Articles by James Caldwell

Supreme Court Takes Aim at a New Target: Can You Own a Gun if You Use Drugs?

The battle lines over the Second Amendment are being drawn once again at the nation’s highest court. Just weeks into its new term, the Supreme Court has agreed to take up a second major gun rights case, this one involving a head-spinning constitutional question. This new case promises a profound...

Trump’s Budget Chief Is Using Creative Accounting To Protect The President’s Priorities

Another government shutdown grips Washington, a familiar spectacle of political failure. Yet beneath the surface of closed parks and delayed services, something unprecedented and constitutionally dangerous is unfolding. The executive branch, under the direction of the President’s budget chief, is...

Appeals Court Gives Trump Green Light (For Now) to Send Troops into Portland Over Governor’s Objections

The standoff is stark: a President determined to send the National Guard into an American city, and a state government fighting fiercely to keep them out. This constitutional battle over the limits of federal power and state sovereignty has just taken a critical turn, as a federal appeals court...

DOJ Tries to Disqualify Comey’s Lawyer, Accusing Him of Being Part of the Original “Crime”

The battle lines are drawn in the explosive criminal case against a former FBI Director. But the latest skirmish isn’t about the alleged crime itself. It’s a bare-knuckle fight over who gets to stand beside the defendant as his lawyer. Federal prosecutors have taken the extraordinary step of...

An Oath to Trump or the Constitution? The Kentucky Race and the Crisis of the Modern GOP

The political ground is shifting beneath the feet of Kentucky’s Republican establishment. A man once seen as the heir apparent to a giant of the Senate is now running to replace him, but the price of admission requires a public break from the very mentor who launched his career. This primary...

Trump Bypassed the Senate to Appoint Prosecutors. Now His Cases Are Being Tested in Court.

Trump appointed U.S. attorneys in blue states without Senate confirmation, using legal workarounds to bypass the “blue slip” tradition requiring home-state senators’ approval. Now the prosecutions these attorneys brought – against James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and...

Nearly All Major News Outlets Refuse Pentagon’s New Press Rules, Face Eviction Wednesday

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave reporters until 5 p.m. Tuesday to sign a new policy agreement or lose Pentagon access permanently. Nearly every major news organization refused. Starting Wednesday, for the first time since the Eisenhower administration, no major U.S. television network or...

“Everyday Americans Cannot Lie to Banks”

Letitia James wrote in February 2024 that “everyday Americans cannot lie to a bank to get a mortgage, and if they did, our government would throw the book at them. There simply cannot be different rules for different people.” She was attacking President Trump on social media while celebrating...

Democrats Suddenly Embrace “States’ Rights” to Fight Trump’s Plan for a Federal Takeover of Chicago

Listen closely to the sounds of our modern political debate, and you will hear something strange and disorienting. Democrats are passionately defending “states’ rights” and the sanctity of local control. Republicans, meanwhile, are championing a massive and unilateral assertion of federal...

ICE Arrests Illegal Immigrant Driving 18-Wheeler With New York License Listing His Name as “NO NAME GIVEN”

An illegal immigrant from India was driving a commercial truck on Interstate 40 in Oklahoma carrying a New York state CDL with “NO NAME GIVEN” listed as his first name. ICE arrested Anmol Anmol during a routine truck scale inspection on September 23, discovering he entered the country illegally...

FBI’s “Arctic Frost” Spy Operation: How Jack Smith Secretly Tracked Nine GOP Lawmakers Without a Warrant

FBI Director Kash Patel just opened a file the Bureau didn’t want anyone to see. Inside: proof that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team tracked the private phone records of eight Republican senators and one House member – without those lawmakers ever knowing they were targets. The operation had...

Federal Judge Accuses Trump Administration of Playing “Whack-A-Mole” to Circumvent Court Orders on Troop Deployments

U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut issued a temporary restraining order Sunday night blocking President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Portland. Then the Trump administration tried deploying California Guard members instead. So Immergut expanded her order to block troops from any...

Shutdown Stalemate Deepens as Critical Republican Coalition Vote Wavers

Senator Angus King voted with Republicans five times to reopen the government despite caucusing with Democrats. The Maine independent joined Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman and Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto in crossing party lines to support GOP funding bills that Democratic leadership has...

Supreme Court Hands Trump 21 Wins on Emergency Docket

President Trump has won roughly 21 emergency rulings from the Supreme Court since taking office in January, allowing his administration to implement controversial policies while legal challenges work through the courts. The White House is celebrating an almost flawless record on what’s known as...

Supreme Court Slams Door on Maxwell’s Last Appeal

The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her sex trafficking conviction, ending her primary legal avenue for overturning the 20-year sentence she’s serving for recruiting and grooming underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. The Court’s order list revealed...

Did The White House Compile A Hit List of Federal Agencies for Mass Firings Before Shutdown Even Started?

The White House didn’t wait for the government shutdown to decide which federal agencies would face mass firings. Officials had already compiled a target list before midnight on October 1, and they’re prepared to announce layoffs as soon as this weekend – possibly tomorrow. The list was...

FBI Director Who Promised “No Retribution” Just Fired 15 Agents Deemed Insufficiently Loyal To The President

Kash Patel told senators during his confirmation hearings that he had “no interest, no desire and will not, if confirmed, go backwards.” He promised there would be “no politicization at the FBI” and “no retributive actions taken.” On Friday, the FBI director who promised not to go...

Portland Police Sergeant’s Email Criticizes Counter-Protesters Who Were Assaulted at ICE Facility

A Portland police sergeant wrote an email describing three people who were assaulted outside an ICE facility as a “chronic source of police calls” who “constantly return and antagonize the protesters until they are assaulted or pepper sprayed.” The victims included a conservative journalist...

Trump Lectured Generals About Military Fitness After Dodging Vietnam Draft Five Times

President Trump stood before 800 generals and admirals at Quantico on Tuesday and declared the military would end “political correctness” and return to merit-based standards focused on “fitness, ability, character, and strength.” He praised Pete Hegseth’s speech condemning “fat...

Every American military officer swears an oath that begins with ten critical words: “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Not the president. Not the party in power. Not the Secretary of Defense. The Constitution. That distinction has...