Justice Gorsuch Is Fed Up with Lower Courts Repeatedly Defying SCOTUS

Justice Neil Gorsuch

Justice Neil Gorsuch called out lower courts on Thursday for a pattern of defying Supreme Court rulings.

Allowing the Trump administration to move forward with cutting millions in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants marked the “third time in a matter of weeks” the Supreme Court had to reverse a lower court on an issue it had already addressed, Gorsuch wrote.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia Ordered to Report to ICE on Monday Ahead of Potential Deportation to Uganda or Costa Rica

Kilmar Abrego Garcia

A new filing from the New York attorney representing Kilmar Abrego Garica in the federal human smuggling case against him out of Tennessee claims that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have presented an ultimatum for their client, allowing him to accept a guilty plea in exchange for deportation to Costa Rica at the end of his prison sentence, or else be deported to Uganda. 

The Saturday filing claimed that a flurry of communications occurred between prosecutors and Abrego Garcia as his Friday release date from DOJ custody drew near. Abrego Garcia currently must report to pretrial services in Maryland by no later than Monday, and is wearing a U.S. Marshals Service ankle monitor as part of his release conditions.

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Commentary: Mail-In Ballots Need to Go

Mail in ballot drop box

“I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS,” President Trump declared Monday in a Truth Social post. Later that day, he promised an executive order “to end mail-in ballots because they are corrupt. You know we are the only country in the world, I believe, I may be wrong, just about, the only country in the world that uses them because of what happened, massive fraud all over the place.”

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Commentary: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Expands Pell Grants for Trade School Certificate Programs Amid Continued Labor Shortages

Pell Grants for Trades Education

One provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act expanded the use of Pell Grants for trade schools with short term certificates — between 150 and 599 clock hours at a minimum of eight weeks — that could help pay for trade school certifications for about 100,000 students every year, a big boost for trades where, like other sectors of the economy, there are growing labor shortages amid the Baby Boomer retirement wave where about 900,000 seniors are leaving the labor force every year and climbing.

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