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Court awards former judge $640,000 in same-sex wedding dispute

A Texas judge who was disciplined for recusing herself from performing same-sex marriages has won a $640,000 lawsuit. McLennan County Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley, who’s […]

Host says Trump 'dashed Republican hopes' by tanking major bill: 'He shot the hostage'

A last-minute Donald Trump decision to cancel the signing ceremony for a popular housing bill that sailed through both chambers of Congress with unusual bipartisan support is yet another blow to Republicans who have been looking for any good news as they face a midterm blowout.Mid-Wednesday morning, the president took to his Truth Social platform and wrote, “Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency.”Breaking the news on MS NOW as it happened, host Ali Vitali pointed out the president just pulled the rug out from under his own party that has little to brag about to voters.“Now the President is dashing Republican hopes of having a new bill on affordability to run on. And also putting them again in a position where they're not going to pass this [SAVE AMERICA] bill,” she told her panel. “If you are a traditional, normal President, your entire job at this moment in time is to get those Republican Senators re-elected,” Puck White House correspondent Abby Livingston added. “And yet here on Earth, there seems to be the only thing more fun than tormenting Democrats right now seems to be tormenting Senate Republicans and he is making their lives actively harder,” she elaborated. “"He has metaphorically already shot the hostage in this situation, and so you have just this,” she continued. “This is going to land on him in six months if he loses the Senate because he's not going to be able to get confirmations through, and this is all going to come to a head.” - YouTube youtu.be

Four Years After Dobbs, Trump Administration and its Backers are Still Threatening Abortion Access

Today marks the fourth anniversary of President Trump’s hand-picked Supreme Court ending the federal right to abortion with the Dobbsv. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. Since then, more people have suffered and died because of restrictive anti-abortion laws, which have banned some or all abortion in 20 states. To mark the anniversary, Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, released the following statement: “Four years after President Trump’s handpicked Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion, their decision continues to devastate people across the country. With each passing day, more people are hurt, more families are broken, and more people’s lives are upended. Anti-abortion rights lawmakers continue to weaponize the Court’s decision to make it harder for everyone, everywhere to get the care they need. On this anniversary, it’s clearer than ever that it’s on all of us to fight back against an unpopular political agenda that has blocked people’s health, lives, and freedoms.”President Trump and his backers in Congress have spent their time in office making it harder for everyone, everywhere to get lifesaving reproductive health care, including abortion. Last July, they passed a law that “defunded” Planned Parenthood for one year by attempting to bar patients from using their Medicaid insurance at Planned Parenthood health centers. The harm they’ve caused is clear: Since the start of the Trump-Vance administration more than 50 Planned Parenthood health centers have been forced to close. More than 20 of those closures came after President Trump signed the law “defunding” Planned Parenthood.A Senate report examining the harm of “defunding” Planned Parenthood showed that in the six months since the “defunding” of Planned Parenthood took effect, fewer people have been able to get reproductive care at Planned Parenthood health centers in 2025 compared to the same period in 2024: The number of breast exam visits fell by 25% in Dec., increasing the risk of delayed breast cancer detection and avoidable, more serious illness.Visits for IUDs and other long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) dropped by 41% in Nov. and 36% in Dec.– the steepest decline across all services measured.STI testing declined by 11% in Nov. and 4% in Dec., limiting early diagnosis and treatment and increasing preventable spread and long-term health consequences.And there were 20% fewer visits for birth control pills in November. Now, House Republicans want to permanently “defund” Planned Parenthood because, where legal, Planned Parenthood health centers provide abortion.

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Dem Congresswoman faces 17 years in jail for confronting a police officer

Rep. LaMonica McIver's attorneys are set to appear before a U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals panel Wednesday morning in Wilmington, Delaware.Her legal team seeks to overturn her federal assault charges stemming from a May 2025 confrontation at Newark's Delaney Hall migrant detention facility, according to New Jersey Monitor's Sophie Nieto-Muñoz. Congresswoman McIver (D-NJ) and her allies contend she is a political target prosecuted for opposing the Trump administration's mass detention and deportation policies. The incident occurred during an oversight visit when federal agents arrested Newark's Democratic Mayor Ras Baraka for trespassing. Body camera footage shows McIver shoving an officer during the resulting confrontation. McIver now faces up to 17 years in prison. “They want to criminalize oversight and lock me up. Whatever they try, we’re not backing down,” McIver said during a meeting of House Democrats in Newark last week.Her legal team argues she has legislative immunity under the Constitution's speech or debate clause and claims selective and vindictive prosecution. Prosecutors counter, claiming her actions were not legislative acts. Federal officials compared McIver to Antifa-aligned left-wing violent extremists, according to reports by The New Jersey Monitor.A federal judge previously rejected her immunity argument, prompting the appeal.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.

Pregnant congresswoman facing 17 years for jail confrontation gets her day in court

Courtroom No. 2B in the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware, will take center stage Wednesday, with attorneys for Rep. LaMonica McIver scheduled to appear before a U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals panel there in a bid to get her federal assault charges thrown out.The court hearing comes nearly 14 months after a confrontation outside Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall earned McIver national notoriety and landed her in the Trump administration’s crosshairs.Federal officials have compared McIver, a first-term Democrat from Newark, to “Antifa-aligned left-wing violent extremists.” She and her allies argue she is a political target, prosecuted because she vocally opposes the Trump administration’s mass detention and deportation policies.“They want to criminalize oversight and lock me up. Whatever they try, we’re not backing down,” McIver said during a meeting of House Democrats in Newark last week.McIver, who is now expecting her second child, faces up to 17 years in prison.One of her close allies is Rep. Rob Menendez, a Jersey City Democrat who was with McIver at Delaney Hall last year when the melee broke out that resulted in her assault charges.In an interview ahead of Wednesday’s hearing, Menendez said he has major concerns about what precedent could be set in a case like McIver’s and hopes the appeals panel will toss the charges she faces.Rep. Rob Menendez speaks outside of Delaney Hall on Dec. 23, 2025. (Photo by Anne-Marie Caruso/New Jersey Monitor)He called the continuing legal battle a “complete abuse” of the U.S. Department of Justice that is “consistent with this administration’s abuse at every level of power.” But he said McIver remains optimistic and productive, noting her recent return visits to Delaney Hall to inspect the facility and speak to detainees housed there.“I think she’s hopeful, she’s feeling positive. We’re all here to support her as she continues to challenge this,” he said.A request for comment from McIver was not returned.McIver, Menendez, and Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman were at Delaney Hall on May 9, 2025, to conduct an oversight visit shortly after private company Geo Group opened the detention center.During the visit, federal agents arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who joined the congressional delegation and was invited into a fenced area of the property by a Geo Group staffer. Baraka, a Democrat who at the time had been trying to get city health inspectors inside the jail, remained in the parking lot for about 40 minutes before being asked to leave. Agents arrested him for trespassing on his way off the property, setting off a fracas between the elected officials, protesters, and federal agents.Body camera footage released later shows McIver shoving at least one officer during the chaotic scene.Video footage of a May 9, 2025, confrontation between protesters and federal agents outside a migrant jail in Newark shows Rep. LaMonica McIver (in red) pushing one of the agents. (Courtesy of the Department of Homeland Security)Ten days after that brawl, federal prosecutors announced they were dropping the trespassing charge against Baraka but hitting McIver with assault charges. A federal grand jury indicted her in June 2025.McIver’s legal team is seeking to dismiss the charges by arguing she has legislative immunity for the acts that occurred at Delaney Hall last year — the Constitution’s speech or debate clause protects members of Congress from prosecution over legislative acts — and by claiming she is the victim of selective and vindictive prosecution. Prosecutors argue that her actions during the fight that broke out during Baraka’s arrest were not legislative acts, and that the speech or debate clause “doesn’t immunize Members of Congress who engage in violent or forcefully obstructive acts, full stop.”McIver’s attorneys attempted to have the federal judge overseeing her case toss the charges, but he rejected her argument that she is shielded by legislative immunity and found that her alleged criminal conduct “did not occur during Defendant’s inspection of Delaney Hall,” setting up her appeal to be heard by the 3rd Circuit panel Wednesday. QuotationWe’re all here to support her as she continues to challenge this.– Rep. Rob MenendezIn a brief filed in the case in April, 20 former members of Congress — 17 of them Republicans — wrote that if the charges proceed, members of Congress would be deterred from carrying out their essential oversight responsibilities and “insulate executive abuses from the checks and balances the Constitution intends.”“Thus, it is no exaggeration to say that if this prosecution is allowed to proceed, it would imperil the constitutionally mandated powers of Congress and the fabric of our constitutional order,” they wrote.McIver has paid multiple visits to Delaney Hall since the incident that led to her assault charges, most recently last week, as the detention center has become a flashpoint in the fight against the Trump...