The Trump administration spent Friday fighting to avoid restoring $4 billion in food assistance in jeopardy due to the government shutdown, suggesting it might need to “raid school-lunch…
Read more Trump administration suggests it may ‘raid school lunch money’ to cover SNAP benefitsThe 9th Circuit Court of Appeals handed command of Oregon National Guard troops to the president Monday, further raising the stakes in the ongoing multifront judicial battle over…
Read more Trump has power to command National Guard troops in Oregon, 9th Circuit rulesThere are few laws President Trump name-checks more frequently than the Insurrection Act. A 200-year-old constellation of statutes, the act grants emergency powers to thrust active-duty soldiers into…
Read more Trump keeps name-checking the Insurrection Act. It could give him extraordinary powersPresident Donald Trump’s Department of Justice weighed in Monday against the ban on high-powered firearms that Illinois and Gov. JB Pritzker passed after the Highland Park Fourth of…
Read more President Donald Trump’s DOJ argues against gun ban signed by Gov. JB Pritzker after Highland Park shootingThe Missouri Attorney General’s Office is seeking records from the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. An appellate court decision Tuesday is making a path…
Read more Appeals court gives Missouri AG pathway to Transgender Center patient recordsIf Donald Trump regains the presidency, he will once again become the chief law-enforcement officer of the United States. There may be no American leader less suited to…
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