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Team Burnham have been properly triggered over the defence investment plan now they’ve found out £4.7bn of it is still to be funded. For the first time in the transition, they’re feeling furious. Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy have news that the scale of the black hole is even bigger than that. Also - is […]
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Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), who has served in Congress for nearly 30 years, lost a heated primary race on Tuesday night to Melat Kiros, a lawyer and Democratic Socialist.The race was called by NBC News and Bloomberg's Decision Desk HQ, with Kiros taking home more than 49 percent of the vote.DeGette's loss is the latest in a series of high-profile...
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A panel of political analysts recoiled in disgust at MAGA attacks against a Supreme Court justice.CNN anchor Abby Phillip shared online comments about Amy Coney Barrett in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to block Trump's efforts to kill birthright citizenship."Amy Coney Barrett is the poster child for why we need to repeal the Nineteenth...
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Vice President JD Vance's most recent jab at the pope backfired as onlookers shot back at him.During an appearance on Fox News, Vance questioned decisions by the American Pope Leo, who has emerged as a vocal advocate for immigrants and directly challenged the Trump administration's sweeping immigration crackdowns."I don't see Pope Leo as an...
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The Trump administration was dealt a major setback in its immigration plans after an appeals court torched it as Schrödinger-esque.A Denver-based federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected the Trump administration's push to jail immigrants in the U.S. without a bond hearing. In his opinion, Judge Richard Federico likened the Trump administration's...
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth suffered yet another loss in his legal fight to control the Pentagon press corps.In a brief order issued on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman issued a preliminary injunction in favor of The New York Times, barring Hegseth from enforcing a policy that effectively requires members of the press to be led...
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President Donald Trump lost big at the Supreme Court on Tuesday as a majority of the justices struck down his executive order abolishing birthright citizenship in the United States — but it's possible there's an alternate reality in which he could have won this, the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote.Specifically, they argued,...
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CNN analysts stressed the gravity of revelations of Trump's major profits from cryptocurrency.According to a New York Times report, the Trump family profited to the tune of $1.4 billion through their cryptocurrency business. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper described the revelations as "incredible" and "stunning" as he spoke with other analysts....
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President Donald Trump's top adviser Stephen Miller suggested on Fox News Tuesday evening that now the Supreme Court has struck down the executive order abolishing birthright citizenship, the administration could retaliate by prohibiting all foreign pregnant women from entering the country as a means of preventing the right from being granted."If...
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Political analysts ridiculed Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday night after he gave a bizarre interview to Fox News host Laura Ingraham. During the interview, Vance claimed that Democrats were not working with Republicans to address the rising cost of living. That's despite Congress passing the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act with overwhelming...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson attempted to pass President Donald Trump's Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or the SAVE America Act, by attaching it to the annual defense budget bill, or NDAA, a strategy devised by conservative hardliners led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL). However, the plan backfired when 14 House Republicans blocked the...
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A legal expert was alarmed on Tuesday after analyzing the recent spate of opinions handed down by the Supreme Court. Quinta Jurecic, a staff writer at The Atlantic, said in a recent interview with Will Gotsegen, another staff writer at the publication, that the Supreme Court sent a troubling signal to President Donald Trump that it is still willing...
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A presidential historian is sounding the alarm about a recent mining deal that's expected to enrich the Trump family."The audacity is so off the Richter scale," Douglas Brinkley said about a deal between the Trump administration and Kazakhstan to access one of the world's largest untapped reserves of tungsten.The New York Times reported on the $1.6...
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) revealed something "deeply disturbing" about the state of American politics on Tuesday after he melted down over a recent Supreme Court decision. Johnson was asked by reporters for his reaction to the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision to uphold birthright citizenship, a move that court watchers described as a rebuke of...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) lashed out at far-right rebels in his caucus as their plan to force passage of the SAVE America Act crumbled around them on Tuesday, CNN reported.The SAVE America Act, pushed aggressively by President Donald Trump for months, would add draconian new requirements to voter registration and verification, billed as...
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Former RNC spokesperson Cheri Jacobus claimed President Donald Trump is "too mentally feeble" to hold office and executive assistant Natalie Harp has effectively taken control of the West Wing.Speaking on her YouTube show, Jacobus said, "Natalie Harp. She's a 34-year-old executive assistant to Trump, and she has unnerved her colleagues by leaving...
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A columnist is warning that the Trump administration is "stocked" with operatives ready for an assault on American freedom.Paul Waldman wrote in a Tuesday piece for Public Notice that the "religious right" is "pushing harder every year" for Christian nationalism, and the Trump White House is "stocked" with operatives ready to join the fight."The...
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Second lady Usha Vance attended the Great American State Fair on the National Mall to host a bookmark contest, but despite her efforts to pretend otherwise, she was greeted with the same thing the rest of the Trump administration has seen — sparse to nearly nonexistent attendance.According to The Daily Beast, "the vice president's wife presented...
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Freedom 250 is calling crowd critics "Negative Nancy skeptics" as DC News Now reported sparse attendance at the Great American State Fair.President Donald Trump created Freedom 250 to run the 16-day fair on the National Mall, part of America's 250th anniversary celebration."Anyone betting on empty celebrations bet wrong," Freedom 250 spokesperson...
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Legal analyst Lisa Rubin characterized Justice Clarence Thomas' birthright citizenship dissent as "disappointing" during an MS NOW discussion following the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling upholding birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara. Rubin said Thomas was "picking up a thread that Solicitor General John Sauer left for him" and "taking the bait"...
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A MAGA lawmaker sparked outrage after he made a wild claim about the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela during an interview on CNN. Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), who is known as one of Trump's close allies in Congress, told CNN's Boris Sanchez on Tuesday that the Trump administration bears no responsibility to account for the more than 150 people...
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The Reflecting Pool is lined with a toxic epoxy that will have "long-lasting effects," according to a new report.The MeidasTouch News found safety data sheets that revealed the Reflecting Pool is lined with a material that is "toxic to aquatic life with long-lasting effects." The lining was put in as part of Trump's $14 million renovations.Multiple...
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In an apparent admission of defeat, the Trump administration is dismantling the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system, a controversial tool at the Department of Homeland Security to verify people's citizenship that they had been hoping to run every registered voter in the country through.The news was broken on X by ProPublica...
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After being dealt another defeat by the conservative Supreme Court, President Donald Trump called on Congress to end birthright citizenship, but one of his biggest supporters on Capitol Hill is going a step further and is now calling for a ten-year moratorium on all immigration. "We need to put a bed sheet over the Statue of Liberty for ten years,"...
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a midterm convention slated for Dallas, Texas, ahead of the highly anticipated November election.In a post on his Truth Social platform, he shared details about the "first time ever" event on Sept. 9 and 10."BIG NEWS! For the first time ever, the Republican Party will hold a MIDTERM CONVENTION," Trump...
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The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis, a prominent pro-Trump conservative media figure, is drowning in criticism after proposing that the U.S. "require sterilization of all foreign visitors prior to entry."Davis posted a seven-point list on X after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that birthright citizenship — the guarantee that anyone born on...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (10 hours ago)
The Reflecting Pool is lined with a toxic epoxy that will have "long-lasting effects," according to a new report.The MeidasTouch News found safety data sheets that revealed the Reflecting Pool is lined with a material that is "toxic to aquatic life with long-lasting effects." The lining was put in as part of Trump's $14 million renovations.Multiple...
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Infighting broke out between Republicans on Tuesday after a GOP lawmaker who went missing for nearly four months broke his silence and explained why he was absent.Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) responded to questions from TMZ after Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) announced on the House floor that depression was the reason for his disappearance."I think it's...
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Less than an hour after the Supreme Court dealt the Trump administration a devastating blow by rejecting its attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump began plotting a legislative workaround. On Truth Social, Trump wrote, "The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
A CNN anchor was shocked by a montage of Republican outrage over the Supreme Court rebuffing their immigration demands.Kasie Hunt opened her Tuesday episode of The Arena with a segment about the Supreme Court's 6-3 vote to block Trump from unilaterally ending birthright citizenship. The segment featured a clip with GOP reactions to the "stinging...
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MAGA followers were livid after first lady Melania Trump issued a rare statement voicing her support for the LGBTQ+ community on Tuesday.Trump shared her comments in a post on X following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold laws in West Virginia and Idaho that bar transgender girls from female school sports. The ruling was considered a setback...
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A Fox guest called Justice Samuel Alito an "anchor baby" on live television Tuesday, but the attack is almost certainly false.The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that day to uphold birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump's executive order to restrict it. Alito was one of three justices who dissented.Charles Kuck, an immigration...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (11 hours ago)
The Supreme Court has always insisted that the justices are good friends and get along well, despite the bitter partisan nature of many of the issues they decide. But with many of the justices sniping at each other over concurrences and dissents in Tuesday's landmark decision blocking President Donald Trump from revoking birthright citizenship,...
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Internal financial documents reveal Salus Worldwide Solutions, or Salus, the contractor managing President Donald Trump's $1 billion Project Homecoming self-deportation initiative, almost exhausted its funds by May. A burn-rate dashboard, a financial tool used to visualize and track a company's cash flow, projected the company would reach "burnout"...
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First Lady Melania Trump put a new spin on a Supreme Court ruling her husband called a "big win," declaring that she "fully supports the LGBTQIA+ community."The U.S. Supreme Court ruled six to three on Tuesday that schools may ban transgender athletes from women's and girls' sports. President Donald Trump cheered."BIG WIN: The United States Supreme...
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A Republican and a Democratic lawmaker started screaming at each other during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.The heated clash between Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) happened during a hearing on sanctuary policies before a House Judiciary subcommittee. Raskin attempted to get Lawler to condemn the killings of Alex Pretti...
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A Republican-controlled House panel on Monday refused to allow a floor vote on a bipartisan amendment to prevent closer integration of the American and Israeli militaries, which human rights organizations say would deepen US complicity in Israeli war crimes."This is unconscionable,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who led the proposed amendment...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) attempted an end-run strategy to pass President Donald Trump's anti-voting-rights SAVE America Act through Congress — only for a contingent of Republicans to block it and deal him a fresh humiliation. And MS NOW commenters were quick to react."Mike Johnson just tried to get the SAVE America Act through the...
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The internet criticized President Donald Trump's response on Tuesday to the Supreme Court ruling that upheld birthright citizenship and rejected the president's executive order.Trump posted a bizarre — and apparently sarcastic — statement on his Truth Social platform following the ruling."I would like to congratulate President Xi, and the Great...
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A firebrand candidate for governor of Florida who has become infamous for white supremacist antics is being targeted by a lawsuit from one of his opponents to throw him off the ballot — but even some MAGA commentators who oppose that candidate are lashing out over the move.Earlier this week, Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins announced a lawsuit...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (13 hours ago)
Longtime conservative columnist Matt Lewis, who supported Marco Rubio in 2016, expressed concerns about the Secretary of State's viability as President Donald Trump's presumed MAGA successor, questioning whether he is "damaged goods." Writing for NOTUS, Lewis articulated his central worry: while a President Rubio offers "a tiny bit of hope," that...
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A Louisiana Republican sparked ridicule on social media Tuesday when he tried to brag about the number of attendees at President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair while pointing to a nearly empty National Mall on live TV.Gov. Jeff Landry, a frequent Fox News guest, became the latest figure pulled into the mockery surrounding Trump's fair...
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President Donald Trump is "too mentally feeble" to hold office and a "crazy, stalker-ish" aide has effectively taken control of the West Wing, former RNC spokesperson Cheri Jacobus said.Jacobus made the comments on her Tuesday YouTube show, Politics with Cheri Jacobus, about Natalie Harp, 34, an aide to Trump since 2022 who became his executive...
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Accounting firms could be asked to split their lucrative consulting services from their audit functions and individual firm partners could face far greater scrutiny and penalties for legal breaches, under a shake up of the industry being consulted on by the federal government.
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A new poll revealed that President Donald Trump's scandal-plagued pick in the Texas Senate race, Attorney General Ken Paxton, might not win his critical election, The Daily Beast reported on Tuesday.A New York Times/Siena poll of 656 likely Texas voters found that Paxton is tied at 47 percent in the midterm face-off against Democratic candidate...
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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 argument that would have effectively rewritten 14th...
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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 Hill when the host clarified a talking point...
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Darializa Avila Chevalier, the progressive organizer whose primary victory over five-term Democratic Congressman Adriano Espaillat last week stunned the party's establishment, was among those calling for the expulsion of New York City Council member Vickie Paladino Tuesday night after the Republican issued "a thinly veiled call” for the...
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Daily Wire podcaster Matt Walsh was on the receiving end of a legal and personal beatdown over a panicked response to the Supreme Court upholding birthright citizenship on Tuesday.While Republican members of Congress were waving the bloody flag over Donald Trump's courtroom loss with promises of legislative action, Walsh hit the panic button over...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) asserted to Politico that a bipartisan, landmark housing bill will become law and President Donald Trump will not veto it.This marks one of the few issues on which Johnson has threatened Trump, according to Politico's Meredith Lee Hill. Johnson's statement followed Trump's public criticism of the bill as...
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While the Supreme Court narrowly ruled against President Donald Trump's attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship, the way the justices actually split their votes carried a disturbing message of its own, attorney and former United Nations delegate Andrew Weinstein warned on Tuesday.On Tuesday, four of the Supreme Court's nine justices indicated...
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Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) accused White House budget director Russ Vought of dodging repeated questions about whether USAID funding cuts have killed people.The clash unfolded at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing this week, where Vought, who leads the Office of Management and Budget, testified on the agency's budget.A Lancet study published...
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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 that Salus Worldwide Solutions, the company managing...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (15 hours ago)
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 on temporary visas.The executive order never took...
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President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of a golden eagle attached to the White House facade on Monday. "A Golden Gift to the White House for its 250th Birthday Year!" The President posted on Truth Social. The eagle holds a red, white, and gold shield surrounded by 11 stars. The post immediately drew widespread ridicule on social media....
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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 cryptic explanations while he was gone, citing a...
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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 warning about this case spearheaded by [Vice...
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The Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow Tuesday to the Trump administration's attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship, but less than an hour after the justices handed down their decision, President Donald Trump was already musing on how to sidestep the court's ruling."The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our...
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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 citizenship, "but the Court split 5-4 on whether a...
ReadRaw Story - Politics (16 hours ago)
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 Trump's executive order attempting to eliminate...
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Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) said Tuesday that depression was behind his nearly four-month disappearance from Congress.Kean had not cast a vote since March 5. He missed more than 100 votes.His office had previously blamed only a vague "personal medical issue.""Several months ago, due to health concerns, I entered the hospital for some testing," Kean...
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Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann expressed deep concern about the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Trump v. Slaughter, which overturned 91 years of precedent allowing presidents to fire independent agency members without cause. Weissmann highlighted Chief Justice Roberts' use of the word "secrecy" when describing executive branch vitality,...
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Another Republican Senate candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump is facing scrutiny about giving a plea deal to a man accused of sexually abusing children.Montana GOP Senate nominee Kurt Alme oversaw a case as the state's U.S. attorney involving tribal police officer Mychal Thomas Damon, who investigators said admitted to molesting a...
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Ses équipes n'en font pas mystère : Edouard Philippe ne peut pas rater son meeting de dimanche à Paris alors que le candidat avait repoussé son entrée en campagne pour la présidentielle. Celui qui reste le favori du bloc central a besoin d'enclencher une dynamique s'il veut plier le match avec ses adversaires, à commencer […]
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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 Kavanaugh took the lead and wrote that schools "may...
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A veteran Supreme Court correspondent apparently jumped the gun with a report that Justice Samuel Alito is retiring.NPR's Nina Totenberg reported Tuesday, just after the current term's last opinions were handed down, that the 76-year-old George W. Bush appointee was stepping down, but the network quickly retracted the breaking news article.Alito...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) let out a growling sound when a reporter told him in real-time that the Supreme Court had rejected President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order. Johnson was attending a House Republican Caucus meeting and spoke to reporters when he was told about the high court's decision to uphold birthright...
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Justice Clarence Thomas's eyebrow-raising birthright citizenship dissent on Tuesday became the topic of discussion on MS NOW, with one anchor describing it as "astonishing" and legal analyst Lisa Rubin calling it "disappointing.""Astonishing may be the wrong word; I think disappointing maybe another word," Rubin said, telling viewers the dissent...
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