The Constitution remains under intense pressure from Trump’s MAGA movement.
Today a federal judge in Oregon halted warrantless ICE arrests after agents testified they create warrants after people are already detained and operate under daily arrest quotas. The judge insisted that great power must exercise great restraint.
Today was also the third consecutive day that Donald Trump publicly insisted that the federal government nationalize elections and remove them from state control. He says he’s targeting 15 places. Even Republican Senator Thom Tillis said nationalizing elections “seems a little off strategy.”
The Constitution has been amended 27 times in 250 years. That flexibility allows it to evolve if necessary, but the amendment process is specific. While a federal judge, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote during the first Trump administration, “Stated simply, the primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded American history is that Presidents are not kings.”
Make sure your representatives, especially those in the Republican Party, know that you demand they defend the Constitution they swore to uphold.
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Government attorney tells federal judge "this job sucks" after being ordered to explain why DHS missed multiple deadlines to release five detainees who never should have been arrested.
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Source: UPI
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Source: The Associated Press
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Source: The Associated Press
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Source: CBS News
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Source: Axios
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Federal judge halts warrantless ICE arrests in Oregon after agents testified they create warrants after detention and operate under daily quotas.
Source: KGW Portland
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Judge Aileen Cannon sentences Ryan Routh to life in prison for 2024 assassination attempt against Trump at Florida golf course.
Source: Newsweek
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Source: ABC News
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Source: KSTP St. Paul
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Source: WWL New Orleans
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Source: KMSP Minneapolis
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Source: Ars Technica
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Source: Federal News Network
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Source: The Hill
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Source: The Hill
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Source: Houston Public Media
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Source: The Washington Post
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Source: Ars Technica
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Source: The Wall Street Journal
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Source: Newsweek
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