🎙️ Boulder County sued Suncor and ExxonMobil in 2018. The Supreme Court opened its term with that case, and the justices haven’t ruled. The Tenth, Amendment’s weekly state legislature podcast, also covers bills in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Michigan.

A New Jersey Assembly committee hears a bill Thursday that would raise the maximum ban for assaulting a transit employee from one year to five. It would also let a barred person petition to reduce or end the ban for good cause, but only after three years.

A federal judge ruled in March that the White House ballroom could proceed only with Congress’s approval, and in May the Senate parliamentarian struck ballroom security money from a spending package. Senate Republicans then dropped the money.

ProPublica counts 506 U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents since Trump returned to office, including at least 70 children and teens, and says that’s likely an undercount. DHS says: “DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake.”

Speaker Johnson sent the House home early for a seven-week campaign recess, which pushes a forced vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Hegseth until after the November elections. Johnson calls Rep. Thomas Massie’s effort a “publicity stunt” and says the timing has nothing to do with Hegseth.

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H.R. 9694 would let state attorneys general, Epstein victims and members of Congress sue DOJ for failing to comply with the original Epstein files law.

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a temporary general license allowing Russian diesel imports. This petition asks Congress to reinstate the sanctions.

Treasury has waived sanctions on Russian diesel through April. This petition asks Congress to block the waiver.

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Usually when folks include these words they’re directed at their elected officials which is unproductive at best and criminal at worst. I didn’t block it, just a warning so you can be the judge, and I think it makes sense to keep it!

🧵 Two House Republicans want to ban U.S. diesel exports when pump prices get high enough. Reps. Tim Burchett and Clay Fuller introduced the Diesel Price Reduction Act of 2026 (HR10422) on Sept. 16.

Congress lifted a 20-year ban on mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters this spring, opening about 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest to new mineral leasing. Every House seat is on the 2026 ballot, and permanent protection for public lands is fair to ask of candidates who want your vote.

CNN reports the Kennedy Center is tapping outside consultant Rick Canny as executive artistic director to help lead programming when the theater reopens. Trump chairs its board.

Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican, filed articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Iran war. Then House leaders sent members home early, and with no session until November, Rep. Ansari’s H.Res. 1177 sits in Judiciary.

The candidates on your ballot next month can answer one question before Election Day. Will you vote for a stock ban that stands alone?

New Jersey’s Assembly Education Committee hears a bill Thursday that would give every enrolled child under five a free book each month. It would put $2 million behind a state Imagination Library program, with local affiliates recruited to help reach kids.

Congress has passed no comprehensive AI law, and NPR reports the House left town in mid-September until after the November election. More than 2,300 petitioners urge Congress to regulate AI development now.

Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) returned to the House floor on June 30 after a nearly four-month absence. More than 3,000 petitioners want Congress to address extended absences and incapacity, which the Congressional Research Service says have no defined process for sitting members.

The Senate voted 51-48 in March to take up the SAVE America Act, and the bill has since stalled while Trump has pressed Thune to pass it. More than 3,100 petitioners say the original SAVE Act would destroy the right to vote for millions, and they want Congress to kill it.