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California was dealt another blow in a lawsuit over gender secrecy policies in schools when a federal judge ordered the state this week to pay the plaintiffs in the case $4.5 million in taxpayer-funded legal fees.Judge Roger Benitez, an appointee of President George W. Bush, scolded state lawyers in his order for what he said was an "unusual" spree of court motions that forced the parents and teachers who brought […]

More than a dozen Democratic-led states are accusing the Trump administration of violating a federal court order by sharing Medicaid data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, asking a judge to enforce the ruling.The states’ complaint asks the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to enforce its existing injunction blocking HHS from sharing Medicaid data with ICE. "The Trump Administration appears to be defying a direct court order blocking […]

New York House Republicans are ramping up a pressure campaign against Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., citing her failure to combat rising utility costs in the Empire State.The group of lawmakers, led by Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., is calling on Hochul to scrap the state’s 2019 climate law that they blame for "skyrocketing" energy prices."Utility bills are at the center of the affordability crisis with New York," the lawmakers wrote in […]

A week after President Donald Trump urged Sydney Gruters to run for an open GOP-held congressional seat in Florida, the former executive director of the state's New College Foundation and wife of Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Joe Gruters declared her candidacy."As a working mother of three, I see firsthand how much pressure rising prices are putting on families across Southwest Florida," Sydney Gruters said as she launched her campaign […]