THE PULSE OF THE PLANET
The Transportation Department’s new restrictions that would severely limit which immigrants can get commercial driver’s licenses to drive a semitrailer truck or bus have been put on hold by a federal appeals court. Source link
The yearslong case against six Nevada Republicans who were accused of submitting a bogus certificate that declared President Donald Trump the winner of the state’s 2020 presidential election has been sent back to Clark County, where a jury is more likely to rule against them. Source link
A federal appeals court put on hold Thursday the Trump administration’s new rules limiting commercial driver’s licenses, saying the Transportation Department cut too many corners in rushing the regulation out the door. Source link
The end of the government shutdown means food stamp benefits are flowing again, and the Justice Department told the Supreme Court to dismiss a case involving President Trump’s move to delay payments during the closure. Source link
The Supreme Court gave the Trump administration another reprieve on providing food stamp benefits Tuesday, granting a new grace period to give Congress a little more time to end the government shutdown and derail the thorny legal battle. Source link
The Trump administration said Monday that Democrat-appointed judges were in danger of undermining a carefully crafted deal to end the government shutdown by ordering the government to make full food stamp payments this month. Source link
President Donald Trump’s administration returned to the Supreme Court on Monday in a push to keep full payments in the SNAP federal food aid program frozen while the government is shut down. Source link
The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a challenge over mail-in ballots arriving past Election Day in a major effort by Republicans to end the counting of late-arriving ballots. Source link
The Trump administration rushed to the Supreme Court Friday night asking the justices to put on hold lower court action that ordered the government to pay out full food stamp benefits amid the government shutdown. Source link
States say they are now paying full food stamp benefits, rushing to get money out the door to needy Americans even as President Trump appeals the court ruling that ordered him to pay. Source link
