Some cases could reach the Supreme Court and result in major precedents that clarify the scope of executive authority. By Sam Dorman | February 19, 2025Updated:February 19, 2025 Within the first month of President Donald Trump’s second term, he has encountered more than 70 sometimes overlapping lawsuits challenging his actions on spending, federal employment decisions,
The nominee was pressed on her legislative record and loyalty to the Constitution. Right-to-work laws, visa programs, and the federal minimum wage were among the topics on senators’ minds as they vetted former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.) for the role of labor secretary on Feb. 19. Chavez-DeRemer, 56, represented Oregon’s Fifth Congressional District for one
‘Why Is A Whyte Senator Writing About China?’ Getty Images Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) has once again managed to enrage some very annoying people by writing and publishing a collection of words. Almost five years after liberal journalists whined about feeling “unsafe” because the New York Times published Cotton’s op-ed about restoring law and
The National Weather Service issued ‘extreme fire’ alerts before Bass’s international travel Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass in a press conference (Apu Gomes/Getty Images) Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass (D.) on Tuesday said she traveled to Ghana ahead of the deadly blaze that scorched through her city because fire chief Kristin Crowley didn’t warn her
President Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary told lawmakers during her Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday that she no longer supports a pro-union piece of legislation challenging states’ right-to-work laws that she once backed as a lawmaker in Oregon. Former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.) previously represented a swing district that includes parts of Portland. While
A legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive orders banning people who identify as transgender from serving in the military exposes great division. Twenty state attorneys general have filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit to block the Trump administration’s executive orders that ban people who identify as transgender from serving in the
New York governor Kathy Hochul (D.) on Wednesday moved to sue the Trump administration after it terminated New York City’s congestion pricing program. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in a letter earlier Wednesday informed Hochul that the department is revoking the November 21 agreement, which imposed a $9 toll on most drivers entering Manhattan below 60th