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July 2026 – Washington, D.C. In a landmark ruling on the issue of checks and balances between the executive branch and independent federal agencies, the United States Supreme Court decided in Wilcox v. Trump that the...
Background of the case (Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump) President Donald J. Trump, during his second term, issued several national emergencies and utilized the IEEPA law, which was initially designed to permit the executive branch to...
In the midst of President Trump’s international trade war, many effective announcements have been made regarding foreign economic relations. Over the summer, he announced that the U.S. will begin imposing 30% tariffs on imports from Mexico...
On Jan. 7, an ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, shot Renee Good three times in the head while she was in her car. Since then, multiple shootings of the same nature have taken place, including the killing...
This year, 2025, is over a decade from the time that the Supreme Court would decide one of its most consequential voting rights decisions in the current modern era, Shelby County v. Holder In 2013, the...
On November 12, the longest U.S. government shutdown finally came to an end. Lasting for 43 days, the shutdown resulted from a Republican-backed funding bill that most Democrats in the Senate did not approve of, holding...
When Paul Ingrassia receded his nomination to head the U.S. Office of Government Ethics earlier this week, it was something more than another Washington scandal. The choice, spurred by the release of racist and antisemitic text...
Throughout history, freedom of speech has never been lost in a single, instant moment. It erodes slowly, when truth becomes disloyalty, and loyalty becomes the only acceptable language. In a country founded on the basis of...
On September 3, 2025, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced in a press conference that every vaccine requirement in Florida schools would be repealed. The legislation includes mandates on vaccinations against diseases, including measles, polio, hepatitis B,...
Since its beginning, the U.S. Federal Reserve has prided itself on independence, shielding monetary policy from short-term political pressures. Yet with Donald Trump’s second term in office, that independence has faced one of its greatest tests,...
