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Trump is on the verge of a historic once-in-a-century clash with the Supreme Court, with his own appointed justices possibly ruling against him in multiple cases. ABC is begging Americans to save “The View” from Trump’s FCC. A Georgia Republican candidate admitted to deliberately submitting fraudulent mail ballot applications, and a federal judge has shut down the Trump administration’s secret plan to build a national voter database and purge millions of Americans from the rolls.
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Trump Poised for Historic Once-in-a-Century ‘Clash’ with Supreme Court
Donald Trump spent years stacking the Supreme Court with justices he personally chose. And now those very justices may be about to rule against him on some of the biggest legal questions of his presidency.
Legal experts are calling this a once-in-a-century showdown. Stanford University law professor Jeffrey Fisher told the Washington Post you’d have to go back to the New Deal era to find anything like it.
The Court is expected to weigh in by July on whether Constitutionally guaranteed birthright citizenship can be ripped away, whether Trump can fire the heads of independent federal agencies and whether he can singlehandedly reshape the Federal Reserve. And according to reporting from the Post, the justices — including Trump appointees — have signaled they’re going to rule against Trump on at least two of the three.
The fractures are already showing in Trump’s inner circle. Justice Neil Gorsuch, another Trump appointee, organized a gathering last year. But one of his longtime allies, MAGA lawyer Mike Davis, wasn’t there. Gorsuch apparently snubbed Davis after he publicly attacked Justice Amy Coney Barrett for siding with liberal justices on two rulings that went against Trump. Davis was reportedly enraged after Gorsuch had voted to block Trump’s use of wartime authority to deport Venezuelan immigrants.
Trump is expecting loyalty from the court he built, but apparently he’s not getting it. Keep a close eye on this one.
ABC Asks for Viewers’ Help to Save ‘The View’ from Trump’s FCC
ABC and Disney are pushing back hard against the Trump administration’s attempt to use the Federal Communications Commission to silence “The View.”
The network launched an on-air campaign this week calling out the FCC for what it says is an attempt to control who can appear on the show. “The View” has been on the air for more than three decades, and regularly features hosts who are openly critical of Trump.
The FCC is questioning whether “The View” qualifies as a bona fide news program. That distinction matters because news programs are exempt from the “equal time” rule, which requires broadcasters to give political candidates comparable airtime. If the FCC strips that exemption, it could effectively be used to force the show to either change its format or give MAGA voices a platform.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr has also launched a review of Disney’s broadcast licenses across multiple local affiliates and separately launched a probe into Disney’s DEI policies. You’ll remember Carr also publicly called for ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel to be yanked from the airwaves.
The Trump administration isn’t banning speech directly, but rather threatening the licenses of companies that allow oppositional voices to have a platform and hoping the threat alone is enough to get them to submit.
Disney isn’t backing down, at least not yet. But whether they hold up depends entirely on how much pressure Trump’s FCC will apply.
The president using his own appointed regulators to force compliance from a media outlet for airing oppositional views is the kind of thing you’d expect to see in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, not the United States. But when most of the media is controlled by a handful of billionaires and corporations, they become easier to control. Raw America will never take billionaire money or corporate ownership. But that also means we need readers like you to keep us afloat. Click the link below to become a paying subscriber.
Georgia Republican Admits to Submitting Fraudulent Ballot Applications
Greg Dolezal is the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Georgia. He’s a consistent election denier who insists without evidence thar Georgia’s elections are rife with fraud and that signature verification on mail-in ballots doesn’t work.
Turns out, Dolezal knows firsthand it doesn’t work because he personally tested it — by committing what appears to be election fraud.
In a February interview on the Charlie Kirk Show that he posted to his own YouTube channel, Dolezal admitted that he and “a number of friends” deliberately submitted mail-in ballot applications with intentionally altered signatures. He said some of those forms were signed by children, not by the actual registered voters. In each case, they received ballots back.
He doubled down in a separate March interview, saying friends in Cherokee and Gwinnett counties ran the same test and got the same result.
Now, Dolezal is presenting all of this as evidence that the system is broken. But there’s a more obvious problem here: he submitted fraudulent ballot applications, had other people sign his name, and even had children sign the names of registered voters on official election documents.
And he’s now running for lieutenant governor of Georgia, the second-highest office in the state and the person who presides over the state Senate.
Trump reportedly personally thanked Dolezal for his work on “election integrity,” if that tells you anything.
Dolezal is currently pushing for a bill that would require hand recounts in every county for the top two races before any election can be certified, which are proven to be less accurate, more expensive and far more time-consuming. The Republican-controlled state Senate already passed it. The House was considering it Monday. Keep in mind that Georgia is one of the most pivotal swing states in the country, and could very well decide which party controls the US Senate in November.
Judge Strikes Down Trump’s Attempt to Disenfranchise Millions of Voters
A federal judge issued a major ruling Sunday, blocking the White House from building a national database that could have been used to purge millions of Americans from voter rolls ahead of the midterms.
Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, a Biden appointee, issued a 75-page decision halting what she called a scheme that “knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote.”
Under an executive order, Trump quietly expanded a Department of Homeland Security system which was originally designed to verify the immigration status of non-citizens applying for public benefits. The administration transformed it into a massive interagency data pool, linking DHS records with Social Security Administration data, allowing officials to search individuals by Social Security number and giving state election officials access to use it as a citizenship verification tool to purge voter registrations.
It was built in secret with no public notice or comment period, and no privacy impact assessment. All of that is required by federal law under the Administrative Procedure Act and the Privacy Act of 1974.
The League of Women Voters and the Electronic Privacy Information Center sued. And they won.
With the 2026 midterms four months away, and control of both the House and Senate on the line, this ruling removes a critical tool Trump had been quietly developing to tip the scales in his favor before Election Day.
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