Mass hearings, removal orders ‘in absentia’ – judges are wrapping up immigration cases in unprecedented numbers The second Trump administration recorded its highest number of immigration arrests so far last month. One significant and alarming reason that is far less noticeable than armored, masked agents swaggering in the streets with weapons may be a sudden change in America’s immigration courts. Here, in recent months, accelerated mass hearings are giving people facing existential questions about their fu...

“President Donald Trump is set to visit Michigan on Monday to highlight manufacturing and auto industry jobs ahead of the state’s Aug. 4 primary elections,” NewsNation reports.

Did Cuba foment Black Lives Matter and anti-ICE protests? The State Department seems to think so.

The post Rubio’s Paranoid Cuba Report Designed to “Justify a Military Attack on Cuba,” Says Democratic Rep. appeared first on The Intercept.

A federal appeals court refused to revive the Trump administration’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, keeping in place a lower court order that blocked the charge while the administration continues its appeal.

Happy Sunday everyone.

No press briefing has been held for months, as the defence department belatedly or inaccurately releases figures The Pentagon is taking a “shameful approach” to releasing information about US casualties in the Iran war, Leon Panetta, a former defence secretary and CIA director, has told the Guardian. The defence department has not held a press briefing for two-and-a-half months. Officials have faced accusations that they are engaged in a cover-up designed to hide the true cost of Donald Trump’s war of choic...

Some new ads in North Carolina and Wisconsin too.....

President Donald Trump’s administration has imposed new tariffs on 60 U.S.

The New York Times will argue in court Thursday that the White House is abusing the justice system to intimidate reporters over a story that angered President Trump.

Four Republicans joined Democrats to approve the measure. And while it is not legally binding, the resolution represents growing frustration inside Congress over the war.

“You are the U.S. ambassador, and you don't even know how many U.S. troops were wounded in the Iran war—you got that wrong. You should be ashamed."

The post ‘YOU SHOULD RESIGN!’ House Democrat Absolutely Unleashes on Trump’s UN Ambassador in Fiery Hearing Moment on Iran first appeared on Mediaite.

We often hear that deficits are terrible for society. What if they were instead absolutely essential?

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The United States launched a fresh barrage of strikes on Iran overnight as President Donald Trump threatened a major new escalation after Tehran opened a second front in its pressure campaign on the world economy.

In today’s edition, we dive into the still-growing number of lawmaker retirements this election cycle.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and GOP governor nominee Bobby Charles were quick to buck President Donald Trump’s latest tariff policy.

Donald Trump lost his temper with a reporter on Tuesday after she pressed him on why Iran is continuing to fight. In barely-concealed anger, he ripped her organization as “fake” and insisted Iran “desperately” wants to make a deal. But of course, that only revealed the line of questioning to be absolutely correct: Iran is not desperate, and he really does not know how to force Iran’s hand or get out of this fiasco. Meanwhile, Politico reports that GOP anxiety is growing about how the Iran war will hurt the ...

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) pressed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in a testy exchange on Iran and the state of the Strait of Hormuz.

The post ‘We Need Straight Answers!’ GOP Senator Scolds Hegseth for Iran Answers in Testy Hearing Exchange first appeared on Mediaite.

On July 23, the 3rd Annual Henry A. Wallace Symposium will feature insights from movement leaders, policy experts, and elected officials on how to protect hard-earned rights and frontline communities, confront corporate power and Pentagon profiteering, and renew our democratic institutions from within.

The post Forging a Democracy that Works for All: Institute for Policy Studies Launches Blueprint to Counter Power of Billionaires, Corporations, and the Pentagon ahead of Symposium appeared first on Institut...

President Trump railed against "forever wars," but with hostilities increasing and negotiations at a standstill, there appears no easy exit from the war he launched on Iran.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright told ABC’s Jonathan Karl that Trump’s plans are “unchanged.”

After the first hearing ever convened by the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, the judge concluded DOJ still had more work to do to make its case. Also: Law Dork on MS NOW.

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Nebraska Senate candidate Cindy Burbank secured the Democratic nomination in May. On Friday, she submitted a request to the office of Nebraska’s secretary of state to be taken off the ballot — but a legal challenge could ensue.

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The post “Democrats’ Nebraska Senate Nominee Wants Off the Ballot. The State Might Not Let Her.” appeared first on Election Law Blog.