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  • Trump Is Refighting The “War” That Congress and the Burger Court “Waged” Against President Nixon

    10/02/2025 12:51:27 PM PDT · by Valpal1 · 14 replies
    This ruling is part of a series of cases in which the Court is scaling back Congress's efforts to control the presidency in the wake of Watergate. An entire structural edifice of government was created to constrain the executive. And the Roberts Court is now dismantling those structures. I was not alive at the time, but I imagine that Watergate felt something like the resistance to the Trump Presidency. I agree with that Trump is completing Nixon’s aborted second term “by attempting to gain control of the executive branch and tame the Administrative State.” But unlike Nixon, Trump is supported...
  • BREAKING: Supreme Court Allows Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to Keep Her Job… For Now

    10/01/2025 8:44:16 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 27 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | October 01, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    The US Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed embattled Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to remain in her chair for now. The high court will hear the case in January 2026 and allow Lisa Cook to keep her job in the meantime. This also means Lisa Cook will be able to participate in December’s interest rate meeting.
  • Christian cake-maker seeks Supreme Court ruling after California says she discriminated against lesbian couple

    10/01/2025 7:43:15 AM PDT · by Twotone · 11 replies
    The Blaze ^ | September 30, 2025 | Andrew Chapados
    A Christian baker believes she should not have to design a cake that celebrates an ideology that goes against her faith. In 2017, Cathy Miller was reportedly approached by a lesbian couple, Eileen and Mireya Rodriguez-Del Rio, at her business, the Tastries Bakery in Bakersfield, California. Miller explained that same-sex couples were not part of her belief system and that she did not wish to design their cake. Miller did, however, recommend another cake decorator in town. Later that year, California's Civil Rights Department sued Miller and said she violated the state's anti-discrimination laws. In 2023, a five-day trial ended...
  • DOJ asks Supreme Court to review birthright citizenship order as high court takes on Trump cases this term

    09/29/2025 12:46:03 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 12 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | September 29, 2025 3:18 pm | Jack Birle
    The Trump administration has filed a pair of petitions to the Supreme Court asking the justices to hear appeals on its birthright citizenship order, cases which could add to the growing list of questions related to President Donald Trump‘s actions that the high court will consider in its upcoming term.The two petitions appeared on the Supreme Court’s public docket Monday, after being filed late Friday, and they urged the justices to take appeals in both cases, which were brought by Democrat-led states and a group of people who could be affected by Trump’s order.The question presented to the high court...
  • BREAKING: The Supreme Court sides with the Trump administration, allowing it to block $4 billion in Congress-approved foreign aid spending.

    09/26/2025 2:48:48 PM PDT · by SmokingJoe · 46 replies
    X ^ | 09/26/2025 | Benny Johnson
    BREAKING: The Supreme Court sides with the Trump administration, allowing it to block $4 billion in Congress-approved foreign aid spending. “A federal judge had previously ruled that the administration would have to spend the funds by the end of the month, but the Supreme Court's decision puts that on hold.”
  • Supreme Court allows Trump to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid funding

    09/26/2025 2:05:43 PM PDT · by CFW · 32 replies
    NBC ^ | 9/26/25 | Lawrence Hurley
    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday handed another win to the Trump administration by allowing it to withhold $4 billion in spending on foreign aid that was appropriated by Congress. A federal judge had previously ruled that the administration would have to spend the funds by the end of the month, but the Supreme Court's decision puts that on hold. The brief order noted that the government has made a "sufficient showing" that the groups that sued were barred from bringing the lawsuit in question under a law called the Impoundment Control Act. The court, which has a 6-3...
  • Nicholas John Roske, Brett Kavanaugh Suspect: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

    06/08/2022 2:24:35 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 43 replies
    Nicholas Roske, 26, is from Simi Valley, California. A LinkedIn page in the name of Nicholas Roske of Simi Valley says that he worked as an office manager at a pest control company. A criminal complaint accuses Roske of “attempts to kidnap or murder, or threatens to assault, kidnap or murder a United States Judge, to wit: a current Justice of the United States Supreme Court.” It outlines a number of items he’s accused of bringing with him to Kavanaugh’s neighborhood, including duct tape, zip ties, and a pistol. The suspect also goes by the names Nicholas Roske and Nick...
  • Nicholas John Roske: Accused Kavanaugh Suspect Identified

    06/08/2022 11:40:01 AM PDT · by American Number 181269513 · 94 replies
    Heavy ^ | Jun 8, 2022
    Nicholas John Roske is the armed suspect accused of threatening to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Roske’s name was released via an unsealed arrest affidavit. Online records say Nicholas Roske, 26, is from Simi Valley, California. A LinkedIn page in the name of Nicholas Roske of Simi Valley says that he worked as an office manager at a pest control company. A criminal complaint accuses Roske of “attempts to kidnap or murder, or threatens to assault, kidnap or murder a United States Judge, to wit: a current Justice of the United States Supreme Court.” It outlines a number...
  • Abortion Activist Charged With Threatening to Murder Justice Brett Kavanaugh

    06/08/2022 8:15:19 PM PDT · by bimboeruption · 6 replies
    lifenews.com ^ | 6-8-2022 | Micaiah Bilger
    A California man who said he was angry that the U.S. Supreme Court may soon overturn Roe v. Wade has been charged with threatening to murder Justice Brett Kavanaugh outside his Maryland home early Wednesday morning. Heavy reports court records identified the man as Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, California. Roske was arrested around 1:50 a.m. Wednesday morning near Kavanaugh’s home, according to authorities. Police said he was armed with a pistol, knife, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer and crowbar, according to USA Today. Roske allegedly threatened to kill Kavanaugh because he was upset that the justice...
  • Abortion Activist Wanted to Kill Multiple Supreme Court Justices to Keep Roe

    09/24/2025 6:19:10 PM PDT · by Morgana · 18 replies
    Life News ^ | September 22, 2025 | Steven Ertelt
    A California man who plotted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh also wanted to kill at least two other conservative justices in a bid to preserve Roe v. Wade. New court filings revealed this week are spotlighting the violent extremism that gripped abortion activists in the chaotic lead-up to the landmark Dobbs decision. Nicholas John Roske, 28, of Simi Valley, California, faces 30 years to life in prison for attempted murder of a U.S. official in his bid to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh. Roske was arrested outside Kavanaugh’s Chevy Chase, Maryland, home on June 8, 2022, where he was found...
  • Disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok loses long-running lawsuit over firing for anti-Trump texts

    09/24/2025 8:20:17 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 57 replies
    NYP ^ | 09 24 2025 | Anthony Blair
    Disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok has lost his long-running lawsuit claiming he was illegally fired for sending messages attacking President Trump during his first term. Strzok had argued that he was only fired in 2018 because Trump reacted furiously to texts the agent exchanged while investigating ties between Russia and the Republicans’ 2016 campaign. But US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Tuesday that Strzok failed to show it violated his First Amendment rights. The judge, appointed by President Barack Obama, praised Strzok as having been “among the FBI’s leading counterintelligence experts” — but ruled that there was “no...
  • High Court Allows Trump to Remove FTC Official, Agrees to Hear Challenge to 1935 Precedent

    09/22/2025 5:45:49 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 11 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 22 Sep 2025 | John Carney
    The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Trump to remove a Federal Trade Commission commissioner and agreed to resolve long-standing constitutional questions about White House authority over independent agencies. In an unsigned emergency order, the justices said they would permit the dismissal of Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter while the case proceeds. They also agreed to hear arguments in December, signaling that the Court is prepared to revisit—and possibly overturn—a 1935 ruling that limited presidential authority over the FTC and similar commissions. Trump had removed Ms. Slaughter, a Democratic commissioner, earlier this year, contending that the statutory protections...
  • Supreme Court will weigh expanding Trump’s power to shape agencies by overturning 90-year-old ruling

    09/22/2025 3:48:20 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 26 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 5:03 PM CDT, September 22, 2025 | LINDSAY WHITEHURST
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider expanding President Donald Trump’s power to shape independent agencies by overturning a nearly century-old decision limiting when presidents can fire board members. In a 6-3 decision, the high court also allowed the Republican president to carry out the firing of Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, while the case plays out. It’s the latest high-profile firing the court has allowed in recent months, signaling the conservative majority could be poised to overturn or narrow a 1935 Supreme Court decision that found commissioners can only be...
  • Supreme Court allows Trump to fire Democratic member of trade commission

    09/22/2025 4:23:19 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 32 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | September 22, 2025 at 6:49 p.m. | Justin Jouvenal
    The high court will also hear arguments about overturning a 90-year-old precedent that allowed Congress to create independent agencies.The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to fire the sole remaining Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission, the latest victory in his aggressive push to exert greater control over the federal bureaucracy. The justices overturned a lower-court injunction that reinstated Rebecca Slaughter to her position with the agency that oversees antitrust and consumer protection issues while litigation over her removal works its way through the courts. The ruling — while provisional — is significant because the...
  • Supreme Court takes up dispute over Trump's authority to fire FTC member

    09/22/2025 12:41:23 PM PDT · by CFW · 26 replies
    NBC News ^ | 9/22/25 | Lawrence Hurley
    WASHINGTON — Taking up a major case on the structure of the federal government, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether President Donald Trump can fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission despite a law that limits his ability to do so. While the court is deciding the case, a lower court ruling in favor of the commissioner in question, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, will remain on hold, the court said. That means she will not remain in office while the case is litigated.
  • Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Would-Be Assassin Identifies As Transgender, Now Wants Female Pronouns Used

    09/19/2025 9:51:24 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 25 replies
    Red State ^ | 09/19/2025 | Jennifer Oliver O'Connell
    Nicholas J. Roske, the 29-year-old who pleaded guilty in April to the attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, will be sentenced on October 3. According to a Friday court filing, Roske faces up to 30 years in prison. The Department of Justice said in the sentencing memo that they deem Roske's action as an act of terrorism. As RedState reported, in June 2022, Roske traveled from California to Washington, D.C., for the sole purpose of assassinating Kavanaugh. Roske wandered the D.C. suburb near Kavanaugh's home armed with a pistol and ammunition, a crowbar, a "tactical knife," zip ties,...
  • Biden to announce first bill he’d send to new Democratic Congress would codify Roe v. Wade

    10/18/2022 8:05:41 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 55 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/18/2022 | ALEX GANGITANO
    President Biden on Tuesday will announce that the first bill he would send to Congress if Democrats retain their majorities would be one to codify the Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion rights. Biden is set to make the remarks at an event in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Democratic National Committee. It illustrates how Democrats and Biden want to put the emphasis on abortion rights ahead of the midterms as new polls suggest the party is losing momentum in its effort to retain the Senate and House. Biden’s announcement has caveats. Sending the bill is dependent on Democrats retaining...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Attempted Kavanaugh Assassin Identifies As Transgender Woman, Legal Filings Show

    09/19/2025 12:42:13 PM PDT · by DFG · 48 replies
    Daily Wire ^ | 09/19/2025 | Mary Margaret Olohan
    The man who attempted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh identifies as a transgender woman and was deeply mentally ill and suicidal, according to court documents first obtained by The Daily Wire. The Department of Justice is recommending that the defendant, 29-year-old Nicholas Roske, be sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempting to kill the Supreme Court justice in 2022, according to a Friday filing outlining the case against Roske. Roske pled guilty to the attempt to kill a United States Supreme Court Justice in April 2025, three years after authorities arrested him in Kavanaugh’s neighborhood, carrying a...
  • Trump asks the Supreme Court to let him fire Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook

    09/18/2025 12:21:02 PM PDT · by RandFan · 10 replies
    Politico ^ | Sep 18 | Politico
    President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to allow him to fire Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook, setting up a test of the president’s ability to take control of the powerful interest-rate setting body. The Justice Department on Thursday asked the high court to reverse the decisions of two lower courts that allowed Cook to remain in her position while the broader legal fight is underway. Their decisions enabled Cook to participate in a meeting this week that resulted in a quarter-point reduction in the interest rate. Trump’s incursion on the Federal Reserve is the culmination of his...
  • Supreme Court announces it will hear challenges to Trump’s tariffs on Nov. 5

    09/18/2025 12:37:16 PM PDT · by DFG · 9 replies
    Scotusblog ^ | 09/18/2025 | Amy Howe
    The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Nov. 5 in the pair of challenges to President Donald Trump’s authority to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The court on Thursday morning released an updated calendar for its November argument session that reflects the addition of the tariffs dispute, which the justices added to their docket for the 2025-26 term on Sept. 9. The dispute over Trump’s tariffs is operating on a highly expedited schedule. The government will file its opening brief on Friday, just 10 days after the court announced that it had granted review; the challengers’...