Trump Has a Habit of Asserting Broad, Unreviewable Authority
Whether he is waging the drug war, imposing tariffs, deporting alleged gang members, or fighting crime, the president thinks he can do "anything I want to do."
Whether he is waging the drug war, imposing tariffs, deporting alleged gang members, or fighting crime, the president thinks he can do "anything I want to do."
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All liberty involves tradeoffs. So does repressing liberty.
The phrases are a mix of anti-fascist sentiments and irony-poisoned internet memes.
The political class has been pushing the country towards a conflict nobody should want.
Shows of force and mass deportations play well to the base, but they’re falling flat with the public.
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Polling shows that most Americans agree with President Trump that crime is a problem, especially in large cities.
The president's plan to promote public safety by deploying troops in cities across the country is hard to reconcile with constitutional constraints on federal authority.
The president signed an executive order on Monday establishing specialized units within the National Guard to support federal law enforcement in American cities.
The Guardian Angels founder battles Zohran Mamdani for the anti-establishment vote while he fights Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo for the anti-socialist vote.
His executive order directs the Justice Department to deny federal funds to jurisdictions that use cashless bail for suspects for many types of crimes. The plan is another assault on federalism and separation of powers.
Turning the National Guard into a nationwide police force betrays the Founders’ vision and erodes the freedoms that make the U.S. exceptional.
As part of his response to the alleged crime emergencies taking place nationwide, Trump signed an executive order restricting federal funding from jurisdictions with cashless bail policies.
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The Washington Post columnist joins the show to discuss crime in D.C. and Trump's deployment of federal troops.
The president ordering federal agents onto the street is not how routine policing should work, even in the nation's capital.
And a lot of those were for drug possession, gun possession, and other minor offenses.
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A new book draws a rich, informative, but not entirely convincing account of a crime wave.
A video by the White House corroborates that account, calling into question just how serious the president is about actually addressing crime.
Checkpoints for general crime control are illegal and smack of a police state.
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Federal terrorist lists were not supposed to be an open-ended war authorization. But it sure looks like it’s being used as one.
This is great news, but it also undercuts Donald Trump's claim that violent crime was out of control before he returned to office.
Despite record seizures and restrictive laws, New York City has struggled to stem the tide of untraceable firearms.
Local officials initially were unfazed by complaints that the constant surveillance raised serious privacy concerns.
The Department of Homeland Security is boasting that its mass deportation program is responsible for a major drop in crime. That's unlikely for several reasons.
After a pay dispute led to a work stoppage in late May, courts in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, dismissed cases of indigent defendants who had no legal representation for 45 days.
Between 2006 and 2013, gun violence increased by 150 percent in the city when juvenile curfews were in effect.
Trump said the prison camp would hold "some of the most vicious people on the planet," but a list obtained by the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Tribune shows otherwise.
The taxes on sound suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns, originally enacted in 1934, were meant to be prohibitive, imposing bans in the guise of raising revenue.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is considering whether the president properly invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members.
No matter how John O'Keefe died, the government failed here on multiple levels.
After Vance Boelter allegedly targeted Democrats in an attack, some conservatives jumped to claim that he was actually on the left. Why?
The Supreme Court ruled decades ago that burning the flag is protected by the First Amendment, no matter how offensive that act may be.
This is far from the first time a cop has shot a dog for seemingly no reason.