Author: Eleanor Stratton

On the eve of the President’s high-stakes summit with Vladimir Putin, a challenge was issued from the most unlikely of sources. It came not from a friendly ally or a Republican senator, but from his fiercest political rival from the 2016 election. In a stunning and politically shrewd move, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton…

“Do you know anybody who builds a $200 million ballroom onto their house and moves out in three and a half years?” This was the provocative question posed by former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci in a stark warning to Wall Street and the nation. This is not a literal question about White House…

A federal appeals court has handed the Trump administration a major victory, ruling that the President can withhold nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funds that were lawfully appropriated by Congress. This is not a simple ruling on a funding dispute. It is a decision that effectively guts a 50-year-old law designed to protect Congress’s…

What Donald Trump Has Said About Seeking A Third Term Over The Months And Years President Trump this week once again teased the possibility of seeking a third term in office. In an interview, he said he “probably” would not run again, but immediately added, “I’d like to run.” This comment is the latest in…

The President of the United States and the President of Russia are set to meet in Alaska on Friday to discuss the fate of Ukraine. The most significant detail of this high-stakes summit, however, is not who will be in the room, but who will be absent. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not been invited.…

The image is stark and constitutionally significant: National Guard troops are arriving in the nation’s capital, not to repel a foreign invader, but as part of a presidential “takeover” of the city’s policing functions. Citing a crime crisis that statistics show does not exist, President Trump has asserted direct federal control over Washington, D.C., and…

The nation was shocked this week by the news of a shooting at Fort Stewart, a major Army base in Georgia, where a sergeant allegedly opened fire on five of his fellow soldiers. As the victims recover and the President vows that the perpetrator “will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” this…

The Supreme Court has punted. In a major Louisiana redistricting case that could redefine the rules for drawing congressional maps, the justices have declined to issue a ruling, instead ordering new arguments for their next term. This is not a simple delay; it is a sign of the Court’s deep struggle with a seemingly unsolvable…

Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered federal prosecutors to convene a grand jury to investigate top intelligence officials of the Obama administration for their role in the 2016 Russia probe. This decision, acting on a criminal referral from the Director of National Intelligence, crosses a constitutional Rubicon. It is a move that threatens to transform…

Just hours before the Senate was set to leave Washington for its August recess, a high-stakes deal to confirm dozens of government officials dramatically imploded. The negotiations were not broken by the senators in the room, but by a fiery, all-caps social media post from the President himself, telling the Senate’s top Democrat to “GO…