When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents descend on a meatpacking plant or construction site, arresting dozens of workers in the process, officials typically offer
vague explanations for the operation, such as “routine enforcement” or cite “anonymous tips.” The reality is more troubling. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence [...]
On April 1, 2026, the Department of Justice issued an opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) concluding that the Presidential Records Act (PRA) is facially unconstitutional
because it exceeds Congress’s constitutional powers and aggrandizes the Legislative Branch at the expense of the independence and autonomy of the Executive. [...]
With a ceasefire in the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict now in force (albeit under stress), it is unclear whether U.S. President Donald Trump intends to continue direct U.S. military
involvement in Iran much longer. As such, any significant regime change in Iran through direct military action – which was a key objective for the United States [...]
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The North African country of Sudan marks a grim anniversary this week: the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been fighting a civil war for three
years, creating the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. About 14 million people have been forced to flee the fighting, often multiple times, and 4.4 million have [...]
Today, the Trump administration released a report repeating unsupported claims that the Department of Justice’s prior enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances
(FACE) Act unfairly targeted religious Americans. [...]
Congress faces a choice later this month over the FBI’s access to Americans’ email, text, and phone conversations. A surveillance program created nearly twenty years ago
– Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) – will sunset on April 20 if Congress does not reauthorize it. [...]
The Trump administration has settled on a strategy: frame efforts to withhold congressionally appropriated funds as fraud prevention, and hope that hard questions about evidence,
process, and legal authority disappear. They don’t. Federal law has well-developed procedures for how agencies must actually combat fraud. [...]
On April 18, 2026, a clock that should never have started ticking reaches 1,000 days. That is how long the Azerbaijani government has held my father, Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu —
economist, professor, anti-corruption defender, opposition leader, and father — in a legal trap with no end in sight. [...]
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