The Solicitor General told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it is “critical” the justices “act promptly.” Otherwise, he warned, lower court orders “will effectively run out the clock” on the administration’s ability to…

Senators left town in the predawn hours before dawn on Saturday, and the SAVE America Act was still sitting there unpassed. That bill was the president’s top legislative priority of 2026. He said it would “guarantee the midterms.” He demanded Thune…

Mike Lindell is not going to be governor of Minnesota. Republican primary voters got a look at the pillow salesman who spent five years insisting the 2020 election was stolen, weighed him against the sitting Speaker of the state House, and went with the Speaker. It…

Federal recommendations determine which vaccines insurance must cover. The executive order signed this week alongside RFK Jr. would reshape the childhood vaccine schedule for American children. According to a White House document, the number of diseases covered by…

Todd Blanche is the Attorney General of the United States. Until recently, his job was representing Donald Trump as a criminal defendant. That sentence is worth sitting with for a moment before moving on to the mechanics, because the mechanics have a way of making the…

Anonymous complaints from members of Congress are one of Washington’s most common—and least valuable—commodities. Reporters collect them constantly. Most mean nothing. Sometimes, though, they matter. The challenge is knowing which kind you are hearing. This week, The…

Start with the part that almost never happens anymore: two Republican senators told this administration no—and the administration backed down. The Justice Department had announced a $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” supposedly to compensate people who said they…

For a few days last week, two Republican senators, John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, were holding up the confirmation of Todd Blanche, the president’s former personal criminal defense attorney, to run the Justice Department. There was…

The whole story unfolded in less than 48 hours. On Sunday afternoon, flying back from New Jersey, the president told reporters he had called off “massive” strikes on Iran and that negotiations would begin Monday. He offered no location, named no participants, and…

Twice now the House has told this president he does not have the authority to wage this war. Twice he has waged it anyway. In June the Senate said the same thing. The bombs kept falling on schedule, indifferent to the roll call. So it is fair to ask what the point…