Donald Trump announced plans to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, the first sitting president on record to do so, as the justices hear his administration’s challenge to the Fourteenth Amendment.
Today, three federal judges drew lines he wasn’t expecting. Judge Leon, a Bush appointee, halted the $400 million White House ballroom and told Trump he is the steward of the building, not the owner. An Obama appointee permanently blocked his defunding of NPR and PBS as unconstitutional. And one of Trump’s own appointees struck down his attempt to rig homeless housing grants with political loyalty tests.
His response to a day of judicial rebuke is to go sit in the room where the biggest constitutional question of his presidency will be argued and dare the justices to look at him. The norms he’s broken have always been grounded in law he chose to disregard. The courts reminded him of those laws today, and they’ll have the chance to do it again Wednesday. Tell your senators through Resistbot and 5 Calls that the judiciary is holding him accountable and Congress needs to do the same, especially with a national address tonight about the war he started.
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Gas tops $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022 as Iran war enters day 34, with 348 American troops wounded and a third aircraft carrier deploying to the region.
Source: The Associated Press
March 31, 2026
Trump schedules primetime address on the Iran war after telling reporters U.S. forces will leave in "two or three weeks," as NBC reports he has repeatedly rejected off-ramps to end the conflict.
Source: NBC News
March 31, 2026
Trump's "God Squad" convenes for the first time in over 30 years and votes unanimously to exempt all Gulf of Mexico oil and gas drilling from Endangered Species Act protections.
Source: The Tampa Bay Times
March 31, 2026
USDA relocates Forest Service headquarters to Salt Lake City, closes all regional offices, and consolidates research operations in the largest restructuring in the agency's history.
Source: USA Today
March 31, 2026
Trump signs executive order directing DHS and Social Security to compile national voter lists by citizenship status, with DOJ ordered to prosecute noncompliant election officials.
Source: Cyberscoop
March 31, 2026
Federal judge rules Trump's executive order defunding NPR and PBS is unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination, though Congress already eliminated $1.1 billion in public broadcasting support.
Source: UPI
March 31, 2026
Trump calls NewsNation reporter "a fresh person" for asking an Iran follow-up, continuing a pattern of publicly using gendered language to demean female journalists that has drawn formal condemnation from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Source: Mediaite
March 31, 2026
Defense Secretary Hegseth overrides Army investigation and lifts suspension of helicopter crews who flew Apache gunships past Kid Rock's Nashville estate, writing "carry on, patriots."
Source: The Independent
March 31, 2026
Trump's Justice Department quietly dropped 23,000 criminal investigations in six months, including terrorism and fraud cases, to shift resources to immigration prosecutions, ProPublica finds.
Source: ProPublica
March 31, 2026
Federal judge halts Trump's $400 million White House ballroom, ruling the project built on the demolished East Wing site requires congressional approval.
Source: Roll Call
March 31, 2026
Supreme Court rules 8-1 that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for minors violates the First Amendment, calling it viewpoint discrimination subject to strict scrutiny.
Source: SCOTUS blog
March 31, 2026
Trump plans to attend Supreme Court oral arguments on his birthright citizenship order Wednesday, the first sitting president on record to personally view high court proceedings.
Source: CBS News
March 31, 2026
Trump-appointed judge rules HUD unlawfully rewrote $75 million homeless housing grant criteria to impose political tests on sanctuary city policies and transgender protections.
Source: The Associated Press
March 31, 2026
DHS pauses plans to purchase more warehouses for immigrant detention as new Secretary Mullin reviews Noem's $38 billion expansion program.
Source: NBC News
March 31, 2026
Sacramento DACA recipient deported after attending a routine immigration appointment returns home after federal judge rules her removal unlawful and orders her status restored.
Source: KXTV Sacramento
March 31, 2026
Federal judge orders University of Pennsylvania to turn over names of employees affiliated with Jewish organizations to the EEOC for its antisemitism investigation.
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer
March 31, 2026
Sen. Graham photographed at Disney World with a bubble wand as the DHS shutdown enters its seventh week and 500 TSA officers have quit.
Source: The Hill
March 31, 2026
Trump announces plans to renovate the Reflecting Pool hours after a federal judge halts his White House ballroom, calling the National Trust for Historic Preservation "radical left lunatics."
Source: The Hill
March 31, 2026
Three fired FBI agents sue Director Patel and AG Bondi in class-action lawsuit alleging they were terminated for investigating Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Source: Newsweek
March 31, 2026