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Policy Illegality (Executive Watch)

Trump's Unlawful Campaign to Revoke Visas of International Students for Minor Offenses Is Designed to Spread Fear
As part of its assault on Harvard, the Trump administration has threatened to revoke the university's ability to sponsor international students, using…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump’s FCC Head Threatens to Revoke Comcast's Licenses Over Unfavorable Coverage of Abrego Garcia's Deportation to Salvadoran Gulag
The Trump administration has criticized NBC News and MSNBC for failing to provide sympathetic coverage of his arbitrary and lawless banishment and…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Administration's Campaign of Retribution Threatens Scientific Journals Not on Board with MAGA Science
The Trump administration’s campaign to bring universities to heel is now followed by legal threats against scientific journals, issued by interim U.S.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Threatens to Send U.S. Citizens to El Salvador's Gulag
Since he has gotten away (so far) with disappearing immigrants to a prison in El Salvador, Donald Trump is taking the next logical step: making plans to…
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Robert Tracinski
The Trump Administration Is Openly Defying the Supreme Court's Order to Bring Home Abrego Garcia After Erroneously Deporting Him to a…
The Trump administration illegally deported an innocent man to a brutal prison in El Salvador.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Abuses 'Emergency' Power to Set Tariffs by Autocratic Whim
How is that the Constitution gives the president the power to raise and lower tariffs and then make special exceptions and change the trade rules daily…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Threatens to Send U.S. Citizens who Protest to the Salvadoran Gulag
Donald Trump is now combining multiple strains of executive abuse.
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Robert Tracinski
The Trump Administration Defies Judge Demanding Basic Details about Those it Is Deporting
In addition to defying a federal judge’s order to stop the deportation of alleged gang members, Department of Justice lawyers are now refusing to…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Asserts Illegal Wartime Powers to Deport Immigrants in Defiance of the Court
The Trump administration has invoked, in peacetime, wartime powers last used to unjustly intern Japanese-Americans during World War II, to advance its…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Revokes the Green Card of a Pro-Palestinian Campus Activist Without Any Criminal Charges
Donald Trump vowed to crack down on campus protests and specifically to deport foreign students.
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Robert Tracinski
Musk Usurps the Power of the Purse from Congress but Republicans Can Apply for Relief from Funding Cuts
The Constitution gives Congress the “power of the purse,” the ability to set government spending.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Punishes AP for Exercising Its Free Speech Rights
Donald Trump seems to think executive orders are binding, not merely on federal workers who report to him, but on literally everyone.
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Robert Tracinski
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