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The Supreme Court handed President Trump a signal victory over a federal judge who has become Trump’s nemesis and a darling of the anti-Trump left. In a 5-4 decision with Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson dissenting and Justice Barrett dissenting in part, the Supreme Court ruled that President Trump could use the Alien Enemies Act to…
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President Trump has described his new tariff plan as a “beautiful thing to behold” — but not everyone in conservative media feels the same way. A number of prominent right-leaning voices have shared their displeasure with the president’s “liberation day” tariffs since he announced them last week, including Ben Shapiro, who started his show off…
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Jefferson Griffin’s gambit for a state Supreme Court seat has worked, for now. In a 2-1 ruling last week, the North Carolina Court of Appeals stopped short of giving Griffin everything he wanted, which is to throw out more than 65,000 legally cast ballots in hopes of ensuring his victory. But the court rejected more…
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On Monday, during his White House meeting with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump announced that there will be a high-level meeting between the United States and Iran on Saturday. It’s unclear as to whether the president himself will be in the meeting or whether Iran has agreed to attend. Advertisement President Donald Trump…
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Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI) expanded his hold on President Donald Trump‘s nominees for government positions to 300, including an additional 50 people Monday. Schatz invoked a hold, a procedural move that can delay the consideration of a nominee for days or weeks, on more than 300 nominees who need Senate approval and some bipartisan foreign…
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On Monday, President Trump met with Israel’s leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for talks on a variety of subjects, including (unsurprisingly) Iran. But in the course of the discussion, the topic naturally turned to tariffs, which led to Prime Minister Netanyahu vowing to eliminate any trade barriers between Israel and the United States. Advertisement 
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