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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Nikki McCann Ramírez |Andrew Perez
Ed Martin, Donald Trump’s top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., claimed he had no idea that a Jan. 6 defendant, whom he once praised as “an extraordinary man,” was a known Nazi sympathizer and white supremacist. It is bullshit, not only because Hale-Cusanelli extremist history is both public and well documented, but because Hale and Martin have directly interacted in the past. Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a former Army reservist and Navy security guard, gained notoriety as a Jan.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Nikki McCann Ramírez |Andrew Perez
Another federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to deport migrants under the Alien Enemies Act, at least for now. Judge Charlotte Sweeney, of the Colorado District Court, ruled on Tuesday that the White House could not order the removal of migrants held in Colorado detention centers under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), an 18th century wartime law that President Donald Trump is exploiting in order to remove undocumented migrants from the United States.
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1 month ago | 
rsn.org | Miles Klee |Andrew Perez |Asawin Suebsaeng |Meagan Jordan
The world’s richest man has blazed a staggering trail of destruction as Trump’s DOGE chief, firing tens of thousands of workers while cashing inBen Vizzachero had his dream job, working as a wildlife biologist with the Los Padres National Forest in California. He was moving up the ladder, had recently received a positive performance review, and was “making the world a better place,” he says.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Miles Klee |Andrew Perez |Asawin Suebsaeng |Meagan Jordan
Ben Vizzachero had his dream job, working as a wildlife biologist with the Los Padres National Forest in California. He was moving up the ladder, had recently received a positive performance review, and was “making the world a better place,” he says.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Asawin Suebsaeng |Andrew Perez
Reports that Donald Trump’s top national security officials accidentally shared their Yemen attack plans with The Atlantic in real-time drove the news in official Washington in recent days. But it wasn’t the only damaging leak of information held by the administration this week.
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1 month ago | 
rsn.org | Andrew Perez |Asawin Suebsaeng
After Chuck Schumer helped pass Trump’s spending bill, some Dems have finally had enough of their leadership’s powerlessness act For years, Democrats have stood by as their leaders have insisted they are powerless to do what they’ve promised, only to watch Donald Trump, in his second term, do whatever he feels like, no matter what the law says — be it firing tens of thousands of federal workers, freezing congressionally appropriated funds, or, now, moving to deport immigrants without any due...
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Andrew Perez |Asawin Suebsaeng
For years, Democrats have stood by as their leaders have insisted they are powerless to do what they’ve promised, only to watch Donald Trump, in his second term, do whatever he feels like, no matter what the law says — be it firing tens of thousands of federal workers, freezing congressionally appropriated funds, or, now, moving to deport immigrants without any due process.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Ryan Bort |Andrew Perez
Donald Trump, in his speech at the Department of Justice on Friday, said it “should be illegal” for people to criticize judges, adding that it “probably is illegal in some form.”It’s not the first time the president has expressed this sentiment — on the campaign trail last year, Trump said people “should be put in jail” for criticizing the conservative justices on the Supreme Court. Trump has, of course, consistently attacked the judges who presided over his criminal and civil cases.
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2 months ago | 
rsn.org | Andrew Perez |Asawin Suebsaeng
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are blindly purging the government to make it more MAGA and cruel, ignoring the law, and cashing in like America has never seenThere were less than four days to go until Donald Trump was sworn into office for a second time. In those final days of the presidential transition, Trump and his team were busy finalizing their blitz of executive actions, which included a widespread crackdown on civil rights, trans Americans, and diversity programs.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Andrew Perez |Asawin Suebsaeng
There were less than four days to go until Donald Trump was sworn into office for a second time. In those final days of the presidential transition, Trump and his team were busy finalizing their blitz of executive actions, which included a widespread crackdown on civil rights, trans Americans, and diversity programs.
