EXPLAINED: 6 - The Real Truth

Whether or Not Trump Invokes It, the Insurrection Act Is Antiquated and Dangerously Broad

On its face, the law gives the president sweeping authority to deploy the military in response to domestic disorder.

Reason · Jun 16, 2025

The Restraining Order Against Federalizing the California National Guard Highlights Trump's Lawlessness

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer concluded that the president failed to comply with the statute he cited—and violated the 10th Amendment too.

Reason · Jun 13, 2025

Gavin Newsom Defends Federalism Against Trump's Unilateral National Guard Deployment

In a federal lawsuit, California's governor argues that the president's assertion of control over "the State's militia" is illegal and unconstitutional.

Reason · Jun 10, 2025

DOJ gives up on fighting extremists

State-level officials have been left to fend for themselves in the fight against domestic terrorism

Salon · May 29, 2025

‘We’re talking about nearly 14M people’: Hakeem Jeffries exposes twisted logic behind GOP’s new Medicaid gutting scheme

Hakeem Jeffries tells it like it is.

We Got This Covered · May 22, 2025

Court Holds Anti-DEI Executive Orders Don't Facially Violate First Amendment

Some short excerpts from Friday's long decision by Judge Timothy Kelly (D.D.C.) in National Urban League v. Trump: After taking… The post Court Holds Anti-DEI Executive Orders Don't Facially Violate First Amendment appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason · May 4, 2025

Trump administration’s attempt to nix the labor rights of thousands of federal workers on ‘national security’ grounds furthers the GOP’s long-held anti-union agenda

As the Trump administration seeks to shrink the federal workforce, slash nonmilitary spending and curb opposition to its policies, it is taking steps beyond the firing and furloughing of thousands of government workers.

The Conversation · Apr 28, 2025

It’s Jeff Bezos vs Elon Musk as Amazon boss gets into the electric car business

New Slate EV is a pick-up that can morph into an SUV – at a fraction of the cost of a Tesla Cybertruck

The Independent UK · Apr 25, 2025

Elon Musk's DOGE Controls Your Public Lands Now

DOGE—the Department of Government Efficiency—controls your public lands now. I wish I was kidding, but on April 17th, supposed Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum handed Elon Musk the entirety of America's accumulated public lands. That includes national parks, Bureau of Land Management, and Forestry lands, as well as the…

RideApart · Apr 24, 2025

Janet Yellen says America would be 'lucky to skirt a recession'

"We’re in a world of tremendous uncertainty,” the former Federal Reserve chair and U.S. Treasury secretary said.

Fortune · Apr 15, 2025