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Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who is leading the voting integrity commission with Vice President Mike Pence, set off a firestorm of criticism last week by requesting voter information from all 50 states — including names, dates of birth, addresses, voting and registration history and partial Social Security numbers. (Associated Press/File)

Lawsuit seeks to stop Trump voter commission’s data sweep

A privacy group has filed an emergency request to block the Trump election integrity commission's demand for states to turn over voter data, saying the information, if made public, would be a severe invasion of Americans' rights.

July 4, 2017
Kris Kobach

Kris Kobach: Voter information refusal ‘idiotic’

The vice chairman of President Trump's new voter integrity commission says Democrats' resistance is "idiotic," and questioned why they were so intent on thwarting the work of a panel designed to look at barriers to voting and how widespread fraud is in the U.S. system.

July 2, 2017
Kate Steinle was fatally shot on July 1, 2015, allegedly by illegal immigrant Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez. The U.S. House on Thursday passed Kate's Law, a federal provision aimed at penalizing illegal immigrants who return to the United States after being deported. (Associated Press)

House passes Kate’s Law, anti-sanctuary city bill

The House on Thursday approved what would be the toughest immigration crackdown in more than two decades, passing bills that would crack down on so-called sanctuary cities and impose stiffer penalties on illegal immigrants who sneak back into the U.S. after being deported.

June 29, 2017
FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2017, file photo, protesters are surrounded by police officers and travelers as they pass through an exit of Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, after earlier in the day two Iraqi refugees were detained while trying to enter the country. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers will be key players in putting President Donald Trump's revised travel ban into effect on Thursday, June 29, affecting visitors from six mostly Muslim countries. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Revived travel ban goes into effect at 8 p.m.

President Trump's revived travel ban will kick into operation at 8 p.m. Thursday, officials announced, and will include a tighter-than-expected screen on potential refugees worldwide and visitors from six Muslim-majority countries which the White House targeted for "extreme vetting."

June 29, 2017
A supporter displays an iPhone during a rally for Sen. Barack Obama in Raleigh, N.C., on Oct. 29, 2008. Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s very selection as running mate was officially announced to the world through a telephone text message. (Associated Press) **FILE**

‘Obamaphone’ program riddled with fraud: Audit

The controversial "Obamaphone" program, which pays for cellphones for the poor, is rife with fraud, according to a new government report Thursday that found more than a third of enrollees may not even be qualified.

June 29, 2017
President Trump met Wednesday with what the White House identified as "immigration crime victims" to urge passage of House legislation. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump’s immigration plans rejected by Obama-appointed judges

President Trump may have won a partial victory at the Supreme Court this week, but other federal judges remain major stumbling blocks to his aggressive immigration plans, with courts from California to Michigan and Atlanta limiting his crackdown on sanctuary cities and stopping him from deporting illegal immigrants he has targeted for removal.

June 28, 2017
In this March 29, 2017, file photo, a youth looks at a new, taller fence being built along U.S.-Mexico border, replacing the shorter, gray metal fence in front of it, in the Anapra neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, across the border from Sunland Park, New Mexico. Most Americans oppose funding President Donald Trump's wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. That’s according to a poll released Thursday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Ronald Vitiello: 130 miles of border won’t need wall

Homeland Security said Tuesday that at least 130 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border have enough natural barriers that there's no need to build a wall there — leaving most of the 1,954-mile divide as potential ground for a fence.

June 27, 2017
President Donald Trump applauds new Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch during a public swearing-in ceremony for Gorsuch in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on April 10, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Neil Gorsuch firmly on Supreme Court right

Newly minted Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch came out of the starting blocks quickly in his first months, firmly planting himself on the court's right along with Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. as defenders of religious freedom and skeptics of judicial meddling in the other two branches' work.

June 26, 2017
In this image provided by the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump poses with members of the Supreme Court, Thursday, June 15, 2017, at the court in Washington. From left are, Associate Justices Elena Kagan, Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Anthony Kennedy, Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr., the president, Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, Stephen G. Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor. (Fred Schilling/Supreme Court via AP) The Supreme Court held a special sitting on June 15, 2017, for the formal investiture ceremony of Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch. President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attended as guests of the Court. Members of the Supreme Court with the President in the Justices' Conference Room at a courtesy visit prior to the investiture ceremony.

Supreme Court revives Trump travel ban

The Supreme Court revived President Trump's extreme vetting travel ban Monday, ruling that much of it can go into effect -- and along the way delivering an implicit rebuke to the army of lower-court judges who blasted the president as anti-Muslim.

June 26, 2017