Rep. Thomas Massie walked onto the House floor Monday and introduced eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. That means House leaders have two legislative days to vote on it, table it or refer it to committee. That clock runs out this week.

The articles center on war-making without Congress. Massie, a Kentucky Republican, accuses Hegseth of directing strikes in Iran, Yemen and Venezuela without congressional authorization under the War Powers Resolution of 1973. The list also includes extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean boat strikes targeting purported drug smugglers, and targeting Sen. Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat, over speech.

Axios says the vote could mark the first impeachment of a Cabinet secretary during the second Trump administration and signal what's to come when Democrats take control of Congress next year. But the math is tight. Republicans hold the House 218-214, so a handful of defections could carry it, CNBC reported. Whether leadership has a plan to handle the vote (and where the whip count actually sits) isn’t clear. Removal would still require a Senate conviction.

Massie’s stated motive is almost cynically practical: he lost his May primary, and he wants President Donald Trump to replace Hegseth now, before Democrats run the process themselves in January. Trump isn’t biting. He said he’ll ”stand by” Hegseth and called Massie a “stone cold loser.”

Hegseth called the effort a “sham” and will make that case in person Tuesday at a Pentagon press conference, his first since May 5. A sitting defense secretary defending himself against impeachment articles filed by his own party, six days after that party lost Congress. Ouch.

The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for border barrier construction to resume in Texas’s Big Bend Sector, staying a preliminary injunction out of El Paso while the litigation continues. Crews can build now, not after a verdict. In a fight over land you can’t un-bulldoze, that’s pretty important.

The order was unsigned and ran five pages. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone noted dissent and didn’t write separately. The reasoning is jurisdictional. Under Section 102 of the 1996 IIRIRA, district courts may hear only constitutional claims arising from the homeland security secretary’s waiver of environmental and conservation laws. Plaintiffs styled their challenge as a major-questions claim. The court said that’s a statutory argument in a costume: “There is no such thing as a ‘constitutional’ major-questions claim.” So the judge likely lacked jurisdiction to issue the injunction at all.

The plaintiffs are the Center for Biological Diversity, a river guide and a group working to preserve a historic church in Ruidosa, Texas—dand the project has drawn bipartisan local opposition. What's actually going up is murkier. The Guardian describes more than 300 miles of 6-foot vehicle barriers and roads, NPR describes 30-foot steel barriers, and Fox News reports a 17-mile barrier, while ABC News said park plans were scaled back after public outcry.

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Tyler Robinson, the 23-year-old accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk, now has a date. Utah District Court Judge Tony Graf ruled Monday that jury selection will begin June 21, 2028, in Provo, with Graf reserving 105 court days for the proceedings. That’s nearly three years after the Sept. 10, 2025, shooting at Utah Valley University.

The date is a split decision, and nobody got what they asked for. Attorneys for Erika Kirk pushed for a trial no later than Oct. 4, 2027. Prosecutors floated Jan. 31, 2028. The defense wanted to wait until the third quarter of 2029, pointing to roughly 8 million digital artifacts and 3.3 terabytes of discovery it has to work through. Graf landed in the middle and cited the Sixth Amendment rights of both Robinson and Erika Kirk in doing so.

The Kirk family called the ruling “deeply disappointing.” Robinson has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder and related counts, including witness tampering and obstruction. Prosecutors may still seek the death penalty.