Trump filing reveals he made $2.2 billion in 2025; H. R. McMaster says Iran is "getting everything that they wanted" in U.S. talks.
The Trump administration announced Wednesday it will not renew the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) in its current form. Wednesday marked the deadline to renew the trade agreement, which President Trump struck with Canada and Mexico during his first administration. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer noted in a statement that even though the administration will not…
The Supreme Court ended its most recent term on Tuesday with an announcement that it has “agreed to hear a case that asks them to determine whether bans on AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles are constitutional,” wrote former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, who then warned that the end of controversial rulings has not come to an end.As she noted on her Substack platform, the Supreme Court is never really dormant and less so recently, using the so-called "shadow docket" to excess in the service of Donald Trump. With that in mind, she raised a red flag over a case involving the availability of assault-style weapons, which could lead to another controversial ruling.The significance is unmistakable, Vance wrote, explaining, "The Court doesn’t take cases like this just to pat a state on the head and sign off on its ban—it has bigger fish to fry than affirming the status quo."According to Vance, the case marks a dramatic reversal from just last year. In June 2025, the court declined to hear Snope v. Brown, a direct challenge to Maryland's semiautomatic rifle ban. But that decision masked a deeply fractured court teetering on the edge of upheaval.At the time, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an eight-page dissent from the denial, explaining: “This petition presents the question whether this ban is consistent with the Second Amendment. The Fourth Circuit held that it is, reasoning that AR–15s are not 'arms' protected by the Second Amendment … I would grant certiorari to review this surprising conclusion.”"That’s not the kind of language you use if you intend to affirm the ban," Vance suggested before noting that now the case will be taken up after getting the needed fourth vote to grant cert, pointing out that Justice Brett Kavanaugh once wrote, "a denial of certiorari does not mean that the Court agrees with a lower-court decision or that the issue is not worthy of review," before adding, "...in my view, this Court should and presumably will address the AR–15 issue soon, in the next Term or two.” "We don’t know if the four Justices picked up a fifth vote along the way that convinced Justice [Brett] Kavanaugh this was 'the right time,'” Vance warned.
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) lost her reelection bid to former attorney and current Ph.D. student Melat Kiros, marking the third time a democratic socialist has scored an upset in a competitive House primary this cycle, according to Decision Desk HQ. Kiros, who studies at the University of Denver, defeated DeGette, who’s served in Congress since 1997 — delivering a major blow to the Democratic establishment despite…
Socialists on the march: The Democratic Socials of America topple another Democratic incumbent, this time in Colorado, and eye national expansion
Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, transgender athlete bans; Democratic Socialists of America to be tested in Colorado primary.
The Supreme Court handed down another round of key rulings during the final day of its term, including striking down an effort by President Donald Trump to limit birthright citizenship. The high court handed conservatives a win by upholding state laws that bar transgender athletes from joining girls’ sports teams. NBC’s Laura Jarrett reports for TODAY.
After being dealt another defeat by the conservative Supreme Court, President Donald Trump called on Congress to end birthright citizenship, but one of his biggest supporters on Capitol Hill is going a step further and is now calling for a ten-year moratorium on all immigration. "We need to put a bed sheet over the Statue of Liberty for ten years," Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) exclusively told Raw Story at the Capitol. "Moratorium. Ten years. Until we can figure out what the hell is going on in this country. Who's even here? How many are here?"Nehls has previously pushed ten-year immigration bans for migrants coming from Somalia and Venezuela, but he says an all-out ban on legal immigration to America is now needed, in part, because some migrants have been critical of President Trump and his immigration crackdown. "They are abusing the freedoms and liberties that we have. They are,” Nehls said. “They come over here, they say they're trying to escape oppression and all that other stuff, but then they come over here, and you get a lot of them; they don't even like us. They don't respect the culture. They don't respect the President of the United States.”Without providing any evidence, Nehls decried legal immigration as a key part of the Democrats’ plan. “You've even got some Democrats, a majority of Democrats, saying they're not even proud to be an American — then what the hell are you doing here?” Nehls continued. “So the birthright citizenship, the idea that women from China can come over, have a baby, and now that little baby is an American citizen and affect our elections in the future, that's what the Democrats want.”In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, Trump’s Justice Department vowed it’s “committed to tackling illegal birth tourism schemes by working diligently with U.S. Attorneys across the country to uphold the law.”“Actors seeking to exploit loopholes to obtain automatic citizenship for their children pose a national security threat and will be brought to justice,” reads the DOJ statement. Nehls wants to go a step further and devote more federal dollars to this new DOJ effort. “Let's double up the attorney general's office in the states and go after and look with a fine-tooth comb, look at all the people that are here on visas and how many of them have overstayed. And if you have overstayed your visa, you're out of here. You're out of here,” Nehls told Raw Story. “A big bed sheet over the Statue of Liberty for ten years.”