Articles by Eleanor Stratton

Trump Fired a Fed Governor, Now SCOTUS Has to Decide If He Can Actually Do That

President Trump fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook on January 21, his first full day back in office. The termination letter cited “poor performance” and “low intelligence.” Cook sued within hours, arguing the president has no constitutional authority to fire Fed governors. Now the...

New CNN Poll says Trump is the worst President in history. Do you believe that?

Fifty-eight percent of Americans call Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House a failure. Fifty-five percent say his policies made the economy worse. Sixty-four percent say he hasn’t done enough about the cost of living that actually matters to them. And here’s the number that should...

Read Trump’s texts to Norway prime minister here on Greenland, Nobel

Three days after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, President Trump received a text from Norway’s prime minister asking him to de-escalate tariff threats against eight countries including Norway. Trump’s response, sent 27 minutes...

SCOTUS Just Heard the Trans Sports Case

Military snipers stood watch on the Supreme Court roof Tuesday while two crowds below screamed at each other. One side chanted “Trans! Trans! Trans!” The other shouted “Stop cutting off the breasts!” Inside, lawyers for transgender athletes spent two hours in full retreat. The Supreme Court...

Your Credit Card Rate Just Got Capped at 10%

The Truth Social post went out Friday night. Credit card interest rates would be capped at 10% starting January 20. No legislation. No congressional vote. Just a presidential announcement that Americans would “no longer be ‘ripped off’ by Credit Card Companies.” By Saturday morning,...

Portland’s Police Chief Broke Down in Tears: When Local Police Confirm What They Didn’t Want to Believe About Illegal Immigrants

Portland Police Chief Bob Day removed his glasses mid-sentence. His voice cracked. Tears rolled down his face as he confirmed what the Department of Homeland Security had been saying all along. The two Venezuelan illegal immigrants shot by a federal agent Thursday weren’t innocent victims. They...

Trump “Jokes” About Canceling the 2026 Midterms

The setting was the Kennedy Center. The audience was House Republicans at their annual retreat. The date was January 6, 2026 – five years exactly since the Capitol attack. And the president mused aloud about canceling the 2026 midterm elections. Then he caught himself. “I won’t say, ‘Cancel...

Trump Pardoned a Democrat to Keep Him Out of Jail

The pardon came in November 2025. The primary challenge came two months later. The constitutional power of presidential clemency collided with raw political calculation—and Trump’s Truth Social post explaining it became a case study in how mercy and politics intertwine. Representative Henry...

From Mobsters to Presidents: The Fifth Amendment’s Most Controversial Moments

Frank Costello’s hands filled the television screen. The rest of him was off-camera—a compromise between his lawyers and the Kefauver Committee. But those hands, fidgeting and gesturing as he invoked the Fifth Amendment dozens of times, became one of the most unsettling images in early...

Trump Just Froze $10 Billion to Blue States Over Fraud Fears

The letters went out Monday morning. California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York would lose over $10 billion in federal funding for child care and social services. The reason cited: fraud concerns. The political pattern: all five are Democratic-led states. By afternoon, the...

Can a President Pardon Himself? Constitutional Ambiguity Meets Political Reality

The pardon power sits in Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution. Seventy-eight words. No explicit exceptions. No Supreme Court ruling on whether a president can use it on himself. Legal scholars spent decades treating it as a hypothetical. Then 2025 made it a serious conversation—again....

Trump Didn’t Ask Congress

Delta Force operators struck Venezuela’s largest military complex before dawn Saturday. By nightfall, President Nicolás Maduro was in a Brooklyn detention center, his wife was in federal custody, and President Trump announced the United States would “run” Venezuela temporarily. No...

The 12 Most Insane Constitutional Crises of 2025

Twelve months. Twelve constitutional explosions. Some made headlines for a week. Others are still burning through the courts. This isn’t your civics teacher’s review of separation of powers. This is the year the Constitution stopped being a dusty document and became the most fought-over...

Does Christmas As a Federal Holiday Violate The Constitutional Separation Of Church And State?

Every year on December 25th, the federal government closes. Post offices shut down. Federal employees get paid time off. Courts don’t convene. All to observe Christmas – a holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. How does that not violate the First Amendment’s prohibition on...

Trump Declares War on How Markets Actually Work

President Trump posted what he’s calling “THE TRUMP RULE” on Truth Social Tuesday morning: a 400-word manifesto declaring that the Federal Reserve should lower interest rates when the economy is doing well, not raise them. The post claims GDP growth hit 4.2% against predictions of 2.5%. It...

Trump Administration Praises ‘Strong’ Jobs Report as Data Shows Slowest Growth Since 2009

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called Tuesday’s jobs report “strong” and credited President Trump with “creating a strong, America First economy in record time.” The actual data shows the economy lost jobs in three of the past six months. Job growth since Trump’s...

White House Christmas Through The Decades: From FDR’s Tinsel to Melania’s Red Trees, See How the Holidays Define the Presidency

The White House Christmas is more than a holiday celebration; it is a curated projection of the presidency. For nearly a century, First Families have used ornaments, trees, and themes to signal everything from wartime austerity to booming prosperity. Below is a chronicled journey through over 40...

Sen. Kennedy Pushes for Second Reconciliation Bill to Address Cost of Living as GOP Leadership Resists

Senator John Kennedy has a message for his own party: You’re wasting the majority you fought for. The Louisiana Republican wants Congress to use budget reconciliation again – the brutal legislative process that consumed months of 2025 and nearly fractured the GOP coalition. Republicans used it...

Epstein Files Explode Open As DOJ Starts Releasing Court Records

The Justice Department released hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files Friday afternoon, meeting a 30-day deadline imposed by a law President Trump signed in November after fellow Republicans pressured him to stop blocking their release. The files include new photos of Epstein with...

Did the Supreme Court Invent a New Gun Right?

For 217 years, the Second Amendment didn’t protect your right to own a gun for self-defense in your home. Then in 2008, it suddenly did. The Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller declared for the first time in American history that the Constitution guarantees an individual...