The White House shifted into damage-control mode Monday after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti forced officials to soften their rhetoric and exposed rare political vulnerability for the president on his strongest issue with voters: Immigration. Pretti was fatally shot Saturday during a confrontation with U.S. Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, the second American citizen […]
The Justice Department may soon ask the Supreme Court to step into President Donald Trump’s widening legal fight over his ability to keep the U.S. attorneys he’s selected in office, after a federal appeals court declined to reconsider a ruling that blocked one of his most prominent loyalists. In an order on Monday, the 3rd […]
The death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis is opening a new fault line between President Donald Trump and his conservative base as gun rights groups denounce what they say are a series of anti-Second Amendment statements justifying the shooting. The Trump administration has faced withering GOP criticism after officials argued that Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU […]
President Donald Trump’s decision Monday to dispatch border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota was welcomed by a growing number of Republicans on Capitol Hill who say the federal government must work to lower tensions following the fatal shooting of another civilian during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis. Trump’s move came after Border Patrol agents […]
Reform U.K., the rising right-wing populist political party threatening to eclipse the Conservatives in British politics, has just scored its biggest defection yet. Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman appeared alongside Reform leader Nigel Farage at a Veterans for Reform rally in London on Monday, where she condemned her former party, the Conservatives, as having “utterly […]
Senate Democrats dug in Monday with fresh demands for restrictions against federal immigration officers in exchange for passing a tranche of government funding bills following a second deadly shooting in Minnesota by agents. Stipulations from Democrats were abundant, as Congress barrels toward a Friday partial shutdown deadline and Republican leaders rebuffed calls for additional legal […]
The Trump administration was blocked late Saturday from revoking the legal status of thousands of migrants, thanks to a ruling from a federal judge who has frequently thwarted the administration’s immigration policies. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, ruled late Saturday that the Trump administration could not revoke a […]
Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly on Monday advanced legislation that would fundamentally alter the state’s firearm laws by outlawing the future sale and transfer of “assault-style” firearms in the Commonwealth. The Senate Courts of Justice Committee reported an amended version of Senate Bill 749, sponsored by Democratic state Sen. Saddam Salim, that would ban […]
The White House blamed Democrats on Monday for the fatal shooting of anti-U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protester Alex Pretti in Minnesota, even as President Donald Trump spent much of the last 24 hours trying to calm tensions over the incident. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at the day’s press briefing that […]
EXCLUSIVE – Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) is calling for a federal investigation into what he describes as organized left-wing groups operating in Minnesota, arguing they played a central role in unrest surrounding federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis. In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Fine said the demonstrations that followed the fatal shooting of […]
