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Recently revealed letters that Attorney General Pam Bondi sent to U.S. tech giants show Trump believes he can arbitrarily exempt companies from federal laws he doesn’t like — a monarchical assertion of power that threatens the rule of law, legal experts warn.
El Salvador’s recent disclosure to the U.N. undermines a key position DOJ lawyers have taken while defending Trump’s Alien Enemies Act removals and appears to contradict what senior Trump officials have told federal judges in sworn declarations.
The Supreme Court’s decision last week to curtail nationwide injunctions has forced those challenging President Donald Trump’s authoritarian power grab to explore other legal avenues.
In federalizing the California National Guard over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom, Trump is asserting broad powers that could be used against any state, legal scholars and national security experts told Democracy Docket.
Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has made almost daily sweeping but dubious claims of power that threaten fundamental principles, like the right to due process, the separation of powers and free and fair elections.
Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has many times outlined his extreme vision for U.S. elections.
The D.C. District Court has handed President Donald Trump three losses in a row by ruling that he violated federal laws in firing the heads or board members of independent agencies. But the legal battle over the dismissals is just beginning.
Billionaire Elon Musk in recent weeks has raged in a blizzard of social media posts at federal judges who have ruled against his efforts to disembowel the government and executive orders issued by President Donald Trump.
Trump’s pending USPS executive order could potentially allow his administration to make mail voting more difficult.
Behind the seemingly scatter-shot opening acts of Trump’s second administration, legal analysts see a common goal: to test a once-fringe legal theory which asserts that the president has unlimited power to control the actions of the four million people who make up the executive branch.
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