The judge invalidated policies the Trump administration enacted last year that halted asylum grants, as well as the processing of immigration benefits for people from 39 countries.
Election law expert Hans von Spakovsky says California's slow vote counting stems from mass mail voting, a seven-day ballot window, and cure periods.
President Donald Trump is growing "weaker and weaker" by the day, and according to his one-time biographer, this is all being driven by an incurable flaw in his character. Michael Wolff is a veteran reporter and author, best known for extensive coverage of Trump's political career, based on contacts within his inner circle and administration staff. In the latest edition of his Daily Beast podcast, Wolff revealed the essential failing within Trump that is making him weaker on a "daily basis": his inability and unwillingness to change.“Two things are happening at the same time. Donald Trump is not changing,” Wolff explained. “Donald Trump can’t change. Donald Trump can’t fix the situation that he’s in. Donald Trump doesn’t want to. Donald Trump wants to be Donald Trump.”He continued: “That becomes clearer and clearer, which means that the enterprise itself gets weaker and weaker and is, in fact, falling apart. So, we’re dealing with these two things: Donald Trump... and the power that he has, and Donald Trump and the power that he is losing on a daily basis.”Wolff gave the example of Trump giving major administration jobs to "unfit" people because he believes he can get away with it. He specifically highlighted his nomination of Bill Pulte to be the new director of national intelligence, effectively handing control of the world's biggest intelligence apparatus to someone with zero relevant experience. Wolff claimed to have spoken with someone close to Trump, who gave a simple answer as to why Trump is doing things of that nature."I was talking to a Trump guy — you know, someone I regard as basically a decent sort about this — and I was asking how can he hire these people? And this person replied, ‘To show that he can,’“ Wolff said. “It’s all about him. It’s all about the message that he’s sending. So when he appoints these totally unfit people, it’s a message of control and contempt for rules and standards."Wolff noted later that Trump has a simple message for Republicans, Congress, his administration and the rest of the world with his unceasingly bad nominations: "F—— you."“That is elemental to how he sees his administration and how he staffs his administration: I can appoint this person because I can," he said.
The D.C. Circuit is reviewing an injunction issued by a judge who said "no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have."
President Donald Trump is desperate to maintain his hold on the Republican-dominated House, so he’s personally fighting for plenty of embattled seats. But some seats are going to be a much harder sell for him and his Republican Party."The Republicans are just in absolutely huge trouble in Wisconsin. I think that more so than any of the polls would say … the fact that all those Republicans are leaving the state Legislature, they're sort of telling us with their actions what they expect," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan political newsletter at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.Trump is making his first trip to the Badger State since he won here nearly two years ago, visiting one of the nation's few battleground congressional districts, but the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says he’s coming at a time “when his approval among Wisconsin voters is at an all-time low.“The visit comes at a time when the president's tariffs and recent attacks on Iran have produced gale-force headwinds for Republicans in their effort to preserve their power in Congress and in state government in Wisconsin, an effort made more complicated by the retirements of the Legislature's two GOP leaders and key members of both houses,” reports the Journal.Nevertheless, Trump is planning to discuss agricultural issues during a Friday roundtable event at a farm in Chippewa Falls, which lies in the 3rd Congressional District − a swing district held by Republican incumbent Rep. Derrick Van Orden. Van Orden's district is one of just 18 congressional districts considered a toss-up in the upcoming midterm election, and the Trump administration heavily focused upon it. The paper reports Trump's visit comes days after U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held an earlier event with Van Orden.Van Orden won the district twice, but he defeated his opponent by about 3 points two years ago. Now one of those opponents, Democrats Rebecca Cooke, will be on his heels again this year, if she surpasses Democrat Emily Berge in the primaries.“But the political environment this year favors Democrats, who have won governor races and special elections in other parts of the country since Trump took office,” reports the Sentinel. “In Wisconsin, liberals won a seat on the state Supreme Court in April by a stunning 20-point margin. Republicans did not even bother to field a candidate in another election for a court that the GOP dominated just a handful of years ago.This is a hard fall for a state that voted for Trump in 2024.The Sentinel reports Trump's influence “remains strong among Republican voters – 71 percent said they would vote for a 2026 primary candidate endorsed by Trump. However, it also notes that a nationwide Marquette University Law School poll released two days before Trump's visit to western Wisconsin found his approval rating dropped to 38 percent, the lowest point so far in his second term.
President Trump, a native New Yorker and self-described Knicks fan, said he was invited to attend a Knicks playoff game by the team's owner James Dolan, who has donated to his political campaigns.
President Trump is incensed by outgoing Republican Senator Thom Tillis’s refusal to support Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general until he disavows January 6 insurrectionists.“Tillis said he won’t support Todd Blanche’s confirmation unless Todd Blanche condemns January 6,” a reporter asked President Trump in the Air Force One press gaggle Friday. “Do you have a reaction to that?”“Senator Tillis is a loser,” Trump replied bluntly. “That’s why he didn’t run. He didn’t run because I wouldn’t support him. And he’s just an angry man because he’s not gonna be a senator any longer. He wasn’t respected in the Senate. He fought a lot of people, he fought Pete Hegseth, Pete Hegseth turned out to be a gem. Senator Tillis is a loser. Stone cold.… He was forced to leave the Senate because I wouldn’t support him, and he quit. So now he’s trying to make trouble.“Todd Blanche is a brilliant guy who everybody likes, everybody respects,” Trump said of his former personal lawyer. “[Tillis is] not qualified, he’s not good for the position.”Reporter: Senator Tillis said he won't support Todd Blanche’s confirmation unless he condemns January 6. Do you have a reaction to that?Trump: Senator Tillis is a loser. That's why he didn't run. He didn't run because I wouldn't support him. And he's just an angry man because… pic.twitter.com/K5Zmdvo9Wg— Acyn (@Acyn) June 5, 2026Tillis is one of three Republicans who have publicly expressed their disapproval of Blanche’s nomination for attorney general.“He’s got good credentials—people are going to hammer him because he was the president’s personal attorney, but I’m just more about getting through the J6 stuff,” Tillis told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday. “It’s not a gray area for me. Either he equivocated and said harming these Capitol police officers was an OK thing, or he didn’t, and we’ll find that in the due diligence.”Blanche’s nomination is in real jeopardy due to his J6 support, the Epstein files disaster, and the “anti-weaponization” slush fund. Only four GOP “no” votes are needed to sink Blanche’s nomination without a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance.
The Friday ruling voided four policies that put “the lives of countless individuals on hold,” U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell Jr. said.
President Donald Trump would welcome incoming acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte’s cutting the intelligence community’s workforce. “I wouldn’t mind if he cut,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Friday. “It’s been high for way too long.” The president reiterated that Pulte would “do a good job” and that the new spy […]