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Almost 500 people were detained during a raid of a Georgia battery plant owned by two South Korean manufacturers last week. Officials have admitted that some workers were lawfully employed but were forced to leave the country anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/b...
A federal lawsuit by two organizations that support the homeless claims HUD conditioned aid on applicants’ willingness to embrace Trump’s position on key issues. The suit comes as $75 million in homelessness grants are about to expire. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
A federal judge blocked federal agents and Los Angeles Police Department officers from using crowd-control weapons against journalists, citing an “avalanche of evidence” that the rights of reporters were violated while covering protests of immigration raids. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
By appealing the court ruling that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook can continue serving while she contests Trump's attempt to fire her, the administration is undermining the Fed’s independence at a crucial time. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
Three FBI agents are suing the Trump Administration for illegally firing them. Forcing out decorated agents because they refused loyalty tests to the White House undermines the rule of law and compromises public safety. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
Weekend Reading is back! Today’s post: “Monsters and their Enablers”—on how we got to this moment, why we’re trapped in an interregnum where monsters thrive, and what it will take to chart a new way forward.
The Trump administration’s federal control over Washington, D.C. will expire tonight. D.C. leaders who work with immigrant communities say involvement of local police with ICE over the past month had undone years of community work by city officials. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...
A federal judge blocked Trump’s unprecedented effort to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, ruling that Trump has failed to identify anything related to her conduct or job performance to justify the firing. www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/p...
The release of Trump’s alleged drawing and signature within Epstein’s birthday book continues to drive the national conversation despite the Trump Administration's desperate attempts to pivot away from Trump’s involvement in the controversy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
The Justice Department is compiling a national voting database from over 30 states to appease Trump’s demand to prove unsubstantiated claims that droves of undocumented immigrants have voted illegally. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...
The House Oversight Committee released more files turned over by the Epstein Estate which contain a sexually suggestive drawing accompanied by what appears to be Donald Trump’s signature. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...
RFK Jr. is sowing doubt against his own agency by declaring that the reported CDC COVID death count numbers are incorrect, jeopardizing national trust in public health. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
Trump attempted to downplay his social media post threatening to declare war on the city of Chicago, despite demonizing cities led by Democrats as “hellholes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
Following increased ICE presence in Washington, D.C., the Trump administration has begun an ICE operation in Massachusetts and other cities, threatening to hunt down people and deport them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/u...
The Department of Defense was so named because presidents from Truman onward wanted to show America’s strength without glorifying conflict. Now, Trump is signing an executive order renaming it the Department of War. www.nytimes.com/article/trum...
A group of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes held a press conference on the steps of the Capitol to increase pressure on lawmakers, calling them to support the release of all the Epstein files. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jef...
D.C.’s AG Brian Schwalb is suing the Trump administration for exceeding its authority in deploying the National Guard in the nation’s capital, describing it as an illegal “military occupation." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
A federal judge ruled the Trump Administration broke the law by illegally freezing billions of dollars in Harvard University’s research funding, compromising their First Amendment and due process rights in an effort to remake elite higher education by force. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
A dozen federal judges are frustrated with the Roberts Court for increasingly overturning lower court rulings involving the Trump administration with little to no explanation. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
A federal appeals county reinstated Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a Democrat who was fired by Trump from the Federal Trade Commission earlier this year, dealing a major blow to Trump’s efforts to stack oversight agencies with loyalists. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
A federal appeals court ruled Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to abduct Venezuelans is unlawful, blocking its use in several southern states. www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/p...
The Supreme Court will decide the future of voting rights protection in the upcoming term through Louisiana v. Callais, a decision that could end what is left of the Voting Rights Act. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of recruiting & trafficking minors for Epstein She got 20 years Now after a secret DOJ interview, Trump's DOJ moves her to a "country club" prison The dean of watchdogs, Fred Wertheimer from @democracy21.bsky.social details this travesty below 👇
A federal judge ruled that Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth violated federal law by using the US military in their immigration crackdown in Los Angeles and blocked them from deploying troops in California. www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/p...
In August, 445,000 federal employees lost union protections as a result of Trump’s executive order that called on federal agencies to ignore bargaining contracts with nearly one million workers. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
President Trump revoked former Vice President Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection, putting her at higher risk just before she embarks on a high-profile book tour. www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/p...
Emil Bove III continued working at the Justice Department as recently as last week, even though he was narrowly confirmed last month to serve as an appeals court judge — a conflict of interest that could undermine public confidence in the judiciary. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
President Trump’s firing of Fed Governor Lisa Cook has raised concerns ahead of a landmark legal case starting today. The case will decide whether the Federal Reserve remains an independent institution or falls under the direct control of the president. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook sued President Trump for what she called “unprecedented and illegal” efforts to remove her from the central bank, asking the court to declare the administration has no cause for her removal. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
The Trump Administration fired Susan Monarez, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, following her refusal to resign over pressure from HHS Secretary RFK Jr. to change vaccine policy. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
In the Trump administration's latest attempt to control the nation’s capital with military force, Transportation Secretary Duffy announced that the USDOT is devising a plan to take over D.C.’s Union Station. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook is planning to file a lawsuit to fight back against President Trump’s unprecedented move to fire her. www.reuters.com/business/fin...
DOGE employees uploaded a copy of a database containing all Social Security numbers issued by the federal government to a vulnerable cloud server, risking the private information of hundreds of millions of Americans. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Trump and his officials have a new tactic: accusing their enemies of mortgage fraud. They are accusing both Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook and New York Attorney General Letitia James of this in order to try to force their removal. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
President Trump claimed to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook last night, potentially undermining the independence of our nation’s central bank and concerning legal experts. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u...
Trump attacked ABC and NBC’s news coverage of his administration and threatened to revoke the two channels’ licenses. The FCC is not supposed to be a political weapon. Using broadcast licensing to settle personal scores shows contempt for our First Amendment. www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...
Trump’s D.C. crackdown has escalated: National Guard troops are now carrying weapons on city streets. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized this show of force, which some experts think signals an interest in intimidation rather than safety. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/u...
Just one week after being reunited with family, Kilmar Abrego García was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during an immigration check-in following Trump’s threat to deport him to Uganda. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The Trump administration is reviewing more than 55 million people with U.S. visas for any violations that could lead to deportation, part of a growing crackdown on foreigners who are legally permitted to be in the United States. apnews.com/article/trum...
The FBI is searching both the home and office of John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser turned critic, an escalation of the Trump administration’s efforts to weaponize the federal government against Trump’s supposed “enemies.” apnews.com/live/donald-...
The Supreme Court allowed the Trump Administration to block nearly $800 million in National Institutes of Health grants supporting race and gender research; however, the court also signaled that the president’s efforts to crack down on DEI may be in legal trouble. www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/p...
Texas House Republicans approved redrawn congressional maps at the urging of Trump, sending a gerrymandered map to the GOP-controlled Senate and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in an attempt to skew the upcoming 2026 midterm elections. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Trump has pledged to restrict mail-in ballots. Constitutional experts note that mail-in voting has been proven safe and reliable in U.S. elections. www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has revoked the security clearances of at least 37 national security officials, many of whom worked on vital Russia analysis or foreign threats to U.S. elections. www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...
Lawyers for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia are accusing the Justice Department of vindictive prosecution for bringing a criminal case against him after he and his lawyers fought his wrongful deportation. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
Trump accused the Smithsonian of focusing too much on “how bad slavery was” and not enough on the “brightness” of America, marking his latest attempt to both minimize and erase black history. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
Oklahoma is now requiring teaching applications from New York and California to take an “America First” test meant to screen out “woke indoctrinators” with left-wing views, pushing to censor progressive viewpoints. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
The Trump Administration left documents with confidential details about Trump and Putin’s Alaska meeting on a publicly accessible hotel printer, jeopardizing national security. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...
Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle a defamation lawsuit over false claims that Dominion’s machines rigged the 2020 election. This outcome proves that courts, facts, and persistence can prevail over noise and misinformation. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen pushed back against Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to D.C., calling it a blatant “abuse of power” and a “manufactured emergency.” abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen...
Despite a national backlash to the initiative, three Republican states — West Virginia, South Carolina, and Ohio — have pledged to deploy hundreds of members of their National Guard to D.C. as part of the Trump administration’s controversial policing overhaul. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A panel of appeals court judges ruled the Trump administration can suspend or terminate billions of dollars of funding for foreign aid. apnews.com/article/trum...
The Trump Administration faced skepticism from a district judge in its attempt to sue Maryland’s entire federal bench following a court order that temporarily halted the immediate deportation of migrants. apnews.com/article/trum...
The D.C. attorney general pushed back against the federal takeover of the city, challenging both Trump and Bondi's orders claiming federal control of the D.C. police force, arguing they exceed the limits on requesting services from D.C. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily allowed the Trump administration to continue withholding tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid — money that Congress already approved for food, medicine, and development programs. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore a portion of the 800 federal science research grants suspended at UCLA, delivering a major setback to efforts to force the university into a $1 billion settlement. calmatters.org/education/20...
As the Trump administration ramps up its efforts to control D.C. streets, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that the administration will jail or fine homeless people in D.C. if they refuse to move to shelters. www.npr.org/2025/08/13/n...
A federal appeals court has granted DOGE access to the sensitive data of millions of Americans stored at the Treasury Department, the Education Department, and the Office of Personnel Management, overruling a lower court that had blocked that access in February.
A federal appeals court has granted DOGE access to the sensitive data of millions of Americans stored at the Treasury Department, the Education Department, and the Office of Personnel Management, overruling a lower court that had blocked that access in February. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/u...
Trump has deployed 800 National Guard members to take over D.C., despite crime having drastically fallen since the last time he was president. apnews.com/article/wash...
The Trump Administration is evaluating plans to establish a “Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force” composed of 600 National Guard troops that could be aggressively deployed into cities with protests or unrest. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Republican lawmakers are set to kick 2.4 million Americans off food stamp benefits, cutting off vulnerable populations’ access to food. www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/p...
Crime in D.C. hit a 30-year low last year. Trump deploying the National Guard on the city is yet another authoritarian show of force. It's straight out of the dictator's playbook. https://youtu.be/WSxJRIiCNs8?feature=shared
For the first time, the Roberts Court will consider whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn the decision that legalized gay marriage, a eye-opening reminder of how rights remain vulnerable to political and judicial rollback. abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...
State Rep. Richard Peña Raymond, a South Texas Democrat, is resisting an aggressive Republican plan to redraw congressional district maps mid-decade, turning five districts into more Republican-friendly seats. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Violent crime in Washington has fallen dramatically over the last year, but instead of working with local leaders and respecting the city’s voters, Trump wants to flood the streets with federal agents and is threatening to strip D.C. of its self-governance. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
The Trump administration has ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to end collective bargaining with federal unions: a blatant attempt to punish unions that oppose his policies. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/u...
The Trump administration is ordering the FBI to find Texas Democrats who left the state to block Republican redistricting, in yet another misuse of law enforcement for political gain. www.texastribune.org/2025/08/07/j...
Trump continues to threaten federalization of Washington, D.C. However, he does not have the authority to federalize the district. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
The Public Interest Legal Foundation is pressuring states to disenfranchise thousands of voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump is ordering a “new and highly accurate CENSUS” and “people who are in our country illegally will NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS.” The census is a constitutionally mandated count of every person in the U.S. No one has ever excluded noncitizens from the count. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
The 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act isn’t just about honoring the past. It’s about protecting our future. Join us and demand Congress pass the John Lewis VRAA now: civilrights.quorum.us/campaign/110... #VRAat60
Trump continues to push to expand his power by threatening a federal takeover of the nation’s capital if the city “doesn’t get its act together.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from reallocating $4B meant to help communities protect against natural disasters. The judge stated that the 20 states that brought the lawsuit showed that the “balance of hardship and public interest” was in their favor. apnews.com/article/fema...
Concern over American democracy is growing as Trump pushes to secure more GOP seats in Texas. This latest power grab, led by someone who has already tried to overturn an election, comes amid his widening authoritarian reach. www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/p...
Trump, angered by the Bureau of Labor’s monthly jobs reports' low numbers, fires the government’s top labor official, Erika McEntarfer, in an attempt to conceal the real employment statistics that are undermining his so-called “golden age”. www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/p...
The Roberts Court will look the case on Louisiana's congressional map, which could potentially weaken the Voting Rights Act. Election law expert Rick Hasen described the move as “a big, and dangerous, step toward knocking down” a key pillar of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/p...
The GOP-led Senate voted to confirm former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro to be the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. Senator Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said she “is not fit to be the U.S. attorney for our nation’s capital.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...
The Trump administration's Office of Special Counsel has opened an "unusual" investigation into former DOJ special prosecutor Jack Smith, who investigated Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and his handling of classified documents. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has removed references to President Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit display following his efforts to oust a museum director in a blatant attempt to rewrite American history on his own terms. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
UCLA has been notified that it’s losing federal research funding, a continuation of Trump’s effort to punish universities to advance his own political agenda. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The Justice Department’s internal watchdog lost a critical whistle-blower complaint that accused senior officials, including Emil Bove III, of trying to mislead judges. The incident raises serious concerns about accountability and transparency inside the department. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...
After being blocked by the Trump administration, House Democrats are filing a lawsuit against the illegal limitations on in-person congressional oversight visits to federal immigration detention facilities. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The Trump administration announced it will overturn a key EPA finding, arguing that the agency lacks the legal authority to regulate greenhouse gases, effectively removing the government's ability to fight climate change. www.npr.org/2025/07/29/n...
The Senate confirmed Emil Bove as a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, granting a lifetime appointment to Trump's former lawyer despite a record loaded with allegations of flouting laws and Justice Department procedures. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Norm Eisen, executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, has filed a FOIA request, urging the Department of Justice to turn over documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, working toward honesty in a case obscured by Trump’s personal interests. www.thedailybeast.com/obama-offici...
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Harvard University is willing to spend as much as $500 million to meet the Trump administration’s demands and end its dispute with the White House, the latest move in Trump’s effort to shutter institutions he disagrees with.
A whistleblower has come forward to challenge the federal judicial nomination of Emil Bove, Trump's controversial former attorney, alleging Bove made contradicting claims before the Senate Judiciary Committee about a Justice Department prosecution. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Republican lawmakers are amplifying false claims that Obama-era officials waged a Russia-related conspiracy against Trump, despite a GOP-led Senate panel affirming the committee's conclusion that Russia meddled in the election and preferred Trump over Hillary Clinton. www.axios.com/2025/07/27/t...
The Supreme Court extended a pause on a controversial lower court ruling that undermined one of the last key protections against racial discrimination in voting under the federal Voting Rights Act. www.npr.org/2025/07/24/n...
By Trump’s order, Rep. Barry Loudermilk announced he will be leading a second subcommittee to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection. The first committee ruled that Trump's actions fueled violence. www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/p...
The Roberts Court allowed Trump to remove three Biden-appointed Democrats from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, increasing Trump’s control over an agency Congress intended to operate independently from the president. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Former FEMA CFO Mary Comans is suing the Trump administration, arguing that the Merit System Protections Board - designated to hear cases for wrongfully terminated employees - lacks a quorum and is no longer viable after President Trump fired one of its members. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...
A Venezuelan man is suing the U.S. over his wrongful detention and removal to El Salvador, where he spent four months being beaten and abused, reflecting a broader pattern of due process failures by Homeland Security. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...
A federal appeals court ruled that President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship violated the Constitution by contradicting the plain language of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/u...
The State of California is suing the Department of Education for defunding Mini-Corps, a program that provides vital tutoring to the children of California’s agricultural workers, arguing that Trump cannot withhold money lawfully appropriated by Congress. calmatters.org/education/k-...
Trump ordered National Park Service employees to report displays that ‘disparage’ Americans, leading to signs on the risks of climate change, brutality of slavery, and the imprisonment of Native Americans to be reviewed with the possibility of being removed. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
Federal judges have accused the Trump administration of deliberately defying court orders by being slow to respond and aggressively misrepresenting facts in filings. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump continued to distract and deflect on Tuesday, accusing former President Barack Obama of treason and declaring, “It’s time to go after people.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...