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Federal Judge James Boasberg quashed two grand jury subpoenas on Friday afternoon that are part of the Justice Department’s criminal investigation...
The United States has welcomed refugees fleeing persecution under the same law for 45 years, following a tradition dating back to World War II....
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that most of President Donald Trump’s world-wide tariffs are illegal, dealing a setback to one of the president’s...
As January comes to a close, it should not just become a harrowing memory. The past four weeks are a harbinger of what is to come under President...
For nearly two months, the Trump administration has unleashed immigration officers on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul in a siege of increasing...
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court sat for oral arguments over whether the all-powerful president the justices have created in recent years can control...
A Republican-appointed majority of Supreme Court justices appeared ready to uphold two state laws that ban transgender women and girls from...
In their swift march toward installing a kind of Oval Office monarchy over the past year, the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority has...
The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. This is a non-exhaustive and totally subjective...
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a case that could unravel the final remaining limits on the ultra-rich writing unlimited checks...
Oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Monday over the president’s power to remove the commissioners of independent agencies left little doubt that...
President Donald Trump’s quest to gerrymander red states so that the Republican Party cannot lose the House of Representatives in 2026 hit a snag on...
After Wednesday’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court, it appears that a majority of the justices will vote to halt Trump’s imposition of sweeping...
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on almost every nation on earth,...
President Donald Trump is demanding that the Justice Department transfer $230 million in taxpayer dollars into his own personal bank account. He can...
The current Supreme Court, helmed by Chief Justice John Roberts, has been focused on chipping away at civil rights laws and policies for 20 years. On...
Perhaps the most brazenly illegal action of President Donald Trump’s second term so far took place on his first day in office: an order to deny...
The Supreme Court’s Republican appointees on Friday let the Trump administration end the legal status of 300,000 Venezuelan immigrants who were...
The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—the immigrant whose deportation to a Salvadoran prison in March caused national outrage—has taken a new turn. On...
Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court for 20 years now. In that time, his Republican-appointed majority has completely transformed...
Last Monday, federal prosecutors in Alabama revealed that they had indicted a lawyer for allegedly making false statements under oath. Perhaps such a...
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a one-time ally turned critic of President Donald Trump, observed recently that Trump has torn down the...
On October 15, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case that threatens to reshape American politics by making elected leaders whiter and...
In greater Los Angeles, the Trump administration’s goal of deporting millions of people is being operationalized through often violent raids that...
Donald Trump is not particularly popular. The only recent president with lower approval ratings six months into his term was Trump, in his first term....
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to hide what you are doing in Washington, announce it on a Friday evening in the heat of...
Over and over again, Democratic members of Congress have attempted to enter Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities to investigate the...
After nearly two years of war between Israel and Hamas, Gaza is on the brink of mass starvation. Children are dying. Aid workers and doctors push...
As President Donald Trump takes a beating from his own MAGA crowd for his handling of the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased pedophile and sex...
Inside the State Department, employees are packing up their belongings in anticipation of a reorganization and reduction in force that is expected to...
On the 249 anniversary of the country’s declaration of independence from tyranny, the Trump administration was in court asking a judge to let it...
Remember when Congress banned TikTok? A bipartisan majority passed a law last year to ban the massively popular social media platform due to the...
Last week, the Supreme Court ended a term unlike any other. The Roberts Court, with its 6-3 majority of Republican appointees, continued to issue...
Once upon a time, there was a president who wanted to be king. His Congress was acquiescent. The high court approved. But lower federal courts held...
The headline from the Supreme Court on Thursday is that the GOP-appointed justices green lit efforts by Republican-controlled states to defund Planned...
The Trump administration argues it has the right to deport certain immigrants to far-flung, dangerous locations such as Libya, South Sudan, and an...
The Trump administration is investigating whether former President Joe Biden was so enfeebled that his advisers secretly ran the country on his...
On May 16, the Supreme Court handed down a significant order in one of the many swirling cases over the Trump administration’s efforts to seize...
On Thursday night, the Supreme Court’s six Republican-appointed justices allowed President Donald Trump to remove two executive branch officials:...
House Republicans whose seats are not safe in the 2026 midterm elections voted early on Thursday morning to advance the largest cuts to Medicaid in...
Not even a year ago, though it feels like a decade, the US Supreme Court granted presidents immunity from criminal laws when they act in their...
When the Trump administration asks the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to deny birthright citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants...
In 2022, Florida Republicans enacted the Stop WOKE Act, which sought to remove from school curriculums any lessons that might cause students to feel...
It all started with Richard Nixon. It was the summer of 1974, and Watergate was closing in on his presidency. A grand jury had subpoenaed secret...
In modern America, religious education is offered in private schools or in a homeschooling setting. Public education, by contrast, is secular, because...
On Tuesday, a group of religious parents had their day at the Supreme Court, hoping the justices would grant them something extraordinary: the ability...
A conservative federal judge just issued a dire warning: The government must bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States after he was...
At any moment, the Supreme Court will issue a decision in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom the Trump administration admits it...
Just a few months ago, Americans’ optimism about the economy was on the rise. The stock market boomed after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, and...
When Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) went from a likely no vote on confirming Pete Hegseth to become Defense Secretary to an easy yes, the switch was...
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