The OMB Director, Russ Vought, just froze $18 billion in funds for New York City to ensure “funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles”. Here’s what he writes: Roughly $18 . . .

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A Republican-appointed federal judge in Boston sharply ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration’s policy targeting foreign students and faculty for pro-Palestinian activism violated the First Amendment’s free speech protections. The decision by Judge William Young, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, came in a lawsuit filed by academic groups, including the American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association, challenging visa...

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration unconstitutionally violated the free speech rights of pro-Palestinian protesters and academics — saying in a blistering 161-page order that the actions had a chilling effect on college campuses nationwide.  U.S. District Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee who was nominated to the federal bench in Boston more than 40 years ago, did not mince his words in his decision. He excoriated the Trump...

Federal government labor unions sued the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management on Tuesday over threats to carry out mass layoffs during a government shutdown. The lawsuit comes after OMB told agencies in a memo that a government shutdown could justify use of Reduction in Force notices to downsize the federal workforce. OPM also issued guidance that employees can "perform work necessary to administer the RIF process during the lapse in appropriations as excepted...

James Comey, a former director of the FBI, was indicted on two criminal counts on Sept. 25 by a federal grand jury in Virginia. But the barely two-page indictment provides very little information about the underlying evidence for the charges of lying to Congress.  The indictment came just days after President Donald Trump publicly pressed the Department of Justice to prosecute Comey and installed Lindsey Halligan as the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District...

As Republicans and Democrats trade blame for the government shutdown that began at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, and pundits opine about which side is winning, it is easy to lose sight of the real stakes. What the two parties are fighting about is whether Americans should have access to affordable health care. President Trump is seeking to deprive millions of Americans of their health insurance, and Senate Democrats are refusing to acquiesce. The president and his congressional allies want to...

The Justice Department opened an investigation Tuesday in the diversity hiring practices of the public school system in Des Moines, Iowa, just days after its superintendent was arrested for being an illegal immigrant. The department said the school system has a policy of trying to match the diversity of its workforce to the diversity of its student body. That includes a specific pipeline to siphon minority teachers from local universities into the classroom, guaranteeing at least a hiring...