NYT Editorial: This past weekend, he seemed to both step back from the idea and reiterate it. “It’s something that, to the best of my knowledge, you’re not allowed to do,” Mr. Trump told NBC ...
Release: uring the first months of Donald Trump’s second presidency, his administration challenged constitutional and democratic norms on a wide range of issues, including the scope of ...
WSJ: President Trump on Sunday said he expects to leave the White House at the end of his second term without trying to run again, which would be prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. The ...
NBC News: When Welker tried to point out what the Fifth Amendment said, Trump suggested that such a process would slow him down too much. “I don’t know. It seems — it might say that, but if you’re ...
Jerry Goldfeder in the NYLJ. The post “Saving the Republic” appeared first on Election Law Blog.
WaPo: President Donald Trump was sitting in the dining room off the Oval Office earlier this spring when he noticed a CNN headline scrolling along the bottom of the television about his desire to ...
Over at Executive Functions: Here was another episode in the series of this administration’s challenge to norms that constrain presidential abuse of power. Trump was directing the attorney general ...
NYT: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Supreme Court’s newest member, denounced on Thursday what she described as “relentless attacks” on judges, and an environment of harassment that “ultimately ...
“Doesn’t the absurdity of that seem, like, like, are we in a simulation here or what’s going on? But, like, it was a meme coin at one point . . . How did we get here?” —Elon Musk,… ...
NYT: Chris Krebs, the former cybersecurity official in President Trump’s first term whom the president recently targeted for investigation because he had said that the 2020 election had been ...
Charlie Savage for the NYT: Nearly every president has pushed the bounds of executive power to try to achieve something specific. And a handful of presidents who took office during a true national ...
NY Times: On March 11, about 50 judges gathered in Washington for the biannual meeting of the Judicial Conference, which oversees the administration of the federal courts. It was the first time ...