More than 300 detainees at a Newark, N.J., immigration detention are continuing a hunger strike launched Memorial Day weekend to protest insufficient and spoiled food, lack of sanitation and bond denials, Human Rights Watch reported June 3. Federal officials, meanwhile,…
SPLC asks court to dismiss Trump’s ‘farcical’ charges against it
Fraud charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center are part of a “farcical” and “retributive” White House campaign to silence political opposition, the civil rights group said in a motion to dismiss filed May 26. SPLC, which monitors and reports…
Democracy Forward files suit to stop Trump’s slush fund
Democracy Forward has filed a lawsuit on behalf of multiple plaintiffs seeking to block a nearly $1.8 billion slush fund President Donald Trump created to reimburse ideological allies who claim to be victims of politically motivated litigation and prosecutions. The…
Trump’s EEOC goes after another company that required vaccines
An Oklahoma company has agreed to settle a federal religious and disability discrimination lawsuit stemming from its firing of unvaccinated employees during the pandemic, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced. AG Equipment Co. in Broken Arrow will pay $4.2…
How the Trump administration uses the Bible to justify military invasions and immigration raids
As massive immigration enforcement actions were underway in Minnesota this January, the Department of Homeland Security released a video that, at first glance, appeared to resemble a cinematic trailer.
Catholics fight Trump’s attempt to seize their land for border wall
The Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces, N.M., is fighting the Trump administration’s attempt to seize a portion of its property to build a border wall. The federal government has its eye on a stretch along the southern base of Mount…
Judge says Trump concoted case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia
A federal judge dismissed criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia after determining the Trump administration concocted the case to justify the immigrant’s deportation to El Salvador. “The objective evidence here shows that, absent Abrego’s successful lawsuit challenging his removal to…
Virginia church steps in to support Black student group at Mizzou
Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va., announced Sunday it will financially support the Legion of Black Collegians after the University of Missouri ended designated funding for several affinity organizations amid federal scrutiny of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. During…
Anti-Christian Bias report exalts Calvinism and lies as normative
It is no secret that Donald J. Trump is intent on exacting retribution on his perceived enemies. Top of his list is former President Joe Biden. While the recently released report by the Justice Department’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian…
Colorado high court challenges RFK Jr on transgender care
The Colorado Supreme Court has issued a ruling siding with transgender patients who sued a hospital that stopped providing gender-affirming care due to fear of retaliation by the Trump administration. The May 18 opinion reversed a trial court’s denial of…
What I saw and heard in DC this weekend
Evangelicals flocked to Washington, D.C., over the weekend to attend the Trump administration’s “Rededicate 250” event on Sunday, which was billed as “rededicating” the country to being “one nation under God.” The night before Trump’s official event — funded by public money…
American historian debunks Rededicate 250 revisionism
“The United States of America was not founded as a Christian nation,” historian Heather Cox Richardson insisted in her May 17 “Letters from an American” column. The professor of history at Boston College used her Sunday writing to comment on…