The U.S. Constitution

Trump Pays ‘Patriots’: DHS Offers Excessive Signing Bonus

While a signing bonus for a federal agency is not, in itself, a direct constitutional violation, a bonus of this magnitude for a law enforcement agency like ICE raises several significant concerns. These concerns aren’t about the bonus itself, but about the potential downstream consequences for...

The trial beginning today in a Florida courtroom is for one of the most serious crimes imaginable in a democracy: the attempted assassination of a president. But the proceedings are already marked by extraordinary circumstances. The defendant is representing himself. The judge is a past appointee...

It is a familiar ritual in Washington D.C. A sitting Vice President, just seven months into a new term, is asked about his future ambitions. He gives the expected, coy answer, insisting he is focused only on “the current job.” But beneath this familiar political dance, a profound constitutional...

An ICE agent is on patrol in Southern California. In a split second, they must decide whether to stop and interrogate a person based on a handful of factors. Can they consider the language a person is speaking, their apparent ethnicity, or the fact that they are near a day-labor pickup spot? The...

With a brief, temporary order, Chief Justice John Roberts has paused a lower court’s ruling, allowing President Trump to, for now, keep a fired Federal Trade Commissioner off the government payroll. This seemingly minor procedural move is the opening salvo in what could be one of the most...

A federal appeals court has just affirmed one of the largest defamation awards in recent history – an $83.3 million verdict against a sitting U.S. President. The ruling in the E. Jean Carroll case is a major legal blow to President Donald Trump. But more than that, it is a powerful judicial...

The long, sordid, and constitutionally significant legal battle between the writer E. Jean Carroll and President Donald Trump has finally reached a momentous conclusion – for now. An appeals court has upheld the staggering $83.3 million defamation verdict against him. This saga has been filled...

A single, explosive page from a book, hidden for years within the private estate of Jeffrey Epstein, has now been released to the world by a congressional committee. The page contains a bizarre, typewritten note to Epstein, signed with a name that appears to be “Donald.” This is not the end of...

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...

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...

“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...

The nation’s most powerful gun rights organization, long seen as a monolithic force in conservative politics, has just found itself in a surprising and constitutionally significant position. It is now standing in opposition to a potential new policy from its closest political ally, the Trump...

The fate of over a million people from Haiti and Venezuela, who have built lives in the United States for years under a legal program called Temporary Protected Status, now hangs in the balance. A federal judge has just blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to terminate their legal status, a...

A Supreme Court Justice sat on a stage at Lincoln Center, not in a courtroom, offering a rare glimpse behind the curtain of the most powerful and secretive institution in Washington. As she promotes her new memoir, Justice Amy Coney Barrett has embarked on a public tour to defend the integrity of a...

‘Somebody is Going to Die’: Federal Judges Anonymously Accuse the Supreme Court of Leaving Them ‘Out to Dry’

In the highly structured and famously quiet world of the federal judiciary, an open rebellion is brewing. A dozen federal judges, speaking under the cloak of anonymity to protect themselves from reprisal, have taken the extraordinary step of publicly criticizing their own superiors: the justices of...

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...

VP Vance Curses Out Senators After RFK Jr. Hearing: “You’re Full of S

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...

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...

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...

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 rule that would have required airlines to compensate passengers for these disruptions. Now, in a...