Having prevailed in mid-July on party-line congressional votes to slash foreign assistance and zero-out public broadcasting, senior Trump administration officials immediately signaled intent to ...

Supreme Court Associate Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas at the inauguration in Washington on Jan. 20. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images ...

Even Clarence Thomas agreed these kinds of Trump money moves are illegal Head Start programs serve 800,000 children from low-income families nationwide.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh granted a stay, but fellow conservatives Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch would have denied the application.

Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch said they would have denied a request to pause a lower-court ruling in a case involving the Voting Rights Act, breaking with ...