Author: Eleanor Stratton
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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 establishing religion? The short answer: because the Supreme Court decided…
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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 distinct years of White House history. Each image…
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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 “Liberation Day” tariffs in April has averaged 17,000 jobs per month…
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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 former President Bill Clinton. They identify more than 1,200…
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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 once to pass Trump’s tax package. Kennedy says they…
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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 right to possess firearms unconnected to…
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What the Reiner Case Reveals About Due Process Under Pressure
Nick Reiner, son of acclaimed director Rob Reiner, was arrested Sunday night on suspicion of murdering his parents. The 32-year-old is being held without bail after Rob and Michele Reiner were found dead with stab wounds in their Brentwood home. The arrest came five hours after firefighters discovered the bodies. Nick wasn’t at the scene…
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13 Republicans Just Broke Ranks To Defend Federal Worker Unions
Thirteen House Republicans defied their party leadership Wednesday night to advance a bill reversing President Trump’s executive order that stripped collective bargaining rights from federal worker unions. The vote wasn’t supposed to happen. House Speaker Mike Johnson didn’t schedule it. Republican leadership opposed it. But Rep. Jared Golden, a Maine Democrat, forced the vote anyway…
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Trump’s Cabinet Said Troops Must Disobey Illegal Orders – Before Trump Decided That Was Sedition
Six Democratic veterans in Congress recorded a video last month reminding service members of their legal duty to disobey unlawful orders. Donald Trump called it “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” The White House launched investigations. Trump-appointed FBI leaders pressured domestic terrorism agents to open seditious conspiracy cases. The Democrats became targets of a federal retaliation…
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When the President Controls His Own Investigators: The Comey Indictment and the Independence Problem
James Comey, the former FBI director Donald Trump fired in 2017, now faces criminal charges for testimony he gave to Congress nearly five years ago. The indictment came days after Trump publicly demanded prosecutors speed up their investigation. It came hours after the lead federal prosecutor – who had cast doubt on the evidence –…