Articles by Charlotte Greene

Federal Judge Rules Against Trump’s Attorney General

A federal judge has declared that the person serving as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor, Alina Habba , is holding her office unlawfully. The ruling is the latest and most dramatic turn in a month-long constitutional power struggle between the President, the Senate, and the Judiciary over one...

California Legislature Approves New Congressional Map to Counter Texas, Targeting 5 GOP Seats

The first shot was fired in Texas. Now, the counter-attack has been launched in California. In a dramatic escalation of a national political war, the California Legislature on Thursday approved a new congressional map explicitly designed to eliminate up to five Republican seats. The move is a...

Appeals Court Throws Out $500 Million Penalty in Trump’s New York Civil Fraud Case

For months, it was one of the largest financial penalties ever levied against an individual in American history – a judgment of nearly half a billion dollars against a sitting President in a New York civil fraud case. Now, in a stunning reversal, a New York appellate court has thrown that penalty...

California Democrats Face Hypocrisy Accusations as They Move to Override Independent Redistricting Commission

Just a few weeks ago, they were champions of reform, praising California’s model of taking map-drawing “out of the hands of an elected body.” Today, those same lawmakers are supporting a plan to do the exact opposite. A political firestorm has erupted in California as Democrats, in a...

Trump Administration Launches New Front in the War on Immigrant Benefits

In a major escalation of its crackdown on immigrant access to public benefits, the Trump administration has begun sending monthly reports to every state in the nation, identifying individuals on public health insurance whose legal status the federal government cannot verify. The directive to the...

Federal Court STRIKES DOWN New Mexico’s Unconstitutional Gun Control Measures

Just over two years ago, the Supreme Court radically reshaped the legal landscape for all gun laws in America. Now, the aftershocks of that decision are toppling gun control measures across the country. In a major victory for gun rights advocates, a federal appeals court has halted New Mexico’s...

Potential Trump SCOTUS Pick James Ho Criticizes ‘Cultural Elites’

A recent ruling from a federal appeals court about a student drag show would normally not make national headlines. But a blistering dissent attached to that ruling, authored by one of President Trump’s most prominent judicial appointees, has turned the case into a major political and...

Declassified Whistleblower Testimony Accuses Sen. Schiff of Approving Classified Leaks in 2017

The FBI Director has declassified years-old secret testimony that levels an explosive charge against one of President Trump’s chief political adversaries, Senator Adam Schiff . The document, containing a whistleblower’s 2017 account of an alleged plot to leak classified information, has...

Sanctuary Cities Push Back After DOJ Threatens to Cut Funding

Invoking the spirit of the American Revolution just across the street from Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall, Mayor Michelle Wu has issued a fiery and defiant rebuke to the U.S. Attorney General. Her press conference on Tuesday was a direct response to a new, aggressive push by the Trump...

Texas Democrat Sleeps in House Chamber to Protest GOP’s Law Enforcement Escort Rule

In the dead of night, in the ornate chamber of the Texas House of Representatives, three lawmakers slept on chairs pushed together. They were not homeless, and they were not squatting. They were elected officials engaged in a profound act of protest. This quiet, overnight vigil, led by State...

Texas Democrats End Walkout, Face Police Surveillance as Redistricting Vote Looms

The dramatic, month-long exile is over. The Texas Democrats who fled the state to block a Republican power play have returned to Austin, but not to a hero’s welcome from their colleagues. Instead, they were met by state police and a demand from Republican leadership to sign what they are calling...

‘Weaponization’ Chief Vows to Investigate ‘EVERYTHING’ Dems Like Tish James and Adam Schiff Have Ever Done

In a remarkably candid television interview this weekend, the man President Trump has put in charge of investigating the “weaponization” of the government has revealed a stunning and controversial investigative philosophy. Ed Martin, the head of the Justice Department’s “Weaponization...

Trump Vows to Use Executive Power to Secure Our Elections from “Democrat Cheating”

In a fiery social media post on Monday, President Donald Trump declared a new war on mail-in voting, vowing to lead a movement to eliminate it and promising to use his executive power to overhaul how elections are run. But his post did more than just attack a voting method used by millions of...

A Tense White House Summit Pits Trump’s Deal Against a Wall of Resistance

The leader of a war-torn nation, flanked by the heads of Europe’s greatest powers, has come to the White House – not just to ask for help, but to resist pressure from his most powerful ally. President Donald Trump, fresh off his summit with Vladimir Putin, is pushing for a swift end to the war...

What We Know So Far As Trump-Putin Meeting Starts

In the remote, neutral territory of Anchorage, Alaska, the leaders of the world’s two largest nuclear powers are meeting face-to-face. The stakes could not be higher. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have begun a high-stakes summit aimed at finding a diplomatic end to...

How Trump’s Federal Cuts Ignited a Blue State Rebellion

A massive new federal tax law signed in Washington is now causing a powerful aftershock in state capitals across the country. In direct response to the Trump administration’s sweeping tax and spending cuts, a growing number of blue states are pushing back. They are preparing to raise taxes on...

Trump and Putin Declare a Path to Peace, But Refuse to Say What It Is

After hours of closed-door talks at a remote Alaskan airbase, two of the world’s most powerful men stepped up to lecterns to announce the outcome of their historic summit. They spoke of friendship, a “path to peace,” and “great progress.” But when the brief and bizarre press conference...

D.C. and Trump Administration Reach Settlement in Federal Police Takeover Dispute

For days, the nation’s capital has been embroiled in a constitutional crisis, with the President of the United States asserting direct control over the city’s police force in a move unseen in over 50 years. After a lawsuit from the city and a tense courtroom showdown, a fragile truce has been...

School Board Defies State Law, Sides With Trump

In a direct rebellion against its own state government, a local school board in California’s heartland has voted to take matters into its own hands. The Kern County Board of Education has chosen to defy state policy and align itself with the Trump administration, voting Tuesday to ban transgender...

Bonds Lowered for Some Suspects in Cincinnati Attack as New Video Evidence is Revealed

A packed Cincinnati courtroom crackled with tension on Thursday. On one side, prosecutors painted a picture of a vicious, unprovoked mob attack that shocked the nation. On the other, defense attorneys argued it was just a street fight, dangerously inflamed by politics and race. In the middle sat a...