by Allison Detzel | Jul 9, 2026 | Crime & Courts, Donald Trump, News, Politics, Supreme Court
Nicolle Wallace told President Donald Trump that it’s time to “move on” as the president doubles down on what she called his “desperate last-ditch” efforts to fight his mounting courtroom defeats.
On Wednesday, a Manhattan judge ordered the president to pay E. Jean Carroll $5 million after a jury found that Trump sexually abused the writer three decades ago and later defamed her. That ruling came days after the Supreme Court rejected the president’s appeal in the case.
But as the “Deadline: White House” host noted, that wasn’t the only court loss the president suffered that day. In Washington, D.C., a federal appeals court once again denied a request from the Kennedy Center’s board to return Trump’s name to the building.
On the heels of those losses, Wallace said it’s time for the president to finally accept defeat.
“We need a new word for ‘over,’” she said. “Legally, these cases are so over, we need new ways to explain to our audience how over they are.”
Pointing to the Carroll case, the MS NOW host explained that the president had already appealed to the Supreme Court, which she said was the “end of the road in our system,” adding, “It’s over. He owes the money.”
As for the Kennedy Center, she offered this advice for Trump: “Pull the tarp down. Suffer your humiliation, and move on.”
Wallace said Trump’s inability to accept defeat has put an “extraordinary strain” on the country’s judges and legal system.
“[In] just about every story we cover, Trump, including through his Justice Department, abuses the system, does something either flagrantly illegal or unconstitutional, and it falls to judges to be the guardrail,” she
by Chris Walker | Jul 7, 2026 | Donald Trump, John Roberts, News, Polls, Supreme Court, Supreme Court term limits
A new poll demonstrates that a majority of Americans disapprove of the United States Supreme Court, following the end of a judicial term that saw multiple rulings eroding civil rights and expanding presidential powers for Donald Trump. The Economist/YouGov poll, conducted July 3-6 (just days after the final Supreme Court ruling was issued on June 30), found that only 36 percent of U.S.
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by Susan Del Percio | Jul 5, 2026 | Opinion, Supreme Court
Last week, the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship, an issue so important to the president that he attended oral arguments in person back in April.
Despite the court’s conservative majority, the ruling should not have surprised the president — not really. For one thing, his order had been rejected by every lower court that had considered it. Because, as many, many legal scholars had pointed out, it seemed to clearly run counter to the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment.
Following oral argument, the consensus among legal scholars was that a majority of justices did not buy the government’s argument. They were correct, as Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion made clear. Roberts, appointed by President George W. Bush, in 2005, has remained a solidly conservative jurist. But it was Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s vote in favor of the majority which took some court watchers by surprise. And it was also Barrett’s vote which seems to have enraged conservatives in a specific, and perhaps specifically revealing, way.
It was also Barrett’s vote which seems to have enraged conservatives in a specific, and perhaps specifically revealing, way.
Following the ruling Trump called on Congress to take action on social media. “Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship.”
Right on cue, his sycophants picked up the chorus. Never mind the inconvenient reality that experts across the political spectrum widely believe the issue settled, or that changing the 14th Amendment would require a supermajority vote in both the House and Senate (or an even less likely constitutional convention), and ratification by
by Lauren Rankin | Jul 3, 2026 | Abortion, abortion bans, Benjamin Franklin, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, history, Op-Ed, Reproductive Rights, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court
It has been 250 years since the U.S. declared independence at one of the most tenuous moments in our history. We now stand at another tenuous moment. With an autocrat firmly in the White House, a sycophantic legislative branch, and a judiciary dominated by far right conservatives, it feels hard to celebrate the United States and its “democracy,” which hangs by a thin thread. In the run-up to…
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by Shireen Akram-Boshar | Jul 2, 2026 | Donald Trump, Human Rights, Immigrant Detention, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, News, Supreme Court
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained over 10,000 people across the U.S. over the past five days. According to The New York Times, top ICE officials have pushed to double daily arrest numbers in recent days after the White House called for an increase to 2,000 ICE arrests per day. The number of people detained in ICE immigration jails has also jumped by nearly 4,000…
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by Justin Akers Chacón | Jul 1, 2026 | Birthright Citizenship, Donald Trump, far right, Immigrants, immigration, Op-Ed, Organizing, Project 2025, Supreme Court
On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented people born inside the United States. In a 6-3 decision, which included Trump-picked, right-wing justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, the majority upheld that birthright citizenship was guaranteed under the Citizenship Clause of the 14th…
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