The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) needs to implement an Obama-era rule on January 1, 2018 that enables low-income people to afford housing in high-opportunity areas with better schools, a federal judge ordered Saturday. Under the leadership of Secretary Ben Carson, HUD announced in August it was delaying the rule for two years, […]
A federal judge ruled Saturday that President Trump cannot enforce his entry ban against refugees from certain countries, which prohibited their entry into the U.S. It’s the latest setback to his administration’s various Islamophobic “Muslim ban” proposals. In October, Trump ordered a suspension of entry by refugees from 11 countries: Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Mali, North […]
On Friday, two more federal courts joined the choir of judges who have rejected President Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military, including a ruling in a fourth lower court and a second appeals court. All of the courts have held not only that the ban cannot be enforced, but that the Pentagon […]
President Donald Trump began the holiday break by telling friends he invited to Mar-a-Lago for dinner that “You all just got a lot richer,” referring to the Republican tax bill — which largely benefits the wealthy. Trump told his guests this Friday evening just hours after signing the bill into law, according to CBS News. Trump likes […]
President Donald Trump started tweeting early Sunday morning — Christmas Eve — railing against Andrew McCabe, the Clintons, and conspiracy theories that claim the FBI investigation into his ties with Russia is driven by a partisan vendetta. His tweet hinted at a purge of government workers for being insufficiently loyal. .@FoxNews-FBI’s Andrew McCabe, “in addition […]
Saturday afternoon, the Washington Post published a report that Andrew McCabe, the former acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who has spent the last few weeks and months being attacked by Donald Trump’s allies, will retire at the age of 49. The Post noted that McCabe had been a target of Republicans and […]