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 DOJ served grand jury subpoenas on Wall Street Journal reporters over coverage of the Iran war. The target isn't a leaker — it's the press freedom to report on a war Congress never authorized.
DHS has sued the Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces to seize 14 acres at the base of Mount Cristo Rey — a sacred pilgrimage site visited by 40,000 faithful annually — for border wall construction. The party that spent decades wielding religious freedom as a political weapon is now using eminent domain a
The FBI reviewed an anonymous tip accusing Mahmoud Khalil of calling for violence — and closed the probe within days, finding it did not warrant investigation. ICE arrested him two days later. The administration kept calling him a threat.
Trump told reporters Tuesday that the financial situations of Americans motivate him 'not even a little bit' during Iran negotiations — an admission that directly contradicts the economic justifications his administration has offered for the conflict.
The Justice Department's intervention in xAI's lawsuit against Colorado isn't primarily a constitutional event. It's a market-shaping one — and the beneficiaries are exactly who you'd expect.
Virginia's Supreme Court struck down a Democratic redistricting map, erasing four expected House flips before a single ballot is cast. The ruling is the latest in a decade-long Republican project to lock in legislative majorities through courts — not campaigns.
The White House is invoking a 1950 Cold War statute to fund petroleum refining, coal plants, and gas pipelines — using the Iran war as legal cover for a fossil fuel expansion that environmental review would otherwise slow. The emergency ends. The infrastructure doesn't.
The DOJ's push to reinstate firing squad executions isn't a logistical workaround for drug shortages. It's a deliberate choice to make state killing more visible — and to normalize the idea that government violence should look like punishment.
The Florida legislature fast-tracked a new congressional map that would give Republicans a 24-4 House advantage. The legal mechanism that made it viable was built by the Supreme Court — and every Republican statehouse in the country is watching.
Nine justices were hearing the appeal that the Trump administration has the authority to strip TPS of immigrants The US supreme court heard oral arguments on Wednesday over whether the Trump administration can strip the temporary protected status (TPS) of hundreds of thousands of immigrant Haitians
The Fifth Circuit's 9-8 ruling allowing Ten Commandments displays in Texas classrooms wasn't a legal argument that won — it was a judicial majority that was built. Trump's appellate appointments made this outcome possible.
The U.S. has fired nearly its entire stockpile of long-range stealth cruise missiles in the Iran war. The Pentagon's two-war doctrine — the strategic foundation of American alliance commitments in the Pacific — is now a posture without the weapons to execute it.
Gerrymandering lets politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around. Here's how the system works, which states are most affected, and what's being done to stop it.
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.
Former USAID official Nicholas Enrich watched the Trump administration and DOGE dismantle two decades of global health infrastructure. His eyewitness account documents not waste elimination, but the deliberate destruction of systems — from PEPFAR supply chains to disease surveillance networks — whos