2018 Day 523: The Supreme Court upheld the third iteration of Trump's travel ban and ruled that "crisis pregnancy centers" don't have to provide women with information about the availability of abortions; Mueller's team plans to produce conclusions and possible indictments related to the Trump-Russia investigation by fall; and 17 states sued the Trump administration to force officials to reunite migrant families. Jun 26, 2018
2019 Day 888: Robert Mueller agreed to testify in July; Trump attacked Mueller and – without evidence – accused him of committing a crime; the House Oversight Committee authorized a subpoena for Kellyanne Conway; the House approved a $4.5 billion aid package for the southwestern border; and Trump complained that congressional Democrats "won't do anything at all about border security" hours after the House passed the aid package. Jun 26, 2019
2020 Day 1254: The United States set a daily record for new COVID-19 cases for the third time in three days; the White House coronavirus task force held its first briefing in two months; the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to invalidate the Affordable Care Act as the U.S. has recorded more than 120,000 deaths from COVID-19, with nearly 2.5 million confirmed cases; Trump canceled his planned trip to his private golf club in Bedminster, N.J., claiming it “had nothing to do" with a state order mandating a 14-day quarantine for visitors who have been in states with increasing numbers of coronavirus cases; and 58% of Americans disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president – an all-time high. Jun 26, 2020
2023 Day 888: The Supreme Court dismissed Louisiana’s effort to block the creation of a second Black-majority congressional district; roughly half a dozen Secret Service agents have testified before the grand jury investigating Trump's role in the Jan. 6 insurrection; the Biden administration announced $42.5 billion in new federal funding to expand high-speed internet access to every American household by 2030; the Supreme Court rejected a Republican effort to block the Biden administration's immigration policies; Biden said the U.S. and its allies had “nothing to do with” a mercenary group’s brief uprising against Putin; Trump received the Oakland County Republican Party’s “Man of the Decade” award; and Justice Samuel Alito appears to have violated federal ethics laws by failing to disclose a luxury fishing trip to Alaska in 2008 with a Republican billionaire who later had cases before the Supreme Court. Jun 26, 2023
2024 Day 1254: The Supreme Court accidentally posted its draft decision to temporarily allow medical emergency abortions in Idaho on its website; the Supreme Court rejected a Republican challenge that claimed the Biden administration unlawfully coerced social media companies into removing content; Biden pardoned thousands of U.S. veterans convicted between the 1950s and 2013 of violating the military’s ban on gay sex; Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republican leaders voted to file a legal brief in support of Steve Bannon’s appeal of his conviction for defying a congressional subpoena related to the Jan. 6 attack; and Trump is leading in 5 of the 7 battleground states most likely to determine the outcome of the election. Jun 26, 2024
2025 Day 1619: The Senate parliamentarian ruled that key Medicaid cuts in Trump’s tax and spending bill violate Senate budget rules, forcing Republicans to drop or rewrite large portions of their plan if they want it to pass under reconciliation; the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that Medicaid patients can’t sue states for cutting Planned Parenthood from Medicaid; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attacked the media for reporting on a leaked Defense Intelligence Agency assessment that said U.S. airstrikes only delayed Iran’s nuclear program by months; the Trump administration sued all 15 federal judges in Maryland, calling their order blocking fast-track deportations “unlawful” and “antidemocratic”; ICE plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a third country, even after a federal judge ordered his release from jail; Trump nearly won the Latino vote in 2024; and higher voter turnout would have helped Trump, not Harris. Jun 26, 2025