Ankush Khardori

5 days ago | politico.com | Ankush Khardori

People hold anti-Trump signs in front of the Supreme Court on July 1, 2024. | Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images ROBERTS’ RULES — Next week, the Supreme Court will hold its biggest oral argument of the year so far. It will consider whether to maintain a series of nationwide injunctions that have prevented the administration from enforcing President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Ankush Khardori

It is generally a bad idea to get in the government’s crosshairs. After all, the Justice Department has powerful tools at its disposal — among them, the vast machinery of federal law enforcement and the ability to gather information that literally no one else can legally obtain. These are just some of the reasons why the government has a roughly 95 percent conviction rate in criminal cases. But the Justice Department’s most potent asset is the credibility of its lawyers.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Ankush Khardori

3 hours agoThe "Late Show" host called out the president over a tasteless message. “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert said President Donald Trump spent part of his weekend pushing out memes of himself on social media. “Some more offensive than others,” Colbert said, then showed an AI-generated image Trump posted …

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Ankush Khardori

Just one wrinkle: Two days later, the Supreme Court will consider whether to crack down on judges’ power to check the administration in precisely this way. The justices will hear oral argument in the Trump administration’s request to overturn a series of nationwide injunctions currently halting Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Ankush Khardori

1 hour agoTrump starts talking about Harlem when asked about Harvard funding freezeDonald Trump began answering a question about Harvard University by speaking about Harlem, a neighbourhood in New York City, as he joined a NewsNation town hall via phone on Wednesday night (30 April). When asked by Stephen A. Smith to explain his administration’s threat to withhold funding from the university, the president started talking about an entirely different location.