AI-generated image. Today, in Refugee and Immigrant Center for Legal and Educational Services v. Noem, US District Court Judge Randolph Moss issued an important decision blocking Donald Trump’s January 20 “invasion” executive proclamation, which sought to foreclose nearly all pathways to legal migration and asylum applications for migrants crossing the southern border. Trump claimed the […]
The University of Pennsylvania agreed to publicly affirm its commitment to barring transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports, the Education Department announced Tuesday, in a resolution with the Trump administration that will also require the school to modify a trio of records and apologize to several female competitors. “While Penn’s policies during the 2021-2022 […]
Paramount, which owns CBS, has agreed to settle a laughable lawsuit in which President Donald Trump depicted the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris as a form of consumer fraud that supposedly had inflicted damages “reasonably believed to be no less than” $20 billion. Compared to that risible claim, the amount that […]
President Donald Trump has routinely taken umbrage with journalists exercising their freedom of expression to report on the news, which the First Amendment absolutely protects. CNN is the president’s latest target. At a Tuesday press conference, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that her agency was “working with the Department of Justice” to see if […]
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against “universal injunctions” last week, President Donald Trump hailed the decision as a “GIANT WIN” for his administration. Trump added that “the Birthright Citizenship Hoax”—by which he meant the conventional understanding of the 14th Amendment—also had been “hit hard,” albeit “indirectly.” That take was misleading in two important ways. […]
When President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) against alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in March, he implicitly asserted that they were “natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects” of a “foreign nation or government” that had launched an “invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States.” But […]
President Donald Trump recently banned travel and immigration to the United States for nationals of a dozen countries, insisting that this would protect the U.S. from terrorists and criminals. The ban applies to Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. (It allows minor exceptions for […]
Elon Musk promises new political party:Â Like Larry David opening up a spite store, so too will Elon Musk start a spite party if President Donald Trump’s domestic policy bill passes. “If this insane spending bill passes, the America Party will be formed the next day,” wrote Musk on X. “Our country needs an alternative to […]
The U.S. Supreme Court concluded its 2024–25 term on Friday with a high-profile ruling that leaves President Donald Trump with more power to impose his second-term agenda. But the Court’s decision on nationwide injunctions also contained several exceptions that may render Trump’s victory short-lived. The big question now is exactly how long the president’s new […]
Domestic policy bill gets lambasted: “The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” wrote Elon Musk on X, referring to the version drafted by Senate Republicans. This is basically Groundhog Day: The last time Musk critiqued his former BFFs in the Trump administration, […]