Articles by Eleanor Stratton

Ted Cruz Positions For 2028 Presidential Run By Attacking Tucker Carlson’s Foreign Policy Views

Senator Ted Cruz called Tucker Carlson “bat-crap crazy” and “a coward” in recent weeks. He accused him of antisemitism for platforming Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. At the Republican Jewish Coalition in October, Cruz called Carlson “complicit in evil.” Carlson’s response to Axios...

The Constitutional Loophole That Paid Congress $20,000 While Air Traffic Controllers Missed Two Paychecks

Members of Congress earned approximately $20,000 each during the 43-day government shutdown. Their paychecks arrived on schedule every two weeks while air traffic controllers, TSA agents, and over a million federal workers went without pay. The Constitution guarantees it. Article I, Section 6:...

Trump Directs DOJ to Investigate Epstein’s Democratic Connections While Opposing Full File Release

President Trump announced Friday he’s ordering the Justice Department and FBI to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s “involvement and relationship” with prominent Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and...

Trump’s Top Economic Advisor Says $2,000 Checks Are Possible

Kevin Hassett, director of Trump’s National Economic Council, told reporters Thursday there’s enough tariff revenue to cover the $2,000 checks the president proposed. “If you look at how much tariff revenue has been coming in, then there would actually be enough room to cover those checks and...

After 43 Days, Democrats Surrendered For A Promise Republicans Don’t Have To Keep

Republicans on the House floor erupted in cheers Wednesday night as the vote total crossed the threshold needed to pass. Democrats quietly exited the chamber. The final tally was 222-209. After 43 days – the longest government shutdown in American history – Congress sent a bill to President...

Late-Ballot Rule on the Brink: SCOTUS to Review Challenge on Counting Mail-in Ballots Received After Election Day

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has succeeded in getting the Supreme Court of the United States to review a major dispute over state laws that allow mail-in ballots to be counted if postmarked by Election Day but received days later . The case centers on whether such “grace period”...

Epstein’s Email Bombshell

Adelita Grijalva won her congressional election on September 23. House Speaker Mike Johnson finally swore her in Wednesday afternoon – 50 days after her election was certified. Not because of vote counting delays or certification problems. Because Johnson refused to administer the oath of office...

The 7 Constitutional Amendments That Almost Happened: What American’s Failed Changes Reveal About Power

The Equal Rights Amendment passed Congress in 1972 with overwhelming bipartisan support. It needed ratification from 38 states. Within five years, 35 states had ratified. Just three more states and women’s constitutional equality would have been guaranteed. Fifty-three years later, the ERA still...

Climate Lawyer Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: ‘It’s Really Just a Carbon Tax’

David Bookbinder used to be the lawyer representing Boulder, Colorado, in its climate lawsuit against ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy. He’s no longer actively involved in the case. Which apparently freed him up to say what the lawsuit is actually trying to accomplish. “Essentially, the tort...

How Trump’s $2000 Promise To American Taxpayers Works In Practice

President Trump announced on his social media platform that Americans can expect checks for $2,000, funded by “massive Tariff Income pouring into our Country from foreign countries.” The money would go to “low and middle income USA Citizens” – direct payments from trade policy revenue....

Supreme Court Blocks Order Requiring Full SNAP Funding During Government Shutdown

A federal judge gave the Trump administration 24 hours to send $4 billion to 42 million hungry Americans. The administration’s response wasn’t to comply – it was to race to the Supreme Court for permission to ignore him. By 9:30 PM Friday, the Supreme Court granted that permission. The...

Democrats Offer Compromise to End Shutdown. Republicans Call It ‘Political Terrorism.’

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer walked onto the floor Friday morning with what he called “a very simple compromise.” The government would reopen at current spending levels. Three bipartisan appropriations bills would pass. And expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies – the ones keeping...

Supreme Court Protects Gay Marriage

The Supreme Court issued one of its shortest decisions Monday morning. No explanation. No noted dissents. Just a single sentence declining to hear an appeal that asked them to overturn the constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Kim Davis – the Kentucky county clerk who went to jail in 2015...

Reagan Judge Throws Away Lifetime Appointment to Speak Freely About Trump Administration

Mark Wolf spent 40 years on the federal bench. He had a lifetime appointment – the kind of job security that exists nowhere else in American life. He could have served until he died, drawing his salary, wielding his power, secure in the knowledge that no president could touch him. Sunday, he...

Eight Democrats Just Ended the Shutdown

Eight Democratic and Independent senators walked onto the floor Sunday evening and voted to end the longest government shutdown in American history. They knew what was coming – fury from their base, accusations of betrayal, charges that they’d surrendered without getting anything in return....

Bernie Sanders Crashes Schumer’s Victory Lap, Exposing a Deep Fracture in the Democratic Party

It was meant to be a routine victory lap for the Senate Minority Leader, a moment to celebrate a surprisingly good election night for his party amidst a grueling government shutdown. But the carefully orchestrated press conference was suddenly upended by an uninvited guest with a very different...

It’s the Economy, Stupid: How Trump’s Forgotten Promise Cost the GOP on Election Night

The results of Tuesday’s off-year elections have sent a shockwave through the Republican Party. Losses in the Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races, coupled with a stunning socialist victory in the New York City mayoral contest, have forced a painful internal reckoning. While party leaders...

New York City Mayoral Race Sees Record Turnout as Polls Close on Mamdani-Cuomo Showdown

Polls closed in New York City Tuesday night in a mayoral race that drew more than 2 million voters – the first time turnout has exceeded that threshold since 1969. The contest pits Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist who won the Democratic primary, against Andrew Cuomo, the former...

The SCOTUS Tariff Case That Could Redefine Presidential Power

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sat in the middle rows of the Supreme Court chamber Wednesday, flanked by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. The three men responsible for negotiating Trump’s trade deals watched as the justices spent two and a half hours...

Poverty as Probable Cause? Proposed Drug Testing for SNAP Recipients Faces Significant Constitutional Obstacles

Representative David Rouzer introduced H.R. 372 in January requiring states to drug test SNAP food stamp recipients quarterly or lose federal funding. The bill mandates testing for anyone arrested for drug offenses in the past five years, screens others for “risk of substance abuse,” and denies...