(John Cole, The Center Square) Following several consequential decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court this week, Gov. Josh Shapiro is open to reform.
“I think everything needs to be on the table,” Shapiro said in a Wednesday morning interview on MS NOW’s Morning Joe.
“I think we need radical reform...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) Following a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold birthright citizenship, Republicans and the Trump administration are seeking ways to curb babies born in the United States to noncitizens.
The 5-4 decision in Barbara v. Trump, stemming from President Donald Trump’s executive order to...
(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) A Davidson County Chancery Court judge extended an injunction that stops the Tennessee Department of Health from checking the immigration status of 400 children.
The department sent letters to the families stating that a new state law requires it to request citizenship information, which will...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The two Colorado officials who attempted to block the long-awaited commutation of Tina Peters are no longer serving on the state's clemency board.
Gov. Jared Polis removed Hannah Seigel Proff and Azra Taslimi after they publicly and privately challenged his decision to commute Peters’s sentence.
According to Polis,...
(Shirleen Guerra, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Justice sued the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Virginia Department of State Police Wednesday, saying the state’s new law restricting the future sale and purchase of certain semiautomatic firearms violates the Second Amendment.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court...
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment applies to children born in the U.S. to mothers who are in the country illegally, there is a renewed effort in Congress to support a constitutional amendment to provide clarity to the amendment’s Citizenship...
(Headline USA) Six people who pleaded guilty to charges related to a demonstration and shooting outside a Texas immigrant detention center are set to be sentenced Wednesday. Other protesters have already been sentenced to decades behind bars, including a former Marine who was handed a 100-year prison term.
A police officer...
(Headline USA) On the final day of the Supreme Court's session, National Public Radio quickly retracted an article Tuesday that incorrectly reported that Justice Samuel Alito was retiring, blaming the error on “a misunderstanding.”
The article was written by NPR’s veteran Supreme Court reporter, Nina Totenberg, who planned to address...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state bans on biological men competing in women’s and girls’ sports.
The court upheld bans in Idaho and West Virginia that prohibited individuals who identified as transgender women and girls from competing in college and youth sports. Justices...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Federal prosecutors convened a grand jury to investigate potential financial crimes committed by Neville Roy Singham, the technology billionaire operating from Shanghai whose wealth has financed an extensive web of socialist, communist, and Marxist groups throughout the United States for more than 10 years, Fox...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Indiana University finds itself embroiled in a fierce political firestorm after a state lawmaker exposed the taxpayer funded institution for allegedly passing over qualified American computer science graduates to hire foreign labor. State Representative Andrew Ireland sparked the outrage by publicizing an official document revealing...
(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order to overhaul birthright citizenship as unconstitutional.
Justices on the high court ruled in Trump v. Barbara, a case challenging the president’s February 2025 order stripping birthright citizenship protections from children...