Month: January 2025

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to end the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents’ immigration status.

US senators narrowly supported the appointment of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense in a procedural vote on Thursday, 23 January. Source: European Pravda, citing Axios Details: Hegseth received the backing of 51 senators, with 49 voting against. Two moderate Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, joined Democrats in unanimously o…

Trump’s order targets a constitutional right automatically granting citizenship to anyone born in the country.

“I am having trouble understanding how a member of the bar could state unequivocally that this order is constitutional,” Judge Coughenour told a Justice Department lawyer defending Trump’s directive. “It just boggles my mind.”

Pete Hegseth cleared a procedural hurdle Thursday to advance his confirmation to lead the Defense Department for a final Senate vote, setting up a high-stakes showdown.

Senators voted 51-49 to advance Hegseth’s defense secretary bid, which has been mired in a series of controversies.

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee, told the court he could not remember in his more than 40 years on the bench seeing a case so “blatantly unconstitutional.”

Lisa Murkowski of Alaska becomes first GOP lawmaker to publicly reject a Trump cabinet pick, hurting his chances

US District Judge John Coughenour said the order ‘boggles the mind’