The Trump administration filed its first application with the Alien Terrorist Removal Court on July 15. Congress created this tribunal in 1996 and no administration used it until now. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act established the court and authorizes the chief justice to appoint five district judges from five different circuits to decide whether noncitizens accused of terrorism-related activity should be removed from the country. The mechanism sat untouche

Professor Daniel Z. Epstein joins a list of Trump lawyers who have lost their standing for representing him. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams barred him from practicing in the Southern District of Florida for one year. She also referred a second Trump attorney, Alejandro Brito, to the Florida Bar for possible discipline. Both sanctions come from Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, a case filed by a sitting president against agencies led by his own app

There are political books that tell readers something new, and then there are political books that simply confirm what many Americans have been screaming at their televisions for the better part of a decade. Regime Change by journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan belongs firmly in the second category. For anyone who has spent the last several years asking, “Wait… this is really happening?” This book arrives carrying enough receipts to wallpaper the entire kitchen. Draw

President Trump flew home from the NATO summit in Ankara on two different planes on July 8. He left Turkey on an old Boeing VC-25A, the same baby-blue jet that has ferried presidents since 1990. The new Qatari-gifted jet flew ahead to Britain, where Trump switched back for the final leg to Washington. Trump attributed the choice to sentiment. "For old time's sake, we'll be taking the former Air Force One, from Turkey," he posted on Truth Social. The New York Times reported th

McConnell Still Chairs the Rules Committee From His Hospital Bed Mitch McConnell has been well enough to discuss Iran, Ukraine, national security, and a Supreme Court ruling on campaign spending from his hospital bed. He has not been well enough to do it in person, on video, or in front of anyone outside his own staff and a handful of allies who have relayed the conversations secondhand. The Kentucky Republican, 84, entered the hospital on the morning of June 14. His office h

The Man Who Can't Read From a Teleprompter Has Concerns About Dyslexia President Donald Trump has a new talking point, and he is committing to it with the kind of fervor usually reserved for grievances about crowd sizes and election returns. Over the course of a single week in March 2026, Trump told anyone within earshot, at least four separate times, that California Governor Gavin Newsom is unfit for the presidency because he has dyslexia. Speaking to reporters in the Oval O

MAGA Democrats: The Moderates Moving As GOP Allies The Democratic Party has a problem, and it is not coming from the right. It is festering from within, cultivated by a breed of politicians who campaign in blue but govern in red. These are the MAGA Democrats—Moderates Moving As GOP Allies—and they represent everything wrong with a party that cannot decide what it stands for. Bobby Pulido's recent announcement to run for Congress as a Democrat exemplifies this phenomenon perfe