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Power Consolidation (Executive Watch)

The Trump White House Seriously Weighed Suspending Habeas Corpus and Invoking the Insurrection Act
Newly disclosed internal memoranda show that during the early months of his second term, Trump’s White House gave serious consideration to two of the…
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s FBI Raids an Ohio Voter Registration Group in Its Latest Bid to Suppress the Vote
With the midterms approaching in a key swing state, the FBI has raided the offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative—a pro-democracy coalition that…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Rewards His Personal Lawyer and Toady, Todd Blanche, With AG Nomination
Todd Blanche, Trump’s personal lawyer, has built his reputation as someone willing to do anything Donald Trump wants, no matter how absurd, unethical…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Is Screening Troops by Weight and Appearance to Serve as Photogenic Backdrop at His White House UFC Event
The Pentagon is recruiting hundreds of uniformed servicemembers to fill seats at—please bear in mind that this is still a very weird sentence to type…
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s New DHS Secretary Threatens to Halt International Flight Processing at Blue City Airports as Punishment for Allowing Anti-ICE…
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced he is “drawing up plans” to end the processing of international flights at airports in…
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s Unprecedented Government-Wide Gag Order Is Designed to Silence Whistleblowers and Shield His Administration’s Corruption
The Trump administration has proposed a government-wide nondisclosure agreement requiring every federal employee to sign a gag order.
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s Election-Security Czar Is Reupping Debunked Conspiracy Theories to Ban Dominion Voting Machines in an Effort to Subvert Elections
Kurt Olsen, Trump’s election-security czar, tried to ban voting machines used in more than half of U.S.
 • Executive Watch
Trump Demands Republicans Fire the Senate Parliamentarian After She Blocked His Ballroom and Also Scrap the Filibuster
Elizabeth MacDonough, the Senate Parliamentarian, ruled on May 16 that the Senate reconciliation bill cannot, as currently written, be used to fund…
 • Executive Watch
DHS Issues a Nationwide Alert Against a Comedian for Making a Parody ICE Snitch Site
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a “Be on the Lookout” (BOLO) alert—normally reserved for major suspects and threats—to law enforcement…
 • Executive Watch
A Panel Packed With Trump Loyalists Rubberstamps His Plans to Build ‘Arc de Trump’ Without Congressional Approval
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 • Executive Watch
Pete Hegseth Campaigns Against Sitting Republican Congressman in Possible Hatch Act Violation
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s secretary of defense, personally campaigned against sitting congressman Thomas Massie in the Kentucky Republican primary—an…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Guts the DOJ Unit That Investigates Public Corruption From 40 Attorneys to Just Two
The Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section has operated for 50 years under both parties, investigating corruption by public officials at every…
 • Executive Watch
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