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“I love the smell of deportations in the morning.” With these words, posted to social media alongside an image of himself against the Chicago skyline, the President of the United States has declared his intention for a new crackdown on an American city. The meme goes on to warn that Chicago will soon “find out…

The federal agency that welcomes new citizens at naturalization ceremonies and processes green cards for families is now hiring its own armed police force. This quiet, bureaucratic change is not a minor adjustment. It is a radical and constitutionally significant move that threatens to erase a critical firewall put in place after 9/11 – a…

Is the United States in the midst of a constitutional crisis? As our political branches remain locked in a state of seemingly perpetual conflict, this question hangs heavy over the nation. This week, a sitting Supreme Court Justice, Amy Coney Barrett, offered a direct and surprising answer: no. In a rare public appearance to promote…

In the calm waters of the Caribbean, the United States military, on the orders of the President, has destroyed a vessel. The target was not a foreign warship, but a boat the administration claims was smuggling drugs, representing an “imminent national security threat.” This act of lethal military force, conducted without congressional authorization, has ignited…

For nearly a century, a core principle of American governance has been that certain powerful federal agencies – those that regulate everything from our financial markets to our telecommunications – must be insulated from direct political control. Now, the Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to tear down that wall. In a case with…

Should the President have the power to single-handedly kill a consumer protection rule like this without a vote from Congress? Every American who has ever been stranded in an airport, their flight canceled for reasons beyond their control, knows the feeling of helplessness. A plan was in the works to address this, a new federal…

It rises from the red clay of Georgia like a monument to a new American future – a massive, multi-billion-dollar factory designed to build the electric vehicle batteries that will power our economy and help us compete with China. It is the largest single industrial investment in the state’s history. On Thursday, this symbol of…

A Democratic senator confronted the Trump administration’s top health official with a simple question: Why does the administration’s new landmark law protect a cancer drug that costs patients over $175,000 a year from price negotiations? The tense exchange, which saw Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unable to provide a direct answer,…

A contentious but routine event unfolded in Washington this week: a cabinet secretary was subjected to tough, critical questioning by a Senate committee. But the response from the executive branch was anything but routine. In a shocking and unprecedented move, the Vice President of the United States took to social media to launch a profane,…

In a fiery and constitutionally significant hearing on Capitol Hill this week, a cabinet secretary was placed under the full, hot glare of congressional oversight. Senator after senator confronted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., accusing him of making false statements and of plunging the nation’s public health agencies into chaos. This…