Stephen Dinan

Biden complains of ‘political grandstanding’ as Republicans blame him for migrant deaths

President Biden said Tuesday the deaths of 50 migrants in Texas this week were "horrifying," but insisted he's making progress in going after the smugglers who are leading a record number of illegal immigrants to their deaths.

June 28, 2022

50 migrants found dead in tractor-trailer in San Antonio; Abbott blames Biden’s border policies

Authorities said they found 50 dead migrants in the back of a truck trailer in San Antonio, Texas, in one of the worst border tragedies in history.

June 27, 2022

Biden’s ICE nominee withdraws from consideration

President Biden's nominee to be the next director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday he has pulled his name from consideration, delivering a blow to a Biden administration struggling to get a handle on its immigration policy.

June 27, 2022

Union calls for DOJ to review its firing of Trump immigration judges

The union for immigration judges has asked the Justice Department to revisit its ouster of several judges hired during the Trump administration, questioning whether the firings were illegal -- and calling them unseemly at the very least.

June 27, 2022

High court allows football coach’s prayer as private religious expression

The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of a public high school football coach who was fired after he prayed at the 50-yard line immediately after games, saying the government can't punish someone for what a majority of justices held was personal, private religious expression.

June 27, 2022

Scammer who shut down Iraqi refugee program gets three years in prison

An Iraqi national whose fraud scheme caused the U.S. government to shut down a critical lifeline for Iraqi refugees was sentenced to a little more than three years in prison.

June 27, 2022

Supreme Court justices apply originalism as test for constitutional challenges on abortion, guns

The Constitution became a little simpler with last week's decisions on guns and abortion, as the Supreme Court's conservative wing pared back decades of legal rule-making and declared that the founding document means what it says -- and only that.

June 26, 2022

Abortion dissenters warn same-sex marriage, contraceptive rights could go next

Americans should fear what comes next, the three dissenting justices wrote Friday in excoriating the Supreme Court's ruling overturning nearly 50 years of abortion precedent.

June 24, 2022

Trump: ‘I delivered’ Roe abortion victory with court picks

Former President Donald Trump said Friday that the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision establishing a national right to abortion because he was able to install three nominees on the bench during his term in office.

June 24, 2022

Chief Justice Roberts strikes own path on abortion ruling

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. paved his own path in Friday's abortion ruling, siding with his fellow GOP-appointed justices in backing Mississippi's 15-week ban as constitutional, but saying he would not have gone as far as his colleagues did in unraveling all of Roe v. Wade.

June 24, 2022

Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, national abortion right

The Supreme Court on Friday overruled the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case, which gave women a national right to an abortion.

June 24, 2022

Up to 33% of ICE catch-and-release migrants abscond: GAO audit

ICE's catch-and-release program has a high failure rate, according to a new government audit released Wednesday that found up to one-third of migrants abscond before their time is up.

June 22, 2022

Backlog is ‘still crushing’ IRS, agency’s taxpayer advocate tells Congress

The IRS backlog has grown worse over the last year and millions of returns filed on paper this year have yet to be touched by the agency, the country's official taxpayer advocate told Congress in a new report Wednesday.

June 22, 2022

EXCLUSIVE: ICE officers demand freedom from AFL-CIO over mismanagement, ‘defund the police’ stance

The National ICE Council says its members are sick of being labeled "Nazis" and racists by fellow unionists and is filing charges with the Labor Department to seek financial autonomy from its parent unions, the AFL-CIO and the American Federation of Government Employees.

June 21, 2022

House GOP says Biden’s border wall halt is ‘illegal’ as delay tops 500 days

At some point President Biden's delay in building any significant new sections of border wall will cross the line into being an illegal obstruction, congressional Republicans warned in a letter Tuesday to the White House demanding answers about the stall.

June 21, 2022

Supreme Court rules religious schools can access taxpayer dollars

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Maine's tuition program allowing state funds to go only to nonreligious schools runs afoul of the First Amendment.

June 21, 2022

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Unprecedented’ upheaval in immigration courts from Biden’s bid to reshape the agency

The Biden administration has been quietly packing the nation's immigration courts, ousting Trump-hired judges and installing judges deemed to be friendlier to the immigrants whose cases they hear, in what one Justice Department official called an "unprecedented" injection of politics into the courts.

June 20, 2022

U.S. Marshals case puts spotlight on police cellphone tracking

The cellphone tracking tool that a federal agent allegedly used to track a former girlfriend may have been scuttled, but analysts say they fear police have even more invasive technology.

June 19, 2022

Michael Avenatti pleads guilty to more charges of bilking clients

Michael Avenatti, the high-flying anti-Trump lawyer brought low by his criminal misdeeds, pleaded guilty Thursday to another set of charges related to bilking the IRS and embezzling money from clients.

June 16, 2022

Border Patrol catches record number on terrorist list

Border Patrol agents recorded nabbing 15 illegal immigrants in May whose names popped a flag in Homeland Security's terrorism screening database, according to data released by Homeland Security this week that showed the free-for-all at the southern border continues unabated.

June 16, 2022