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First openly trans congresswoman tells trans youth not to give up hope

The Trump administration Thursday appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on another immigration matter, this time over its ability to deport immigrants to countries that are not their home nation

During his first term in office, the president appointed three conservative justices to the High Court—Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett

If the Supreme Court allows President Trump to move forward with an executive order he issued in March, the agency would screen ballots after they are submitted by election officials and would deliver only those that comply with new rules

US President Donald Trump’s administration has again asked the US Supreme Court to allow new Postal Service rules for mail ballots to take effect ahead of November’s midterm elections

A federal judge in Boston extended on Friday a ban stopping President Donald Trump's administration from implementing a new U.S. ‌Postal Service rule that would tighten mail-in voting requirements ahead of the November congressional elections

The FCC decision was widely seen as benefiting the Republican Party, which generally tends to raise more money through the party committees

The post, originally from X user @MAGAVOICE, follows the president’s demands for Senate Republicans to get behind his bill, which would mandate that every state accept only specific identifying documents to register to vote, including a U.S. passport or birth certificate

Chief Justice John Roberts issued an administrative stay on Friday, giving the Supreme Court more time to consider the Trump administration’s request to pause lower court rulings against the project

He has enlisted a team of 250 workers to push ahead with construction 20 hours a day, seven days a week to complete as much work as quickly as possible

The emergency request filed Friday comes after lower courts ruled Trump must obtain congressional approval before continuing above-ground construction at the former East Wing site

It would also require states to use tracking barcodes on ballot envelopes

A worker carries ballots at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center after last month’s primary election

Mike Johnson learns SCOTUS denied Trump efforts to end birthright citizenship

This comes after Trump had signed an executive order on the first day of his presidency decreeing those born to parents in the US illegally or on temporary visas could not automatically become Americans

US Supreme Court blocks firing of Fed governor

The Board of Immigration Appeals adopted the same interpretation in a September 2025 decision, and immigration judges across the country began ordering detention without release

Thirty years later, in 1898, the Supreme Court cemented this principle in United States v. Wong Kim Ark

Gorsuch echoed a point he made at oral arguments in the case in March: Many of the nation’s founders drank regularly, so there’s no sign that the 18th century laws were targeting modest drinking, even on a daily basis

The rights of transgender individuals have emerged as a contentious political battleground in recent years

Louisiana Legislature Passes Map Erasing Black-Majority District

Hundreds of thousands of migrants are placing a last-ditch bet on Wednesday that the Supreme Court will side with them over former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

That ruling came after two other appeals courts ruled the other way, overturning rulings that favored detainees who were denied bond hearings before immigration judges

Trump, who had suggested he wanted to attend a session last year when the court weighed his sweeping tariffs but ultimately abstained, appeared in his signature dark suit and red tie a few minutes before arguments began over his contentious executive order that would limit birthright citizenship

Justice Brett Kavanaugh sounded like a fired-up prosecutor last year as he shot off a withering series of nuts-and-bolts questions about how President Donald Trump would carry out his plan to rewrite of the way birthright citizenship has been understood in the United States for more than a century

Lower court declared Mississippi's law illegal

Lower court found ban did not violate Second Amendment

Supreme Court appears sceptical over Fed firing

The scope of that unusual exception will be put to the test Wednesday when the court hears oral arguments in the case of Lisa Cook, a Fed governor Trump attempted to fire over the summer following allegations that she had committed mortgage fraud by reporting two different homes as her primary residence

Close Journalist praised for finally asking Trump administration correct question on ICE brutality