The Wall Street Journal editorial board weighed in on Monday over the rapidly accelerating collapse of the Heritage Foundation.

A longtime haven for far-right legal scholars and the birthplace of President Donald Trump's Project 2025 agenda, Heritage has been in freefall ever since its president, Kevin Roberts, defended Tucker Carlson's interview with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, triggering a mass exodus of scholars who revolted over the organization's flirtation with antisemitism.

"Some 15 or more Heritage employees, including the leaders of three prominent policy departments, are jumping to the Advancing American Freedom foundation that the former Vice President established in 2021," wrote the board. "The defectors include the leaders of Heritage’s most important policy shops: The Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, the Center for Data Analysis, and the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies."

These particular defections are remarkable, the board continued, because Edwin Meese, the legendary former attorney general for Ronald Reagan who is now in his 90s, endorsed the move of his namesake center himself.

Moreover, wrote the board, the cracks were beginning to show even before the Fuentes scandal broke the camel's back.

"Heritage once supported free trade; now it is protectionist," wrote the board. "It once supported a robust American foreign policy; Heritage purged its defense hawks two years ago. Heritage was a supporter of the originalist judicial revolution and the rule of law; now it defends Mr. Trump’s expansion of executive power, whether or not it has a constitutional basis."

"Heritage might still play a role under new leadership, but its board has been slow to appreciate the internal dissatisfaction," the board concluded. "A think tank is fundamentally a collection of people and donors who believe in certain ideas and principles. Heritage abandoned its principles; it is losing its people, and soon there might not be much left to donate to."

President Donald Trump is planning to recall 30 diplomats from posts that are typically left in place following a presidential administration because they are considered "apolitical" and replace them with MAGA loyalists, according to a new report.

The Guardian reported on Monday night that the diplomats would not be fired, but instead would be reassigned to other posts. The report added that the move is part of the Trump administration's goal of uprooting the "deep state."

Africa would be the continent hardest hit by Trump's move, according to the report. The administration plans to recall ambassadors from Somalia, Niger, and Congo, all of which are covered by Trump's current travel ban. The move would also impact foreign service officials in Egypt, Algeria, Slovakia, Montenegro, Armenia, and North Macedonia, according to the report.

Former foreign service officials and the union representing diplomats bashed the Trump administration for the move.

“This is a travesty,” said one former senior official who had spoken with ambassadors set to be reassigned, told the outlet. “It’s random, no one knows why they were pulled or spared.”

The American Foreign Service Association, the union that represents diplomats, added that the diplomats were being "penalized" for simply doing their jobs.

“The department must explain how these actions promote fairness for those who were recommended but not reached promotion this year and will now face challenges as others have been promoted ahead of them," the union said.

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Colorado-based shoemaker Crocs, Inc. slapped the Trump administration with a $54 million lawsuit, claiming the president overstepped his authority with emergency tariffs that have cost the company hundreds of millions over the last two consecutive quarters.

The footwear giant filed the suit Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York City, naming U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Department of Treasury, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the Denver Business Journal reported. Trump administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, were also named in the action seeking $54 million in tariff refunds.

The lawsuit challenges the administration’s emergency tariffs, arguing that the law Trump cited in his April order does not authorize the president to levy tariffs and that the so-called national emergency was not a genuine emergency and did not involve an “unusual or extraordinary threat,” the lawsuit states, as per the Business Journal.

The company is hoping to recover the $54 million in duties it has already paid, plus interest. It also wants to protect itself from future unauthorized tariffs should the Supreme Court rule that they, in fact, were illegal. Since 2019, Crocs has begun to dial back Chinese production and warned that continued high tariffs could prompt a full relocation of its production.

Crocs is the latest major corporation to challenge Trump-era tariffs, following similar suits from Costco, Revlon, and Kawasaki Motors.

The hundreds of millions of dollars lost by Crocs is a major reversal of years of steady profitability, the Business Journal added in its Monday report.