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Trump's DOJ Sues the Entire Maryland Federal Appeals Court After it Stopped His Lawless Deportations
Facing a series of losses in the courts, Donald Trump is putting the judges themselves on trial.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump's Personal Lawyer in the DOJ Now Up for Judgeship Actively Plotted to Disobey and Defy Court Orders Barring Lawless Deportations
Donald Trump appointed his personal lawyer Emil Bove to a top position in the Department of Justice and has now nominated him to be a federal appeals…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Deliberately Keeps Congressional Democrats in the Dark Before Military Strikes on Iran
There is controversy over whether the recent airstrikes on Iran exceed the president’s constitutional authority. On the one hand, Congress has not…
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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
Trump Abuses FTC's Powers to Force Advertisers to Support Right-Wing Media Against Their Own Conscience
Having fired all the Democrats at the Federal Trade Commission, Donald Trump is now abusing its power to block or approve mergers in order to demand…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Trashes America's Bedrock Commitment to an Apolitical Military and Demands Only MAGA-Supporting Troops at His Speech
Donald Trump recently gave a speech dripping with partisan rancor—denouncing opposition politicians and the media—in front of soldiers at Fort Bragg, an…
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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
Donald Trump Commandeers the California National Guard to Suppress Protests Against ICE Deportation Raids
In response to relatively small protests in Los Angeles over the police state tactics of immigration enforcement, Donald Trump immediately issued an…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Prevents Congressmen from Performing Their Oversight Function by Denying them Access to ICE Detention Centers
Under Trump’s direction, ICE is increasingly acting as a law unto itself, particularly with the recent arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka who accompanied…
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Robert Tracinski
Trump Threatens to Scrap Columbia's Accreditation After the University Capitulated to His Previous Demands to Fight Campus Antisemitism
Columbia University led the way in caving in when Donald Trump began threatening it with the loss of government funds.
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Robert Tracinski
The Administration Suspends Visa Interviews of Foreign Students Pending Vetting Rules of Their Social Media Posts to Ensure Ideological…
Donald Trump’s war on Harvard—most recently, canceling $100 million of contracts—includes trying to ban it from sponsoring international students.
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Robert Tracinski
Trump's Pardon Czar Hands a 'MAGA Pardon' to a Corrupt Sheriff Convicted for Bribery
The Framers of the Constitution gave the president the pardon power to correct injustices.
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Robert Tracinski
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