Matthew Chapman

6 days ago | rawstory.com | Matthew Chapman

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, the same judge who has threatened to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt of court for ignoring judicial orders on how to handle mass migrant deportations, called an emergency meeting on Friday evening over another potential round of removals, CNN's Priscilla Alvarez reported.

6 days ago | rawstory.com | Matthew Chapman

A former Republican National Committee chair tore into Vice President JD Vance over his ongoing demonization of a Maryland father mistakenly deported to El Salvador and trapped in the infamous CECOT megaprison — and for his dismissal of the very concept of due process rights. Kilmar Abrego Garcia has never been convicted of any crime, and the basis of the allegation that he was a member of the criminal MS-13 gang was the word of one police informant.

6 days ago | rawstory.com | Matthew Chapman

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) delivered a speech at Dulles International Airport on Friday, detailing his experience traveling to El Salvador to track down the wrongfully deported Maryland family man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom he finally managed to get into contact with on Thursday evening after days of getting the run-around from government officials.

6 days ago | rawstory.com | Matthew Chapman

President Donald Trump's escalating attacks on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell pose a threat to the entire economy, Chris Hughes of the Economy Security Project warned in an analysis for The New York Times published on Friday. Powell has publicly warned that the effect of Trump's tariffs will be rising prices and additional pressure against rate cuts at the Federal Reserve.

6 days ago | rawstory.com | Matthew Chapman

President Donald Trump, infuriated at Harvard University's refusal to capitulate to his demands to crack down on protest, is now plotting the nuclear option — go after the school's tax-exempt status, which would wreck the ability of the school to fundraise. But in doing so, he is opening up a Pandora's Box that his own party would live to regret, Conor Clarke warned in an analysis for The Atlantic published on Friday. "What is the rationale for the IRS revisiting Harvard’s exemption status?