Author: Eleanor Stratton
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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 had ties to Tren de Aragua—one of the most…
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Your Credit Card Rate Just Got Capped at 10% – Except It Didn’t (Here’s Why)
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, constitutional scholars were asking the obvious question: Can a president unilaterally…
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Trump “Jokes” About Canceling the 2026 Midterms – Can a President Actually Do That?
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 the election, they should cancel the election,’…
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Trump Pardoned a Democrat to Keep Him Out of Jail – Now He’s Running Against Him
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 Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, faced up to 20 years in federal prison on…
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Trump Just Froze $10 Billion to Blue States Over Fraud Fears – Can a President Do That?
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 constitutional questions were obvious. Can a president unilaterally freeze billions in congressionally…
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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 television history. The year was 1951. Millions of Americans watched…
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Trump Didn’t Ask Congress – Maduro’s Reign Ended in Handcuffs
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 congressional authorization. No declaration of war. No advance notification to legislative leadership. The operation raises…
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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’s legal team floated the self-pardon option publicly in…
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The 12 Most Insane Constitutional Crises of 2025 – Ranked
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 rulebook in America—with judges, presidents, states, and Congress all claiming they…
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Trump Declares War on How Markets Actually Work – And Threatens Anyone Who Disagrees
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 argues that markets now go down on good…