Author: Charlotte Greene

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani wants to create a $1.1 billion Department of Community Safety that would deploy social workers and mental health professionals to respond to 911 calls instead of police officers. It’s a signature campaign promise and a central plank of his progressive “reimagining public safety” platform. There’s just one problem: New York City has…

Dana Williamson was Gavin Newsom’s chief of staff from early 2023 until November 2024, one of the most powerful positions in California government. She was arrested Wednesday on 23 federal counts including conspiracy, fraud, and obstruction of justice for allegedly stealing $225,000 from Xavier Becerra’s dormant campaign account and funneling it to his former chief…

In any government, the public expects its leaders to speak with a single, unified voice on matters of national importance. But in a move that has become a defining feature of this administration, the President has once again publicly and completely contradicted his own Vice President, this time on the explosive issue of legal immigration.…

Former President Donald Trump mocked Rep. Ilhan Omar’s habit of citing the Constitution during a recent interview, caricaturing her as lecturing “what the Constitution says.” Omar fired back within hours. The spat is more than a viral clip. It encapsulates a deeper civic question: Who gets to define the Constitution in public life — elected…

A federal lawsuit filed by a transgender officer at Transportation Security Administration (TSA) now puts one of the nation’s most familiar security routines at the center of a constitutional and workplace-rights storm. The suit alleges that after a February 2025 policy shift, the TSA barred transgender officers from conducting pat-downs of travelers—while still allowing all…

The final leg of the conservative student organization Turning Point USA “American Comeback Tour” landed this week at University of California, Berkeley — a campus once synonymous with liberal protest and the Free Speech Movement. What unfolded was more than a showdown of ideologies: it was a test of how the Constitution protects speech, protest…

Former President Donald Trump has now taken one of his most politically explosive legal defeats to the nation’s highest court. After losing at trial and on appeal, Trump is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a 5 million dollar civil verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll –…

The Supreme Court’s latest move wasn’t a full-blown constitutional landmark – it was a short emergency order on a Friday afternoon and then extended on Tuesday. But for roughly 42 million Americans who rely on food assistance, and for anyone who cares about the Separation of Powers, it landed like a thunderclap. By extending a…

The battle for control of Congress in 2026 is not being fought on the campaign trail. It’s being fought right now, state by state, in courtrooms and statehouses over the political maps themselves. This week, the frontline of that war is in Utah, where a single state judge is set to decide which congressional map…

After a nearly four-decade career in Congress, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced this week that she will not seek re-election. Her departure marks the end of an era for one of the most powerful and effective Democratic leaders in American history. But as her long tenure comes to a close, a new report is…