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FOX 24 US With a hard deadline bearing down on them, Trump and his allies are scrambling for a way to argue that contrary to the shooting, ship boardings, and an ongoing naval blockade, the U.S. is not engaged in hostilities with Iran.  These increasingly fantastical rhetorical sleights of hand are coming because of the War Powers Resolution of 1973, a law mandating that a president must withdraw from a conflict 60 days after notifying Congress that American forces are fighting. The administration will slam into that 60-day deadline on Friday.  It’s a rare example of the White House and…

FOX 24 US On the same day that Trump’s nominee for Fed chair advanced after a long stalemate, the current chair made clear that Trump’s bid for control over the central bank still had a long way to go.  Kevin Warsh’s nomination for Federal Reserve Chair advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday along party lines after his first nomination hearing before the crucial panel ended without a vote. With a 13-11 vote, Warsh’s nomination was able to move out of committee. Every Democrat voted “no by proxy,” except Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), who voted no in person. …

FOX 24 US The Supreme Court exposed the grisly underpinning of the Trump administration Wednesday as it ruled to subordinate minority voters to white ones, and seemed ready to allow the government to summarily end protected status for endangered refugees.  The administration is an amicus supporting Louisiana in Louisiana v. Callais — a landmark ruling in which the Supreme Court made the Voting Rights Act dead letter — and the petitioner in the consolidated cases Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Miot, a challenge to the Department of Homeland Security’s abrupt ending of the temporary protective status of Haitian and…

FOX 24 US Solicitor General John Sauer and several Supreme Court Justices on Wednesday sought to muddy the waters around whether President Trump’s comments that Haiti and other majority-black nations are “shithole countries” were racist. It came in oral arguments in two consolidated cases, Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Miot, in which the fate of hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants in the United States on Temporary Protected Status hangs in the balance. Trump has tried to end their status, paving the way for their deportation; the TPS holders argue that Trump officials made a series of…

FOX 24 US In a major blow to the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision in a case known as Louisiana v. Callais, struck down Louisiana’s second Black-majority congressional district, ruling that the map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The decision does not strike down the Voting rights Act altogether, but will limit the use of consideration of race in future maps, and, as experts explained to TPM, will impact the fate of the Trump administration’s broader gerrymandering blitz. “It is hard to overstate what an earthquake this will be for American politics,” legal scholar and…

FOX 24 US The Roberts Court finally achieved its years-long goal of killing the Voting Rights Act Wednesday, publishing a ruling that, the liberal justices say, will make proving racial discrimination in redistricting virtually impossible. “Under the Court’s new view of Section 2, a State can, without legal consequence, systematically dilute minority citizens’ voting power,” wrote Justice Elena Kagan in her dissent. “Of course, the majority does not announce today’s holding that way. Its opinion is understated, even antiseptic,” she continued. “The majority claims only to be “updat[ing]” our Section 2 law, as though through a few technical tweaks. But…

FOX 24 US This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. As an asylum-seeker living in the U.S., Jasmir Urbina worried as she watched violence break out amid the military-style immigration sweeps across the country. Then she read about legal residents being arrested at immigration court and wondered when federal agents would set their sights on her city. Urbina had fled Nicaragua in 2022 and legally resided with her husband, a fellow asylum-seeker, in New Orleans while reporting to immigration agents for check-ins…

FOX 24 US The last time President Donald Trump lost an election, he fought back with a wild series of baseless legal challenges and protests that culminated in an assault on the U.S. Capitol. Since then, he has openly talked about his desire to cancel the upcoming midterms including declaring that “we shouldn’t even have an election.” And, after returning to office for his second term last year, Trump and his allies have made real efforts to target voting infrastructure by taking control of influential election offices, attempting to seize and purge voter rolls, and raiding Fulton County, Georgia’s election…

FOX 24 US As the Trump administration puts the finishing touches on its plans to bury the remains of USAID, it’s running into a final problem.  It plans to use money that Congress appropriated for global health to cover the costs of shutting down USAID, Senate Democrats said in a Friday letter. That means redirecting funds meant for fighting HIV, malaria, and more to instead pay for the aftermath of the agency destruction, a move that the letter describes as an “illegal impoundment.” The Democrats, led by the Senate Appropriations Committee’s State and Foreign Operations Subcommittee’s Ranking Member Sen. Brian…

FOX 24 US Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said Sunday he will drop his blockade and get onboard to confirm Kevin Warsh’s nomination to chair the Federal Reserve after the Justice Department dropped an investigation into current central bank chief Jerome Powell. “I have been clear from the start: the U.S. Attorney’s Office criminal investigation into Chair Powell was a serious threat to the Fed’s independence, and it needed to end before I could support Kevin Warsh’s confirmation,” Tillis said in a social media statement Sunday. The sham investigation came out of the U.S. attorney’s office in the District of Columbia,…