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A federal appeals court has just affirmed one of the largest defamation awards in recent history – an $83.3 million verdict against a sitting U.S. President. The ruling in the E. Jean Carroll case is a major legal blow to…
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SCOTUS Allows Trump to Keep Fired FTC Commissioner Off Payroll
With a brief, temporary order, Chief Justice John Roberts has paused a lower court’s ruling, allowing President Trump to, for now, keep a fired Federal Trade Commissioner off the government payroll. This seemingly minor procedural move is the opening salvo…
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Supreme Court Lifts Injunction, Allowing Trump Administration to Continue Patrols in California
An ICE agent is on patrol in Southern California. In a split second, they must decide whether to stop and interrogate a person based on a handful of factors. Can they consider the language a person is speaking, their apparent…
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JD Vance Teases 2028 White House Run, Says It “Won’t Be Given to Me.”
It is a familiar ritual in Washington D.C. A sitting Vice President, just seven months into a new term, is asked about his future ambitions. He gives the expected, coy answer, insisting he is focused only on “the current job.”…
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Jury Selection Starts for Man Who Tried to Assassinate President Trump
The trial beginning today in a Florida courtroom is for one of the most serious crimes imaginable in a democracy: the attempted assassination of a president. But the proceedings are already marked by extraordinary circumstances. The defendant is representing himself.…
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Amy Coney Barrett Breaks Her Silence: An “Awkward” Start, “Spicy” Feuds, and the One Topic She Refused to Touch
A Supreme Court Justice sat on a stage at Lincoln Center, not in a courtroom, offering a rare glimpse behind the curtain of the most powerful and secretive institution in Washington. As she promotes her new memoir, Justice Amy Coney…
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Judge Blocks Trump’s Plan to End Protections for 1 Million Immigrants as DHS Vows to Fight Back
The fate of over a million people from Haiti and Venezuela, who have built lives in the United States for years under a legal program called Temporary Protected Status, now hangs in the balance. A federal judge has just blocked…
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An Unlikely Ally: The NRA, the Second Amendment, and a New Front in the Transgender Rights Battle
The nation’s most powerful gun rights organization, long seen as a monolithic force in conservative politics, has just found itself in a surprising and constitutionally significant position. It is now standing in opposition to a potential new policy from its…
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Trump Threatens “War” on Chicago with Chilling “Chipocalypse Now” Ahead of ICE Raids
“I love the smell of deportations in the morning.” With these words, posted to social media alongside an image of himself against the Chicago skyline, the President of the United States has declared his intention for a new crackdown on…
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The “Green Card” Agency is Now Hiring Its Own Cops to Arrest Immigrants
The federal agency that welcomes new citizens at naturalization ceremonies and processes green cards for families is now hiring its own armed police force. This quiet, bureaucratic change is not a minor adjustment. It is a radical and constitutionally significant…