Author: Eleanor Stratton

The clock is ticking down to the end of the fiscal year. And in a frantic, last-minute legal maneuver, the Trump administration has made an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court to block the release of nearly $12 billion in foreign aid funds that were appropriated by Congress. This is not just a dispute over…

The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, stood not in the halls of Congress this week, but in a classic Nashville honky-tonk. He was there to sell the President’s “big, beautiful bill” not with complex budget charts, but with a simple, powerful, and politically brilliant promise to the bartenders and servers: no more federal taxes…

A single federal judge has drawn a firm, constitutional line in the sand. In a direct and powerful confrontation with the executive branch, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has issued an emergency order forbidding the Trump administration from deporting Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This is not just another ruling in a complex immigration case.…

A single attacker, armed with a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol. The horrific event in Minneapolis, like so many before it, immediately forces a wrenching national question: Why does our Constitution protect private access to such an arsenal? The debate that follows these tragedies often boils down to a seemingly simple distinction – between…

After another weekend of tragic violence that saw six people killed, including a five-year-old boy, a desperate and constitutionally dangerous cry is rising from some corners of Chicago. Frustrated with the relentless crime, some residents are now openly welcoming President Trump’s threat to send federal forces into their city to restore order. This is not…

President Trump has signaled that the United States will not only welcome, but potentially more than double, the number of Chinese students studying at American universities. This is not a minor adjustment. It is a major reversal of the administration’s own hardline rhetoric. The President’s new stance has ignited a fierce and constitutionally significant debate,…

“Mr. President, do not come to Chicago.” With those words, the Governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, drew a constitutional line in the sand. His defiant press conference was a direct response to President Trump’s threat to send the National Guard to Chicago to combat what he called a city that is a “mess” and a…

The President of the United States has launched a public attack on a senior senator from his own party. The target is not a policy disagreement, but an “old and outdated ‘custom’” – the Senate’s “blue slip” tradition. This is not a minor procedural squabble. It is a high-stakes, internal battle over a long-standing norm…

In a dramatic Oval Office ceremony, the President of the United States signed a new executive order. “If you burn a flag,” he declared, “you get one year in jail.” This is not, however, a simple act of patriotic enforcement. It is an act of open political defiance. The President’s order is in direct and…