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The news is absurd on its own. We just stopped pretending otherwise.
The EPA killed a $7 billion solar program by claiming a new tax law had quietly erased it. A federal judge read the law and disagreed — but the delay may already have done the job.
A Trump-appointed judge ordered the White House to restore three outlets' press passes. The White House spent Thursday morning not doing that — and the evening admitting Chinese state media to a state dinner while some of those same reporters stood outside.
Two lawsuits in two weeks are asking federal courts to keep armed federal agents away from polling sites in November. The administration says it has no plans — and keeps declining to rule it out.
The Supreme Court blocked the new USPS ballot rules 6-1-2 — but read Kavanaugh's concurrence and it looks less like a win than a scheduling note for 2028.
A Florida grand jury is hauling former intelligence officials in over a decade-old "conspiracy," the prosecutor who lobbied to run the case just quit, and nobody has publicly named the offense.
Trump signed about 30 pardons and commutations on September 3. The announcement was a social media post naming four of them. One of the people left off just had $1.6 million in restitution to his own union members erased.
A federal judge blocked Trump's August order narrowing birthright citizenship, on the grounds that the Supreme Court answered the question in June and has not changed its mind since.
Nearly 500 people have been flown out of Boeing Field since late August, often told the night before, with phones cut off so they can't call a lawyer. ICE won't say why.
ICE logged 49,571 arrests in July, its biggest month yet, and the growth strategy is letting the airport check-in counter do the investigating.
A federal judge just ordered Trump officials to say who invented the $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund." Nobody wants to raise their hand — and the quieter half of the deal, the part that shields the family's tax returns, is still standing.
The justices voted 5-4 to let construction continue without deciding whether any of it is legal. The Chief Justice dissented to say it probably isn't. The East Wing is already gone either way.
The Court called the mail-ballot challenge premature. Four days later the 'premature' thing became a final rule — and everyone had to re-file.