“[T]he Federal Government may not compel the States to enact or administer a federal regulatory program,” a district judge wrote in the July ruling. “While Congress has many enumerated powers, and may even overtake state law, it may not wield States as federal tools.”
The lawsuit appears to be the first legal challenge to Trump’s grand ballroom plan, but others have already raised concerns over the project. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, for instance, recently sent a letter to the National Park Service expressing its own reservations.
“To be perfectly honest,” Michael Wolff said, “I’d like nothing better than to get Donald Trump and Melania Trump under oath in front of a court reporter and actually find out all of the details of their relationship with Epstein.”
“Constitutional rights cannot be used as a bargaining chip,” Mayes wrote in the complaint.
“It sort of looks bad, I’m suing myself, right?” Trump said. “So I don’t know. But that was a lawsuit that was very strong, very powerful.”
“Our prisons are already poorly managed, overcrowded, and plagued by substandard living conditions,” a Democratic state senator said. “No one should be subjected to such inhumane treatment.”
“The chilling effect on speech are heightened by the uncertainty,” an attorney for the plaintiffs said. “The list seems to expand unpredictably at the whims of the president or the administration.”
One worker said that Fox needs to “get out of Trump’s pocket” and recognize that some its most prominent hosts, including Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, are “a total embarrassment, peddling BS and conspiracy theories.”
Missouri Republicans are pushing back against a campaign seeking to overturn the state’s heavily gerrymandered congressional maps. According to The Missouri Independent, on Wednesday, state Secretary of State Denny Hoskins announced that at least 100,000 signatures gathered to push the initiative onto the ballot will no longer count. Should anyone insist on attempting to deliver
“This lawsuit has no merit,” the Times said in a statement. “Nothing has changed today. This is merely an attempt to stifle independent reporting and generate PR attention, but The New York Times will not be deterred by intimidation tactics.”