At a recent rally, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy stood on an Ohio gubernatorial platform that includes reopening mental institutions. Ramaswamy has said as much before, arguing as he campaigned for president in 2023 that the “No. 1 psychiatric institution today” is jail. He echoes the same sentiment now, that “we are going to bring back the […]
Rep. Derek Tran (D-Calif.) is introducing legislation that would seek to rehire veterans terminated without reason under the Trump administration's mass layoffs across federal departments and agencies. Tran's bill would require the government to rehire veterans who were fired without reason since the beginning of President Trump's term. It also would require agencies to submit...
Elon Musk, the head of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), released a table Tuesday showing the Department of Education has made the most “progress with efficiency.” “The league table of which departments in the US government have made the most or least progress with efficiency,” Musk said in a post on...
Conservative lawyer George Conway said President Trump’s bold changes to the federal government reveal an effort to “destroy” its institutions and exact “revenge” on the country. “This is an attempt — basically, Donald Trump wants to have revenge on the United States of America,” Conway, a fierce Trump critic, said in an interview on MSNBC....
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is penning a bipartisanship-focused memoir that calls for compromise amid a deeply divided Congress. "Far From Home" details how Murkowski "learned to adapt to the harsh climate of Washington, D.C., and issues a fervent appeal for a politics grounded in compromise and compassion" publisher Forum Books said in promotional materials released...
Public nuisance is regularly being claimed as an unlimited vessel to load a wish list of policy preferences through litigation that have not and likely could not be achieved through legislation or regulation.
President Trump on Wednesday complained that The Wall Street Journal is not supportive enough of his agenda, knocking a recent editorial the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper published on his trade policies. "I don’t understand The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, never have," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. "They come to my aid when I...
President Trump suggested the business jet pilot who was involved in a near-miss at Chicago's Midway International Airport on Tuesday have his license suspended in a fiery post on social media. “GREAT JOB BY THE SOUTHWEST PILOTS IN CHICAGO. A NEARLY TRAGIC CLOSE CALL. PERHAPS SUSPEND THE PILOTS LICENSE OF THE OTHER PLANE, WHO MUST...
Monica Lewinsky says the "right way" for former President Clinton to have handled the fallout from their affair when she was a 22-year-old White House intern would have been either "to resign" or to have found a way to not throw a young person "under the bus." "I think that the right way to handle...