Author: Constitutional Nobody

Another federal district judge has attempted to halt President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts, ruling late Wednesday that the president’s Jan. 20 executive order declaring an invasion at the southern border and taking action to protect the states from an invasion is unlawful. Judge Randolph Moss with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia…

Four people were killed and 14 others wounded in a mass shooting Wednesday night in Chicago, police said. The carnage erupted in the River North neighborhood, on the 300 block of West Chicago Avenue, when a vehicle pulled up to a location and at least one gunman opened fire on a crowd standing outside. The…

Prison officers stand guard at a cell block at the Salvadoran mega-prison Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, on April 4, 2025. (Photo by Alex Peña/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported in March to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador, endured “severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition, and…

Reported illegal entries continue to decline nationwide, reversing a Biden administration trajectory where the numbers of encounters and apprehensions broke records every month. In May, illegal entry encounters reported nationwide totaled 29,502, slightly up from 29,218 in April, which were up from 29,021 in March, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data. By contrast,…

Pushed by fast winds, a fire burned more than 3,000 acres within two hours Wednesday afternoon along the border between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. The Madre Fire, now California’s largest wildfire, burned 3,300 acres near State Route 166 in the two counties, Los Padres National Forest spokesperson Andrew Madsen told The Center…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has vetoed nine bills from this session with only a few measures remaining for a decision, along with $590 million in line items from the state budget. To override any vetoes, including line items, lawmakers would need a two-thirds vote in both chambers. Among some of the larger line-item vetoes: •…

A previously announced $6.8 billion educational funding freeze is part of an ongoing review, the Trump administration said in a clarification. The U.S. Department of Education Monday emailed state departments of education across the country and stated that the department would not issue its Grant Award Notification for programs on Tuesday, before completing its review….

Congressman Mike Kennedy is asking Congress to pass legislation to require substance-abuse clinics to report to doctors the medications they prescribe. The Utah Republican argues such laws protect the privacy of patients but also put them in danger of taking drugs in combination that could result in dangerous, if not deadly, consequences. Under the federal…

Having the world’s fifth-largest economy and a long and prosperous trade relationship with the U.S., Japan seemed like a likely candidate to quickly and neatly make a new trade-tariff deal with President Trump. But with the deadline now just six days away, Trump is now saying an agreement appears unlikely. Despite progress with other allies…

The high court giveth, and the high court taketh away. Days after Supreme Court rulings that thrilled conservatives, knocking down district judges’ national injunctions and upholding parental rights and state funding bans on abortion providers, the justices turned down First Amendment petitions by a conservative educator fired for social media posts preceding her hiring and…

President Donald Trump has suggested he may end Elon Musk’s lucrative federal government contracts, and the SpaceX founder’s Chinese business dealings may get renewed regulatory scrutiny given that Trump has suggested that Musk may be “susceptible” to influence because of those China ties. Musk is heavily invested in China to make and sell his Tesla…