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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of a gerrymandered congressional district map in North Carolina which was supported by the state’s Republican Party, overturning a lower court’s ruling which had said the map was unconstitutional. The ruling was considered a major setback for North Carolina’s Democratic Party.
Trump spewed false accusations in an attack on an American small business for kicking out Sarah Sanders, while his own private club was cited for 15 health code violations.
Harley Davidson announced that they are moving some production out of the US and to the EU because of Trump's trade war.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to Texas Republicans by reviving electoral districts drawn by the state legislature that had been thrown out by a lower court for diluting the influence of black and Hispanic voters.
Former Republican presidential candidate and current U.S. Senate candidate from Utah Mitt Romney said that if he is elected to the Senate he will not hesitate to speak up against any policy of President Donald Trump’s that he does not agree with.
According to The Texas Tribune, children who have been forcibly taken from their migrant parents are being held as hostages so that the parents will agree to voluntary deportation.
The newspaper is reporting that adults who illegally crossed the border into Texas with children are “being pressured by government officials” to sign voluntary deportation orders and are being told that doing so will allow them to be reunited with their children. They are told that if they don’t sign the orders they will be deported without their children.
Now that Donald Trump has made arresting migrant families his top priority, resources are being diverted from other government law enforcement initiatives such as fighting drug smuggling into the United States.
Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives visited a child detention facility in Texas on Saturday and they were not happy about what they saw. According to the more than two dozen members of Congress who made the trip to the border, children are sleeping behind bars on concrete floors in what “for all intents and purposes” is a prison.
It seems that times of crisis motivate otherwise uninvolved people to become political activists. The forcible separation of children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border has created a time of crisis, and now hundreds of average people are getting involved in a hunger strike in Texas to protest the cruel policies of the Trump administration.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) terrified Republicans and their mainstream media enablers by calling for the public to confront Trump officials anywhere you see them in public over their policies.
Trump's trade war is hitting the agricultural Midwest hard as farmers in eight of the top ten soybean producing states that voted for Trump are going to be looking at bankruptcy as they are already being hurt by Trump's trade war with China.
The U.S. Supreme Court, winding down its nine-month term, will issue rulings this week in its few remaining cases including a major one on the legality of President Donald Trump's ban on people from five Muslim-majority nations entering the country.
After a week of locking children in cages, Trump tried to leave his Virginia golf course only to be met by protesters demanding that he be caged.
Former Bush Commerce Sec. Carlos Gutierrez destroys the fake outrage over Sarah Sanders getting kicked out of a restaurant.
As Democratic resistance grows, Donald Trump is getting desperate and demanding that Democrats stop resisting him and support his policies.
Trump is demanding the power to deport immigrants without judges or courts, which would be a violation of due process rights.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said that a few Republican Senators are ready to not approve any more Trump's judicial nominees until they get a vote on tariffs.
The U.S. government said it still had 2,053 children in its custody who were separated from their parents under President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, and set out its most detailed plans yet on how it would reunite families.
President Donald Trump sharpened his call to deport people who enter the United States illegally on Sunday, saying they should immediately be sent back to where they came from without any judicial process.
A new poll of voters found that they are opposed to the Trump administration's lawsuit to eliminate protections for pre-existing conditions by a 2 to 1 margin.