Articles by Eleanor Stratton

Can a President Grant Amnesty to Foreign Terrorists? Trump’s Gaza Plan Tests Constitutional Limits

President Trump just promised something no American president has ever offered before: amnesty for members of a foreign terrorist organization . The 20-point Gaza peace plan unveiled Monday at the White House includes a provision granting Hamas members who disarm “amnesty” – and that single...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stood before nearly 800 generals and admirals summoned from around the world and declared the organization they’ve spent decades serving no longer exists. “The era of the Department of Defense is over,” he announced Tuesday at Marine Corps Base Quantico. “From...

The Supreme Court just agreed to crack open a 90-year-old precedent that stands between the president and absolute control over federal agencies. The case involves a fired commissioner, an angry president, and a constitutional theory that could reshape American government as we know it. At stake is...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Supreme Court Gamble Could Expose the Legal Loophole That Let Epstein’s Co-Conspirators Walk Free

The Supreme Court’s private conference on Monday will decide whether to hear an appeal that nobody wants to touch. Ghislaine Maxwell, serving 20 years for sex trafficking, is asking the justices to reverse her conviction based on a promise Jeffrey Epstein extracted from federal prosecutors two...

An assassination attempt on a president. The murder of a state lawmaker in her home. A political activist shot and killed in broad daylight while giving a speech. A new national poll has just put a number on the feeling of dread that has been growing in the pit of the nation’s stomach: a vast,...

What is the most powerful weapon the federal government holds? It is not a missile or a tank. It is the awesome and terrifying power to launch a criminal investigation against a citizen. This week, a top Department of Justice official appears to have turned that weapon on a new and shocking target:...

Three New Names in Epstein Files Released

A congressional staffer hits “send,” and a handful of heavily redacted pages from the infamous Jeffrey Epstein files are released to the world. This small, seemingly procedural act has ignited a new and vicious round of partisan warfare on Capitol Hill. This is not a story about the names in...

What happens when the most basic and essential duty of our government – to simply keep itself open – becomes just another weapon in a partisan war? With a September 30 funding deadline looming, the nation is once again careening toward a government shutdown, with both parties engaged in a...

The scene was shocking and almost unbelievable. In the middle of a legislative hearing in Wisconsin, a state senator, consumed with rage, lunged across the dais to grab the chairman’s gavel. This was more than a moment of lost tempers. This was a stark and worrying symptom of the decay of our...

The reading of a jury verdict is meant to be a moment of solemn finality, the point at which the chaos of a crime is met with the sober, deliberate conclusion of the law. But in the trial of Ryan Routh for the attempted assassination of a president, that final moment was itself consumed by chaos,...

On the world’s biggest diplomatic stage, the President of the United States was momentarily foiled by a stopped escalator and a broken teleprompter. He immediately seized upon the mishaps to portray the United Nations as a symbol of global dysfunction. But the strange and revealing truth behind...

In the wake of tragedy, the call for security is a powerful and understandable impulse. But a new initiative launched today in Florida, created in the name of preventing violence, raises a chilling question for every citizen: What is the cost of that security, and is it the very constitutional...

With a brief, temporary order, the Supreme Court today allowed President Trump to fire a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. This single personnel decision, however, is merely the opening shot in what is poised to become one of the most significant constitutional battles in modern...

This is a lesson in civic virtue. Before a crowd of tens of thousands in a vast stadium, a grieving widow stepped to a podium to eulogize her assassinated husband. In a nation raw with political division and primed for a call to vengeance, she offered something far more radical, and far more...

The United States Congress has many complex duties, but its most fundamental, most essential responsibility is to fund the government it creates. This is the bedrock of its power. Today, in a remarkable display of political brinkmanship, the Senate has formally chosen to fail at that task,...

As a nation prepares to mourn the assassination of one political leader, its security apparatus is in a frantic, high-stakes race to protect the President from becoming the next victim. President Trump is scheduled to speak at a massive stadium memorial for Charlie Kirk, and federal law enforcement...

A late-night television set in Hollywood is dark tonight. The show was not canceled for low ratings or a lack of talent. It was pulled from the air just hours after a direct and public threat from one of the most powerful regulatory officials in Washington. The suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel...

Two high school boys in Virginia have been formally labeled “sexual harassers” by their school district. Their offense was not a physical act, nor was it a pattern of targeted bullying. Their offense was to complain to each other about a biological female who identifies as transgender being...

In the tense quiet of a federal courtroom, the trial of a would-be presidential assassin pivoted to a single, crucial piece of evidence: the rifle found in the woods. An FBI firearms expert took the witness stand, and his clinical, technical testimony would provide the most chilling and...

Trump’s DOJ Declares War on “Hate Speech,” Sparking a First Amendment Firestorm

The Department of Justice has drawn a new and constitutionally perilous line in the sand. In a major policy announcement, Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed federal prosecutors to more aggressively investigate and charge individuals for “hate speech,” particularly when it is directed...