One of the Trump administration and the GOP’s biggest goals in the last year has been to reauthorize a national spying program due to expire soon, and while a deal to do just that was almost over the finish line, according to Politico, President Donald Trump’s latest impulsive decision has sent the …
Almost 50 years ago, on July 2, 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its hotly debated ruling in Gregg v. Georgia — which ended a de facto moratorium on the death penalty and cleared the way for individual states to move forward with executions. Austin Sarat, a professor of jurisprudence and pol…
On Monday, the Justice Department announced that it will take action to revoke citizenship from 17 people across the country, which CNN reports is an “unprecedented” escalation in President Donald Trump’s push to target naturalized citizens. “Since President Donald Trump returned to office, his admi…
Much of the criticism of President Donald Trump on the right is coming from Never Trump conservatives and libertarians, many of whom were scathing opponents of the MAGA movement from the get-go. Attorney George Conway, The Washington Post’s George Will, MS NOW’s Joe Scarbrough and The Lincoln Projec…
On Sunday, President Donald Trump stormed off from a Meet the Press Interview after correspondent Kristen Welker noted that he had presented “no evidence” to support his claims that Democrats have been stealing elections. While he was primarily focused on the 2020 election he lost, he also asserted …
Reese Gorman’s new report for NOTUS centers discusses Speaker Mike Johnson ceding his job to President Donald Trump. According to the piece, posted Monday, Johnson relies so much on Trump that the president is the one who actually runs the House. Trump is in on the joke, too. “I have two jobs: bein…
After President Donald Trump told a “bunch of lies” on “Meet the Press” — abruptly cutting off the interview and walking out — CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale zeroed in on one of the most consequential: Trump’s claim that he never promised any wars in his second term.“First of all, I didn’t guarantee n…
During a bitter “60 Minutes” interview with CBS News’ Kristen Welker, President Donald Trump repeated his debunked claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him and attacked her as “crooked” for disagreeing. But journalist Jose Pagliery, writing for NOTUS, lays out a variety of way i…
As President Donald Trump’s Iran war enters its fourth month, a prominent retired Lt. General is pressing the commander-in-chief to level with U.S. troops in the Middle East and tell them whether a plan exists.Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (Ret.) served as commander of U.S. Army Europe from 2011 to 2012. H…
Although Donald J. Trump’s first presidential campaign in 2000 was short-lived, his second in 2016 dramatically reshaped the Republican Party around the slogan “Make America Great Again.” But many of President Trump’s foes believe that he has created one crisis after another since returning to the W…