The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the Trump administration and upheld the mass firing of tens of thousands of probationary federal employees, granting a request for an emergency administrative stay on a lower court order blocking the firings. The majority of the high court ruled that the plaintiffs, nine non-profit organizations who had sued to reinstate the employees, lacked standing to sue.  “The District Court’s injunction was...

Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a Mexican national who had previously been deported after a conviction of deliberate homicide. Agents from ICE Dallas Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Fugitive Operations and ERO Special Response arrested 53-year-old Carlos Ambriz near his residence in Oklahoma on March 25, with a Monday ICE release noting that he was unlawfully in the country and had previously been sentenced to...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries railed against a budget bill that would advance President Donald Trump’s agenda as legislation that would take food from the mouths of babies in order to enrich billionaire “puppet masters.”  “These MAGA extremists are trying to jam a reckless budget down the throat of the American people,” Jeffries said during a Monday press conference. “Take away health care from the American people. Strip...