On Monday, the Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to halt a sweeping lower court order requiring six federal agencies to reinstate over 16,000 recently terminated probationary employees immediately. “DOJ just took to the Supreme Court a single district judge’s order forcing the reinstatement of 16,000 probationary employees,” Chad Mizelle, chief of staff to the Justice Department, […]
Three Georgia state lawmakers defied their party to support Gov. Brian Kemp’s legislation seeking to increase barriers to litigation suits, with criticism of the move prompting one Democrat to consider leaving the party. At the center of the Democratic Party’s fury are Reps. Mack Jackson, Michelle Au, and Carl Gilliard. Jackson, who has a track […]
The Washington Examiner’s Byron York suggested that the Trump administration could win over public support for its deportation of illegal immigrants if it can show proof that they belong to foreign gangs. The Trump administration has said it is certain it is deporting members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to El Salvador, with […]
Judge James Boasberg denied the Trump administration‘s request to lift a temporary block on deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members through the Alien Enemies Act, saying in an order issued Monday that the migrants are allowed to challenge whether they qualify for deportation. Boasberg, an Obama appointee, wrote that the Trump administration gave little to no […]
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump is casting a long shadow over New York as he begins to assert unprecedented control over his old home state. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) is locked in a power struggle with billions on the line as Trump moves to dismantle a new toll into Manhattan. The president, meanwhile, has […]
Former Rep. Mia Love’s death Sunday prompted a swarm of condolences to her family from her former coworkers on Capitol Hill. Love, 49, who had been battling brain cancer since 2022, was the first black Republican woman to serve in the House of Representatives. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said on X that Love’s death “leaves […]
Auburn University men’s basketball head coach Bruce Pearl said his players fully backed his decision to remind the millions of people watching March Madness of Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage in Gaza. “I was gonna go to the press conference and talk just about the game, but I was walking down the hall […]
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to revisit defamation protections created in its landmark 1964 ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan. This precedent has been subject to scrutiny by President Donald Trump and two Republican-appointed justices. The high court declined to take up an appeal by Steve Wynn, the ex-CEO of Wynn Resorts, of a decision made by […]
Democratic gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey are aiming to run on a platform that would enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution despite facing limited backing from prominent abortion rights advocates. The front-runner, Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ), and former Senate President Steve Sweeney are both making promises to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. […]
President Donald Trump suggested the man who shot and killed the country’s 35th president decades ago may not have acted alone. After President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, the government said Lee Harvey Oswald had carried out the murder and acted alone. Yet conspiracy theories about what happened on the day […]
