Retired admiral Michael Smith called Trump's Iran threats 'likely war crimes.' The harder question — whether active-duty commanders will follow or refuse an unlawful order — is one the military's civilian leadership has spent months making more dangerous to answer.
A broken federal database was supposed to tell families where detained immigrants are held. Thirty-six lawmakers say it has become a mechanism for making people disappear — and they want to know if that's by design.
The UN Security Council voted 11-2 on reopening the Strait of Hormuz. China and Russia vetoed. While Trump threatens to destroy a civilization, China offers itself as the stable alternative.
Florida's new domestic terror designation law gives the governor unilateral power to label organizations and remove university students who support them — no federal oversight, no judicial review, no defined evidentiary standard.
Internal agency data reviewed by Reuters shows the TSA shared 31,000 traveler records with ICE, producing 800+ arrests — with no public disclosure, no congressional mandate, and no notification to the people whose data was shared.
The 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship and equal protection under the law. A Supreme Court case could eliminate citizenship for millions of Americans born to undocumented parents.
Young male voters were the surprise engine of Trump's 2024 victory. Eighteen months later, the Iran war and $4 gas are doing what Democrats couldn't: making them reconsider.
ICE has doubled its use of ankle monitors on asylum seekers in the past year, forcing electronic shackles on people who attended every check-in and followed every rule.
The U.S. embassy in Mexico deployed AI-generated corridos urging migrants to 'self-deport,' revealing how artificial intelligence enables new forms of state propaganda through cultural manipulation.
The Supreme Court could eliminate mail ballot grace periods used by 3.2 million voters in 2020, forcing states to reject ballots delayed by postal service failures beyond voters' control.
Democracy scholars find the US system has stopped declining but remains stuck at diminished levels established under Trump — the crisis has become the new normal.
The Trump DOJ wants to exempt federal prosecutors from state bar discipline, creating a class of government lawyers who operate outside the ethical rules that constrain every other attorney in America.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth struck four Army colonels from general officer promotions — all Black or female — after months of pressing Army leadership to remove their names.
A class action lawsuit reveals how the Justice Department exposed Epstein survivors' personal information in federal files, with Google's algorithms amplifying the breach and enabling harassment of victims.
House and Senate ethics committees provide no financial disclosure guidance for prediction market trading, creating a regulatory gap as lawmakers potentially profit from information unavailable to the public.
A DOJ memo reveals Trump kept classified documents only six government officials could access, plus materials prosecutors believed were tied to his business interests.