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Claims that Barack Obama’s birth certificate was “fake” are long-standing and have been repeatedly investigated; Hawaii state officials and multiple fact-checkers have affirmed that the original recor...
Donald Trump’s most controversial pardons clustered around three themes: clemency for January 6 defendants and allies who sought to overturn the 2020 election; pardons for political allies, donors, an...
Courts repeatedly rejected challenges to Barack Obama’s eligibility and birth-certificate claims; the Hawaii Department of Health and multiple courts treated the state birth record as the authoritativ...
The judicial outcome of the high-profile challenges to Barack Obama’s birth certificate was consistent and definitive: courts dismissed the claims for lack of legal standing and on procedural grounds,...
Birther proponents argued Obama’s birth certificate was fake using alleged discrepancies in the Hawaii “certificate of live birth” and later the White House long-form image, and pointed to alternative...
Official records and repeated fact-checks have concluded Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and that claims his birth certificate was forged have been thoroughly debunked; Hawaii officials and major fact...
The federal government has used programs like 287(g) to deputize local officers, but courts, the Department of Justice, and local leaders have pushed back, generating legal settlements, policy withdra...
A precise, single-number answer cannot be produced from the available reporting because no source in the provided set publishes an authoritative tally that classifies every clemency recipient as a fam...
Legal challenges to state or federal efforts to ban, limit, or condition participation in the 287(g) immigration-deputization program have come from multiple directions—civil-rights litigation and fed...
Arizona law enforcement practices vary: Pinal County deputies have been stopping drivers for minor equipment violations and those stops have led to deportation proceedings in multiple cases, with 41 f...
Multiple official documents and repeated investigations confirm Barack Obama was born in Hawaii: the Obama campaign posted a Hawaii "certification of live birth" in June 2008 and the White House relea...
Donald Trump’s most controversial pardons centered on three clusters: high-profile law-enforcement and political allies (Joe Arpaio and similar figures), wealthy businessmen and donors (including tax-...