The Government Shutdown Isn't Stopping Trump From Amassing 'Emergency' Powers
As of mid-2025, there were roughly 50 simultaneous national emergencies in force.
As of mid-2025, there were roughly 50 simultaneous national emergencies in force.
After the Miami New Times asked why nearly two dozen U.S. citizens showed up on a Florida immigration enforcement dashboard, those numbers disappeared.
The president bet that no one would stop him from land attacks in Venezuela. And Congress hasn’t given him any reason to think otherwise.
The total is over 600 percent more than what the agency spent from January to October 2024.
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The new report examined prices of French wine after Trump imposed tariffs in 2019.
The president somehow believes that tariffs can deliver wins for both producers and consumers. It is maddening and nonsensical.
Without strict oversight, the agency’s new technology threatens Americans’ free speech and privacy.
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Former Sen. Jeff Flake discusses how Trump reshaped the GOP, why populism betrayed conservative values, and why he believes the system can still be reformed.
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The potential for deadly error underlines the lawlessness of the president’s bloodthirsty anti-drug strategy.
Despite trims, the Energy Department is still wasting billions.
The Trump administration is reportedly looking to ease some tariffs on goods not produced in the U.S., as the consequences of a universal tariff scheme are becoming impossible to ignore.
He was transferred to a detention center over 500 miles away from his family.
The law applies to millions of Americans who pose no plausible threat to public safety, including cannabis consumers in states that have legalized marijuana.
The correct answer is: Yes, even when they are also regulations. Whether the Court agrees could determine the future of presidential power.
While the settlements likely don't meet the statutory definition of bribery, they're still inappropriate.
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The military establishment’s efforts to quash leaks could encourage them instead.
Fully peaceful protesters who hate President Donald Trump with intensity but not much specificity took to the streets on Saturday.
The Argentine president needed a U.S. bailout, and his political adversaries are gaining ground.
Until now, the president concedes, interdiction has been "totally ineffective." Blowing up drug boats won't change that reality.
U.S. District Court Judge Sara L. Ellis is “profoundly concerned” about the continued clashing between protestors and federal agents despite her temporary restraining order issued last week.
Some blue states are trying to set up their own versions of the NLRB, and Hawley is inadvertently (or deliberately) helping the cause.
Grand juries have declined to indict numerous times when Trump's prosecutors have brought excessive charges.
The former Trump administration official is facing a maximum of 180 years in prison.
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"There was tremendous criminal activity," the president averred, urging unspecified charges against former Special Counsel Jack Smith, former FBI lawyer Andrew Weissmann, and former Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco.
The evidence is clear that we are paying more, U.S. firms have lower margins, and exports are collapsing in flagship industries.
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Meta is the third tech company in two weeks to succumb to DOJ pressure to remove apps and groups used to share information on immigration officer sightings.
It turns out that free trade is essential for the military too.
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The cases give the justices a chance to address a constitutionally dubious policy that disarms peaceful Americans.
After waiting for an hour and a half for her son to be released to her, the boy’s mother was told he was instead transferred to an ICE facility in another state.
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Multiple judges say SCOTUS is going out of its way to grant emergency relief to the president without even bothering to explain why.
An interesting Reuters report on the new locus of lawsuits challenging the Trump Administration.
The Trump Administration’s threats to revoke broadcasters’ licenses and President Trump’s lawsuits against media companies implicate important, and contested, Supreme Court First Amendment doctrines. Should these actions affect how courts and scholars analyze these doctrines?
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The arrest comes less than a day after a federal judge ordered federal law enforcement to stop impeding reporters and protesters.
If the courts try to enforce legal limits on the president's military deployments, he can resort to an alarmingly broad statute that gives him more discretion.
Civil servants are normally temporarily furloughed during shutdowns. The White House insists the current funding lapse empowers them to permanently fire workers.
The case is the second in two weeks, with little legal merit, filed by a neophyte prosecutor against a Trump opponent
For the fiscal year that ended on September 30, the federal government spent more than $7 trillion and ran a $1.8 trillion deficit.
A new White House budget memo frames shutdown furlough pay withholdings as fiscal restraint, but the budgetary impact is minimal—the greater effect may be expanding executive control over the federal bureaucracy.
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