Author: Kaelan Deese

Just hours after President Donald Trump was sworn into office, his administration’s executive orders sparked a wave of legal challenges. From attempting to end birthright citizenship to creating a “Department of Government Efficiency,” Trump’s early moves are testing the boundaries of executive authority, with some likely to survive legal attacks and others that may require…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday night that extended the deadline for compliance with the TikTok divestment law, an expected move that effectively halts the app’s shutdown in the United States for 75 days. The law, which went into effect Sunday, sought to sever ties between the Chinese-owned platform and its parent company,…

President Donald Trump on Monday evening issued an executive order aimed at dismantling all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the federal government. “The previous administration has embedded deeply unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices within every agency and office of the Federal Government,” the order states. It accuses DEI initiatives of replacing hard…

In one of his final acts as president, Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who has been in prison for nearly five decades following his conviction for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. The decision, made just moments before President Donald Trump was sworn into office, allows the…

President-elect Donald Trump is set to issue an executive order aimed at dismantling all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives within the federal government, according to officials who briefed reporters Monday. The sweeping directive, expected to be issued Monday, will also reverse the name changes for federal entities and properties made by President Joe Biden on…

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal law requiring TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a shutdown in the United States. In a unanimous decision, the justices sided with the federal government, agreeing that the law does not violate TikTok’s or its users’ First Amendment rights. The ruling, issued…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed open to upholding a Texas law requiring age verification for accessing pornography online, though the debate turned murkier on the standard of scrutiny that should be applied to it and similar laws in more than a dozen states. The case, Paxton v. Free Speech Coalition, centers on First Amendment…

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday in a major case that could set a precedent for the legality of age verification laws for accessing online pornography. At issue is Texas’s 2023 law, House Bill 1181, which requires websites offering sexually explicit material to implement “reasonable age verification methods” to confirm users are at least…

A majority of the Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical of striking down a law that would force TikTok to divest from its Chinese owners, though the social media platform could live another day. The law in question, passed last year with strong bipartisan support and signed by outgoing President Joe Biden, would force the platform…

President-elect Donald Trump filed an urgent appeal on Wednesday with the Supreme Court to postpone his sentencing in a criminal case involving hush money payments. The sentencing, set for Friday, stems from 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a payment made during the 2016 presidential campaign. “President Trump’s legal team filed an emergency…