Day: June 30, 2025

RNC Slaps Arizona with Lawsuit to Clean Up Voter Rolls

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The Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Republican Party of Arizona (AZGOP) announced Monday that they filed a joint lawsuit fighting an Arizona law allowing those who have never resided in the state to vote.

The suit, filed against Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, seeks to fight against a law allowing “any United States citizen who has never resided in the United States and whose parent is a United States citizen who is registered to vote” to vote in federal elections in Arizona using mail-in ballots.

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Trump Terminates U.S. Sanctions on Syria

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Donald Trump

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday to terminate U.S. sanctions against Syria in a massive first step to normalize relations with the country formerly embroiled in a bloody civil war.

The U.S. began thawing its relationship with Syria in May after Islamic militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) overthrew former President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, establishing a new government under Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa. The new order will eliminate sanctions against the official Syrian government while maintaining measures against former President Bashar al-Assad, ISIS, Iranian proxies and any terrorist organizations in the region.

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Federal Magistrate Orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Remain in DOJ Custody in Tennessee Until July 16

Tom Pappert
KAG Order

U.S. District Court Magistrate Barbara Holmes for the Middle District of Tennessee on Monday agreed to the request by Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s defense attorneys to delay her consideration of his potential release until July 16, when District Court Chief Judge Waverly Crenshaw will have reviewed her decision to deny the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) a detention hearing for the citizen of El Salvador.

Because Abrego Garcia is subject to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer, the prosecutors, Holmes, and Abrego Garcia’s attorneys previously acknowledged her order to release the alleged human smuggler on his own recognizance would functionally facilitate his transfer from DOJ custody, where he is currently held by the U.S. Marshals, to the custody of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where the citizen of El Salvador will be held by ICE.

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Blue States with Net-Zero Emissions Goals Consider Nuclear as Hopes for 100 Percent Wind and Solar Fade

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Nuclear facility

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), Monday directed the New York Power Authority (NYPA) to develop and construct a nuclear power plant of not less than one gigawatt. The new plant was needed, Hochul said in her announcement, in order “to support a reliable and affordable electric grid, while providing the necessary zero-emission electricity to achieve a clean energy economy.” 

It was a surprising announcement for a state that closed and dismantled the Indian Point nuclear power plant only five years ago. The consideration of nuclear in the energy mix is part of a pattern seen in other blue states committed to eliminating electricity generated from fossil fuels. California has now delayed the closure of its only nuclear power plant, and Michigan is looking to restart a previously shuttered nuclear power plant. 

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Canada Bends Knee on Key Tax After Trump Pulls Plug on Trade Talks

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Canada and America

Canada announced Sunday that it is rescinding its digital services tax (DST) in an attempt to restart trade negotiations with the U.S. government.

Canada’s finance minister François-Philippe Champagne announced in a statement that the tax would be revoked “in anticipation of a mutually beneficial comprehensive trade arrangement” with the United States. The announcement comes after President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was scrapping trade talks with Canada over the country’s decision to impose a DST on U.S. technology companies, which he referred to as a “direct and blatant attack on our Country” in a Truth Social post, adding that the tax was “egregious.”

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Trump Administration Threatens to Cut All Harvard Funding

The Center Square
Donald Trump

The Trump administration threatened to cut all federal funding from Harvard Monday after an investigation found the school failed to protect Jewish students from harassment.

A letter signed by Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights, to Harvard’s President, Alan Garber, said that the university is in “violent violation” of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.

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Illegal Immigrant Arrested for Alleged Statutory Rape of Pregnant 13-Year-Old He Reportedly Transported to Tennessee from Guatemala

Tom Pappert

Esteban Taperia, who on Monday was subject to a detainer from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was arrested last week after he reportedly brought a 13-year-old girl from Guatemala to a Nashville hospital, where he allegedly admitted to fathering the child, and said he intended to raise the infant.

The Davidson County Sheriff’s Office data confirms Taperia, 21, and has since been charged with eight counts of felony statutory rape, and that the jail was requested to hold Taperia for a transfer to ICE custody.

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Lara Trump, RNC Chair Whatley Emerge on Shortlist as Replacement for Retiring GOP NC Sen Tillis

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Lara Trump

North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis’s announcement Sunday that he will not seek 2026 reelection has resulted in the expected shortlist of likely Republican candidates to replace him – including marque names Lara Trump and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley.  

Tillis announced his retirement after voting against advancing President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” in the Senate on Saturday evening, then Trump vowing to field a primary challenger to his reelection. 

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New Tennessee Law Increasing the Criminal Penalty for Abusing Children Takes Effect July 1

Kaitlin Housler
Sad girl

A new state law increasing the criminal penalty for child abuse is set to take effect on Tuesday.

The law, which passed the Tennessee General Assembly unanimously earlier this year as HB 0045, increases the penalty from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class E felony for a person who commits child abuse by knowingly treating a child between the ages of nine and 17 in such a manner as to inflict injury.

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Tennessee’s First County Joins ICE’s Task Force Model Program

Zachery Schmidt
ICE arrest

The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office became the first Tennessee county last week to join the Immigration and Enforcement (ICE)’s 287(g) Task Force Model program.

This program allows state and local law enforcement agencies to “enforce limited immigration authority while performing routine police duties.” Additionally, ICE states these entities can “exercise limited immigration authority as active participants on ICE-led task forces.”

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Ford Offering Payment Extensions for Tennesseans Living in FEMA-Approved Disaster Counties

Kaitlin Housler
Ford Driver

Tennesseans who live in one of the nine counties designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as Disaster Designated Areas following severe weather in April are being offered temporary payment relief on their loans and leases for Ford or Lincoln vehicles.

On Thursday, Ford Credit and Lincoln Automotive Financial Services announced a special relief program for customers in Tennessee who were affected by the severe weather events that spanned from April 2 through April 6 when a severe storm system resulting in a total of 19 tornadoes swept across the Volunteer State and left 10 dead across five counties.

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Prosecutor Says Court Lacks Authority to Force DHS Detainment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Maryland Facility

Tom Pappert
Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Acting U.S. Attorney Robert McGuire said in a filing submitted on Friday that the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee lacks the authority to instruct the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to house Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Maryland.

McGuire submitted the filing after the Maryland immigration attorneys for Abrego Garcia, the firm Murray Osorio, made their own submission to U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, requesting the judge issue an order demanding Abrego Garcia be housed by DHS in Maryland, and that such a ruling is necessary to force compliance with an earlier ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Tennessee Parental Rights Activists Urge Trump DOJ to Investigate Biden-Era Cases of Alleged ‘Parental Prosecution’

Tom Pappert
Kelly John Walker

A “comprehensive dossier” was submitted last week to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Weaponization Working Group, which was created by President Donald Trump in February, urging the administration to examine a series of cases which purportedly reveal a “deliberate, coordinated” attempt by the Biden administration to curb parental rights. 

The Parents Demanding justice Alliance (PDJA), a coalition led by parental rights advocate Kelly John Walker and filmmaker Sam Sorbo, announced its submission of the dossier last Tuesday, when it urged the Weaponization Working Group to confront an alleged “systemic and unconstitutional campaign of intimidation, prosecution, and suppression directed at parents across the United States. 

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