Author: Nate

House Passes Bill Stripping Federal Aid From Colleges That Boycott Israel The House of Representatives voted 237-169 on Thursday to pass the Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act, which would bar colleges and universities from receiving federal student aid if they engage in commercial or academic boycotts tied to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement…

Maryland’s Top Court Clears Democrats’ Redistricting Measure for the Ballot The Maryland Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Democratic-backed constitutional amendment on congressional redistricting must be placed on the November ballot, reversing two lower court decisions that had blocked it [1, 2]. The amendment would let state lawmakers draw legislative and congressional districts without meeting…

Judge Halts Trump’s Mail-Ballot Barcode Rule Weeks Before Midterm Voting Begins U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Massachusetts issued a 14-day temporary restraining order on Wednesday blocking key parts of a new U.S. Postal Service policy that would require mail-in ballots to carry official Election Mail markings and unique Intelligent Mail barcodes, with election officials…

Federal Judge Slaps Down Trump’s Second Attempt to End Birthright Citizenship U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman, a Biden appointee sitting in Maryland, issued a preliminary injunction on Thursday blocking the Trump administration from enforcing an August executive order that would deny automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. to alleged members of terrorist organizations,…

Trump Taps Combat Vet Hung Cao for Navy Secretary as Pentagon Infighting Boils Over President Trump on Tuesday formally nominated acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, a retired Navy combat veteran, to hold the post permanently. Cao has run the Navy in an acting capacity since April, when Trump fired then-Secretary John Phelan amid friction with…