Fans Outraged Over Trump Administration Using ‘Wicked’ Music to Hype Deportations – By LoveBScott, LoveBScott || The Trump administration found a new way to make deportations go viral — and this time, they dragged “Wicked” into it. The White House’s official TikTok account posted a video celebrating ICE arrests using Cynthia Erivo’s version of “Defying Gravity” from the “Wicked” movie, turning a queer-beloved anthem of self-acceptance into a soundtrack for detention and deportation. Now fans, musicians, and immigration advocates are all slamming the administration.
The video appeared on the White House’s verified TikTok, which Trump’s team launched in August despite ongoing concerns in Congress about the app’s Chinese ownership. On Nov. 21, the administration posted the clip, and it raised eyebrows the moment it went live.
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Supreme Court Bars Trump From Firing Library of Congress Official for Now
By John Fritze, CNN
The Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from replacing a top official at the Library of Congress for now, deferring a decision on his emergency appeal until it resolves a pair of related cases.
The move, which came weeks after the appeal was filed and included little explanation, means that Shira Perlmutter will remain the director of the US Copyright Office despite a request from Trump to remove her immediately.
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The court pointed to two cases it hopes to deal with before deciding what to do with Perlmutter. The first centers on Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, who Trump removed earlier this year from the Federal Trade Commission. Slaughter has argued that Congress attempted to protect members of independent agencies like the FTC by requiring a president to show cause before dismissing them.
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Perlmutter has asserted she may have gotten on the president’s bad side with a report she released in May that suggested some copyrighted works used to train artificial intelligence models would likely require licensing – that is, tech companies would have to pay to use that material. Perlmutter’s lawsuit said that Trump “allegedly disagreed” with that report.
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Read more on this complicated turn of events here.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/politics/supreme-court-library-of-congress-copyright