The U.S. Constitution

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...

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...

Defense Secretary Praises Removal of Overweight Texas National Guard Troops from Illinois Deployment

A photograph can end military careers now. Several Texas National Guard members deployed to Illinois last week got sent home after pictures showing their heavyset physiques went viral. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth celebrated the removal on social media Monday, declaring “Standards are back at...

Trump Posthumously Awards Charlie Kirk Medal of Freedom on What Would Have Been His 32nd Birthday

President Trump stood in the Rose Garden Tuesday and posthumously awarded Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom on what would have been the conservative activist’s 32nd birthday. Kirk’s widow Erika accepted the award, sharing through tears what their 3-year-old daughter wanted to tell...

Day 14: Trump Raids Pentagon Funds, Fires Thousands, and Calls Schumer “Weakened.” Democrats Won’t Budge

The government has been closed for two weeks. President Trump redirected $8 billion in Pentagon research funds to pay troops. The Office of Management and Budget began mass firings over the weekend. Senate Democrats blocked their eighth attempt to reopen government Tuesday. And the president called...

The Constitutional Rundown About Medals of Freedom And Controversial Recipients

The Presidential Medal of Freedom represents America’s highest civilian honor. Presidents award it to individuals who’ve made exceptional contributions to national security, world peace, cultural endeavors, or public service. And the Constitution doesn’t authorize it at all. The medal exists...

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...

China Warns of Countermeasures as Trump’s 100% Tariff Threat Escalates Trade War

The global economy runs on 17 obscure elements most Americans have never heard of. China controls the supply. And the United States just discovered what happens when trade war rhetoric collides with geological reality. President Trump threatened 100% tariffs on all Chinese imports on October 10,...