Way back in 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, “It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." Roosevelt’s words remain alive and well today as a... Read More about Biden Moves to Raise Minimum Wage as Part of Economic Stimulus Bill
A Texas immigration lawyer is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after his phone was seized and searched at an airport upon re-entry into the U.S. Adam A. Malik was returning home from a trip to Costa Rica when he was stopped at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on... Read More about Immigration Lawyer Files Lawsuits Against DHS After Agents Seized His iPhone
Douglass Mackey was arrested Wednesday, January 27, 2021, after a Federal Bureau of Investigation complaint found Mackey to be the main contributor behind a disinformation scheme to interfere with the 2016 Presidential Election between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Mackey, also known as Ricky Vaughn, opened... Read More about Social Media Influencers Arrested for 2016 Election Interference
The week of February 8th will mark the beginning of the second Senate trial to impeach former President Donald Trump. The last trial ended with the Senate voting in favor of the then-sitting President. The political landscape changed over the previous year, though. Not only do more Democrats now hold... Read More about Chief Justice Roberts Will Not Preside Over Second Trump Impeachment
January 20, 2021, was a busy day for White House ethics. In the morning then-president Trump revoked his 2017 ethics policy and, in the afternoon, as one of the seventeen executive orders he signed on his first day, President Biden introduced his own Executive Order on Ethics Commitments by Executive... Read More about Biden's Day One Executive Orders - Ethics Pledge
In one of his 17 executive orders signed his first day in office, President Biden stopped construction on the border wall between the United States and Mexico. The executive order said that all projects on the border wall needed to stop within a week of the order being signed. Customs... Read More about President Biden Signs Executive Order Halting Construction of Border Wall
For the first time ever, the Department of Homeland Security has issued a national terrorism bulletin about violent domestic extremists. The bulletin comes after the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill which has heightened the threat of violence across the nation, according to DHS. The bulletin, formally titled the National... Read More about DHS Issues Bulletin Over Heightened Domestic Terrorism Risk
Janet Yellen was confirmed as the first female Treasury secretary on Monday, January 25, 2021. She won unanimous backing from both parties on the Senate Finance Committee and was confirmed by the full Senate on an 84-15 vote. Her confirmation comes 232 years after Alexander Hamilton became the first Treasury... Read More about Janet Yellen: First Female Treasury Secretary Confirmed
One of six men accused of planning to abduct Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer last fall has pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping conspiracy charge, while the other five defendants remain silent. According to the plea agreement of Ty Gerard Garbin, part of the “Wolverine Watchmen,” an aim of certain members... Read More about Michigan ‘Wolverine Watchmen’ Extremist Pleads Guilty to Plotting Abduction of Michigan Governor
One week in and President Biden has already been met with the first major setback of his presidency. On Tuesday, a federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked Biden's 100-day deportation freeze. The deportation freeze was implemented via executive order on January 20th. As part of the memorandum, the Department of... Read More about Texas Judge Blocks Biden's 100-day Deportation Freeze
On January 28th, 2021, President Biden honored another of his campaign promises when he issued a presidential memorandum that rescinds his predecessor’s elimination of federal aid for any foreign health provider that performs or actively promotes abortion as a method of family planning. During the signing ceremony in the Oval... Read More about New Biden Memoranda Aims to Expand Global and Domestic Access to Reproductive Health Care
One of President Biden’s executive orders issued in the first week of his administration is intended to “encourage \[federal worker] union organizing and collective bargaining” and to “protect, empower, and rebuild the career federal workforce.” During the Trump administration, three executive orders targeting federal unions were signed into law on... Read More about Biden Executive Order to Remake Federal Government into the “Model Employer”
President Joe Biden’s Executive Order enacted during his first day in office, ‘Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing,' imposes a powerful mandate on all federal buildings, lands, and staff to wear masks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) emphatically endorses mask-wearing to block the spread of COVID-19,... Read More about Biden’s Mask Mandate Exposes Fed Vs. State Conflicts
In a show of force made possible by social media and a Reddit forum, main street investors are turning against Wall Street hedge funds, beating them at their own game in what can only be described as 2021’s version of a David vs. Goliath pump and dump. There has been... Read More about Robinhood Revolt: App Faces Lawsuit after Halting Trades on Gamestop and Other Securities
Ghislaine Maxwell has asked a New York judge to dismiss her pending criminal child sex case. Her legal team has filed several motions arguing for the dismissal. The British socialite and her lawyers cite several reasons the charges against her should be thrown out, with the most controversial being that... Read More about Ghislaine Maxwell and Defense File Flurry of Motions Seeking to Dismiss Charges