President Donald Trump and his Cabinet celebrated their victory in a Supreme Court decision allowing the administration to deport under the Alien Enemies Act. The court ruled in Trump’s favor 5-4 on Monday, clearing Trump to use the 1798 statute typically reserved for wartime threats. He had used the act to fast-track the deportation of […]

North Carolina’s highest court stopped a voter eligibility inquiry in the last uncertified 2024 statewide election. The ruling concerns November’s Supreme Court race between Democratic incumbent Justice Allison Riggs and GOP Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin. While Allison was declared the victor by 734 votes, Griffin challenged the result. He argued roughly 65,000 people were ineligible […]

Republican Senate leaders on Monday downplayed the notion that a bipartisan bill to claw back Congress’s authority over tariffs from President Donald Trump would receive serious consideration. GOP leaders’ dismissal of a proposal from Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to require congressional tariff approval came after a third straight day of plunging […]

The Supreme Court on Monday handed the Trump administration a significant legal victory, allowing President Donald Trump to resume deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members under a wartime law invoked for the first time in peacetime. In a 5-4 decision, the justices lifted a lower court’s order that had blocked Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, […]