Articles by Eleanor Stratton
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Trump Declares ‘Epstein Hoax’ a Deep State Scam, Tells Weakling ‘PAST Supporters’ He Doesn’t Want Their Vote
A political leader has turned on his own base. In a fiery, sprawling social media post on Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump disowned a segment of his most ardent supporters, labeling them “weaklings” for believing in what he has now officially branded the “Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.”...
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How the HALT Fentanyl Act Gives Prosecutors New Power
In a rare moment of bipartisan unity, President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the HALT Fentanyl Act into law, surrounded by congressional leaders and the families of Americans who have lost their lives to this synthetic poison. The new law represents a powerful and long-overdue step in the...
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Who Has the Power to Create “Money”? The “GENIUS Act” and the Future of a Cashless Society
With an enthusiastic social media post, President Trump has thrown his weight behind the “GENIUS Act,” a major new bill aimed at making America the “UNDISPUTED, NUMBER ONE LEADER in Digital Assets.” This push to finally create a comprehensive regulatory framework for cryptocurrency is being...
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Trump Calls for “Crooked” Senator to Be “Brought to Justice” Over Mortgage Fraud Scandal
In an explosive social media post on Tuesday, President Trump leveled a direct accusation of criminal conduct against a sitting U.S. Senator and longtime political rival, Adam Schiff. Citing unverified claims, the President declared Schiff a “scam artist” who engaged in mortgage fraud and must...
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Trump Threatens to Withhold Endorsements Over Public Broadcasting Funds
In a late-night social media post, President Donald Trump issued a direct and unambiguous ultimatum to members of his own party: fall in line and defund public broadcasting, or forfeit his crucial endorsement. The post, targeting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which provides funding...
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Federal Agents Descend on Puerto Rican Museum, Forcing Community to Cancel Events
A tense scene unfolded this week in a Chicago parking lot, but this was no ordinary dispute. On one side stood the staff of the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture in the historic Humboldt Park neighborhood. On the other: more than a dozen federal agents with the Department of Homeland...
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Trump Announces 50% Tariff on Copper, Citing National Security Concerns
President Trump has announced a dramatic new front in his economic war: a 50% tariff on all imported copper, set to take effect on August 1st. In a social media post, the President justified the move by releasing a “robust NATIONAL SECURITY ASSESSMENT,” arguing that copper is essential for...
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The End of a 70-Year Truce: IRS Opens the Floodgates for Politics in the Pulpit
In a stunning legal maneuver, the Internal Revenue Service has fundamentally altered a 70-year-old rule that has long served as a wall between tax-exempt churches and partisan politics. In a joint court filing with the very religious groups that were suing it, the IRS has agreed that the law...
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A Law at War With Itself: Title IX and the Constitutional Battle Over Transgender Athletes
For over fifty years, a single, 37-word sentence in American law has been one of the most powerful engines for equality in our nation’s history. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a cornerstone of civil rights, yet its simple language is now at the center of a fierce and profound...
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The Constitutional Danger of Outsourcing American Detention
In a stunning revelation submitted to a federal court, the government of El Salvador has declared that the Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration to its maximum-security CECOT prison remain under the “sole custody” and “exclusive legal responsibility” of the United States....
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Trump Dismisses Epstein Questions as His Own Supporters Turn on His Attorney General
The story that was supposed to end with a bombshell has instead ignited a political firestorm – one that has now reached the desk of the President himself. After months of his administration fueling anticipation for a massive release of damning Jeffrey Epstein files, President Donald Trump on...
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The Coordinated War on Federal Law Enforcement Is Here
Within the span of a few days, two separate, armed ambushes were launched against federal law enforcement facilities in Texas. In Alvarado, a group clad in body armor allegedly shot a police officer and opened fire on a detention center. In McAllen, a gunman fired dozens of rounds at a U.S. Border...
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Senate Passed The Bill That Will Change Your Paycheck and Your Healthcare
It happened in the quiet, pre-dawn hours of Tuesday morning, after a grueling all-night session of deal-making and debate. By the slimmest possible margin, the U.S. Senate passed a massive piece of legislation that will touch nearly every aspect of American life. For some, the bill’s passage...
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Why A 35-Year-Old Death Penalty Case Qualifies For Retrial Now
The Constitution’s guarantee of a fair trial has no expiration date. For more than three decades, a man has sat on Alabama’s death row for the murder of a county sheriff. This week, a federal court declared that his trial was fundamentally unfair—not because of new evidence of innocence, but...
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From Gun Silencers to a Space Shuttle: A Look at 7 Lesser-Known Provisions in the Final Trump Bill
As the President signs his so-called “big, beautiful bill” into law this Fourth of July, the national conversation will rightly focus on its massive, agenda-setting provisions. But to truly understand the nature of this legislation and the government that created it, we must look beyond the...
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Inside the Last-Minute Drama, Defections, and Deals of Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” Bill
As America heads toward Independence Day, President Donald Trump’s sweeping “One Big Beautiful Bill” is barreling toward passage—despite last-minute rebellions, behind-the-scenes deal-cutting, and a marathon “vote-a-rama” that has kept the Capitol in a near-frenzy. If the Senate...
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A Predictable Retaliation: Iranian Missiles Hit American Air Base
Ballistic missiles, fired from Iran, have now targeted a major American air base in Qatar. While the attack was successfully intercepted and resulted in no U.S. casualties, any sense of relief is dangerously premature. The physical damage may be zero, but the damage to our constitutional order is...
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Liberty, Equality… and Gender Identity: The Constitution and Transgender Rights
⬇️ Join the conversation and make your voice be heard. At the center of today’s fiercest political and cultural fault lines lies a question the framers of the Constitution never saw coming: How does an 18th-century charter of governance grapple with 21st-century understandings of identity? As...
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The Court’s Controversial Choice On Youth Gender Care
This week, the Supreme Court was tasked with resolving a conflict that strikes at the heart of America’s most profound constitutional debates. On one side stood the 14th Amendment’s promise of equal protection for all persons. On the other, the sovereign power of a state to regulate medicine...
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