“They’re workers, they’re taxpayers, they’re consumers, they’re community members. And removing them not only impacts the workforce but their families, and their employers, and the local economy,” said Steven Hubbard, senior data scientist at the American Immigration Council. Around 1.3 million people from 17 countries are protected through TPS, according to the latest data available […]
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Source: Gary Hershorn / Getty Watching MAGA conservatives crash out over the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold birthright citizenship has been interesting in a comical sort of way, because it’s like they just discovered this century-and-a-half-old constitutional amendment when President Donald Trump made it his mission to end it, and they talk about it […]
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Source: ALEX WROBLEWSKI / Getty Megyn Kelly has been going full Megyn KKKelly in regard to the subject of immigrants on U.S. soil, and how even the ones who are documented need to leave because they just can’t assimilate into whatever it is white conservatives think “American” culture is. So, it should surprise no one […]
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Source: Astrida Valigorsky / Getty Last month, we reported that the U.S. Department of Justice launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the magazine columnist who President Donald Trump has been found liable for sexually assaulting. Well, we haven’t heard anything about that investigation since it was announced, but we do have the result […]
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Source: Mark Reinstein / Getty Missouri’s state legislature has a reputation for enacting policies and laws that run counter to the will of the people. Despite voters approving a constitutional amendment allowing abortion in the state, the Missouri state legislature implemented multiple laws that continued to effectively ban abortion in the state. After months of […]
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Source: SAMUEL CORUM / Getty Okay, so this was supposed to be a story about the Georgia state legislature launching a mid-decade redistricting effort with the express purpose of diminishing Black voting power, but halfway through writing it, the legislature announced it would not pursue redistricting during the special session. Don’t you just love […]
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Source: Alabama Department of Corrections / Alabama DOC For some weird reason, it’s not enough for state officials in Alabama to execute a man who has been sentenced to death; they feel the need to do it in a way that is likely painful, certainly cruel and definitely unusual. In fact, Alabama officials were so […]
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Source: Anadolu / Getty Voting is the linchpin of our democracy. But as the nation nears its 250th birthday, it is appropriate to question not only the strength of the franchise, but whether we are now living in an illusion of democracy itself. To assess democracy in this moment without the benefit of a spiritual […]
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Omar Noureldin, senior vice president of policy and litigation at Common Cause, a government watchdog group that supports national redistricting reform, said allowing politicians to “choose their voters” would skew lawmakers’ incentives away from the constituents they purport to represent. “When politicians don’t believe that there is accountability, that allows for those politicians to advance […]
Read MoreSource: Erika Goldring / Getty Last month, we reported that Louisiana Republicans decided to postpone the state’s congressional primaries amid the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to strip away Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which resulted in the blocking of a Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana just weeks before the election. And in doing so, the Louisiana […]
Read MoreSource: KENT NISHIMURA / Getty President Donald Trump is still trying to appeal his way out of being the first president in history to be an adjudicated rapist, on top of being a 34-time felon. And, once again, he’s running to his conservative pals on the U.S. Supreme Court in a desperate attempt to make it […]
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Source: Bill Clark / Getty On Wednesday, the Republican-dominated U.S. Supreme Court validated the fears of voting rights advocates spent months expressing, by using its decision in Louisiana v. Callais to strip away Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, essentially cementing the ruling that diluting Black voting power is fine, but correcting that act of systemic racism […]
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Source: Brandon Bell / Getty On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated Texas’ congressional map, which was gerrymandered in favor of Republicans last year. The Guardian reports that the move on Monday formally finalizes an emergency decision the court made last December. Despite a panel of lower court judges finding that Texas engaged in a […]
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“Just one more day.” That’s the quiet calculation many Haitian immigrants are making right now as they wait to learn whether they’ll be allowed to stay in the United States or be forced to leave everything behind. As part of a broader immigration crackdown, the Trump administration has moved to terminate TPS protections for more […]
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Source: Action Network / actionnetwork.org There’s a man in Texas named James Broadnax who has been sitting in prison for almost half of his life, and on April 30, 2026, the state plans to kill him. Broadnax is 37. He’s been tethered to death row since he was 20. When a nearly all-white Dallas County […]
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Source: Al Drago / Getty Look, we all knew from President Donald Trump’s first day back in office, when he signed an executive order to limit birthright citizenship, that his war on birthright citizenship was just an extension of his white nationalist, vehemently xenophobic war on immigration in general. The president is a racist bigot, who […]
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Source: Al Drago / Getty Last month, we reported that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda as unconstitutional and unlawful, as a result of the Trump being unable to get it through his thick, spray tan-abused head that the president doesn’t just get to assume authority granted to Congress. Well, […]
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Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty On Friday, just after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners were unconstitutional, because, as usual, Trump was assuming powers that are actually granted to Congress, a man who called himself “John Barron” called in to C-Span to complain […]
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Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty On Friday, the conservative Republican-dominated U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff agenda is unlawful and unconstitutional, just as the dozen state attorneys general who sued the administration back in April 2025 said it was. According to NBC News, the nine Supreme Court justices voted 6-3 in favor […]
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