Showing posts with label constitutional crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label constitutional crisis. Show all posts
Thursday, September 24, 2026

US Government is Paying for Trump Advertising

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At first glance, it looks like a typical Republican campaign advertisement. As images of President Donald Trump flash across the screen, the...
Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Profiles in Cowardice

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The thing I’ve found most shocking about Donald Trump’s second presidency is not the epic grift, the ICE paramilitary violence or the assaul...
Sunday, August 23, 2026

Can Presidents Exempt People from US Law?

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After the Supreme Court struck down his first order restricting birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara, President Trump signed a new ord...
Sunday, August 09, 2026

Are We Witnessing a "Soft Secession"

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“I actually think,” Rush Limbaugh told his many millions of listeners during the weeks between Donald Trump losing the 2020 election and his...
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Friday, July 24, 2026

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him

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When the Trump administration canceled more than $7.5 billion in Biden-era federal grants for clean energy projects in October, it framed th...
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Saturday, July 18, 2026

The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History, by the Numbers

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Ask historians or laymen to name the most blatantly corrupt pardon over the first 230 years or so of American presidenting, and most will li...
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Friday, July 17, 2026

Trump calls for revocation of ABC, NBC licenses over speech snub

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President Donald Trump said TV networks that did not feature live coverage of his primetime address on election security should have their b...
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Todd Blanche Defends Trump's Blatantly Corrupt IRS 'Settlement'

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"I'm his lawyer," Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, describi...
Friday, July 10, 2026

Quote of the day...

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In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American People, find our account running, under date of the nineteenth cent...
Wednesday, July 08, 2026

CATO: A Familiar Pattern: White House Self-Dealing in US Trade & Investment Policy

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President Trump’s 2025 financial disclosure landed last week showing more than $2 billion in income, roughly triple 2024’s figure. Cryptocur...
Sunday, June 21, 2026

A Malicious Chapter in the History of American Justice

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An unusual tweet caught my eye last week. It was from Josh Gerstein, Politico’s senior legal affairs reporter, and it said this: “NEW: Trump...
Tuesday, June 02, 2026

The Commander in Thief

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With each passing month of his presidency, Donald Trump behaves more like America’s commander in thief than its commander in chief. How so? ...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

McConnell slams Blanche over ‘slush fund to pay people who assault cops’

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Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) on Thursday slammed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for accepting the Trump admin...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

The United States is Now a Banana Republic

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America is in the middle of the most serious constitutional crisis since the Civil War. It is time for a non-violent revolution. The people ...
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DOJ Grants Sweeping Tax Immunity to Trump

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an agreement Tuesday declaring the federal government will not seek any sort of audit or payment...

In Donald Trump's hands the Power of the Pardon is a dagger aimed at the constitution and the rule of law

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...The pardon power raises more profound concerns, however, when wielded as a tool of managerial control—one that can negate the basic crimi...

Some good reads from Reason

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Trump Settles His Own Lawsuit Against the IRS for $1.8 Billion of Your Money How bad is California's 'squatters rights?" Furiou...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

China Increasingly Views Trump’s America as an Empire in Decline

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When President Trump visited China in late 2017, Xi Jinping welcomed him with a grand display of Chinese history and culture: a four-hour pr...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Trump's 2nd Bogus Indictment of James Comey

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If it’s possible, the Trump Justice Department’s new indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is even more absurd than the previous ind...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Trump is Going After ABC (again)

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The Federal Communications Commission has directed Walt Disney Co. to file early license renewal applications for its ABC television station...