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Rep. Thomas Massie leaves a House Republican caucus meeting at the US Capitol on June 4 in Washington

Trump allies taking on Thomas Massie after Kentucky Republican’s recent opposition to the president

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump’s allies have launched a super PAC that will seek to oust Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican who opposed the president’s domestic policy bill and criticized his strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The move to target Massie demonstrates Trump and his allies’ willingness to unleash his well-funded

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Donald Trump and attorney Emil Bove sit in the courtroom during his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in April 2024 in New York City.

Top Justice Department leaders and judicial nominee tried to mislead judges, whistleblower says

By Annie Grayer and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Top Justice Department leaders — including President Donald Trump’s former personal defense lawyer nominated for a prestigious judgeship — intended to ignore court orders and tried to mislead federal judges in the administration’s aggressive deportation effort this spring, a Justice Department lawyer who was fired recently

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With MEC short on members, ethics complaint against Drinkwitz dropped; Kehoe working to fill vacancies

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A complaint filed against University of Missouri head football coach Eli Drinkwitz has been thrown out due to a lack of commissioners on the Missouri Ethics Commission.  The complaint filed by Anthony Willroth, of Hold CoMo Accountable, stemmed from an Oct. 22 appearance on the weekly radio show “Tiger Talk” in which

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Judge indefinitely blocks Trump’s proclamation suspending new Harvard international students

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Monday indefinitely blocked a recent attempt by President Donald Trump to deprive Harvard University of its ability to bring thousands of international students to its campus. Judge Allison Burroughs of the US District Court in Massachusetts decided Trump’s recent presidential proclamation was a violation of

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The US Capitol in Washington

Missouri politicians praise Middle East ceasefire, consider War Powers Resolution over Iran strikes

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A bipartisan group of U.S. representatives are drumming up support for a resolution curbing President Donald Trump’s military strikes in Iran. Reps. Ro Khanna (D-California) and Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) filed a resolution last week to end the United States’ strikes against Iran, “unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or specific

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US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks during an event at Georgetown Law on March 28.

Sotomayor accuses Supreme Court of ‘rewarding lawlessness’ by Trump administration in fiery dissent

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court’s senior liberal, slammed the Trump administration’s handling of immigration matters in a fiery dissent Monday and accused her colleagues of “rewarding lawlessness” by backing its latest emergency appeal. Sotomayor’s scathing, 19-page dissent came in a case in which the court’s majority backed the

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The Supreme Court on June 23 granted President Donald Trump’s emergency request to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their homeland. People take photos at the US Supreme Court at dusk on June 10 in Washington

Supreme Court allows Trump to remove migrants to South Sudan and other turmoil-filled countries

By Angélica Franganillo Díaz and John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday granted President Donald Trump’s emergency request to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their homeland, including places like South Sudan, with minimal notice. The decision is a significant win for the Trump administration, which had argued that a lower

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