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The 10 Most Explosive Second Amendment Cases in History

The Second Amendment contains 27 words. Those words have generated centuries of constitutional conflict, dozens of Supreme Court cases, and fundamentally different interpretations of what “the right to keep and bear arms” actually means. Some cases changed everything. Others revealed how deeply...

Author Wolff Sues Melania Trump Over His Own Epstein Claims

Author Michael Wolff sued First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday – the exact deadline her lawyers had given him to retract statements, apologize, and pay damages for claims he made about her and Jeffrey Epstein. The lawsuit isn’t really about defending what Wolff said, which even The Daily Beast...

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...

Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Tested by Clashes and Accusations of Violations, President Vows to Get Tough if They Don’t Straighten Up

A fragile quiet hangs over Gaza, punctuated by sporadic violence and increasingly sharp accusations. The ceasefire brokered between Israel and Hamas just over a week ago is holding – barely. But reports of deadly clashes, disputes over the return of bodies, and stark warnings from both sides...

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...

White House East Wing Demolished for Trump’s $200 Million Ballroom, Raising Questions About Presidential Authority Over Historic Property

Excavators tore into the White House East Wing on Monday, demolishing the structure built in 1942 to hide FDR’s underground bunker during World War II. President Trump is replacing it with a $200 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom featuring gold chandeliers, gilded Corinthian columns, and...

When Governments Disappear Data, Who Decides What Americans Get to Know?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics team that produces inflation estimates was sent home during the government shutdown, potentially leaving 70 million Social Security recipients in limbo about their cost-of-living adjustments. The Trump administration quickly reversed course on that particular data...

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...

‘Your Mom’: A Press Secretary’s Crude Text Reveals a White House at War With the Truth

A text message exchange, raw and unfiltered, has ripped the veil off the increasingly toxic relationship between the White House press office and the journalists tasked with covering it. When a Huffington Post reporter asked a pointed question about an upcoming presidential summit, the response...

How a Simple Word Became a Constitutional Firewall Against Trump’s Cabinet

It has been a rough week for two of President Trump’s most prominent cabinet secretaries. In separate but related events, both tried to flex the immense power of the executive branch. And in both cases, they were met with a simple, unified, and stunningly effective response: No. The widespread...

Leavitt Fires Back at Jeffries, Calls Him a “Stone-Cold Loser” in Vicious Shutdown Feud

The federal government has been shut down for 17 days, but the most significant collapse in Washington is not in its funding, but in its language. A war of words between the White House and the Democratic leadership has now descended into a bare-knuckle brawl of personal insults, a vicious exchange...

Turning Point USA Calls for Firing of NBA Employee Suspended Over Charlie Kirk Posts

In the raw and emotional aftermath of a political assassination, a new and deeply modern battle has erupted – not in a state capitol or a courtroom, but on social media and in the human resources department of the National Basketball Association. An NBA employee’s crude online remarks...

Secret Service Found a Hunting Stand Aimed at Trump’s Air Force One Exit. In Palm Beach. Where Hunting Is Illegal.

The Secret Service discovered a hunting stand with direct line of sight to President Trump’s Air Force One exit area at Palm Beach International Airport during a security sweep last Thursday. The FBI dismantled the stand and flew it to their lab for forensic analysis including digital and...

7 Million Marched Against Trump. He Posted AI Video of Himself Wearing A Crown Defecating on Them From a Fighter Jet

Roughly 7 million people participated in “No Kings” demonstrations across more than 2,700 locations Saturday, making it one of the largest single-day domestic protests in modern American history. President Trump initially dismissed the events as drawing “very few people,” then posted an...

John Bolton Indicted on 18 Counts of Classified Documents Mishandling After August FBI Raid

John Bolton, the hawkish former National Security Advisor who attacked Trump for mishandling classified documents, was indicted Thursday on 18 counts of doing exactly that – transmitting and retaining thousands of pages of top secret material at his Maryland home. The irony is so heavy it’s...

NRA Sues California Over Glock Ban. The Supreme Court’s Second Amendment Ruling Just Got Its Test

California banned Glock-style handguns last week. The National Rifle Association sued within days. The lawsuit challenges Assembly Bill 1127 as violating the Second Amendment, arguing that semiautomatic handguns with cruciform trigger bars are “in common use” and therefore protected by the...

Republican Leaders Attack Scheduled “No Kings” Protests

Republican leaders are pre-emptively attacking Saturday’s “No Kings” national protests before they happen. Speaker Mike Johnson called them “hate-America rallies” that will draw “pro-Hamas” Democrats and “antifa people.” House Republican Whip Tom Emmer warned of widespread “hate...

Jury Sends a Clear Message to DOJ With Its Verdict in the ICE Assault Case

On a street in Washington D.C., a citizen filmed federal agents making an arrest. A tense confrontation ensued, ending with the citizen herself in handcuffs, facing a serious felony charge for assaulting a federal officer. The case was championed by the President’s U.S. Attorney as a key front in...