Trump asks Supreme Court to allow deportations under Alien Enemies Act

Washington — The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to lift lower court orders blocking deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members under the wartime Alien Enemies Act. The Justice Department made the request for emergency relief just days after a federal appeals court in Washington declined to let the administration resume the deportations

Trump targets Smithsonian funding for programs with “improper ideology”

President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order targeting funding for programs at the Smithsonian Institution that contain what he characterizes as “divisive, race-centered ideology” in his latest broadside against a liberalism that has critiqued Western culture and values. The president said in the order that there has been a “concerted and widespread” effort over the past decade to

Progressive Primary Challengers Snub Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker as Dem Infighting Escalates

‘We need new leadership in there,’ one Dem hopeful says Hakeem Jeffries (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Left-wing Democratic primary challengers are refusing to back House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D., N.Y.) for speaker, as grassroots Democrats have started turning on their party’s leaders. “I wouldn’t vote for Jeffries,” activist Saikat Chakrabarti, who is running against former