Thune urges passage of FISA extension before deadline amidst Pulte uproar

Trump Calls on Senate Leader Thune to “IMMEDIATELY” Fire Senate Parliamentarian, Slams Mitch McConnell – Thune Pushes Back, Won’t Listen

President Trump lashed out at Elizabeth MacDonough, the Obama-era Senate Parliamentarian, demanding that Senate Majority Leader John Thune "immediately fire" her and pass the SAVE America Act in the Senate.  "She is known as a Radical Left Lunatic that caters to Democrats, and has no respect for Republicans, or Republican Ideology. The post Trump Calls on Senate Leader Thune to “IMMEDIATELY” Fire Senate Parliamentarian, Slams Mitch McConnell – Thune Pushes Back, Won’t Listen appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

Jeffries won’t support spy powers extension unless Trump fires Bill Pulte

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is demanding the removal of acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte from his post in exchange for supporting an extension of a government spy tool set to lapse this week. When asked Monday if there was any scenario he would support an extension of Section 702 of the […]

Judge threatens Trump lawyers for missing $10B BBC lawsuit deadline

U.S. District Judge Roy Altman, a President Donald Trump appointee, threatened to sanction Trump's legal team for missing a June 5 court deadline in a $10 billion libel lawsuit against the BBC. Instead of filing required responses to the BBC's motion to dismiss, Trump's attorneys submitted two last-minute procedural filings: one seeking permission for excess pages and another, requesting to file under seal. Both were submitted without requesting a deadline extension. Altman ordered the legal team to explain by June 10 why sanctions should not be imposed for their apparent disregard of court deadlines and questioned whether the BBC's motion should be considered unopposed. The December lawsuit accuses the BBC of defamation by splicing two portions of Trump's January 6 speech, made 55 minutes apart, to suggest he provoked the assault on the Capitol.They cited the President's infamous remark, "fight like hell."The BBC apologized for the edit but argues, Florida court lacks jurisdiction over a documentary never aired in the United States, reports Politico. Legal experts, like Bob Corn-Revere, chief counsel at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, remain skeptical of the case's legal merit and jurisdictional basis.The BBC's motion to dismiss remains pending since March.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.

Trump Puts Thune on the Ropes Over 'Nasty' Parliamentarian as SAVE America Act Showdown Explodes

Why Trump picked Bill Pulte to lead US intelligence as critics question his qualifications

Trump picks FHFA Director Bill Pulte as acting intelligence chief, drawing criticism from lawmakers who say he lacks national security experience.

Judge hits Trump's personal lawyers with threat as they blow off deadline in $10B lawsuit

A federal judge on Monday threatened to sanction President Donald Trump's personal attorneys after they missed a court deadline in his sprawling $10 billion libel lawsuit against the BBC — and tried to cover their tracks with a pair of last-minute procedural filings.U.S. District Judge Roy Altman, a Trump appointee, ordered the president's legal team to explain by June 10 why he shouldn't penalize them for what he called their "apparent disregard of court deadlines." Trump's lawyers had been due to respond to the BBC's motion to dismiss the case by June 5. Instead of filing that response, they submitted two eleventh-hour motions — one seeking leave to file excess pages, another seeking to file under seal — neither of which asked the court to extend the deadline. Altman also asked whether the BBC's motion to dismiss should be considered unopposed.The lawsuit, filed in December in the Southern District of Florida, accuses the BBC of defaming Trump by splicing together two portions of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech — made nearly 55 minutes apart — to make it appear he had urged supporters to march on the Capitol and "fight like hell." The BBC has apologized for the edit but is fighting the suit, arguing the Florida court lacks jurisdiction over a documentary that never aired in the United States.Legal experts have been skeptical of the case from the start. Bob Corn-Revere, chief counsel at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, told CNN the suit "does not have any legal basis, either on defamation or jurisdictional grounds," calling it "the president's latest effort to intimidate media companies." University of Utah law professor RonNell Andersen Jones told CNN the $10 billion demand is "a ridiculously hard number to sustain without a strong showing that there was an actual viewing audience."The BBC's motion to dismiss has been pending since March.

DC Council proposes extensive ‘decoupling’ of Trump’s tax cuts to save $463.6 million in revenue

Washington, D.C., Council Chairman Phil Mendelson returned his budget recommendations on Monday with a proposal that cuts deeper into separating the district’s local taxes from President Donald Trump‘s nationwide tax cuts. In late 2025, after Trump signed his One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s sweeping tax cuts into law, the district approved emergency legislation allowing D.C. […]

Trump Admin Urges Legal Aid Groups to Give Up Migrant Children’s Sensitive Data

If the federal government is handed confidential data about children’s legal defense, their cases could be undermined.