presidency

Trump’s Do-Over Presidency

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Amid the chaos of a week when the world nearly witnessed its first global depression caused by the caprice of a single man, Donald Trump took some time to reflect on another recent demonstration of Presidential power—his January order for the Army Corps of Engineers to unleash billions of gallons of water from federally controlled … Read more

How John Roberts Has Empowered a Lawless Presidency

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In the first landmark Supreme Court decision of the Trump years, back in 2018, Chief Justice John Roberts established how a President hostile toward a group of noncitizens may bar them under existing immigration laws, so long as the President’s publicly stated reasons for doing so are “facially neutral.” If that test is met, the … Read more