2018 Day 537: Trump nominated federal appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh to succeed Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court; Chuck Schumer said he "will oppose [Kavanaugh] with everything I've got"; Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins signaled their comfort with Kavanaugh; Trump said his sit-down with Putin will probably be easier than his meeting with NATO allies; and Democrats face long odds to take back the Senate with three Democratic senators poised to lose their seats to Republicans. Jul 10, 2018
2019 Day 902: Migrant children at an overcrowded detention facility in Arizona reported being sexually assaulted and face retaliation from agents for protesting; ICE started using three new for-profit immigration detention centers; a federal appeals court dismissed a emoluments lawsuit against Trump; and Trump's golf club will host a tournament put on by a Miami-area strip club. Jul 10, 2019
2020 Day 1268: The United States set another single-day record for coronavirus cases; Dr. Anthony Fauci last saw Trump in person at the White House on June 2 and hasn’t briefed Trump on the coronavirus in at least two months; the White House has pressured the FDA to reverse itself and grant a second emergency authorization for the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19; and Trump claimed that he "aced" a cognitive test and that the doctors "were very surprised" and called it "an unbelievable thing." Jul 10, 2020
2023 Day 902: The Biden administration will send cluster bombs to Ukraine, as well as armored vehicles and air defense missiles, in the next $800 million weapons package; a U.S. drone strike killed a top Islamic State group leader in Syria; a retired college football coach turned U.S. senator has single-handedly blocked hundreds of promotions for key military officers since February; the House Freedom Caucus removed Marjorie Taylor Greene from their pro-Trump group "for some of the things she's done"; a D.C. Court of Appeals discipline committee recommended that Rudy Giuliani be disbarred for “frivolous” and “destructive” efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election; and telecom companies have knowingly left behind more than 2,000 lead-covered cables that stretch across the U.S. Jul 10, 2023
2024 Day 1268: Nancy Pelosi urged Biden to make a decision about whether to stay in the presidential race, saying "time is running short"; Biden pledged to provide Ukraine with dozens of tactical air defense systems to counter Russian attacks; the Biden administration agreed to resume shipping 500-pound bombs to Israel after a two-month pause; and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a group of House progressives introduced articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito over their failure to disclose gifts they have received while serving on the court. Jul 10, 2024
2025 Day 1633: A federal judge blocked Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, approving a class-action lawsuit to sidestep a recent Supreme Court ruling that limited nationwide injunctions; a former Justice Department attorney accused Trump officials of ignoring federal court orders and pressuring lawyers to lie to judges during deportation cases; the FBI used polygraph tests to ask senior officials whether they’ve said anything negative about Director Kash Patel; a federal appeals court upheld a $5 million civil verdict against Trump for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll; and FEMA couldn’t deploy rescue teams to the Texas floods without Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s sign-off. Jul 10, 2025