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Policy Illegality (Executive Watch)

The 'Alligator Alcatraz' Immigrant Detainment Facility Set Up by Trump and DeSantis Is Operating Like a Black Site Free From Any Oversight…
There are new stories of detainees being abused in ICE detention, as well as at least one minor being held at an adult detention camp in Florida called…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump's DOJ Went From Targeting Universities With Ideologically-Driven Investigations to Now Also Targeting Professors Who Support Their…
The Trump administration has been threatening universities, imposing government overseers on them, and forcing the resignation of their presidents.
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Robert Tracinski
Immigrants Condemned by Trump to a 'Hell on Earth' Prison in El Salvador Describe the Torture Inflicted On Them There
The Trump administration branded immigrants who committed no crimes as “the worst of the worst” and deported them to a prison in El Salvador, where its…
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Robert Tracinski
The Trump Administration Has Directed FEMA to Use Half a Billion Dollars to Build Concentration Camps for Immigrants Across the United…
Some of us are old enough to remember a favorite conspiracy theory on the far right which held that the real purpose of FEMA was to build concentration…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Is Preparing to Illegally Fire the Fed Chair For Refusing to Mess with Interest Rates to Goose Economic Growth
When the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump could arbitrarily fire board members of regulatory agencies, invalidating laws passed by Congress to…
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Robert Tracinski
Whistleblower Details How Trump's DOJ Tried to Fraudulently Frame Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a Gang Member
Department of Justice whistleblower Erez Reuveni has already revealed how Trump official Emil Bove gave instructions to ignore the courts. New emails…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Is Failing to Enforce Congress's Ban on TikTok, Claiming King-Like Powers to Suspend Laws He Does Not Like
Donald Trump’s refusal to enforce the TikTok ban turns out to be about an issue much bigger than what happens to TikTok.
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Robert Tracinski
The Department of Education Illegally Withholds Congressionally Allocated Funds to Humor Trump—Again
Who controls the purse strings of the federal government?
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Robert Tracinski
Donald Trump Once Again Violates the Law Banning TikTok for His Own Political Benefit
One of Donald Trump’s first acts in office was to declare that he would not enforce a law banning the Chinese-government-controlled social media network…
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Robert Tracinski
ICE Illegally Refuses to Allow Congressional Oversight of its Detention Centers
Using its power of the purse, Congress passed a bipartisan law last year that makes funding for immigration enforcement conditional on allowing…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Uses the Vast Authority Granted to Him by the Supreme Court to Once Again Issue a Travel Ban and Abuse His Immigration Powers
Donald Trump has a genius for finding weaknesses in the American system.
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Robert Tracinski
The Administration Unconstitutionally Tries to Usurp Congress' Power of Purse by Illegally Freezing Mandated Federal Spending
From the beginning, DOGE has been less about cutting spending than seizing the “power of the purse” away from Congress and giving control over federal…
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Robert Tracinski
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