“Anyone who cares about our national security, or receives Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid… has a vested interest in protecting our merit-based federal workforce.” The largest federal labor union in the U.S. said Friday that tens of thousands of federal workers could soon “have their jobs politicized” and be swiftly fired under a new rule proposed by the […]
Judge James Boasberg accused White House officials of “willful disregard” of his order to turn deportation flights headed to El Salvador. Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. said Wednesday that he has given the Trump administration “ample opportunity to rectify or explain” why it violated his order last month to stop […]
“House Republicans want to make it harder for federal courts to serve as a check on Trump’s lawlessness and overreach,” said one advocate. “But that’s not how our democracy works.” With the Trump administration’s attacks on the First Amendment, birthright citizenship, and other constitutional rights in full swing, Republicans in the U.S. House on Wednesday passed a […]
As the Social Security Administration prepared to cut phone services for beneficiaries, the acting administrator admitted: “The reason that we’re on this timeline is because we received a request from the White House.” The Trump administration’s massive cuts to the agency that oversees Social Security benefits that are the primary source of income for 40% […]