Protestors lined Palos Verdes Drive South, waiving signs and chanting as passing cars honked in support. Most of the crowd stayed peaceful, but tempers boiled over when a 'No Kings' protestor squared off with a counterprotestor.
The thing that I get most frustrated with is I think that what is happening with Trump right now is we're all point to, well, he got convinced or his mental acuity, this is who he's been from the f**king get-go.
Seven justices expressed profound skepticism toward the government's revisionist history of the 14th Amendment, with most sounding downright hostile toward the pseudo-originalist theory cooked up to legitimize the policy.
Some senators are pushing the White House to appoint Sen. Mike Lee as Attorney General following Bondi's ouster and plan to pitch Trump directly on the idea, sources told me.
During the 2024 campaign, after years of attacking the media as "enemies of the people," Donald Trump presented himself as not a scourge of free speech but as its champion, promising to be a President who would reclaim this most fundamental right from the "left-wing censorship regime." In his second Inaugural Address, on January 20, 2025, he pledged to reverse "years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression," promising to sign an executive order that same day "to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America." After pausing for a standing ovation led by his new Vice-President, the self-styled free-speech warrior J. D. Vance, Trump added, "Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents. Something I know something about. We will not allow that to happen, it will not happen again. Under my leadership we will restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law."