The G.O.P. congresswoman who ran as a moderate but became an “ultra MAGA” Trump acolyte ultimately found herself undermined by the president and politically adrift. Source: New York Times
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Coming Soon to a TV Near Trump: A G.O.P. Ad in N.Y. Governor’s Race
By Gotham Rex on December 18, 2025
Bruce Blakeman, an ally of President Trump, is buying ad time on Fox News in the West Palm Beach, Fla., market, where Mr. Trump may be watching. Source: New York Times
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump Jr. and More Conservative Figures Announce Their Engagements
By Gotham Rex on December 17, 2025
Several prominent conservative figures have announced that they are engaged this week, news often celebrated by President Trump. Source: New York Times
In Trump’s Justice Dept., Failing in Court Might Be Better Than Bucking the Boss
By Gotham Rex on December 12, 2025
Thursday demonstrated an emerging reality for President Trump: Commanding the Justice Department is not the same as controlling the justice system. Source: New York Times
Trump Commuted David Gentile’s Sentence. His Victims Are Seething.
By Gotham Rex on December 12, 2025
David Gentile spent just days in prison for his conviction in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors. Source: New York Times
A Grand Jury Again Resists Trump’s Push to Reindict Letitia James
By Gotham Rex on December 11, 2025
It was a striking rejection of the administration’s retribution campaign. Source: New York Times
Legal Groups Sue Justice Dept. for Secret Memo Justifying Boat Strikes
By Gotham Rex on December 9, 2025
“The public deserves to know how the Trump administration has justified the outright murder of civilians as lawful,” the organizations said in their lawsuit. Source: New York Times
Wrenching Pain, a Severe Infection: An ICE Detainee Is Ordered Released
By Gotham Rex on December 9, 2025
A judge blamed “deliberate indifference” for the illness of a man held by immigration officials. Across the country, several courts have blasted conditions in U.S. facilities. Source: New York Times
Bruce Blakeman Moves to Run for Governor of New York
By Gotham Rex on December 8, 2025
Mr. Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, would face a bitter Republican primary showdown with Representative Elise Stefanik. Source: New York Times
Grand Jury Said to Decline to Re-Indict Letitia James
By Gotham Rex on December 4, 2025
After a judge dismissed the Trump administration’s first attempt to indict the attorney general of New York State, a new grand jury effort failed, according to people familiar with the matter. Source: New York Times
Trump’s Pardon of Honduran Ex-President Erases Top Loyalist’s Triumph
By Gotham Rex on December 3, 2025
Emil Bove III’s work as a prosecutor, before he was a Trump lawyer and official, helped lead to the conviction of the former Honduran leader whom President Trump freed this week. Source: New York Times
Supreme Court Seems Skeptical of N.J. in Dispute Over Anti-Abortion Center Donor Records
By Gotham Rex on December 2, 2025
A majority of the justices appeared supportive of arguments by a crisis pregnancy center that it should be able to challenge a subpoena from the state’s attorney general in federal court. Source: New York Times
Trump Administration Fires 8 Immigration Judges in New York
By Gotham Rex on December 1, 2025
The firings, part of a nationwide effort, felt “like a Monday afternoon massacre,” said one judge who lost her job last month. Source: New York Times
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
By Gotham Rex on November 29, 2025
Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country. Source: New York Times
New York Sues Over Rule Barring Thousands of Immigrants From SNAP
By Gotham Rex on November 26, 2025
The Trump administration says refugees and asylum seekers can never get food stamps, but attorneys general from New York and nearly two dozen other states say that is unlawful. Source: New York Times