Trump is making real the words of OMB director Russell Vought, who said “we are living in a post-Constitutional time.” No sooner did Donald Trump take the oath of office than he immediately took a wrecking ball to government agencies and programs that protect nearly every aspect of Americans’ lives. States, public interest organizations, schools,… Read more »
Unlawful deportation or transfer of a population constitutes both a war crime and a crime against humanity. Donald Trump’s outrageous plan to remove the Palestinian people from Gaza, assume U.S. ownership of the Gaza Strip and make it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” reveals his intent to commit a war crime and a… Read more »
Executive orders Trump issued in his first days in office violate both the Constitution and several US laws. Pandering to his nativist base, Donald Trump made the central pledge of his 2024 presidential campaign a threat to “carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” On January 20, 2025, he began to fulfill that promise…. Read more »
Trump’s appeal will decide how the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling applies to his hush money case. Donald Trump has always maintained that the laws don’t apply to him. But he failed to convince New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan to delay sentencing him this month following the May 2024 jury verdict finding him… Read more »
Trump is claiming total executive power that would eclipse the legislative “co-equal” branch of government. In the weeks since the presidential election, president-elect Donald Trump and his allies have made a series of moves that indicate their intent to dangerously consolidate executive power under the controversial “unitary executive” theory of the Constitution. During the presidential… Read more »
The Hague Invasion Act authorizes the military to forcibly extract US and allied nationals if arrested for war crimes. The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) stunning issuance of arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity is a major game changer. After years of impunity,… Read more »
“The next time, I’m not waiting” before committing troops to suppress protests, Trump said at a rally in 2023. Employing federal troops to suppress domestic protests and deport immigrants from U.S. soil en masse would be illegal, but Donald Trump has been pushing to do so since his first administration. The recent Supreme Court decision… Read more »
After refusing to call for an arms embargo, Harris lost to Trump, to the delight of Israel’s right-wing leaders. Israel’s right-wing regime is gleeful about Donald Trump’s impending return to power in the United States. Various Israeli officials have hailed Trump’s victory since Tuesday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it “history’s greatest comeback.” His new defense minister,… Read more »
New rules in Georgia are worrisome but safeguards prevent rogue election officials from refusing to certify the results. After the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and his allies denied that Joe Biden had won. To this day, election deniers refuse to accept that Trump lost the election. Efforts to thwart Biden from becoming president, including the Trump-inspired… Read more »
Biden and Harris favor term limits and an ethical code for the Supreme Court and elimination of presidential immunity. The infamous 920-page Project 2025, which provides a blueprint for a radical right-wing agenda under a second Donald Trump presidency, doesn’t recommend any reforms to the Supreme Court — and for good reason. The conservative extremists who… Read more »