Many commentators have criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 29 ruling in Trump v. Slaughter for dismantling protections that had historically insulated independent agencies
from direct presidential control. The decision allows the president to remove principal officers in almost any federal agency at will. [...]
In June, the Senate joined the House in voting for a concurrent resolution under the 1973 War Powers Resolution directing President Donald Trump to remove U.S. armed forces
from hostilities against Iran. The passage of House Concurrent Resolution 86 (H. Con. [...]
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launched a new set of attacks against Iran overnight, as fighting continued for a sixth straight day. [...]
President Donald Trump used a nationally televised address Thursday evening to release intelligence that he said showed American voting systems are vulnerable to foreign attack
and that China acquired data on 220 million U.S. voters. He accused officials within the U.S. [...]
Earlier this week, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, together with video and press statements, that the United States would be undertaking
an effort to dismantle the International Criminal Court (ICC), “brick by brick if necessary.” We and others responded to this statement here. [...]
Not long after beginning his second term in office, President Donald Trump addressed leaders in the Department of Justice: “So now as the chief law enforcement officer in
our country, I will insist upon and demand full and complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses that have occurred.” [...]
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth plans to involuntarily mobilize military lawyers for duty as immigration judges and to serve as government counsel in cases involving
detained migrant children, according to Bloomberg. The Department of Defense is first seeking volunteers, but if too few people step forward, Hegseth has authorized [...]
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intensified its strikes on Iran overnight, hitting targets around Tehran and other areas in northern Iran, Iranian state media said. [...]
Colombia last month elected Abelardo de la Espriella president, consolidating a right-wing wave across Latin America, now spanning Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador,
Honduras, and, more recently, Peru. The election was extremely close: de La Espriella received 49.66 percent of the votes (12,959,542) against leftist candidate Iván [...]
“[T]his Court has some work to do,” writes Justice Neil Gorsuch in his whiplash-inducing concurring opinion in Slaughter v. Trump, in which the Supreme Court ruled 6-3
that presidents have the constitutional authority to fire the heads of independent federal agencies at will. [...]