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FOX 24 US After notching a generational victory in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade’s constitutional protection of abortion, anti-abortion activists took aim at their next biggest villain: mifepristone.  The movement has smeared the drug for decades, successfully larding it up with medically unnecessary restrictions. The Biden administration eliminated some of those obstacles, allowing the medication to be prescribed over telehealth and mailed to patients — all the more critical in a post-Dobbs landscape where many red states have outlawed abortion and shuttered any remaining clinics. On Friday, a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel…

FOX 24 US Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committees released their respective reconciliation bills Monday night, setting congressional Republicans up to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) with billions of dollars for the next three years. Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation plan comes after Democrats refused to fund ICE and CBP for the fiscal year 2026, calling for meaningful reforms to be implemented affecting immigration enforcement agents following the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti at the hands of ICE agents.   Under Senate rules, reconciliation bills — meant for budgetary purposes…

FOX 24 US In the aftermath of a Supreme Court ruling this week that struck down Louisiana’s second Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana v. Callais and dealt a devastating blow to the Voting Rights Act, limiting the use of consideration of race in future maps, Louisiana’s Republican Gov. Jeff Landry has suspended this month’s already-active congressional primary election to give lawmakers time to pass new gerrymandered maps ahead of the midterms.  Over 100,000 mail-in ballots have already been sent out and absentee ballots have already been cast for the state’s primary congressional election, which was set to take place on…

FOX 24 US The Trump administration is trying to wriggle out of a legal requirement to end its war with Iran, experts told TPM — and to do so, it’s trying to convince everyone to focus on the wrong thing. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claimed before Congress Thursday that the administration’s ceasefire with Iran stops the War Powers Resolution’s 60-day clock. White House officials have echoed that line of thinking in statements to the press. But Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer and senior adviser in the U.S. Program at the International Crisis Group, told TPM that the…

FOX 24 US This story was originally reported by Barbara Rodriguez of The 19th. Meet Barbara and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. President Donald Trump on Thursday withdrew his nomination of Casey Means, a wellness influencer, for surgeon general after key Senate Republicans declined to support her. Means, a doctor without an active medical license, had been poised to elevate Trump’s vague but politically potent message to “Make America Healthy Again” and alternative forms of medicine. Pulling her nomination represents a defeat for the president and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,…

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…