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The Trump administration has again asked the Supreme Court to allow it to move forward with a broad “reduction in force” plan for federal agencies that was blocked by a federal judge.
The administration had filed an essentially identical request last month, but withdrew it after additional lower court rulings in the case, which meant the justices never had a chance to weigh in.
In the new filing, Solicitor General D. John Sauer said the district court ruling covers “most of the federal government — and even restricts the Executive in planning personnel actions pursuant to presidential direction.”
California-based U.S. District Judge Susan Illston had ruled that while the president can make changes, major reorganizations have to be done with the cooperation of Congress.
In total, the ruling affects 22 government departments and agencies, according to Sauer.
Trump wrote on Truth Social that yesterday’s attack on people who were shining a light on the hostages still held in Gaza “will not be tolerated.”
“He came in through Biden’s ridiculous Open Border Policy, which has hurt our Country so badly. He must go out under ‘TRUMP’ Policy,” the president said about the suspect, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who is potentially facing two counts of first-degree murder for the attack in Boulder, Colorado.
“Acts of Terrorism will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law,” Trump wrote. “This is yet another example of why we must keep our Borders SECURE, and deport Illegal, Anti-American Radicals from our Homeland. My heart goes out to the victims of this terrible tragedy, and the Great People of Boulder, Colorado!”
Soliman used a makeshift flamethrower to attack the peaceful demonstrators, the FBI said, resulting in eight people being hospitalized.
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said Soliman had an asylum claim pending since September 2022. He entered the country on a B2 visa, which allows temporary visits, in August 2022, but that expired in February 2023, she said.
A representative for former President Joe Biden did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s post.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., launched a new political action committee today to “invest directly in organizations that are mobilizing people to fight back” against Trump and the Republicans’ agenda.
An announcement about the launch of the American Mobilization PAC said Murphy will spend millions of dollars to support grassroots efforts. The first investment, of $400,000, will go to the Committee to Protection Health Care’s work organizing doctors and nurses in Michigan, Louisiana and Utah to support protecting Medicaid from cuts, as well as to Georgia Youth Justice Coalition for Action and Project 26 Pennsylvania, which aim to organize students, the announcement said.
“Elections are important, but if we don’t stop Trump’s attempts to destroy our democracy right now, there won’t be a free and fair election for Democrats to run in next fall,” Murphy, a prominent Trump critic who has been speculated as a potential presidential candidate in 2028, said in a statement. “That’s why I’m focusing my fundraising efforts into supporting citizen groups all over the country that are fighting against Trump’s corruption and attacks on our democracy.”
Lawsuits, next-day countersuits, backtracking and mass confusion. International students find themselves at the center of a dizzying legal landscape as the Trump administration continues to crack down on immigration.
Here’s what to know as the Trump administration keeps attempting to put up legal barriers to international students’ ability to study in the U.S.
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The Supreme Court this morning declined to hear two major gun cases challenging a Maryland gun law that bans assault-style weapons and a Rhode Island restriction on large-capacity magazines.
As a result, the two laws remain in effect. Litigation over similar bans across the country is ongoing, and the issue is likely to return to the justices.
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Reporting from Hong Kong
China today accused the United States of breaching the 90-day trade truce agreed to by the world’s two largest economies, after Trump said it was Beijing that had “totally violated” the agreement.
The statement from the Chinese Commerce Ministry capped a contentious weekend in U.S.-China relations that also included a speech by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in which he said China “seeks to become a hegemonic power in Asia.”
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Trump on Saturday night reposted a baseless claim on Truth Social that then-President Joe Biden was executed in 2020 and replaced with clones or robots.
The original post, made by an anonymous Truth Social user who often spreads outlandish claims, suggested that Biden was replaced with “clones, doubles” and “robotic engineered soulless mindless entities.”
Trump published a link to the post to his nearly 10 million followers without adding any context or explanation. The original poster’s account has a little more than 5,000 followers.
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., condemned the violent attack in Boulder, Colorado, on a group of people protesting the holding of hostages in Gaza as an “antisemitic act of terror.”
Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the U.S., said in a statement last night that “the Jewish community is once again shattered by pain and heartbreak” less than two weeks after two Israeli Embassy staff members were gunned down in Washington, D.C., outside a Jewish museum.
“Tonight, a peaceful demonstration was targeted in a vile, antisemitic act of terror. Once again, Jews are left reeling from repeated acts of violence and terror,” Schumer said. “When antisemitism is allowed to fester, when it spreads unchecked, and when too many look the other way, history has shown us where it leads: to hatred, to violence, to terror.”
Schumer noted that last night marked the start of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which he called “a sacred holiday of learning, renewal, and unity.”
“Antisemitism, plain and simple, has no place in America. I am praying for the victims’ recovery and am in touch with the FBI as we closely monitor the situation,” he said.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., also denounced the attack, calling it “unconscionable act of terror,” saying in a statement that as Boulder residents “gathered on the eve of the holiday of Shavuot to raise awareness for the hostages still being held captive in Gaza, the peacefulness of their assembly was shattered.”
“Antisemitism has no place in our nation or anywhere throughout the world. It must be crushed. We stand with the Jewish community today and always,” he said.
Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., another Jewish lawmaker, said that the latest attacks happen “when antisemitic hate is normalized.”
“This is what happens when too many remain silent in response to antisemitic hate,” he said.
The beginning of June marks the start of the traditional monthlong ruling season at the Supreme Court, when the justices hand down decisions in their biggest and most contentious cases.
But this year is different.
Trump’s second term has disrupted the court calendar, with the nine justices now spending as much time, if not more, juggling consequential emergency cases that need to be handled quickly as they do on the regular docket of cases that have gotten months of attention and deliberation.
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Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., yesterday defended cuts to Medicaid in the budget bill House Republicans passed last month, saying that “4.8 million people will not lose their Medicaid unless they choose to do so.”
Johnson told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that the bill imposes “commonsense” work requirements for some Medicaid recipients and added that he’s “not buying” the argument that the work requirements, which would require able-bodied Medicaid recipients to work, participate in job training programs or volunteer for 80 hours a month, are too “cumbersome.”
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Reporting from Washington, D.C.
Kenny Capps was diagnosed with multiple myeloma a decade ago. A 53-year-old father of three children who lives in North Carolina, he was on the brink of losing his health insurance coverage due to rising costs — until Democrats passed an Obamacare funding boost four years ago.
Capps makes too much money to qualify for Medicaid. He falls outside the subsidy range originally set by Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act. And his income hasn’t been keeping up with the ever-rising cost of health care. “Like a lot of Americans,” he said, “I’m stuck in the middle.”
His fortunes changed when Congress capped premiums for a “benchmark” plan to 8.5% of income. But there’s a catch: That funding expires at the end of 2025, and the Democrats who passed it along party lines (first in early 2021, before extending it the following year) have since been swept out of power. The new Republican-led Congress has made clear it won’t extend the money in the “big beautiful bill” it’s using as a vehicle for Trump’s domestic agenda.
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