Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has issued a rare statement rebuking President Donald Trump for calling for the impeachment of a federal judge. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts, a conservative, wrote …
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Should U.S. gun manufacturers who flood weapons dealers in border states with the guns that drive cartel violence in Mexico be held liable in court? The Supreme Court heard arguments last week about whether a case brought by the Mexican government can go to trial. The gun industry is armed …
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Donald Trump, in his speech at the Department of Justice on Friday, said it “should be illegal” for people to criticize judges, adding that it “probably is illegal in some form.” It’s not the first time the president has expressed this sentiment — on the campaign trail last year, Trump …
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The Supreme Court will take up a challenge to a Colorado law banning the use of conversion therapy on minors. Conversion therapy is a discredited practice that seeks to change the gender or sexual identity of LGBTQ+ individuals. Kaley Chiles, a Colorado-based professional counselor, challenged the state’s law banning conversion …
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The Supreme Court rejected a bid by the Trump administration to continue withholding billions of dollars in foreign aid. In a 5-4 decision on Wednesday, the court declined to overturn a lower court ruling that ordered the administration to unfreeze over $2 billion in USAID funds to pay outstanding invoices …
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Donald Trump has been back in office for less than one month, and he, Elon Musk, and his senior administration officials have already plunged the nation into an ongoing constitutional crisis and openly performed various brazen acts of lawlessness and gleeful corruption, while threatening to “look at” judges who object …
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This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to its newsletters. Toward the end of 2024, federal law enforcement officials were celebrating a banner year in their fight against homemade, untraceable “ghost guns.” In cities across the country, the number of ghost …
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The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has an office in the White House and played a prominent role in Donald Trump’s inauguration. He has a formal position reshaping government in the new administration and has already derailed a bipartisan spending deal in Congress. Global leaders are taking Musk’s meddling in …
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Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship is perhaps his most disturbing — representing a direct challenge to the plain language of the U.S. Constitution. It may also be one of the most straightforward Trump actions to reverse. Before Day One was over, the American Civil Liberties Union …
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As one of the first Post-9/11 veterans, I faced a stark choice from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) when I transitioned from military service to civilian life. While attending college, I could opt for the older, less generous Chapter 32 of the post-Vietnam era veterans’ Montgomery G.I. Bill, …
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