Democratic strategist James Carville suggested the Trump administration is in “total meltdown” and “collapse” roughly 50 days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. While appearing on Fox News’s The Story with Martha MacCallum, Carville was presented with comments made by Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) on The View, during which the senator suggested that the United States […]
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that President Donald Trump lacked the authority to remove a Democratic member from the Federal Labor Relations Authority, ordering that Susan Tsui Grundmann be reinstated to her post. The decision by U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in Washington, D.C., is a blow to Trump’s broader efforts to assert control […]
A new Wisconsin research study has found that voter ID laws do not negatively affect voter turnout. Will Flanders with the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty examined voter turnout in Wisconsin over a 20-year period, beginning with the 2004 presidential election, and found no evidence of turnout suppression. In 2011, Wisconsin implemented a […]
Mass layoffs at the temporarily shuttered Department of Education sent shockwaves through Washington D.C., but they could foretell even bigger things to come. “Many of them don’t work at all,” President Donald Trump said of the 1,315 Education Department employees who got pink slips Tuesday evening. “We’re keeping the best ones.” That same pattern could […]
Ukrainian forces are fleeing the strategic region of Kursk after Russia took the city of Sudzha in a lightning offensive. In August, Ukraine launched the first invasion of Russia since World War II, rapidly seizing roughly 386 square miles centered on the city of Sudzha. Kyiv hoped to use the enclave as a bargaining chip […]
A judge on Wednesday imposed a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration, barring it from enforcing parts of an executive order penalizing a top Democratic-linked law firm that was involved in pushing discredited Russian collusion allegations during the first Trump presidency. Judge Beryl Howell said during a hearing that Perkins Coie, which aided Hillary Clinton during the […]
The Federal Communications Commission announced a new effort to reverse regulations on the tech, media, and telecommunications industries. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced Wednesday that the agency has launched a new large-scale deregulatory initiative. He said the agency will seek public comment on “every rule, regulation, or guidance” that it could “eliminate for the purposes […]
A judge spent much of an hourslong hearing on Wednesday lecturing Justice Department attorneys as she weighed whether to grant an injunction against President Donald Trump’s executive order on transgender service members. Judge Ana Reyes peppered the attorneys with rhetorical questions, berated them for what she said was a gross lack of preparedness, and painstakingly […]
The Trump administration is gutting a division at the Department of Justice that oversees prosecutions of public officials accused of corruption. Only a small number of employees at the Public Integrity Section, which oversees some of the country’s most high-profile and sensitive prosecutions, will remain as prosecutors are being ordered to take other roles within […]
The United States Department of Agriculture is temporarily pulling its funding for the University of Maine System a week after the Trump administration sent a violation notice to Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) for allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports. USDA sent an email to the university ordering “awarding agencies and staff offices to […]
