Judges continue to find ways to thwart President Trump, even with the Supreme Court blocking nationwide injunctions.

District Judge Brian M. Cogan blocked the administration from removing Temporary Protected Status (tps) for the 500,000 Haitians living in the U.S. After the Haitian earthquake in 2010, they were granted this status so they wouldn’t be deported to a literal disaster zone. The Department of Homeland Security planned to hasten the expiration date of this status from February 2026 to August 2025. The judge, however, argued that the decision violated the Administrative Procedure Act.

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“This is judicial activism, plain and simple,” wrote PJ Media. “The law gives the executive branch the authority to determine when tps is warranted and when it’s not. It doesn’t say that once a date is set, it’s set in stone, immune from any reassessment or policy shift. … This ruling is a warning shot. It shows just how difficult it will be to restore order to our immigration system when activist judges stand ready to block any effort to enforce the law.”

The Trump administration cannot bar foreigners who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally from seeking asylum, a federal judge ruled yesterday. One of President Trump’s first acts after taking office was to declare an invasion along the southern border. Among other things, the order effectively bars migrants from claiming asylum. The judge ruled that the president exceeded his authority in doing so. He delayed enforcement by 14 days to give the Trump administration time to appeal.

On a more local level, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court struck down the state’s 1849 abortion ban yesterday. Roe v. Wade suspended the ban in 1973, but when that was overturned, the original law returned to force. The court ruled that the legislature had “impliedly repealed” the law when it passed laws that regulated details of abortion.

Justice Annette Ziegler called the majority ruling “a jaw-dropping exercise of judicial will” in her dissent. “Put bluntly,” she wrote, “our court has no business usurping the role of the legislature, inventing legal theories on the fly in order to make four justices’ personal preference the law.” Justice Rebecca Bradley wrote: “Laden with emotion, steeped in myth, and light on the law, the concurrence reads as a parody of progressive politics rather than the opinion of a jurist.”

President Trump received a lot of help from the Supreme Court last week, but clearly judges will continue to try to thwart him. Trumpet executive editor Stephen Flurry’s Trumpet Brief from last night has more.

The U.S. House of Representatives set a new record for the longest ever house vote as they tried to pass the “big, beautiful spending bill” before July 4. The procedural vote finally passed after 7 hours and 24 minutes after Republican leaders persuaded reluctant party members to back it.

But this vote merely sets up the terms of the debate—it doesn’t pass the bill itself. The House will be voting on that today. Six Republicans have voted against it, enough to block its passage. Another eight haven’t yet voted either way. If three Republicans join the Democrats in opposing the bill, it will fail, so they have a very tight margin to work with. As Trumpet managing editor Joel Hilliker wrote yesterday: “We shall see what happens in this high-stakes game of chicken. Whatever the outcome, the promises of fiscal responsibility truly have died.”

Our main story today breaks down the spending in the bill and gives the Bible’s perspective on all this debt.

Iran has suspended cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, President Masoud Pezeshkian announced yesterday. It had already barred iaea Director General Rafael Grossi from visiting nuclear sites and removed surveillance cameras.

Meanwhile, a Department of Defense spokesman said strikes on Iran had pushed back Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon “by one to two years … probably closer to two years.”

“As impressive as Israel’s accomplishments have been, and as much as one may wish to see the demise of this violent, oppressive regime, somehow Iran is going to preserve its considerable power—as well as its extremist temperament and aspirations,” Mr. Hilliker wrote in our latest Trumpet issue. “Watch what happens. In the end, the way America handles Iran will be a powerful lesson in the danger of failing to deal completely with evil.”

Already the Iranian regime is continuing to push toward a bomb with more secrecy than before. Watch for the latest issue to learn what Bible prophecy says about the future of the regime.

IN OTHER NEWS

Germany will begin patrolling the Arctic Ocean, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced on Monday. It will be the first time a German ship has visited Greenland since World War II. Operation Atlantic Bear is designed to counter Russia, but the historic visit comes after President Trump has talked about taking Greenland. Our In Brief puts this in context with all the other historic steps the German military is taking.

Germany plans to establish a cyber research center with Israel and deepen cybersecurity and intelligence collaboration between the two nations, German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Sunday. Short of allies, Israel is grateful for any help it can get—but trusting Germany will prove to be a big mistake.

China is still helping Russia get around Western sanctions, the New York Times reported yesterday. Russia now gets 80 percent of the components used in its weapons from China, a tangible sign of a prophesied alliance.

Another object from outside the solar system has been spotted, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb announced yesterday. Estimated to be 12 miles wide, A11pl3Z is the largest of the three objects we’ve seen traveling in from outside the solar system. Traveling at 41 miles per second, it will come closest to Earth in December, though it’s in no danger of hitting the planet.