Trump’s Pick Just Took Over the Federal Reserve. The Most Important Question Is Whether He Stays Independent.
Jerome Powell's term as chair of the Federal Reserve ends tomorrow. On Wednesday, the Senate confirmed his replacement by a vote of 54 to 45, the closest confirmation of a Fed chair in the modern era and the first to fall almost entirely along party lines. Kevin...
The Unit Built to Fight Corruption After Watergate Is Down to Two Lawyers
When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section had roughly 40 full-time attorneys. The section was created after Watergate specifically to investigate and prosecute corruption by public officials. It...
Alabama Defied the Court Order for Years. The Supreme Court Just Let It Win Anyway.
For five years, Alabama fought to keep a congressional map that federal courts ruled was racially discriminatory. It lost in court repeatedly. It defied the orders anyway. On Monday, with voters already casting absentee ballots for a primary eight days away, the...
Every Special Election Since Trump Returned Has Swung Toward Democrats
Chedrick Greene is a firefighter from Saginaw, Michigan. On Tuesday, he won a state Senate seat in a district that Kamala Harris carried by less than one percentage point in 2024. He won it by 19. Greene's victory preserved the Democratic majority in the Michigan...
Two Appeals Courts Have Ruled Against Trump’s No-Bond Immigration Policy. Two Have Ruled For It.
Last July, the Trump administration quietly rewrote the rules on who could be held in immigration detention. A memo from ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons declared that immigrants who had entered the country without authorization were ineligible for bond hearings, full...
Trump’s DOJ Is Trying to Remove Voters Before November. The Tool It Is Using Keeps Flagging Citizens.
The Justice Department has sued 29 states to obtain their voter registration files. It is using a federal immigration database to identify suspected noncitizens on those rolls. In state after state, the database keeps flagging eligible American citizens. Courts have...
The Supreme Court Ruled Wednesday. By Friday, Two States Had Called Special Sessions.
The ink was barely dry on the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act ruling when the scramble began. Within 48 hours of the 6-3 decision limiting the law's power to protect minority voters, the Republican governors of Alabama and Tennessee had called their legislatures...
House Republicans Spent 75 Days Refusing a Deal. Then They Took the Deal.
The 75-day partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security ended Thursday when House Republicans passed the exact bill they had spent 10 weeks refusing to accept. The measure funds TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, and the Secret Service through September. It does...
The Supreme Court Just Dismantled the Voting Rights Act’s Core Protection. Florida Acted Within the Hour.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Wednesday to sharply limit the Voting Rights Act's power to protect minority voters from discriminatory redistricting. By the time the ruling was an hour old, Florida Republicans had passed a new congressional map designed to flip four...
Trump Is Pushing a Voting Law His Own Party Says Could Cost Them the Midterms
Republicans have spent months trying to pass the SAVE Act, the bill that would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. It has stalled in the Senate. Trump renewed his call this week to eliminate the filibuster and force it...