With The Fed Behind Us…

GOP Uses Kavanaugh's Own Playbook To Take Another Swing At Birthright Citizenship Last month, the Supreme Court struck down Trump's executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship. Justice Kavanaugh joined that majority in striking down the order, but he also filed a separate partial dissent, and his reasoning did Republicans a favor. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority in Trump v. Barbara, a 5-4 decision joined by Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, Barrett, and Jackson, and leaned on the 1898 case U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark to hold that the 14th...

Murder And Mayhem: A Look At ICE's 'Worst Of The Worst' Arrests Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez and Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement efforts this term have focused on illegal immigrants with criminal histories. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made about 379,000 arrests from Jan. 20, 2025, through Jan. 20, 2026, and the administration has maintained that the majority involved those with criminal arrests or convictions. Tricia McLaughlin, former assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said last year that 70 percent...

Jobless Claims Continue To Show No Signs Of Labor Market Stress Initial jobless claims continue to hover near multi-decade lows, refusing to show any signs of labor market stress. Last week saw 212k American file for jobless benefits for the first time (below the 216k expected). Unadjusted claims tumbled to the lowest since September... Source: Bloomberg Michigan and New York saw the largest drop in initial jobless claims last week while Rhode Island and Oklahoma saw the bigger rise in claims... The number of Americans filing for continuing jobless claims also dropped last week...