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fromThe New Yorker
1 day ago

"Everyone is Overreacting" on the Tariff Ruling, Stephen Vladeck Says

President Trump increasingly defies Supreme Court rulings while the Court's shadow docket enables executive power expansion through emergency shortcuts that may reflect partisan preferences over legal principles.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Dragged down by an unpopular president, Republicans are bracing for a midterm trouncing

Rapid expansion of executive power and aggressive purges empowered Trump, but growing public backlash and internal fractures risk political collapse of the Republican coalition.
US politics
fromAxios
4 months ago

Exclusive: W.H. cites George Washington for Trump paying troops without Congress

The White House seeks to reallocate RDT&E funds to pay troops, expanding executive power amid a politically driven government shutdown.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Will Republicans in Congress finally stand up to Trump?

Congress, dominated by loyal Republicans, has largely failed to check Trump's rapid expansion of presidential power, enabling authoritarian tendencies.
fromIntelligencer
5 months ago

Imagining an Imperial Democratic President

For the left, there is little more terrifying than an emboldened Donald Trump. Deep into the first year of his second term, he has behaved like an imperial president, thriving off new precedents set by the Supreme Court to shred democratic norms. He has gutted the federal bureaucracy, wantonly dispatched the National Guard to Democrat-run cities, unilaterally imposed tariffs, unilaterally launched a missile strike on Iran, and wrongfully deported an immigrant to El Salvador.
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