Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday evening was projected to win his primary challenge against Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, decisively, marking the ouster of the decades-serving senior lawmaker from the upper chamber.
The Associated Press projected Paxton to win at 9:02 p.m. EST, with 49% of precincts reporting. As of press time, Paxton led with 62.5% to Cornyn’s 37.5%.
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A federal lawsuit claims Tennessee’s new law prohibiting vertical integration between pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) violates the dormant Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, federal law governing employer-sponsored health plans, rules specific to Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans, and the Constitution’s Takings Clause, which prohibits private property from being taken for public use without compensation.
The lawsuit was filed by CVS and affiliated PBM and insurance companies in the U.S. Court for the Middle District of Tennessee last Thursday, shortly after Governor Bill Lee signed Senate Bill (SB) 2040, the Freedom, Access, and Integrity in Registered Pharmacy (FAIR Rx) Act, beginning the countdown for vertically integrated companies to divest by January 1, 2027, ahead of a complete prohibition that will start in January 2028.
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A panel of federal district court judges temporarily blocked Alabama’s plan to enact its 2023 congressional map for upcoming elections.
The Alabama legislature moved to implement its 2023 congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened section two of the Voting Rights Act, a provision designed to create more majority-minority congressional districts across the country.
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U.S. Attorney Braden Boucek on Monday told The Tennessee Star that prosecutors in the Middle District of Tennessee are evaluating plans to appeal the Friday ruling by Obama-appointed District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw, who dropped the federal human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, determining the Department of Justice (DOJ) “failed to rebut the presumption of vindictiveness.”
“The undisputed evidence shows that the decision to charge Abrego was made by a career prosecutor based solely on the facts and the substantial evidence that a serious crime had been committed and deserved prosecution,” said Boucek.
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Atop Biden Justice Department official and key ally of then-Attorney General Merrick Garland raised legal “concerns” about the FBI’s raid on Mar-Lago, warning that then-former President Donald Trump may have actually declassified the records seized by agents, a newly-unearthed email obtained by Just the News shows.
Patty Stemler, a decades-long DOJ veteran who was reportedly picked by Garland in 2022 to help consult on Trump-related cases, sent an email just two days after the bureau’s Aug. 8, 2022 raid of Trump’s Florida resort home, where Stemler said she had “a few concerns.”
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CBS News The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Florida’s bid to file a lawsuit against Washington and California for allegedly providing commercial driver’s licenses to truck drivers who are in the U.S. illegally and not proficient in English. Florida sought to sue the two states following a fatal crash on a state highway in August 2025 that occurred when truck driver Harjinder Singh, an Indian national who crossed into the U.S. from Mexico, attempted to make an illegal U-turn. State and federal investigations showed that Singh likely could not read the road signs. He faces criminal charges and has pleaded not guilty. The Department of Homeland Security and Florida officials said Singh had obtained commercial driver’s licenses from California and Washington. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Hill The Department of Homeland Security is directing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to craft new policies to crack down on immigration attorneys if they aid in filing fraudulent asylum claims. The move is the Trump administration’s latest effort to target asylum, the legal process by which those fleeing danger and persecution can seek protection in the United States. The DHS memo accuses immigration attorneys of “assert[ing] that virtually every illegal alien is going to be persecuted or tortured in his or her home country because of a protected characteristic like race or political opinion.” READ THE FULL STORY
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Breitbart President Donald Trump says he “checked out perfectly” in his latest physical examination at Walter Reed Military Medical Center on Tuesday. Trump took to Truth Social during his ride home from Walter Reed in the early afternoon. “Just finished my 6 month physical at Walter Reed Military Medical Center. Everything checked out PERFECTLY. Thank you to the great Doctors and Staff! Heading back to the White House,” he wrote. READ THE FULL STORY
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The GOP-led South Carolina Senate voted down a measure that would have advanced a new congressional map. The vote brings to an end a last-minute redistricting effort in the state.
President Donald Trump urged lawmakers to pass a redrawn map, which would have eliminated the state’s single majority-Black district, NBC News reported.
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Washington state will open its bar exam starting in September to graduates of non-ABA-accredited law schools, provided they are already eligible to sit for the exam in at least one other state. The Washington State Bar Association’s Board of Governors approved the change in early May.
The decision makes Washington the fourth jurisdiction in recent months to reduce its dependence on ABA accreditation as a prerequisite for attorney licensing. Earlier this year, the highest courts in Alabama, Florida and Texas – all under Republican leadership – moved to either eliminate the ABA requirement entirely or expand recognition to include additional institutions.
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Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and other attorneys general have joined forces to oppose a U.S. House bill proposal seeking to protect kids from online harm.
Skrmetti and 43 other attorneys general, including 41 states, Washington, D.C., and the Northern Mariana Islands, sent a letter on Tuesday to congressional leadership expressing concern about the House’s Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act.
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An unreleased poll appears to undermine the White House’s stated rationale for pivoting away from policies that inflame pharmaceutical companies.
The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained a secret poll conducted in October 2025 by President Donald Trump’s longtime pollster Tony Fabrizio finding that 73% of voters expressed concern about childhood vaccine mandates, while a whopping 90% of voters expressed concern about the pharmaceutical industry’s corrupting influence.
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The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy and lead reporter Tom Pappert criticized U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw for dismissing the federal human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, arguing the judge ignored critical reporting about the role of the Biden-era FBI in the 2022 Tennessee traffic stop that sparked the investigation.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Leahy highlighted The Star’s Monday publication of a lengthy report authored by Pappert and himself examining Crenshaw’s ruling.
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Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie filed to run for his seat in 2028 on Sunday after losing his primary seat to a challenger backed by President Donald Trump.
Massie said he filed with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) in order to raise funds for his political operations as a potential candidate, though he has not made a final decision on which office to seek. He lost his primary race to former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein by a 9-point margin after Trump aggressively campaigned against Massie over his opposition to the Iran war, his multiple votes against the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act and his successful calls to release the files surrounding Jeffrey Epstein.
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U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) has introduced articles of impeachment against U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, accusing the nation’s top judicial official of turning the Court into what Cohen described as a “political instrument” and violating his constitutional oath through a series of rulings and administrative decisions.
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In a procedural victory for the Trump administration, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a unanimous, unsigned decision, reversing a lower court ruling that revived a First Amendment lawsuit by the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) challenging an Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) policy requiring prior approval for public speeches and writings related to their official duties.
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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee officially signed a bill into law on Friday that creates a new state-appointed oversight board for Memphis-Shelby County Schools and announces five of the nine members who will serve on the panel.
The legislation, sponsored in the Tennessee General Assembly by State Representative Mark White (R-Memphis) and State Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis), establishes an oversight structure for school districts that meet specific academic and operational benchmarks, including persistently low performance, chronic absenteeism, and repeated placement on the state’s priority school list.
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The U.S. is currently facing a continuously worsening fertility crisis, according to analysts.
While the nation’s fertility rate has been declining for decades, it dropped to a new record low in 2025. Experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that deregulation, improving fertility care and bringing down costs related to raising children could help boost the declining birth rate.
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A disappointing study came out in the U.K., polling Britons on what they think about nuclear energy. In general, U.K. voters believe nuclear power is good for the national energy mix but are undecided on whether there should be more of it. The interesting part of the polling comes when results are broken down by gender.
Only 30% of women support the use of nuclear power, compared to 74% of men. Most shocking, 69% of women said they do not believe nuclear has low carbon dioxide emissions, compared to 32% of men.
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