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Policy Illegality (Executive Watch)

South Korea Accuses the Trump Administration of Abusing the Human Rights of its Workers Detained by ICE
Donald Trump’s lawless mass deportation campaign is turning America into the kind of “Third World” country foreigners from “First World” nations fear to…
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Robert Tracinski
Attorney General Pam Bondi Threatens to Go After Critics by Deploying Non-Existent 'Hate Speech' Laws
As part of the administration’s attempt to use the shooting of Charlie Kirk as a pretext to suppress dissent, Attorney General Pam Bondi threatened to…
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Robert Tracinski
The Trump Administration Announces It Is Plotting a Broad Crackdown on Those Who Criticize the Right
Exploiting the shooting of Charlie Kirk by a gunman whose motives are still unclear and incoherent, the Trump administration is now announcing that they…
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Robert Tracinski
The Anti-War President Blows Up 11 People in the Caribbean in Violation of International Law and Without Congressional Authorization
Donald Trump recently boasted about a U.S.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump's Edict Banning Flag Burning Is Performative and Illegal But that Doesn't Mean it Can't be Used to Harass Americans
No law in the United States bans burning the American flag.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump's Unconstitutional Demand to Chipmakers to Fork Over Profits to Uncle Sam in Exchange for an Export License
After intimidating Intel into selling the government a significant ownership share, Donald Trump went on to shake down two other chipmakers for illegal…
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Robert Tracinski
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
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