Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion. His own Justice Department settled the case with $1.776 billion in public money, no independent oversight, and no public eligibility criteria — then handed his administration the keys to decide who qualifies.
A Guardian US analysis documents what critics call a deliberate pattern: the Trump administration is not contesting court orders through legal channels — it is simply ignoring them. The people paying the price are sitting in detention facilities, waiting for bond hearings a federal judge already ord
Pete Hegseth told Congress the White House doesn't need war authorization for Iran. What he described is the effective abolition of Article I's war powers clause — stated plainly, in a congressional hearing, with no apparent consequence.
The Trump administration's move to reclassify marijuana as Schedule III is real policy — but it frees no one, reviews no sentence, and arrives precisely when the administration needs a news cycle that looks like reform without requiring any of its difficult work.
Trump admits he won't call Iran a 'war' because Congress would need to approve it — exposing how executive power has rendered constitutional checks meaningless.
Peter Ticktin, an 80-year-old Florida lawyer with Trump's ear, is pushing an emergency executive order to ban all voting machines and mail ballots — a plan that would disenfranchise millions and that legal experts say exceeds any president's constitutional authority.
Trump's 2 AM declaration of 'absolute right' to override the Supreme Court on tariffs reveals his blueprint for undermining judicial independence ahead of the 2028 election.