US politics

US politics

On Friday, Judges Amber George, Jeremiah Johnson, Louis Gordon, Shuting Chen and Patrick Savage were fired from San Francisco's immigration court, which at the start of the year had more than 20 judges, according to Milli Atkinson, the director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program with the Bar Association of San Francisco.

Beth Weinberger's proposed "progressive" parcel tax based on square footage would, in fact, be regressive, selectively over-burdening those in larger homes without any consideration of their location. It could further devastate shops, restaurants, startups, and small industrial and R&D companies, many of whom rent in, or own, large old buildings, but have low revenues and are often unprofitable and struggling to survive.

Because they lack a legitimate official purpose, these kinds of prosecutions tend to be riddled with errors and irregularities, such as the resignation of upstanding government officials who refuse to bring trumped-up charges, the refusal of career attorneys to sign their names to otherwise routine charging documents, and the search for lackeys who may be willing to bring the charges before a grand jury anyway.

Bacon told Axios he was "so angry" at the Trump administration's proposed 28-point Russia-Ukraine peace plan last week that he "thought about" resigning early.

How to begin to recount our monumental achievements? Never have so few done so much to so many. A few highlights ... We were willing to be vulnerable. Shared vulnerability brings people together, and by that metric, millions of Americans are now closer than when we started. What we are trying to say is, we uploaded Social Security data to the cloud in a worrisomely insecure way, as one whistleblower noted. Now we're all at risk!

Maduro is not a brave boy. So now that he has understood that he's on that very nefarious list of the terrorist organization, that the airspace above Venezuela has been closed off, and the commercial airlines from the United States are not flying, he's understanding that we're about to go in. He understands that he is he has been our enemy for the last 25 years.

OPM has told agencies that it will be gathering information from them on the impact of the Trump administration's cutbacks of telework and DEI initiatives, two of its earliest changes to the federal workplace to practices that had been a priority of the Biden administration. "We will request information regarding your Agency's actions to end DEI/DEIA programs and have employees report to an office," says a memo telling agencies to designate a point of contact for the information collection.

I thought the case was a choose-your-own-adventure of procedural errors, Adamson said. And here we are because this was a huge oneHalligan being appointed after the 120 days of the interim appointment had been exceeded was a huge problem. And indeed the court agreed that she wasn't lawfully appointed. And the problem here is that Halligan did everything on her own. And so now these indictments can't stand.

The court found that lawyer Lindsey Halligan had been illegally appointed to her role as acting US attorney under President Donald Trump. A United States federal judge has thrown out the criminal charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James and James Comey, the former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). On Monday, District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie determined that the prosecutor overseeing the two cases, Lindsey Halligan, had been illegally appointed, which in turn rendered the indictments void.

Gallego said he trusts them a lot but there will be fallout if they punish Kelly. Donald Trump is going to be gone in a couple years, Gallego said. And if you're part of the military that is going after sitting senators, sitting members of Congress, and part of the weaponization of government, there will be consequences, without a doubt.

A commentary in the Opinion section of Sunday's newspaper, Bay Area local leaders need protection against violence, mischaracterized details of a state law, due to inaccurate information provided by the League of Women Voters of Oakland.

President Donald Trump may be stretching executive power to its outermost bounds, but in one very significant area he is simply not getting his way: criminal prosecutions. In many cases-such as those of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, charges against whom were thrown out by a federal judge in Virginia today-the basic, ground-level machinery of the criminal-justice system has thwarted the administration.

Earlier this month, Reuters reported internal documents from late 2024 stated Meta expected to earn about 10% of its revenue that year, about $16 billion, from illicit advertising. One document noted Meta earns $3.5 billion in revenue from "higher risk" scam ads every six months. Other documents stated that Meta's anti-fraud rules didn't appear to apply to many ads that regulators and the company's own staff believed "violated the spirit" of its rules against scam advertising.

It would put an income limit on who's eligible for the tax credits and require recipients to make a minimum premium payment, eliminating $0 premium plans that Republicans say fuel fraud. The plan also would encourage people to buy lower-premium options on the ACA exchange. For individuals who downgrade their coverage, the difference in costs would be distributed to an health savings account provided with taxpayer dollars.

They said it would prevent people's votes from being "wasted" after presidential candidates drop out, and encourage coalition-building among contenders - an attention-grabbing pitch in light of the party's divisive primaries in 2016 and 2020.

In September, the FDA quietly approved a generic form of mifepristone, the first pill of a two-part abortion medication-a surprising move for a regime that lives and breathes on making women's lives worse. Speaking about the decision at the time, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt promised that the move wasn't an endorsement for abortion. They can say whatever they want, but the approval means expanded abortion access, since there are now three companies in the U.S. manufacturing mifepristone.

The occasion was a reunion of sorts, heralding the return of Assistant US Attorney Drew Ensign, the DOJ's go-to guy when someone's gotta look a federal judge in the eye and make a preposterous and/or dubiously truthful claim on the record. It was also the culmination of a tragicomic series of errors by the Trump administration in its dogged effort to dump immigrants into third-countries they have nothing to do with.

A federal judge has dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump's urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. The rulings from U.S. District Cameron McGowan Currie amount to a stunning rebuke of the Trump administration's efforts to target Trump's political opponents as well as its legal maneuvering to hastily install a loyalist prosecutor willing to file the cases.

After watching the clip, Scarborough torched Slotkin's response as the wrong answer and said he was surprised that she'd agreed to go on television to discuss the video without preparing a clear response to that question. Scarborough first took aim at the senator's use of Caribbean strikes and Venezuela to justify herself, arguing that the president has wide latitude on actions such as that: