2000—Nearly two years after Florida voters vote, 73% to 27%, to amend the state constitution to require that Florida’s ban on “cruel or unusual punishment”…
President Trump on Friday deflected when asked if he signed the order to invoke the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law, to deport Venezuelan migrants allegedly linked to the Tren de Aragua gang. “We want to get criminals out of our country number one. I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t...
Defenders of the Department of Education are turning to the courts to save it after President Trump signed an executive order to abolish it and on Friday said he would move some of its most critical loan programs to the Small Business Administration (SBA). Trump cannot abolish the department without an act of Congress, and...
The Trump administration is on a collision course with the courts after a week spent taunting a federal judge and escalating a battle over whether his orders have been defied. Administration officials on March 15 rebuffed an oral order from U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg to turn around or halt flights of Venezuelan migrants headed to a Salvadoran prison....
A Washington Post editorial appeared earlier this week headlined “Trump’s efforts to intimidate the legal profession cannot stand.” Within 48 hours later, those efforts were not merely standing. They had worked — at least in one case. The major law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (called Paul, Weiss), targeted by President Trump in...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is positioning herself in a leading role among Democrats as discontent grows among the party’s base in the second Trump era. Ocasio-Cortez is on the road with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as part of their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour aimed at rallying Democrats. The progressive congresswoman has also been one of the...
President Trump axed security clearances and revoked access to classified information for several political figures on Friday, including his election rivals Hillary Clinton and former Vice President Kamala Harris as well as former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). Trump said in a late Friday memo that he “determined” it is no longer in the “national interest”...
The Voice of America (VOA) workers, reporters, unions and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, contending that shuttering the U.S.-funded news agencies violated several laws and asked the court to reinstate VOA. The lawsuit, which was filed late Friday in the Southern District of New York, was brought by a...
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) called for the government to reveal what it's spending taxpayer money on relating to Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) amid growing calls from lawmakers for increased transparency on the issue. "They're spending tens of millions of dollars on this subject. And then they turn around tell us they don't exist," the Tennessee...
A group of 24 House Democrats blasted the Small Business Administration (SBA) and is asking the agency for more answers over plans to relocate six of its regional offices out of “sanctuary cities,” contending the transfer would hamper millions of small businesses. The Democrats in the lower chamber said SBA’s Administrator Kelly Loeffler's plan to...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are in Denver on Friday, holding a rally in protest of President Trump's policies that they argue favor the rich. The event comes a day after Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez kicked off their "Fight Oligarchy" tour in Las Vegas. The two lawmakers focused much of their criticism...
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) launched a whistleblower portal to document President Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) efforts to overhaul the federal government and its initiatives to dismantle agencies and departments. The new portal, launched Friday, looks to tally information from both private and public employees regarding DOGE’s work. “Whistleblowers play a vital role in...
