When Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress on September 9, 2009, he had a direct response for critics who warned that his proposed health care overhaul would extend benefits to people who had no legal right to them. "There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants," he said from the House chamber. "This, too, is false. The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally." From the Republican side of the aisle, Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina broke with decorum and shouted two words: "You lie!" History has been considerably kinder to Wilson than the Washington press corps was that evening.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday announced 15 members of a revived Defense Policy Board, tapping former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to chair the panel and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to serve on it.
The Supreme Court issued a crushing blow to election integrity efforts, ruling 5-4 that a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots received after Election Day for federal elections may be counted.
Just days before America celebrates 250 years of independence, one of the nation's oldest patriotic women's organizations voted to keep its doors open to biological men who possess altered birth certificates.
The Department of Justice has launched a grand jury investigation into Neville Roy Singham for his funding of socialist networks across the United States.
When the Supreme Court agreed to hear Watson v. Republican National Committee earlier this year, election integrity advocates had reason for cautious optimism. The case presented a clean legal question: does the federal law establishing Election Day require ballots to be received by that date, or merely cast? On Monday, in a 5-4 decision authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the Court answered that question in a way few conservatives anticipated—and the consequences will extend well beyond Mississippi.
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a ruling this week that should have been unnecessary to obtain in the first place. In a 2-1 decision handed down Tuesday, the court restored the Trump administration's authority to apply expedited removal to undocumented immigrants anywhere in the country, not merely near the border, reversing a lower-court injunction that had blocked the policy for months. The ruling is a legal victory, and it is the right outcome, but the fact that the federal government had to fight its way through multiple layers of litigation simply to enforce a statute that Congress passed in 1996 tells you a great deal about how far the judiciary has drifted from its proper role.
The crowd at 99 Scott Studio in East Williamsburg did not cheer the candidate's name when the race was called Tuesday night. They chanted something else entirely. "Free Palestine. Free Palestine." Over and over, filling a cavernous Brooklyn venue as Claire Valdez, the newly nominated Democratic candidate for New York's 7th Congressional District, took the stage to declare that her movement was "durable" and "growing" and would not stop "until working people run the table."
Nearly 200,000 Americans flooded the National Mall this weekend. Justin Gaethje bloodied a Georgian champion and ripped the lightweight belt away in front of the most powerful address on earth. Twelve jets screamed overhead. The Zac Brown Band played the anthem. The crowd went absolutely insane. And to no one's surprise... the left is furious.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police cannot use mass location data sweeps to identify criminal suspects without violating the Fourth Amendment, handing down a 6-3 decision that curbs a growing law enforcement tool known as a geofence warrant.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that President Trump acted lawfully when he fired two Democratic Federal Trade Commission commissioners last year, handing the administration a sweeping victory that dismantles nearly a century of limits on presidential removal power.
Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida on Sunday declared that Qatar is "not our friend" as the Gulf state continues to play a central role in U.S.-Iran diplomatic talks, breaking openly with the framing that has positioned Qatar as a reliable neutral partner in the negotiations.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will be teaching a course at the University of California, Berkeley, at a new "nonpartisan" institute bearing her name.
The Democratic Socialists of America is moving to expand its political footprint beyond New York City, with candidates now competing in primary races across Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Florida in the coming weeks.
Iran's foreign minister said Sunday that every vessel wanting to cross the Strait of Hormuz must first clear it with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps..
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Justice to either release more un-redacted files on Jeffrey Epstein or provide an explanation for keeping them sealed.
A federal judge declared a mistrial Friday in the case of Jonathan Rinderknecht, the man accused of deliberately igniting the Palisades Fire on New Year's Day 2025, after a jury deadlocked 10-2 in favor of acquittal following more than 13 hours of deliberations.