6/14/1810: Justice Ward Hunt's birthday. The post Today in Supreme Court History: June 14, 1810 appeared first on Reason.com.
A US-Iran peace agreement has been officially reached, President Donald Trump and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced on Sunday. The post BREAKING: Official US-Iran Peace Agreement Complete: Deal to be Signed on June 19 in Switzerland appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
The following is the transcript of the interview with Sen. Mark Warner, Demcorat of Virginia, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on June 14, 2026.
The second round of June Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in three days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born between the 11th and 20th of a month will receive this payment on June 17. The first round went out on June 10 to those born on or before […]
A sweeping defeat of Trump's immigration policies will likely end up in the Supreme Court, a legal expert flagged.Last week, a federal judge in Rhode Island struck down four Trump policies that froze immigration benefits for nationals from 39 countries, attorney Rachel Cohen said on Legal AF. Cohen is now expecting that challenge to land in the Supreme Court."I would be shocked if it didn't go all the way up to the Supreme Court," Cohen said, referring to the case Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The administration entered final judgment earlier this week and has already filed a notice of appeal, Cohen added.The Trump administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Immigration and Nationality Act with policies that froze asylum decisions, green cards, work permits, and naturalization for people from countries on Trump's travel-ban list, according to Cohen's description of a ruling by Chief Judge John McConnell."It actually is, I would say, one of the most sweeping kind of rebukes to the Trump administration when it comes to its attempts to target legal immigrants that we have seen thus far," Cohen said. "Trump has been attacking legal immigrants left and right by changing policies as much as possible."Cohen also flagged a deeper problem with Trump's policies, grinding the important immigration process to a halt."If you're not even processing any of these applications, basically all that that arm of the government is doing is terrorizing people on the streets, snatching them up," Cohen said, referring to the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees USCIS and ICE. She also noted that congressional Republicans moved to increase the ICE budget by $70 billion over the next three years.
Mary Trump, the president's niece and a frequent critic, drew on her own family history this week to argue that her uncle is the last person who should be lecturing anyone about masculinity.In the latest edition of her newsletter, "Trump Trolls Trump," the clinical psychologist took aim at the spectacle of Republicans posturing over who counts as manly enough, and used her firsthand knowledge of the family that raised Donald Trump to puncture it."I grew up in a family with Donald Trump," she wrote, before delivering the verdict: he "knows absolutely nothing about being a real man."The line landed in the middle of a takedown of Sen. Ted Cruz, who had questioned the masculinity of Texas state Rep. James Talarico, joking that a stiff breeze would blow the Democrat over and mocking him over rumors of a meatless campaign and his opposition to oil and gas. Mary Trump was unimpressed with the idea of Cruz appointing himself an authority on the subject, wondering aloud what the qualification even amounts to in public office.If masculinity were going to be defined at all, she argued, a baseline requirement ought to be defending your spouse when another man publicly insults her. That, she noted, is something Cruz never managed. She pointed back to the 2016 campaign, when Trump pushed a conspiracy theory tying Cruz's father to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and then publicly demeaned Cruz's wife. Cruz, she wrote, swallowed his pride and endorsed Trump anyway.The president, she suggested, fails the same test by an even wider margin, and she made clear she considers herself uniquely positioned to say so, having watched him up close inside the family.The "real man" jab fits the throughline of Mary Trump's running commentary, which casts her uncle's behavior not as a series of gaffes but as a consistent display of who he has always been. As she has put it, nothing about him has changed.She closed her newsletter the way she often does, framing ridicule as a political weapon: "Mockery is our superpower."
The Supreme Court is expected to gut a century-old legal precedent and expand Trump's power over independent agencies, per a legal expert.Lisa Graves, a legal investigative researcher and Chief Justice John Roberts biographer, warned in a recent piece about how SCOTUS will rule in Trump v. Slaughter later this month. She fears the court will overturn Humphrey's Executor, the 1931 precedent that bars presidents from firing Federal Trade Commission commissioners without cause."This is a choice—an illegitimate one—not a necessity or requirement of the law, no matter what John Roberts and his fellow Republican appointees on the Supreme Court may claim," Graves wrote. "Their edict will be dressed up in the language of 'separation of powers,' but that is merely a costume for this extraordinary power grab."The Trump v. Slaughter case stems from Trump's firing last year of Rebecca Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, the FTC's two Democratic commissioners. Lower courts initially reinstated Slaughter, but the Supreme Court intervened through its shadow docket to keep her off the commission while the case proceeded, according to Graves.Trump's case for firing the two commissioners was based on the unitary executive theory, and claims that all executive power "vests" in him, allowing him to "fire anyone in the executive branch at any time for any reason or no reason at all," Graves explained.The Supreme Court ruling in Trump's favor would uphold that claim. She pointed to real-world consequences, noting that the FTC has dropped more than three dozen merger investigations since Slaughter's firing, including into a $32 billion acquisition by Google of the startup Wiz.
Elon Musk made history when shares for his rocket company, SpaceX, blasted off in its initial public offering on Friday, making him the world’s first trillionaire and […]
