Author: James Caldwell

Congress handed the agency a blank check, a mandate to more than double its size in a matter of months. But the massive hiring surge at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is running into a hard reality: finding qualified recruits is proving far more difficult than lawmakers anticipated. Now, facing a looming deadline, the…

A fuse has just been lit under one of the most explosive questions in modern American politics: who was truly in charge during the final years of the Biden presidency? A scathing new report from the House Oversight Committee alleges a deliberate White House “cover-up” of the former president’s cognitive decline, raising profound constitutional questions…

The strange legal odyssey of one Salvadoran migrant has just taken another bizarre and constitutionally troubling turn. Federal prosecutors, who have pursued criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia with vigor, have now signaled to a judge that they would rather deport him immediately – possibly to Liberia – than actually bring him to trial. This…

A U.S. Marshal and an undocumented immigrant were both shot Tuesday during an immigration enforcement operation in Los Angeles. Federal agents had surrounded and boxed in a vehicle when the driver allegedly rammed federal vehicles attempting to escape. Agents opened fire. The Marshal was struck in the hand by what appeared to be a bullet…

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 weighs in on the deployment of…

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 attempting to bypass the crisis altogether, using “creative” accounting that appears to be a direct…

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 test of how our 18th-century…

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 contest is more than…

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 seeking to disqualify James Comey’s lead defense…

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 others – face dismissal because courts are questioning whether the prosecutors had legal authority to…