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Policy Illegality (Executive Watch)

Trump Strikes Venezuela, Picks Up President Maduro and His Wife to Stand Trial in New York, Without So Much as Notifying Congress
There is no dispute that Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro is a bad guy, a brutal dictator who has kept himself in power by overturning election…
 • Executive Watch
The Trump Administration Disses the Separation of Church and State This Christmas
There is a long tradition of the United States government releasing secular and non-sectarian messages for the Christmas season, carefully avoiding…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Illegally Renames Kennedy Center After Himself
After illegally renaming the U.S.
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s Dirty Tactic to Put Voter Rolls Under Federal Control in a Possible Bid to Disenfranchise Americans Who Don’t Vote MAGA
In Article I, Section 4, the Constitution gives state governments authority over federal elections, with a supervisory role for the U.S.
 • Executive Watch
Trump Illegally Tries to Pardon a Supporter Convicted of Tampering With Voting Machines Under State Law
Donald Trump has granted a pardon to Tina Peters, who was convicted of tampering with voting machines in an attempt to promote the lie that the 2020…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Is Now Detaining and Harassing Returning Americans Till They Submit to Warrantless Searches of Their Phones and Computers
It has always been the case that attempts to target the rights of immigrants end up providing a precedent and an excuse to violate the constitutional…
 • Executive Watch
Pete Hegseth's Illegal 'Kill Everyone' Order in the Caribbean Strikes Led to the Cold-Blooded Execution of Survivors
The Trump administration has been acting as if it expects never to experience any consequences, ever, for its abuses of executive power.
 • Robert Tracinski
Trump Openly Defies a Court Order by Refusing to Release SNAP Contingency Funds During the Government Shutdown
It’s an old game for the president to try to win a government shutdown fight by cutting off payments for whatever he doesn’t like, while mysteriously…
 • Robert Tracinski
Trump Is Just Murdering Random People in the Caribbean While Showing Utter Contempt for Basic Congressional Oversight
Donald Trump has imposed a reign of terror on the Caribbean by targeting supposed drug-smuggling boats, not for interdiction or arrest, but for deadly…
 • Robert Tracinski
Ignoring Congress, Trump Illegally and Unconstitutionally Diverts R&D Defense Funds to Pay Troops During the Shutdown
Donald Trump has used the shutdown as an experiment in whether he can refuse to negotiate with the legislature, pretend that the Congress doesn’t exist…
 • Robert Tracinski
Trump Hits Up a Rich Crony to Illegally Pay Troops During the Shutdown and Diss Congress
Rather than negotiating with Congress over continued government funding, Donald Trump is trying to run the government entirely without the authorization…
 • Robert Tracinski
Trump Demolishes the East Wing of the People's House Without Any Public Review to Build a Ballroom
The coverage of Donald Trump’s demolition of the East Wing of the White House has generally been vague and evasive about the legality of the actions.
 • Robert Tracinski
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