A federal judge has placed an indefinite injunction on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to redefine the birthright citizenship clause found within the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Trump issued the order on the first day of his second term in office, asserting that the 14th Amendment “has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States” — a claim that is contradicted by 12 decades of Supreme Court precedent and...

The author of a section of Project 2025 that focuses on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) envisions remaking the department into one that reverses reproductive rights and makes abortion medication illegal. Roger Severino, fellow and vice president of domestic policy at The Heritage Foundation, the far right organization that crafted Project 2025, claims in the section on HHS that the department fared well under Trump, writing that it served Americans “from conception to...

During a recent speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, billed as a “Border 9/11 Gala,” former President Donald Trump pushed a number of outright lies regarding the 2024 presidential election, claiming, without evidence, that fraud would affect its outcome. Trump’s comments echoed assertions he made in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, which laid the groundwork for him to errantly claim that the election was illegitimate when he lost to President Joe Biden. “We’re...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, recently decried a ruling from the Colorado State Supreme Court barring Trump from appearing on the ballot for the 2024 presidential election, calling for President Joe Biden to be prosecuted for treason instead. Such a demand is an extreme reaction, even for the far right lawmaker, given what it entails — the federal crime of treason is defined as “levying war against the United States, or adhering...