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In the CourtsPoliticsAugust 30, 2026

11th Circuit Vacates Georgia Map Defeat After Supreme Court’s Callais Ruling

By Tommy Flynn

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Aug. 25 vacated a 2023 district-court judgment that struck down Georgia’s 2021 congressional and legislative maps under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and sent the cases back to U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones. A three-judge panel...

Beef cattle in a feedlot in New Mexico
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US NewsPoliticsAugust 30, 2026

Trump Orders a Legal Path for Ranchers to Process Their Own Beef

By Tommy Flynn

President Trump said Friday he is authorizing legal documents so farmers and ranchers can process their own food, aiming at what he called a “nasty monopoly” among the four companies that handle about 85 percent of U.S. meat processing. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said...

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US NewsPoliticsAugust 29, 2026

California Lets New Voters Register Without a License or SSN — Then Accepts Gym and Insurance Cards at the Polls

By Tommy Flynn

California’s live voter-registration form still lets an applicant check that they have neither a California driver’s license or state ID nor a Social Security number. Official Secretary of State guidance says those first-time federal voters who registered by mail or online...

Treasury Drafts Reviews That Could Strip Tax-Exempt Status From Soros Network, SPLC, and CAIR
US NewsPoliticsAugust 29, 2026

Treasury Drafts Reviews That Could Strip Tax-Exempt Status From Soros Network, SPLC, and CAIR

By Tommy Flynn

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the IRS are preparing reviews that could revoke 501(c)(3) status for Open Society Foundations, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, three people familiar with the matter told the New York Post....

A black wooden gavel rests on its block atop a judge’s bench in an empty courtroom.
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In the CourtsPoliticsAugust 29, 2026

Judge Declines Immediate Block on Trump’s New Birthright-Citizenship Order

By Tommy Flynn

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman on Friday refused to issue a temporary restraining order against President Trump’s Aug. 6 follow-on executive order limiting which children born in the United States receive citizenship documents. Boardman, a Biden appointee sitting in...

Voters cast ballots behind privacy flaps on Election Day.
US NewsPoliticsAugust 29, 2026

DHS Ties Grant Money to Paper-Ballot Audits After Vendors Cite China-Made Parts

By Tommy Flynn

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told the White House Transparency Task Force that the three vendors supplying more than 80 percent of U.S. voting systems have acknowledged Chinese-manufactured components, some with no ready American substitute, and that a...

The Real Socialist Movement in America
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PoliticsAug 28, 2026

The Real Socialist Movement in America

By Rick Hallman

It is time we stopped pretending that socialism is something it is not. We cannot and should never compromise with what will become the path to communism.

Judge Issues New 14-Day Block on USPS Mail-Ballot Rule After Lifting Prior Injunction
PoliticsIn the CourtsAugust 28, 2026

Judge Issues New 14-Day Block on USPS Mail-Ballot Rule After Lifting Prior Injunction

By Tommy Flynn

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston issued a 14-day temporary restraining order late Thursday blocking the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing key parts of its finalized mail-ballot rule. The order came one day after she vacated her earlier nationwide injunction on the...

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In the CourtsPoliticsAugust 27, 2026

Maryland Judge Stops Democrats From Erasing the Last Republican House District

By Tommy Flynn

Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Robert J. Thompson on Wednesday blocked a Democratic-backed constitutional amendment from the November ballot that would have cleared the way for Maryland lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional map and target the only Republican...

Golf-Course Suspect Had Melania’s Schedule and Secret Service Notes, Court Told
US NewsPoliticsAugust 27, 2026

Golf-Course Suspect Had Melania’s Schedule and Secret Service Notes, Court Told

By Tommy Flynn

Prosecutors told a Los Angeles County judge Wednesday that Jeanine John Taele, the armed man arrested at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles days before President Trump’s visit, possessed first lady Melania Trump’s schedule and detailed notes on Secret Service personnel. The...

Court: Shoving ICE Agents Is Not ‘Legislative Activity’ — McIver Case Proceeds (Video)
PoliticsIn the CourtsAugust 27, 2026

Court: Shoving ICE Agents Is Not ‘Legislative Activity’ — McIver Case Proceeds (Video)

By Tommy Flynn

A divided Third Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that Rep. LaMonica McIver is not immune from federal prosecution for alleged physical contact with ICE officers during a May 2025 melee outside Newark’s Delaney Hall detention facility. The 2–1 decision held that the charged conduct...

Last Court Block on Trump Mail-Ballot Order Falls — Democrats Immediately Sue Again
US NewsPoliticsAugust 27, 2026

Last Court Block on Trump Mail-Ballot Order Falls — Democrats Immediately Sue Again

By Tommy Flynn

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston on Wednesday vacated her remaining nationwide injunction against the Postal Service rule implementing President Trump’s mail-voting executive order, two days after the Supreme Court lifted a separate stay in a related case. The same...