Kate Riga

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Nicole Lafond |Kate Riga |Josh Kovensky

Hello, it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear arguments related to President Trump’s executive order that purports to white out the guarantee of birthright citizenship from the Constitution. These arguments will focus on a narrow facet: whether district judges properly issued universal injunctions against the order, or rulings that block a policy or law for the whole country and not just the plaintiffs who brought the suit.

6 days ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Kate Riga

As the white smoke cleared, Robert Prevost of Chicago became Pope Leo XIV, the first ever American pope. That revelation quickly gave way to an even more important one: Bob seems to have a Twitter account.

1 week ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Kate Riga

As judges begin to rule on the merits of President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to give him wide latitude to expel alleged Venezuelan gang members, the administration is starting to rack up losses. A federal judge in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday enjoined the administration from moving any detainees being held in the district.

1 week ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Kate Riga

The White House creates AI slop of a weeping immigrant being deported, President Trump performs a mocking imitation of a trans weightlifter, the Pentagon wipes government webpages of the military achievements of nonwhite men — this is an administration that luxuriates in Fox News’ A block.

1 week ago | talkingpointsmemo.com | Kate Riga

Then-candidate Donald Trump and his Republican congressional allies fixated on the great “threat” of noncitizen voting in the 2024 campaigns. Despite copious research showing that this type of voter fraud is extremely rare, it was the election conspiracy theory du jour — out with bamboo fibers, magical voting machines and ballots in dumpsters, in with the “busloads of illegals.” Things quieted after Trump won — no immediate need for the scapegoating-immigrants backup plan in case of a loss.