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FOX 24 US Multiple challenges to President Donald Trump’s March “election integrity” executive order are moving through the federal judiciary simultaneously, including one that has reached the Supreme Court. On Tuesday, an appeals court in Washington D.C. presiding over a separate challenge to the EO sided with the administration, agreeing that it is too early for plaintiffs to challenge the order that would overhaul the absentee voting system. Notably, the plaintiffs in the case before the Supreme Court — Trump v. California — are states, who may have an easier sell: They need to do a massive amount of work and…

FOX 24 US This story was originally published by ProPublica. Across the country, federal judges are calling out Department of Justice lawyers, questioning in unprecedented ways whether they can be trusted to tell the truth or uphold centuries-old legal norms. From Washington, D.C., to Rhode Island to Oregon, federal judges nominated by presidents from both parties, including Donald Trump, have zeroed in on what’s called “the presumption of regularity.” It essentially means that judges must presume that the government — whether it be federal prosecutors, an IRS auditor or an FBI agent — did their jobs according to the rules…

FOX 24 US Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) has once again formally requested proof of life from Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who has been absent from the Senate since he was hospitalized on June 14. Beshear sent a new letter to McConnell, his staff and the office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) on Monday demanding the 84-year-old senator “directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign.” “I am addressing this letter to Senator McConnell under the assumption that he is capable of reading and responding verbally, and not…

FOX 24 US ‘Yeah, That’s Not Going to Happen’ Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and other Senate Republicans are resisting two aspects of Donald Trump’s latest demand that they pass the SAVE Act voter suppression bill: they don’t want to give up or delay their August recess to do so, and they don’t want to nuke the filibuster. Scrapping the filibuster would allow the SAVE Act to pass with 51 instead of 60 votes. “Yeah, that’s not going to happen,” Thune told ABC News yesterday. “If the result is only achieved by nuking the legislative filibuster, we don’t have…

FOX 24 US ‘Yeah, That’s Not Going to Happen’ Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and other Senate Republicans are resisting two aspects of Donald Trump’s latest demand that they pass the SAVE Act voter suppression bill: they don’t want to give up or delay their August recess to do so, and they don’t want to nuke the filibuster. Scrapping the filibuster would allow the SAVE Act to pass with 51 instead of 60 votes. “Yeah, that’s not going to happen,” Thune told ABC News yesterday. “If the result is only achieved by nuking the legislative filibuster, we don’t have…

FOX 24 US President Donald Trump on Monday morning called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to cancel the upper chamber’s lengthy August recess until they pass the SAVE America Act — the voter suppression bill the president and his MAGA allies have been obsessively pushing Congress to pass for months. “John Thune should not allow the United States  Senate to “leave town” until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER, where Republicans can then quickly pass everything they ever dreamed of, including a full and deep throated SAVE AMERICA ACT, the Budget,…

FOX 24 US This story was originally published by States Newsroom. The Trump administration has a new plan for teenagers learning about pregnancy: Beginning this summer, it will steer millions of dollars toward organizations that focus on anatomy, fertility tracking, hormonal production and “reproductive goals counseling.” The plan will also emphasize abstinence from sex and the importance of marriage.  In doing so, it will pivot away from programs that serve populations in areas with the greatest need and that use particular evidence-based programming to reduce teen pregnancies — and some say the new language puts a greater focus on planning…

FOX 24 US A First Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld a lower court ruling Sunday that blocks the federal government from overhauling mail-in ballots and assembling citizenship lists for the 2026 midterms. It was the latest rebuke for President Donald Trump’s effort to exert control over the midterms via executive order, keeping on hold a directive he signed in March.  The panel was composed of two Biden appointees and one Trump appointee. Judge Joshua Dunlap, the Trump judge, dissented from the majority in part, finding that the injunction was not justified as to the part of the executive order…

FOX 24 US Hello there. We’re back after a week away. Administration Explains to Court How It Has Weaponized Federalism  It’s becoming a cliche, but this administration has the kind of scandal that took up years of the Nixon administration on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis.  The latest emerges in a New York Times article flagging a court filing in a dispute between the federal government and researchers who work on grant-funded projects. In a stipulation, the administration admits that funds for various Biden-era clean energy projects were withheld from blue states, and blue states alone.  “With one exception, the…

FOX 24 US A federal judge in Virginia ruled in favor of an abortion provider Thursday, finding that the Food and Drug Administration’s most recent set of restrictions on mifepristone isn’t justified by the data. Whole Woman’s Health, a reproductive health clinic in Alexandria, joined a rich history of medical organizations and providers challenging the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS), some form of which has been imposed on mifepristone for years. In its most current iteration, formalized under the Biden administration in 2023, the agency lifted some crucial restrictions, allowing the drug to be prescribed over telehealth, dispensed by…