President Donald Trump’s threat this week to stop federal funding to both so-called “sanctuary” cities and the states where they’re located was greeted with disbelief by many states and cities since the administration has fared poorly on that issue in court. “We will go to court within seconds, and we will win if he does this. It’s already proven unlawful. We’ve already won multiple times,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta told ABC News7 in San Francisco on Wednesday. “Those are funds that belong to the people of Chicago, not the…
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A South Bay business owner who was convicted of fraud, sentenced to prison, and pardoned on the final day of President Donald Trump’s first term – then convicted in 2024 of another fraud scheme hatched after her release and sent to prison again – was pardoned a second time by Trump Thursday. Adriana Camberos was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison in April after a jury convicted her and her brother, Andres, of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud charges. Court records show Camberos…
The U.S. Department of Education, for now, is backtracking on plans to garnish wages and seize tax refunds of student loan borrowers in default, the department announced Friday. Less than a month after the agency said it would begin garnishing wages by sending notices to roughly 1,000 borrowers in default the first full week of January, the department said that the temporary delay would allow it to implement “major student loan repayment reforms” under Republicans’ tax and spending cut bill that President Donald Trump signed into law in 2025. The delay…
Preliminary injunction prevents federal agents from retaliating against demonstrators, using tear gas on peaceable assemblies. A federal judge gave a significant victory to Minnesota protesters and observers of federal officers Friday, granting a preliminary injunction preventing the officers from retaliating against demonstrators. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez prevents the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement from arresting or detaining people who are engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest including observing Operation Metro Surge, which is the feds’ name for the incursion of 3,000…
The outcome of two trials in the coming weeks could shape what it will look like when voters overturn state abortion bans through future ballot initiatives. Arizona and Missouri voters in November 2024 struck down their respective near-total abortion bans. Both states added abortion access up to fetal viability as a right in their constitutions, although Arizonans approved the amendment by a much wider margin than Missouri voters. That was just the beginning of protracted legal battles. Amy Myrick, senior counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, said ballot measures…
President Donald Trump threatened Friday to place tariffs on Greenland and any country that opposes his efforts to take over the Arctic island, as members of Congress from both political parties were in Europe to assure allied nations that lawmakers won’t go along with his plans. “I may do that for Greenland too. I may put a tariff on countries if they don’t go along with Greenland because we need Greenland for national security,” Trump said. “So I may do that.” Trump has been increasingly focused on acquiring Greenland during…
Colorado Democrats plan to file legislation this session that would ask voters for permission to raise the state spending cap by billions while also increasing funding for education. The idea, brought to lawmakers by the Colorado Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, is the most recent proposal to retool the state’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights. TABOR, as it’s known, limits the state’s revenue growth, making it hard to spend more money on schools and other priorities. CEA President Kevin Vick said the measure would be placed on the 2026…
Democrats shoot for the stars Defense is the main goal for congressional Democrats in Ohio this year. But they’re trying to make the case that they’re also going on offense. This week, two Democrats formally launched their campaigns in Republican-held territory: Kristina Knickerbocker in Ohio’s 10th Congressional District and Brian Poindexter in the 7th District. The campaign behind Knickerbocker, a first-time candidate, stands out as a potential measure of how far Democrats can stretch the political battlefield this year. The district is on the outer bounds of what’s really competitive,…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday morning to send the military into Minnesota to stop protests, following another shooting by immigration agents that injured one person, seven days after an agent fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis. Writing on his own social media platform, Trump said he would invoke the Insurrection Act, a 19th-century law empowering the government to deploy the military domestically to “repress insurrections and repel invasions.” “If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking…
In a massive win for Gov. Ron DeSantis, the Florida Supreme Court Thursday ended its reliance on the agency in charge of accrediting law schools. This ends Florida’s more than three-decade dependence on the American Bar Association, the state’s sole accrediting body. Because the ABA does not serve Floridians’ “best interest,” five of six justice agreed, Florida will reach out to alternative accreditors, effective Oct. 1. This comes just one day after DeSantis bashed the ABA as a left-wing organization undeserving of being the “arbiter of legal education,” and months…