Rachel Maddow's Blog, page 36
September 8, 2025
Trump admin proposes worrisome changes to the US citizenship test
The Trump administration is floating changes to the United States’ citizenship test that could broaden its ability to deny people status as citizens.
House Oversight Democrats post ‘Trump’s birthday note’ from Epstein book
Democrats on the U.S. House Oversight Committee on Monday posted the page from Epstein’s “birthday book,” which appears to contain a message from Donald Trump to the disgraced financier on his 50th birthday.
Supreme Court is last stand in E. Jean Carroll's legal vindication against Trump
Donald Trump suffered his latest legal loss on his personal docket when an appellate panel rejected his attempt to overturn the $83.3 million in defamation damages won by writer E. Jean Carroll at one of her civil trials against Trump.
Supreme Court’s ‘roving patrols’ reversal prompts scathing dissent from Sotomayor
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to lift an order that temporarily restrained the government’s “roving patrols” in Los Angeles.
John Roberts backs Trump’s power to fire FTC commissioner without cause for now
Chief Justice John Roberts halted the reinstatement of the lone Democratic commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, whom President Donald Trump sought to fire without cause.
In Epstein case, Mike Johnson backs off claim that Trump was an FBI ‘informant’
When Speaker Mike Johnson claimed that Donald Trump was an FBI "informant" in the Epstein case, it raised some awkward questions. Then he walked it back.
Trump adds to his unsettling list of ‘I don’t know’ answers on yet another key issue
In too many instances in recent months, Donald Trump has sounded a bit too much like a bystander who just wandered into the Oval Office.
Even a GOP senator thinks JD Vance’s line on war crimes accusations is ‘despicable’
JD Vance suggested he didn't care whether the U.S. was committing war crimes in targeting suspected drug smugglers. It was a bridge too far for Rand Paul.
Howard Lutnick is pushing a conspiracy theory about the economy. Americans aren’t buying it.
Before the release of the August jobs report, Howard Lutnik posited a conspiracy theory about data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
September 7, 2025
'Million-dollar bullets' devastate communities — and drain us all
In addition to deaths, gun violence costs the U.S. an estimated $8 million in health care costs per day and $30 million in police and criminal justice costs.
