A former Trump administration official clashed with a CNN anchor in a heated exchange after he was fact-checked about birthright citizenship during a live broadcast on Tuesday. Ken Cuccinelli, former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security under President Donald Trump, was talking to CNN anchor Eric H…
As the Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling on the last day of its term protecting birthright citizenship and invalidating a signature policy of President Donald Trump’s administration, Justice Clarence Thomas took a swipe at the majority in his dissent, stunning legal experts with an argumen…
Internal financial documents reveal that the contractor running President Trump’s flagship $1 billion self-deportation initiative, Project Homecoming, came within weeks of running out of money entirely.A burn-rate dashboard dated May 7 and shared with the Department of Homeland Security projected th…
Today, the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s Day One executive order canceling the right to birthright citizenship. Good. That executive order declared that children born in the U.S. would not be considered citizens if their parents were living in the country illegally or were visiting the country o…
The internet slammed Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) on Tuesday, calling him out for cutting Medicaid and healthcare services — the same ones he needed — after he revealed that he had been battling depression and was hospitalized, disappearing from Congress for nearly four months.Kean’s office had given cr…
Reactions were mounting among legal analysts Tuesday after the Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order.The divided court ruled in a 6-3 majority decision in Trump v. Barbara, upholding the 14th Amendment and blocking Trump’s efforts to eliminate birthright citize…
While the Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday regarding birthright citizenship dominated news headlines, another ruling delivered by the court moments earlier may ultimately “destroy what remains of America’s anti-corruption laws,” journalist David Sirota warned.“For the last 2 years, [we have] been wa…
Justice Brett Kavanaugh helped hand Donald Trump a defeat on birthright citizenship on Tuesday while simultaneously offering a roadmap for how a future Congress could accomplish what the Supreme Court refused to allow the president to do unilaterally.Kavanaugh joined the majority in striking down Tr…
For one day, at least, the Constitution held, and in the chaotic and disjointed time we are living in, and where we hold our breath awaiting the rulings of an overtly bigoted Supreme Court, that is saying an awful lot.The court today struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to…
Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was taken to task on Tuesday over his non-legalistic claims in a ruling that allows states to bar transgender female athletes from participating on girls’ and women’s sports teams.In the 6-3 decision for the conservative majority Justice Brett Kavan…