Author: Eleanor Stratton

With a simple sports metaphor posted to social media, the President of the United States may have just signaled a dramatic and perilous escalation in the war between Russia and Ukraine. Declaring that a team cannot win by “only playing defense,” he has publicly questioned the long-standing American policy that has forbidden Ukraine from using…

On the floor of the Texas House of Representatives this week, a dramatic attempt was made to attach the explosive national controversy over the Jeffrey Epstein files to a must-pass redistricting bill. The effort was shut down not by a dramatic floor vote, but by a quiet, powerful, and rarely discussed tool of legislative governance:…

For the third time, a federal judge has slammed the door on the Trump administration’s attempt to unseal secret grand jury records in the Jeffrey Epstein case. This series of judicial rebukes is not a conspiracy to hide the truth. It is a powerful and unified stand by the judicial branch to protect the integrity…

The political and legal wars over the 2016 election are far from over. A new and constitutionally troubling front has just opened in this long battle. A government watchdog group has filed a formal ethics complaint with the Arkansas Bar, seeking to investigate and potentially disbar former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her role…

As American and European leaders were discussing a path to peace for Ukraine in Washington, Russian missiles were raining down on Ukrainian port facilities. The strikes landed less than a mile from the border of Romania. In that instant, a foreign conflict came a missile’s-width away from the doorstep of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization…

The federal takeover of Washington, D.C. has entered a new and constitutionally troubling phase. The administration, touting the success of its crime crackdown, has now authorized the U.S. Marshals Service to offer $500 cash rewards for any tip from the public that leads to an arrest. While this may sound like a common-sense tool to…

A security clearance is the essential key that grants access to America’s most sensitive secrets. In a dramatic and sweeping move on Tuesday, the nation’s top intelligence official, at the direction of President Trump, revoked that key for 37 current and former intelligence officials. This is not a routine administrative action. It is a political…

The First Lady’s Soft Power: An Unwritten Role in Constitutional Diplomacy As presidents and prime ministers debate the hard edges of a peace deal for Ukraine – territory, treaties, and security guarantees – a second, quieter track of diplomacy has opened. A sealed letter was passed from an American president to a Russian one in…

In a constitutionally alarming development, the President of the United States, fresh from a summit with the autocratic leader of Russia, is now citing that leader’s “advice” as the basis for a new campaign to overhaul the American election system. Citing Vladimir Putin, President Trump is now vowing to lead a movement to eliminate mail-in…

“Donald Trump, you have poked the bear and we will punch back,” California Governor Gavin Newsom recently declared. The “punch” he is proposing is a plan to dismantle his own state’s celebrated, voter-approved independent redistricting commission in order to draw a new, partisan gerrymander to favor Democrats. The stated reason for this move is to…