senators of the President's party do not vote against that nominee.