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By Jennifer Oliver O'Connell On Monday, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce his nomination of Acting Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling for the position of Secretary of Labor. It is my Great Honor to announce that I am nominating Keith E. Sonderling, the outstanding Acting United States Secretary of Labor, to be permanent. Keith previously served as Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer and, during my First Term, worked at the U.S. Department of Labor as the Acting and Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division. Throughout his career, Keith has proven his dedication to delivering strong results for the Hardworking People of our Country, and I know he will do an incredible job in his new role. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP  After the trainwreck that was former Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Donald Trump has put forth a nominee that not only h...

By Jonathan Turley We have previously discussed how many professors seem to compete in finding new forms of racism in every facet of society and education. Astrophysics, math, runoffs, science, statistics, and meritocracy have all been denounced as racist. In this academic cottage industry, professors secure publications and speaking opportunities by identifying racism in the expressions, images, or entire fields. It was, therefore, only a matter of time before time itself was declared racist . Zakia Essanhaji , a professor of “organizational ethnography” at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is the latest to make the case against “white time.” Her recent paper titled “Academic time theft: stealing time, producing racialized inclusion in Dutch academia” builds on prior work condemning time as racist. Rutgers Women’s and Gender Studies/Africana Studies Professor Brittney Cooper has also written about how time is racist. Mainstream media has positively cooed at the suggestion, inc...

By Cam Edwards There are now two injunctions blocking enforcement of the ban on so-called assault firearms and large capacity magazines set to take effect on July 1, after a judge in Washington County, Virginia sided with the National Rifle Association, Virginia Shooting Sports Association, and several individual gun owner and gun sellers who'd sued over the law.  Washington Circuit Judge Jeffrey Campbell handed down his ruling on Monday afternoon, delivering a big win to the plaintiffs and a stinging defeat to the defendants, including multiple Commonwealth's Attorneys and Virginia State Police Col. Jeffrey Katz. The head of the VSP is already blocked from enforcing the law thanks to an injunction granted by a Lancaster County judge last week in a GOA/VCDL suit, but today's injunction is broader in its scope... and according to the plaintiffs, applies statewide.  In his ruling , Campbell stated that, given the sweeping nature of the ban and the arms in question, the pl...

By A. J. Christopher When Barack Obama was first elected president, he had a once-in-a-century opportunity. Despite being a Democrat, he could have used his status as our nation’s first black president to heal wounds, to bridge gaps, and to tear down barriers. His speech four years prior at the 2004 Democratic convention was optimistic, unifying, and, dare I say, post-racial. Every speech since has been the exact opposite. Instead of bringing the nation together, he tripled down on his inner Jeremiah Wright. He poured gasoline on every dying racial ember and brought the blaze roaring back to destructive life. There was a litany of excuses for every black criminal, and an insinuation of racism for every white person (or, in George Zimmerman’s case, a “white Hispanic”) who exerted self-defense. Every cop was racist. Every Republican was racist. Every Christian to the right of Michael Pfleger was racist. And, of course, anyone who criticized the Anointed One himself was racist. “If ...

By Teri Christoph The Supreme Court of the United States on Tuesday handed down its decision in the campaign finance case of National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission (aka, NRSC v. FEC ), and the implications will be felt immediately as the two major political parties prepare for the midterm elections later this year. In a 6-3 decision, the Court ruled that prior spending limits placed on political committees violated the First Amendment. Justice Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion; Justices Kagan, Jackson, and Sotomayor dissented. BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules that putting limits on political party campaign finance expenditures VIOLATE the First Amendment. BIG WIN for Republicans @NRSC ! The vote is 6-3. pic.twitter.com/b1dg1PSs5A — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 30, 2026 The central question at the heart of the case was whether or not federal limits on coordinated party expenditures violate the First Amendment, either facially or as appli...

Lujan Grisham called the alleged DEA operation 'the most derelict, despicable act' of her career By Greg Wehner New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is demanding the federal government pay reparations after accusing the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of allowing millions of fentanyl pills to flood her state during an undercover operation without notifying state or local officials. Calling the alleged operation "the most derelict, despicable act in my long career," Lujan Grisham said the fallout has forced New Mexico to pour more than $1.5 billion into law enforcement, behavioral health, addiction treatment and other public safety initiatives while battling overdose deaths and widespread addiction. "The DEA stood silently by and watched thousands of fentanyl pills get distributed with no arrests, no evidence, no notice that we know of anywhere else," Lujan Grisham said during a Monday news conference. "Someone must pay for the damag...

By Matt Margolis The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to uphold state laws banning biological males from competing on female sports teams, delivering a tremendous victory for female athletes and the commonsense principle that biological sex matters in athletic competition. Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion in West Virginia v. B.P.J . Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch each wrote a concurring opinion. The 6-3 decision found West Virginia's Save Women's Sports Act and Idaho's Fairness in Women's Sports Act both constitutional, rejecting claims that the bans violate Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. A huge victory for women. Real women. The majority concluded that “Title IX allows schools to provide separate women’s and men’s sports teams defined by biological sex, and West Virginia has permissibly maintained female sports for biological females consistent with Title IX.” The term “sex” in Title IX, the Javits Amendment...

By Athena Thorne The U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision on the historic birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara , on Tuesday morning. In a 6-3 decision , the court struck down President Donald Trump's executive order, which had ordered that U.S. citizenship not automatically be conferred upon children born on U.S. soil whose parents are illegally present in the United States, or whose mother is visiting here legally but temporarily and whose father is not a citizen or lawful permanent resident.  Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, Barrett, and Jackson join the Roberts opinion in the full decision. Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissented. "Roberts concludes that children born to parents who are in the United States unlawfully or temporarily are 'born in the United States' and 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof.' 'Under the Constitution, they are citizens at birth,'" wrote Supreme Court expert Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog's live coverage ...