The ruling comes amid legal battles over Trump’s moves to deploy the National Guard in other US cities.
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In a bombshell decision on Tuesday, a federal court in Texas blocked a new congressional map that was created after President Donald Trump demanded that the state redraw district lines to hand Republicans five new seats. “Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map,” wrote Jeffrey Brown, a Trump-appointed district court judge. His […]
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In a wide-ranging Sunday night interview on CBS News’s “60 Minutes,” President Donald Trump put his desire for unchecked power on full display. He bragged to correspondent Norah O’Donnell that, thanks to the Insurrection Act of 1792, he can invade your city whenever he wants. He said immigration raids—including acts of police violence such as […]
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If you’ve been thinking about tax resistance lately, you’re not alone. On progressive social channels, I’ve seen increasing calls for a federal tax strike in response to a federal government that doesn’t even pretend to represent all Americans, that uses base language to demonize immigrants and left-leaning citizens, and openly penalizes cities and states the […]
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Sorry Geese: If You Don’t Pay Your Taxes, Uncle Sam Might Have You Plucked Read Post »
On Tuesday, shortly after the New York Times reported that President Donald Trump is demanding $230 million from the Department of Justice (DOJ) to reimburse him for legal costs related to earlier federal investigations against him, the president claimed he would donate any such funds to charity. “I’m not looking for money,” he told reporters. […]
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This article is a collaboration with Autonomy News, a worker-owned publication covering reproductive rights and justice. Sign up for a free or paid subscription, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, and Bluesky. Crisis pregnancy centers have played a central role in the anti-abortion movement since the 1960s, often misleading and confusing people seeking abortions while purporting to help them. They […]
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How Abortion Pill “Reversal” Became a Powerful Right-Wing Legal Weapon Read Post »
The Trump administration has suffered yet another in its series of recent legal losses—this time over its attempt to deploy National Guard troops in Illinois. On Monday, state and local officials filed a lawsuit over federal officials’ attempt to take over and deploy National Guard troops in Illinois, alleging the move was “unlawful and dangerous.” […]
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Appeals Court: Trump Can’t Deploy National Guard on Chicago’s Streets Read Post »
Since the early 2010s, amid a sea change of public acceptance of LGBTQ people, state after state banned the use of conversion therapy—the debunked, harmful practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity—on children and teenagers. And for just as long, a tiny contingent of therapists on the fringes of their […]
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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 birthright citizenship to thousands of newborns. Within months, the question had reached the Supreme Court. But rather than affirm the right to birthright citizenship, which is plainly enshrined in […]
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Sam Bankman-Fried nervously sheds his dark brown prison jumpsuit to reveal athletic shorts and a loose-fitting gray T-shirt. “There’s this extremely dumb cat and mouse game where, for reasons no one has ever bothered to articulate, between the hours of like 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays, the only clothing we’re allowed to wear […]
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Sam Bankman-Fried and the Multibillion-Dollar Drama Over FTX’s Ruins Read Post »
On Thursday evening, around the same time the Justice Department overruled career prosecutors in order to bring charges against former FBI Director James Comey, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division sued six states—California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania—for failing to hand over their full, unredacted voter registration lists. The new legal actions signify […]
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As the US Marshals Service prepared for Donald Trump’s expected pardon of January 6 defendants, officials went to unusual lengths to facilitate the defendants’ travel home from the DC jail, newly obtained records show. The records, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by the ethics watchdog CREW, are yet another window into the […]
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US Marshals’ Efforts Around Trump’s January 6 Pardons Were “Highly Unusual” Read Post »
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