Trump’s FBI pick Kash Patel advances in full Senate procedural vote before expected confirmation
GOP senators have praised Patel, 44, for his commitment to rooting out political “weaponization” at the FBI — while Democrats ...
A (nearly) complete list of Trump’s actions in his fourth week in office
The fourth week was more of the same, as the president seeks to reshape the federal government and the court system.
Perspective: Why it is important to support the federal judiciary as they wrestle with major issues
Accusations that some judges are partisans — whether those accusations come from the left or the right — are not only ...
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Q&A: What Gives Courts the Power To Review Congress and the President?
A U.S. Supreme Court decision more than two centuries ago grants the federal courts power to decide if laws and orders ...
Why new Attorney General Pam Bondi is going all in on the federal death penalty
Elections have consequences, so the slogan goes. One of those consequences was on full display Feb. 5, in the minutes after ...
White House says some employees were fired by mistake
Meanwhile, Trump is making his first big foray into foreign diplomacy with calls to Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's ...
Dismantling of federal efforts to monitor election interference creates opening for foreign meddling
Our adversaries are upping their game every day,” said former Department of Homeland Security cyber chief Suzanne Spaulding. ...
The Radical Legal Theories That Could Fuel a Constitutional Crisis
An increasingly influential group of conservative scholars has some drastic ideas about the president’s power.
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Why federal courts are unlikely to save democracy from Trump’s and Musk’s attacks
Maya Sen argues that federal courts are unlikely to protect democracy from threats posed by Trump and Musk, as the ...