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Policy Illegality (Executive Watch)

Trump's Authoritarianism Comes for the Free Market and Imposes Price Controls on Pharmaceuticals
Some of Trump’s supporters have been seduced by the prospect of “free-market authoritarianism.” They imagine he’ll use his power against woke colleges…
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Robert Tracinski
Stephen Miller Peddles Dangerous Falsehoods that the Executive Has Sweeping Authority to Suspend Habeas Corpus and Defy Courts on…
Top Trump advisor Stephen Miller has openly threatened to suspend habeas corpus, the Constitution’s main protection against arbitrary arrest.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign Comes After American Children
The Washington Post provides an overview of U.S.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump FBI Arrests a State Judge for Allegedly Defying the Immigration Police State
Referring to the “Trump FBI” is itself a problem, since the agency is supposed to enjoy independence from presidential meddling.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Wants to Send Undocumented Aliens to the Salvadoran Gulag Without a Hearing
The right to due process and a trial is guaranteed in the Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendments to our Constitution.
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Robert Tracinski
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 Defies Congress and Eliminates a Website Requiring him to Show that he Was Spending Appropriations as Intended
If Donald Trump were really concerned with government “efficiency,” you would think he would be eager to demonstrate his transparency about funding.
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Robert Tracinski
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