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riversedge's JournalSupreme Court takes up birthright citizenship: What's at stake in major Trump case?
Source: USA today
Trump's controversial immigration policy is a new interpretation of the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause.
May 14, 2025 8:06 p. m. ET
WASHINGTON ? In what could be its biggest blockbuster case of the year, the Supreme Court on May 15 will take up one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial executive orders: ending the guarantee of citizenship to virtually everyone born in the United States.
Judges appointed by both Democratic and Republican presidents have put that change on hold, ruling it’s likely unconstitutional.
The Trump administration argues judges shouldn’t be able to completely pause the president’s policy while it's being challenged in court.
They’ve asked the Supreme Court to narrow legal rulings so Trump’s new citizenship policy can apply as widely as possible until there’s a final determination from judges about whether it is constitutional.
And the Justice Department says the Supreme Court can do that without deciding whether they will eventually uphold or strike down Trump’s policy..............
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/14/supreme-court-trump-birthright-citizenship-explained/83625627007/?taid=6825c48d539b500001debb01&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
https://x.com/moonbreeze2/status/1922966480112566666
Ron Johnson Wants To Slash Spending At Our Expense
Source: crooksandliars.com
Sen. Ron Johnson says that the current GOP fiscal bill doesn't cut enough spending, and he wants to go after
By Chris capper Liebenthal — May 14, 2025
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HOST: Are you disappointed in Republicans here in Washington? I mean, meager rounding error. That doesn't sound like bold or any sort of change that you might seem proud of.
ROJO: I've always been disappointed of the uni-party. We've got big spenders in our party too. Listen, it's always easy to spend money, especially when it's not yours. It's very easy to always cut taxes. It's very difficult politically to be the guy who says, we can't go to Disney World. We can't afford that. We've got this massive structural deficit. And by the way, according to CBO, we're going to add about $22 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years. Go from $37 trillion in debt to $58, $59 over $60 trillion. It's completely unsustainable. This is our one opportunity. Again, Democrats won't help us. They have no problem with that. Republicans have to be the party of fiscal conservatives in control.And right now, we're not.
Someone really needs to break the news to RoJo that the Disney World that the nation cannot afford is the GOP tax scams. The 2017 GOP tax scam added one to two trillion dollars to the national deficit. The current bill that the GOP is fighting over would add nearly another four trillion dollars.
Read more: https://crooksandliars.com/2025/05/ron-johnson-wants-slash-spending-our
https://x.com/moonbreeze2/status/1922828188608078314
Bruce Springsteen sends a message to Donald Trump at the first show of his European tour: "The America I love, the Ameri
whow!! Good on Springsteen.
Bruce Springsteen sends a message to Donald Trump at the first show of his European tour: “The America I love, the America I’ve written about that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration” (Video: @TonyDortie )
https://x.com/MarcoFoster_/status/1922766447958241740
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1922813499920564592
Arrested judge turns tables on Trump with bold claim citing president's case
Source: raw story
Matthew Chapman May 14, 2025 7:12PM ET
Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan is moving to have the federal charges against her thrown out — and she's citing the very ruling that gave President Donald Trump a presumption of immunity,
According to NBC News, lawyers representing Dugan wrote in response that the whole case was invalid due in part to Trump's win at the Supreme Court last year as he sought to undermine federal charges against him for interfering in the 2020 election.
"“The problems with this prosecution are legion, but most immediately, the government cannot prosecute Judge Dugan because she is entitled to judicial immunity for her official acts,” wrote her legal team “Immunity is not a defense to the prosecution to be determined later by a jury or court; it is an absolute bar to the prosecution at the outset.” The lawyers explicitly cited the decision by the Supreme Court in Trump v. United States, which held that a president has a presumption of immunity for official acts.
The attorneys focused on the Supreme Court's holding that “In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives.” Because Dugan's instructions within her courtroom constituted official conduct, they concluded, “Judge Dugan therefore has both immunity from conviction and immunity from prosecution.”
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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/hannah-dugan-2672020436/
Judge Dugan has not herself spoken out about any thing that has happened to her in this case--as far as I know and I have been trying to follow this story.
https://x.com/moonbreeze2/status/1922810260105888087
Busted: GOP boss vetting Tuberville for residency scandal caught with own out-of-state ID
What a hoot!!
https://www.newsbreak.com/share/4006015215948-busted-gop-boss-vetting-tuberville-for-residency-scandal-caught-with-own-out-of-state-id?_f=app_share&pd=04jUeKTH&lang=en_US&send_time=1747264676&trans_data=%7B%22platform%22%3A0%2C%22cv%22%3A%2225.19.0.40%22%2C%22languages%22%3A%22en%22%7D&sep=ns_foryou_recall_exp_25q2-v4%2Cns_foryou_model_exp_25q2_v2-v7%2Cns_local_strategy_25q1_exp-v15%2Cns_foryou_blend_exp_25q2-v9%2Cns_foryou_rank_exp_25q2-v6&s=i2
Alabama
Busted: GOP boss vetting Tuberville for residency scandal caught with own out-of-state ID
By Matthew Chapman, 1 days ago
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) faces a major obstacle in his nascent campaign to run for governor: there is evidence he has secretly lived in Florida for years rather than Alabama, which would pose a problem as Alabama's residency requirements for governor are stricter than for senator.
One of the key figures who will resolve this dispute is Alabama Republican Party chair John Wahl — but it turns out there are some bizarre discrepancies in his own residency status, Kyle Whitmire wrote in an analysis for AL.com.
Wahl, for his part, insists he is and has long been an Alabama resident — but he appears to use a driver's license from Tennessee under a different name.
"A 2023 traffic ticket, obtained by AL.com, shows that John Wahl gave an Alabama State Trooper a Tennessee driver’s license with the name Nehemiah Ezekiel Wahl," wrote Whitmire. "Tennessee voter records also show that Nehemiah Wahl registered to vote there in December 2020, the same year John Wahl successfully ran to represent Alabama as an elector in the Electoral College."..................
..........Wahl has actually had issues with his ID in the past. In 2022, he admitted to using a fake ID to vote.................
RW posts claim Tom Homan and ICE have taken over Rikers prison--But
others say no.
https://x.com/jimpfaff/status/1922446335300497670
https://x.com/Dragonboy155/status/1922406074688131344
Replying to
@nicksortor
@CommunityNotes
: A federal judge took control of Rikers from NYC, and will appoint a manager due to abuses. Tom Homan wants ICE officials in Rikers, he didn’t say he plans on filling it with illegal immigrants.
https://x.com/Laurieluvsmolly/status/1922442227025867069
First female mayor of Omaha concedes in race against likely first Black mayor
Source: kstp.com by Associated Press
First female mayor of Omaha concedes in race against likely first Black mayor
By The Associated Press
Updated: May 13, 2025 - 10:36 PM Published: May 13, 2025 - 1:11 PM
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha’s first female mayor has conceded the mayoral race to a man who will likely become the community’s first Black mayor.
Voters in Omaha were making history Tuesday by either reelecting the city’s first female mayor to a rare fourth term or electing the community’s first Black mayor.
The race between Mayor Jean Stothert and challenger John Ewing primarily revolved around local issues like street repairs and garbage service, but in the final stretch the campaign touched on more national, hot-button issues such as President Donald Trump’s administration and transgender rights...............
Although the mayor’s office is nonpartisan, the candidates have made it clear to voters that Stothert is a Republican and Ewing is a Democrat. Omaha is among the few spots in conservative Nebraska where Democrats have a reasonable chance of winning elected offices..............................
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Read more: https://kstp.com/associated-press/ap-us-international/first-female-mayor-of-omaha-concedes-in-race-against-likely-first-black-mayor/
A local election but hopefully Democrats get some national attention from it. Happy Day
***Edited to put in an AP story about this election per mods request.
Rep. Margorie Taylor Greene makes a FOOL of herself and everbody LAUGHS at her IN House Committee and Kimble
broadcasts it on his show. ha ha ha Such a joy to see. 
Rep Stansbury-Democrat, NM is having a good time.
https://bsky.app/profile/calltoactivism.bsky.social/post/3lowp4z56ys2o
Just the U.S. president -Trump introducing his top donor @ElonMusk-to a brutal dictator.
It should not surprise me that Musk is with Trump on his ME tour--he is there to make sure that more $$ goes into his and Trumps wallets!! ---at tax payer expense!!
Republicans against Trump
@RpsAgainstTrump
Just the U.S. president introducing his top donor to a brutal dictator. Totally normal. Nothing corrupt at all.
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1922287116605653195
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1922287116605653195
Sec Duffy says he switched his wife's flight due to fear: I switched her flight to LaGuardia (from Newark NJ)...
Do people have to DIE before something positive is done with the airlines?? damn.
TWO days ago!!
Oh my God. In confirmed audio, Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he switched his wife’s flight due to fear: "My wife was flying out of Newark tomorrow. I switched her flight to LaGuardia.” Zero confidence in his job. He must resign.
https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/1922017556862316989
https://x.com/the_coolwayIf the secretary of Transportation deems an airport too unsafe for his wife to fly, and arranges a flight from a different airport, then he has a DUTY to inform the public or SHUT THE AIRPORT DOWN.
You can try to spin it any way you want in your convoluted MAGA logic, but it's a form of corruption, plain and simple.ne/status/1922104074339557865
https://x.com/the_coolwayne/status/1922056717547765809
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