The Hill - Administration

The Justice Department described the Iranian missile threat incident that led President Trump to secretly switch planes last month as an “assassination attempt” in a new court filing on Friday.  U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer mentioned the incident in an emergency appeal to Supreme Court asking it to overturn a lower court’s block on the...

Republican strategist Karl Rove on Friday criticized President Trump’s insistence that the U.S. economy is thriving despite rising prices amid the Iran war. Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Friday that the “economy was doing unbelievably from the standpoint of Wall Street." Rove told Fox News's Gillian Turner that the president should “start...

A Massachusetts-based federal judge on Friday lifted her stay in a case brought by Somalian holders of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), clearing the way for the Trump administration to begin deporting them. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs lifts an administrative stay she issued after the Supreme Court decided in a related case...

Attorneys for the Olympian previously accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool filed a motion Thursday to bar prosecutors from bringing further criminal charges against him related to the case, citing fears of “prosecutorial harassment" by President Trump. The legal team for Olympic canoeist David Hearn called for Judge Todd Edelman of the District...

President Trump claimed during remarks on Long Island, N.Y. on Friday that he will make the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory, despite the fact that Oman and Iran share jurisdiction of the waterway. “Pretty soon, I will be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,” Trump said during an address highlighting...