Chief U.S. District Court Judge William L. Campbell, Jr. issued an order on Thursday blocking Tennessee Democrats’ emergency effort to halt the implementation of the state’s newly enacted congressional map and election law changes ahead of the 2026 election cycle.
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NBC News In an interview with NBC News’ Tom Llamas, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. policy toward Taiwan are “unchanged” after President Trump met with Chinese President Xi. Xi previously warned Trump that tensions over Taiwan could jeopardize U.S.-China relations, leading to “clashes and even conflicts” if the issue is not handled carefully. WATCH
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NBC News South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster called a special session Thursday for state lawmakers to tackle redistricting ahead of the midterm elections. A new map is expected to eliminate the state’s only majority-minority district, which is held by Rep. James Clyburn, a key Democratic power broker. “I have issued an Executive Order calling the General Assembly back for an extra legislative session to address the state budget and congressional districts,” McMaster said Thursday evening on X. He said the special session would begin Friday morning. READ THE FULL STORY
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti on Thursday announced that the special interest groups challenging his successful litigation to block Biden-era changes to Title IX agreed to drop their appeal, sealing a “final victory” in the legal challenge launched in early 2024.
Skrmetti and the legal coalition behind the lawsuit, which includes the attorneys general of Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, and Virginia, originally received a favorable ruling in January 2025, blocking the Biden administration’s attempt to rewrite Title IX to include gender identity and sexual orientation.
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U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) and Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on Thursday introduced the American System for Sustainable Immigration and Mass Immigration Limitations Achieved Through Imposing Oversight Nationally (ASSIMILATION) Act, an 82-page bill that would result in a comprehensive revision of the process for legal immigration to the United States.
Announcing his legislation in a post to social media, Ogles said he and Tuberville aimed to gut the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965, which critics say incentivized immigration from non-European countries, as well as various provisions of the Immigration Act that became law during the 1990s.
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State Representative Justin Jones (D-Nashville) on Tuesday was interviewed by Robert Reich, the political analyst and former U.S. Secretary of Labor during the Clinton administration, when both appeared to suggest the lack of political questions on the federal census means Tennessee lawmakers drew their new congressional map based entirely on race.
In an interview conducted after Tennessee state lawmakers and Governor Bill Lee approved a new congressional map in light of the U.S. Supreme Court decision reining in districts drawn based on their racial composition, Reich asked Jones how Republicans in the General Assembly were able to craft districts based on partisan leanings.
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Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) said disciplinary action may be forthcoming in the Tennessee Senate following disruptions during last week’s special legislative session on congressional redistricting, calling the conduct inside the chamber.
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The chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee is urging the Justice Department to ask federal courts to dismiss with prejudice all prior criminal prosecutions against President Donald Trump, putting a permanent end to a 10-year legal assault by the Obama-Biden era FBI against the man twice elected president by the American people.
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White House Press Advisor Pat Adams Kamala Harris is now calling for Democrats to hold a “No Bad Idea Brainstorm” where they discuss: – Abolishing the Electoral College – Packing the Supreme Court – Making Puerto Rico and D.C. states “We’ve got to neutralize these red states from cheating!” WATCH
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence denied reports Wednesday night that the CIA “raided” National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s office and seized documents related to MK-Ultra and the John F. Kennedy assassination.
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The Trump administration’s work to pare back waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government has reportedly exposed a vast network of taxpayer-fleecing scams, abuses of immigration, and of the citizenship process across all corners of the United States.
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Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips said the South Carolina Supreme Court delivered a “slap-down” to prosecutors and county officials after unanimously overturning Alex Murdaugh’s double murder conviction over jury tampering concerns.
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Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday announced that he had warned all 50 states to show they were effectively working to root out fraud in the Medicaid programs or face the loss of federal funding.
“Today, we are sending, across 50 Medicaid programs, letters that will require them to show that they are effectively and aggressively prosecuting Medicaid fraud in their states,” Vance said.
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Attempts to restructure government at the federal level are mostly on the Democrat agenda. Pack the US Supreme Court. Elect presidents via popular vote. Turn Puerto Rico and Washington, DC, into states with two senators each. Implement national mail-in voting, automatic voter registration, legalize ballot harvesting, lower the voting age to 16, let felons vote, let noncitizens vote. And, of course, end the Senate filibuster. If they could, Democrats would do all of this.
Meanwhile, however, there is a growing bipartisan movement to implement term limits for members of the House and Senate. A bill has been introduced in the 119th Congress, and President Trump has supported term limits consistently since he first ran for president in 2016. But federal term limits would do more harm than good. Explaining why offers insights into how an entrenched bureaucracy gains power in democracies, and California is a prime example.
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If you like biographies, especially autobiographies, about popular musical artists or bands, I recommend Clint Black’s memoir, Killin’ Time: My Life and Music. It is a raw, unflinching story of the man behind the music.
One thing that inspires me as I read about these now-famous artists is the amount of struggle and unfavorable circumstances they had to overcome to get where they are today.
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