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President Trump has attempted to deploy soldiers into at least five major Democratic-led U.S. cities. Stemming from his long desire to deploy the military internally, his snap mobilizations blatantly violate the country’s longstanding democratic practice of constraining the use of soldiers to enforce federal law.
There was a time, not very long ago, when it would be highly unusual for any Department of Justice lawyer, let alone the assistant attorney general for civil rights, to have a catchphrase. But Harmeet Dhillon does: FAFO. It’s shorthand for “F*** Around and Find Out.” Before her government appointment, Dhillon would often tweet the […]
Some of the largest law firms in the U.S. are telling clients to prepare for possible politically motivated governmental probes stemming from President Trump’s new national security directive on domestic terrorism.
President Trump doubled down on his dangerous drive for authoritarian powers this week even as it continues to generate harsh criticism from Americans.
Some worry the trove of voter data could offer a goldmine of misleading evidence to allow the Trump administration to super-charge its false narrative about rampant illegal voting.
Lower court judges overseeing the avalanche of lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s power grab are increasingly voicing their concerns and frustrations with the Supreme Court’s handling of the second Trump administration thus far.
Over the last two weeks, President Donald Trump has barely managed to go a day without threatening to send the National Guard to Chicago — or New York, Baltimore, Seattle, New Orleans or any other American city. After ordering thousands of troops to Los Angeles in June and more to Washington, D.C. in August, Trump […]
The president’s unfolding urban power grab — along with his ongoing attacks on mail voting, which he recently pledged to “get rid of” — have some observers fearing an even more worrying scenario: that the administration is laying the groundwork to deploy troops or law enforcement to the polls in key cities next year and in 2028.
How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washington’s? After all, if D.C. is in the throes of a crime emergency worthy of a militarized response — and you have no concerns that response might backfire — then why aren’t the good people of Jackson, Mississippi or North Charleston, South Carolina?
We asked them.
Less than a year into his second term, President Donald Trump and his appointees in the Department of Justice have already filed charges or launched investigations against a dozen of his political opponents, including New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and former President Barack Obama (D).
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