A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from transferring more than a dozen transgender inmates, all biological males currently housed in women’s prisons across the country, back to men’s correctional facilities. This week’s development in the closely watched case comes as female inmates from another high-profile lawsuit look to join the legal fight after […]
Exactly twelve months ago, the Israel Defense Forces launched a surprise attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran designed to degrade the mullahs’ fearsome nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Israel called the mission Operation Rising Lion, and it was later joined by a strike package of seven American B-2 bombers, which leveled Iran’s hardened Fordow […]
Death threats continue to plague Department of Homeland Security officers throughout the country, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently arrested a Washington man who threatened to kill DHS officials. The suspect, Manuel Lozano, a United States citizen, threatened to shoot the federal law enforcement officers with an AR-15-style rifle during a confrontation in May. According […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is winding down his long political career. “I suspect that’s not going to happen,” he told journalist Robert Costa when asked about a third bid for the Democratic presidential nomination during an event at the National Press Club. Sanders had all but ruled out running for reelection to the Senate seat […]
President Donald Trump called for the expulsion of Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) from Congress on Thursday night, claiming that there is a known plot by the Democratic congressman to engage in impeachment proceedings should the Democrats win control of the House of Representatives in November. Trump referenced a social media post by political commentator Mark […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to overrule a federal judge’s order that blocked Alabama from executing an inmate accused of murder with nitrogen gas. Jeffery Lee was set to be executed at 6 p.m. Thursday local time under Alabama’s nitrogen hypoxia protocol, but the state chose not to proceed with the execution until the […]
President Donald Trump reportedly supports the House GOP’s consideration of a resolution to void the two failed impeachments during his first term in office. The resolution would symbolically, not legally, erase Trump’s impeachment record, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The president and his allies have recently discussed the idea with Republican lawmakers. “It […]
The Kennedy Center‘s board of trustees voted on Thursday to appeal an Obama-appointed federal judge’s order that requires President Donald Trump‘s name to be removed from the performing arts building by Friday. The board vote came hours before all references to Trump in the Kennedy Center’s signage, digital materials, and branding were supposed to be […]
Justice Clarence Thomas urged his colleagues on the Supreme Court to “reexamine” a legal doctrine that prevents someone from taking a contrary position in a lawsuit from one they took in a previous lawsuit, questioning its foundation in law. Thomas took aim at judicial estoppel in a separate concurring opinion published Thursday in the case […]
A federal appeals court is allowing President Donald Trump to collect his temporary 10% global tariffs for now while the legal challenges against the trade levies proceed through the judicial system. In a Thursday ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., concluded the Trump administration‘s case in defense of […]
