Kevin Rector is a state and national politics reporter for the Los Angeles Times, which he joined in 2020 from the Baltimore Sun. He has previously covered police, courts and other legal affairs, and often writes about LGBTQ+ issues. Rector was part of a Sun team that won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in local reporting, and another named a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news reporting. He was part of a Times team that won the 2023 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress, and was named the 2025 “Journalist of the Year” by NLGJA: The Assn. of LGBTQ+ Journalists.
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Trump called the Supreme Court decision ‘very unfair,’ and said the new orders were an attempt to end birthright citizenship by other means.