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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) was fuming Thursday as Congress passed a repeal of California’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate, which relied on a special waiver from the outgoing Biden administration in December. “Make America Smoggy Again,” he announced, sarcastically. The Senate voted 51-44 to repeal the waiver, after a bipartisan majority in the House had done the same, as Breitbart News reported earlier this month. The repeal relies on the Congressional Review Act, a Bill Clinton-era law that allows Congress to repeal regulations that are not presented to it for timely approval. Newsom says the waiver is exempt from review.…

US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday temporarily halted orders requiring DOGE to comply with FOIA requests and other discovery. In March, a federal judge said DOGE is wielding ‘unprecedented’ power and ordered the release of the operation’s records. “U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said the vast and “unprecedented” authority of DOGE, formally known as the U.S. Digital Service, combined with its “unusual secrecy” warrant the urgent release of its internal documents under the Freedom of Information Act,” Politico previously reported. Watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed three Freedom of Information Requests (FOIA)…

Forbes seeks nominations for our next Top Lawyers in America List Nominations are now open for Forbes’ list of America’s Top 250 Lawyers for 2025. The second-annual iteration of the list spotlights elite practitioners across the country, from all specializations, at the pinnacle of the profession. America’s Top 250 Lawyers is open to attorneys in private practice with impressive track records, who are lauded in the legal marketplace, and who have demonstrated outsize influence in their specialties. Selected lawyers will be well-respected by peers, clients, judges and the community. Some may have been part of the most consequential and seminal…

Milwaukee’s downtown city skyline on Lake Michigan at twilight. Numerous towns along Lake Michigan, … Moregetty In a series of recent studies, states have been analyzed in terms of their household finances, home values, and property taxes in order to determine the richest cities in those states. Much of the Midwest has been covered, including the richest cities in Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois, to name a few. For this article, it is Wisconsin’s turn. This study analyzed 807 cities in Wisconsin with complete data from the Census Bureau, in terms of their median household income, mean (average) household income, median…

A High Court judge made a dramatic eleventh-hour intervention to prevent the United Kingdom giving away its strategically vital territory in the Indian Ocean, islands which contain a major U.S. airbase. UPDATE 1400 — Legal Challenge Overturned Read the latest here The original story continues below: Prime Minister Keir Starmer had been due to sign over the British Indian Ocean Territory, also known as the Chagos Islands, an archipelago of around 1,000 volcanic islands, including Diego Garcia, which is home to a U.S. Air Base. Yet at the very last moment, a High Court Judge ruled at 02:30 BST on…

The Ivy League judge who is backing Harvard’s new lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s enforcement of civil rights laws was rebuked in 2023 by the U.S. Supreme Court for siding with Harvard’s policy of racial discrimination. Just hours after Harvard filed its lawsuit, U.S. District Court Judge Allison Dale Burroughs declared she had the power to restrain the federal government’s freeze on lucrative F-1 work permits and J-1 visas for Harvard’s students and researchers. “It is so ordered,” said the judge, who was nominated to the court in 2014 by President Barack Obama. The quick ruling will be appealed because many…

Executives with Disney and ABC News have reportedly asked The View hosts to tone down their bashing of Presdient Donald Trump and political rhetoric overall. While The View hosts have never shied away from bashing Trump and Republicans in general, executives within the company have reportedly grown weary with the show’s over-emphasis on politics, feeling that it has strayed from its original inception as a talk show for women. According to the Daily Beast, two sources confirmed that Disney CEO Bob Iger and ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic recently held a meeting with The View hosts and executive producer Brian Teta asking…

Leadership of the Senate Judiciary Committee is sparring over ranking member Dick Durbin’s decision to block the swift confirmation of a U.S. attorney nominee — and his warning that he could do the same for others. The Illinois Democrat had announced earlier this week that he would put a hold on the U.S. attorney nominee for the Southern District of Florida, Jason Reding Quiñones, who is now a state judge in Florida. In doing so, Durbin would create a procedural hurdle that would likely slow Quiñones’ confirmation at a time when the Trump administration has yet to confirm any U.S.…

Over 20 members of the European Parliament have urged the European Commission to immediately freeze all EU funding to Hungary as a means of putting pressure on Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government. The demand comes as the bloc’s foreign ministers prepare to weigh potential sanctions, including a suspension of Budapest’s voting rights.In a letter sent Tuesday to Budget Commissioner Piotr Serafin and Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath, 26 MEPs accused Hungary of “violating EU values and EU laws.” They cited four specific actions, including a March law that effectively bans pride parades in Hungary, a move consistent with Orban’s rejection of…

House Oversight Chairman James Comer has identified five Biden aides who were involved in the cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental decline and autopen scandal. Comer has demanded testimony from former Dr. Kevin O’Connor and four former aides related to the Biden health scandal. Chairman Comer had demanded testimony from: Biden White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Director of Domestic Policy Council Neera Tanden, Former Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to First Lady Jill Biden Anthony Bernal, Former Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini, Former Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of…