President Trump fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook on January 21, his first full day back in office. The termination letter cited “poor performance” and “low intelligence.” Cook sued within hours, arguing the president has no constitutional authority to fire Fed governors. Now the Supreme Court must answer a question that cuts to the core…

Three days after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, President Trump received a text from Norway’s prime minister asking him to de-escalate tariff threats against eight countries including Norway. Trump’s response, sent 27 minutes later, revealed the wound was still fresh: “Considering your Country decided not to…

Fifty-eight percent of Americans call Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House a failure. Fifty-five percent say his policies made the economy worse. Sixty-four percent say he hasn’t done enough about the cost of living that actually matters to them. And here’s the number that should terrify Republican strategists heading into midterms: 42%…

Military snipers stood watch on the Supreme Court roof Tuesday while two crowds below screamed at each other. One side chanted “Trans! Trans! Trans!” The other shouted “Stop cutting off the breasts!” Inside, lawyers for transgender athletes spent two hours in full retreat. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether states can ban biological…

Portland Police Chief Bob Day removed his glasses mid-sentence. His voice cracked. Tears rolled down his face as he confirmed what the Department of Homeland Security had been saying all along. The two Venezuelan illegal immigrants shot by a federal agent Thursday weren’t innocent victims. They had ties to Tren de Aragua—one of the most…

The Truth Social post went out Friday night. Credit card interest rates would be capped at 10% starting January 20. No legislation. No congressional vote. Just a presidential announcement that Americans would “no longer be ‘ripped off’ by Credit Card Companies.” By Saturday morning, constitutional scholars were asking the obvious question: Can a president unilaterally…

The pardon came in November 2025. The primary challenge came two months later. The constitutional power of presidential clemency collided with raw political calculation—and Trump’s Truth Social post explaining it became a case study in how mercy and politics intertwine. Representative Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, faced up to 20 years in federal prison on…

The letters went out Monday morning. California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York would lose over $10 billion in federal funding for child care and social services. The reason cited: fraud concerns. The political pattern: all five are Democratic-led states. By afternoon, the constitutional questions were obvious. Can a president unilaterally freeze billions in congressionally…

Frank Costello’s hands filled the television screen. The rest of him was off-camera—a compromise between his lawyers and the Kefauver Committee. But those hands, fidgeting and gesturing as he invoked the Fifth Amendment dozens of times, became one of the most unsettling images in early television history. The year was 1951. Millions of Americans watched…

Delta Force operators struck Venezuela’s largest military complex before dawn Saturday. By nightfall, President Nicolás Maduro was in a Brooklyn detention center, his wife was in federal custody, and President Trump announced the United States would “run” Venezuela temporarily. No congressional authorization. No declaration of war. No advance notification to legislative leadership. The operation raises…

President Trump posted what he’s calling “THE TRUMP RULE” on Truth Social Tuesday morning: a 400-word manifesto declaring that the Federal Reserve should lower interest rates when the economy is doing well, not raise them. The post claims GDP growth hit 4.2% against predictions of 2.5%. It argues that markets now go down on good…

The White House Christmas is more than a holiday celebration; it is a curated projection of the presidency. For nearly a century, First Families have used ornaments, trees, and themes to signal everything from wartime austerity to booming prosperity. Below is a chronicled journey through over 40 distinct years of White House history. Each image…

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called Tuesday’s jobs report “strong” and credited President Trump with “creating a strong, America First economy in record time.” The actual data shows the economy lost jobs in three of the past six months. Job growth since Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs in April has averaged 17,000 jobs per month…

The Justice Department released hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files Friday afternoon, meeting a 30-day deadline imposed by a law President Trump signed in November after fellow Republicans pressured him to stop blocking their release. The files include new photos of Epstein with former President Bill Clinton. They identify more than 1,200…

Senator John Kennedy has a message for his own party: You’re wasting the majority you fought for. The Louisiana Republican wants Congress to use budget reconciliation again – the brutal legislative process that consumed months of 2025 and nearly fractured the GOP coalition. Republicans used it once to pass Trump’s tax package. Kennedy says they…

Nick Reiner, son of acclaimed director Rob Reiner, was arrested Sunday night on suspicion of murdering his parents. The 32-year-old is being held without bail after Rob and Michele Reiner were found dead with stab wounds in their Brentwood home. The arrest came five hours after firefighters discovered the bodies. Nick wasn’t at the scene…

Thirteen House Republicans defied their party leadership Wednesday night to advance a bill reversing President Trump’s executive order that stripped collective bargaining rights from federal worker unions. The vote wasn’t supposed to happen. House Speaker Mike Johnson didn’t schedule it. Republican leadership opposed it. But Rep. Jared Golden, a Maine Democrat, forced the vote anyway…

Six Democratic veterans in Congress recorded a video last month reminding service members of their legal duty to disobey unlawful orders. Donald Trump called it “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” The White House launched investigations. Trump-appointed FBI leaders pressured domestic terrorism agents to open seditious conspiracy cases. The Democrats became targets of a federal retaliation…

James Comey, the former FBI director Donald Trump fired in 2017, now faces criminal charges for testimony he gave to Congress nearly five years ago. The indictment came days after Trump publicly demanded prosecutors speed up their investigation. It came hours after the lead federal prosecutor – who had cast doubt on the evidence –…

Trump just announced that every document Biden signed with an autopen machine – pardons, executive orders, contracts, the whole stack – is “null, void, and of no further force or effect.” Not through a legal filing. Not through executive action. Through a Truth Social post that reads like a royal decree. The declaration came Tuesday…

Trump Wants Your Employer To Put 12% Of Your Pay In Retirement – Whether You Like It Or Not President Trump said Tuesday his administration is “looking very seriously” at adopting an Australian-style retirement system for America. “It’s a good plan. It’s worked out very well,” he told reporters at the White House. The Australian…

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Alina Habba – Trump’s former personal lawyer turned New Jersey U.S. Attorney – is unlawfully serving in that role. The unanimous decision from three judges said the administration’s appointment strategy would “effectively permit anyone to fill the U.S. Attorney role indefinitely,” which “should raise a red flag.” Habba…

Senator Bernie Moreno wants every American with foreign citizenship to choose: Keep U.S. citizenship and renounce the other country, or keep the foreign citizenship and automatically lose American status. His “Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025” gives dual citizens one year to decide. Those who don’t actively choose lose U.S. citizenship by default – they become…

The federal salary tables don’t usually make headlines, but they quietly reveal how the United States values its highest-level public servants. These numbers tell a story about power, responsibility, and how the government compensates the people who sit atop its three branches. From the presidency to the Supreme Court to congressional leadership, here is a…

A family earning $75,000 could afford roughly the same lifestyle in 2020 as they could in 2017. That same family in 2025 needs about $91,000 to maintain what they had in 2021. The dollar amounts on their paychecks went up – but everything else went up faster. That gap explains American economic anxiety better than…

Senator Ted Cruz called Tucker Carlson “bat-crap crazy” and “a coward” in recent weeks. He accused him of antisemitism for platforming Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. At the Republican Jewish Coalition in October, Cruz called Carlson “complicit in evil.” Carlson’s response to Axios when asked about Cruz’s attacks: “Hilarious. Good luck. That’s my comment and heartfelt…

Kevin Hassett, director of Trump’s National Economic Council, told reporters Thursday there’s enough tariff revenue to cover the $2,000 checks the president proposed. “If you look at how much tariff revenue has been coming in, then there would actually be enough room to cover those checks and not go into the rest of the budget.”…

President Trump announced Friday he’s ordering the Justice Department and FBI to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s “involvement and relationship” with prominent Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and financial institutions JPMorgan and Chase. “This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats,”…

Members of Congress earned approximately $20,000 each during the 43-day government shutdown. Their paychecks arrived on schedule every two weeks while air traffic controllers, TSA agents, and over a million federal workers went without pay. The Constitution guarantees it. Article I, Section 6: “The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to…

Republicans on the House floor erupted in cheers Wednesday night as the vote total crossed the threshold needed to pass. Democrats quietly exited the chamber. The final tally was 222-209. After 43 days – the longest government shutdown in American history – Congress sent a bill to President Trump’s desk to reopen the federal government.…

The Discharge Petition, The Delayed Swearing-In, And The Epstein Files Trump Doesn’t Want Released Adelita Grijalva won her congressional election on September 23. House Speaker Mike Johnson finally swore her in Wednesday afternoon – 50 days after her election was certified. Not because of vote counting delays or certification problems. Because Johnson refused to administer…

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has succeeded in getting the Supreme Court of the United States to review a major dispute over state laws that allow mail-in ballots to be counted if postmarked by Election Day but received days later. The case centers on whether such “grace period” rules run afoul of federal election-day statutes.…

President Trump announced on his social media platform that Americans can expect checks for $2,000, funded by “massive Tariff Income pouring into our Country from foreign countries.” The money would go to “low and middle income USA Citizens” – direct payments from trade policy revenue. The proposal raises two distinct questions that deserve examination. First,…

David Bookbinder used to be the lawyer representing Boulder, Colorado, in its climate lawsuit against ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy. He’s no longer actively involved in the case. Which apparently freed him up to say what the lawsuit is actually trying to accomplish. “Essentially, the tort liability is an indirect carbon tax,” Bookbinder told a Federalist…

Mark Wolf spent 40 years on the federal bench. He had a lifetime appointment – the kind of job security that exists nowhere else in American life. He could have served until he died, drawing his salary, wielding his power, secure in the knowledge that no president could touch him. Sunday, he walked away from…

Eight Democratic and Independent senators walked onto the floor Sunday evening and voted to end the longest government shutdown in American history. They knew what was coming – fury from their base, accusations of betrayal, charges that they’d surrendered without getting anything in return. They voted yes anyway. The government will reopen. SNAP benefits will…

The Supreme Court issued one of its shortest decisions Monday morning. No explanation. No noted dissents. Just a single sentence declining to hear an appeal that asked them to overturn the constitutional right to same-sex marriage. Kim Davis – the Kentucky county clerk who went to jail in 2015 rather than issue marriage licenses to…

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer walked onto the floor Friday morning with what he called “a very simple compromise.” The government would reopen at current spending levels. Three bipartisan appropriations bills would pass. And expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies – the ones keeping millions of Americans’ insurance premiums affordable – would extend for one year.…

A federal judge gave the Trump administration 24 hours to send $4 billion to 42 million hungry Americans. The administration’s response wasn’t to comply – it was to race to the Supreme Court for permission to ignore him. By 9:30 PM Friday, the Supreme Court granted that permission. The temporary block means the very people…

The results of Tuesday’s off-year elections have sent a shockwave through the Republican Party. Losses in the Virginia and New Jersey governor’s races, coupled with a stunning socialist victory in the New York City mayoral contest, have forced a painful internal reckoning. While party leaders publicly blame “bad candidates,” privately, a much deeper and constitutionally…

It was meant to be a routine victory lap for the Senate Minority Leader, a moment to celebrate a surprisingly good election night for his party amidst a grueling government shutdown. But the carefully orchestrated press conference was suddenly upended by an uninvited guest with a very different message. This unscripted moment on Capitol Hill…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sat in the middle rows of the Supreme Court chamber Wednesday, flanked by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. The three men responsible for negotiating Trump’s trade deals watched as the justices spent two and a half hours doing something unexpected – holding a Republican president to the…

Polls closed in New York City Tuesday night in a mayoral race that drew more than 2 million voters – the first time turnout has exceeded that threshold since 1969. The contest pits Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist who won the Democratic primary, against Andrew Cuomo, the former governor forced to resign amid harassment…

The race for mayor of New York City has just been nationalized in the most dramatic way possible. On the eve of the election, the President of the United States has intervened, not just with an endorsement, but with a direct and constitutionally explosive threat against the city’s 8 million residents. In a lengthy social…

The long and heated war over who gets to set the rules for America’s elections has just seen a decisive battle. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has issued a permanent, final ruling on the President’s attempt to unilaterally change how Americans register to vote. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has permanently blocked a key…

The clock was just hours away from striking midnight on the first of the month, a deadline that threatened to plunge 42 million Americans into a food crisis. As the government shutdown dragged on, the nation’s food stamp program was set to go dark. In a last-minute, dramatic intervention, the third branch of our government…

Senator Lindsey Graham wants to amend the Constitution to force members of Congress to forfeit their paychecks during government shutdowns. He introduced the proposal Wednesday – on day 30 of a shutdown that has left 1.3 million federal workers unpaid while senators and representatives continue collecting their $174,000 annual salaries without interruption. Graham’s logic is…

Derek Lopez flipped a Turning Point USA table at Illinois State University, got fired from his teaching assistant position, and then allegedly posted threats against President Trump online. The FBI and Secret Service arrested him Tuesday following a month-long joint investigation. He faces federal charges for threatening a sitting president. The sequence reveals how campus…

President Trump announced Wednesday night that he has ordered the Department of War to resume nuclear weapons testing “immediately” to match other nations’ programs. The directive ends a 33-year American moratorium on nuclear testing that has been maintained by presidents of both parties since 1992. Trump cited Russia’s recent missile tests and China’s growing nuclear…

This is a story about more than just one man’s ambitions. It is a profound test of one of our republic’s most essential constitutional guardrails – the 22nd Amendment – and a sobering look at what happens when unwritten norms of presidential restraint begin to crumble. What Did the President Say This Time? President Trump’s…

The vast network of interstate highways is the circulatory system of the American economy, powered by millions of commercial truck drivers moving goods across the continent. But a series of horrific, fatal accidents involving undocumented immigrants behind the wheel of semi-trucks has just blown the lid off a dangerous and constitutionally fraught situation. The revelation…