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DHS to consider immigrants' use of Medicaid, welfare programs in green card decisions
The change could potentially impact hundreds of thousands of immigrants seeking green cards from inside the U.S. every year and possibly deter immigrant families from tapping into taxpayer-funded social programs for their needs.
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In a blow to New York Times' lawsuit, appeals court upholds Pentagon's escort policy for reporters
The three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that the government was likely to succeed in their claim that the requirement does not violate First Amendment protections for freedom of the press.
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If the government was a company, it would’ve faced lawsuits for data breach of millions of voters
Trump announced Thursday that China has compromised more than 200 million voter registration entries across 18 states, but if the government were a company, they would have been subject to lawsuits or even bankruptcy for such a data breach
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DC settles lawsuit for protester who followed National Guard playing Darth Vader theme song
The District of Columbia has reached a settlement agreement with a resident who claimed the National Guard violated his constitutional rights by detaining and handcuffing him after he followed them playing the Darth Vader theme song
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Trump’s efforts to reverse birthright citizenship may succeed with or without SCOTUS
Several bills, most notably the Birthright Citizenship Act in 2025, seek to end or sharply restrict automatic birthright citizenship by amending the Immigration and Nationality Act. Will it pass constitutional muster?
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Trump tours beloved but shaggy DC public golf course he plans to remake, says work starts Sept 1
Trump announces date for construction of municipal golf course despite pushback
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Trump fumes as SCOTUS refuses to intervene in E. Jean Carroll case
Carroll came forward during Trump's first term with assertions that Trump had raped her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman's sometime in the 1990s.
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Trump hails 'big win' after SCOTUS lets him fire executive agency officials
"Subordinates who exercise the President’s power are subject to removal by him. Then, and only then, can they remain accountable to the President, and the President to the people," they added.
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Supreme Court lets Trump fire FTC commissioners
In January of last year, Trump fired FTC Commissioners Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, without citing causes for termination.
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Supreme Court rejects Trump admin's bid to lift stay on Fed Board director's firing
The court found that the administration had not shown it was likely to prevail on the merits of the case while Cook's termination moved through the appeals process.
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Supreme Court rejects Trump's request to toss $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll sex abuse case
Trump's lawyers argued that Carroll's allegations were supported by "highly evidentiary" rulings, which included allowing testimony from two other women who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago.
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Supreme court upholds counting of late ballots in Mississippi case
Mississippi passed a law in 2020 in response to the COVID pandemic that allows mail-in ballots to be counted so long as they are postmarked by Election Day and received within five days of it.
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Pelosi launches namesake institute dedicated to 'nonpartisan' politics at liberal bastion UC Berkley
Rep. Nancy Pelosi will teach at a course on Congress at the Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy at the University of California Berkeley