Executive overreach
Trump’s mercurial, constantly changing import taxes took U.S. businesses on wild ride
As President Donald Trump told it, his "Liberation Day" tariffs aimed to correct "unfair trade practices by other countries." But there was little rhyme or reason to the widely varying tariff rates he…
Trump’s ‘military operation’ wordplay can’t hide Iran war
Today marks 30 days since the U.S. bombed Iran, and there are still more questions than answers. What is the purpose? How long will it take to achieve victory? What does victory even look like? Last week, President Donald…
Trump’s new tariff plan still asserts a crisis that does not exist
President Donald Trump's original plan for addressing the purported threat posed by the longstanding U.S. trade deficit, which the Supreme Court rejected in February, involved declaring an imaginary emergency to justify…
Trump says justices catered to ‘radical left’ by ruling against his tariffs
During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Donald Trump described the Supreme Court's rejection of his "emergency" tariffs as a "very unfortunate ruling." That was mild compared to…
The Insurrection Act is alarmingly vague and broad
President Donald Trump, who has periodically threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act before reconsidering, performed that familiar two-step again last week. "I don't think I need it right now," Trump told…
Why the DOJ has stopped describing Maduro as the head of a literal drug cartel
On the same day that U.S. forces invaded Venezuela to capture Nicolás Maduro, the Justice Department published a federal indictment that supposedly justified the operation. Like the 2020 indictment that federal prosecutors…
Invading Venezuela for ‘law enforcement’ is an open-ended license for war
Venezuela is well rid of Nicolás Maduro, a corrupt, oppressive, and illegitimate leader who presided over that country's continuing decline after succeeding Hugo Chávez in 2013. And judging from what happened after the…
3 areas where courts resisted Trump’s attempts to avoid judicial review in 2025
In December, CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss provoked internal and external criticism by postponing a 60 Minutes segment about President Donald Trump's deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members to Centro de…
How politicians and cops tried to dodge responsibility in 2025
On his way out the door last January, President Joe Biden issued broad, preemptive pardons for several relatives and political allies. Those stay-out-jail cards set an alarming precedent that could undermine the…
Trump tells America it’s back, as executive overreach deepens
In Wednesday night's address, President Donald Trump framed the first 11 months in his second term as a miraculous turnaround: order on our border, decreased costs of living, peace in the Middle East, and an economic…
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