Alito’s order came in response to a ruling from a federal court in Texas on Tuesday, which blocked the new congressional maps on the basis that they were “racially gerrymandered.” Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily restored a controversial Trump-backed Texas redistricting plan that could grant Republicans an extra five seats in the House of Representatives. Alito’s order came in response to a […]
“Not national security that has anything to do with the national defense or harm to the nation,” said independent journalist Ken Klippenstein. “But the self-serving kind that protects the system from the people.” After its near-unanimous approval in Congress and following months of sustained public pressure, President Donald Trump signed a law on Wednesday releasing the files from the FBI’s investigation into […]
Marine Corps combat veteran Steven M. Lipscomb lost his life, Nov. 8, while looking after the safety of his crew at the Rolling Thunder Mine in Nicholas County, West Virginia. “All of West Virginia mourns the loss of this courageous man,” said West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey in a Nov. 14 proclamation, which also ordered […]
“There is no world where this is legal,” a current judge advocate general said. The Trump administration’s deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific have alarmed legal experts, Democratic lawmakers, and a small number of Republicans in Congress since they began in early September, but new reporting Thursday revealed that before the White House began the campaign that has […]