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The President can issue executive orders directing agencies to identify and attempt to withhold federal funds from jurisdictions labeled “sanctuary,” but longstanding constitutional limits, prior cour...
Federal law permits immigration officers to carry firearms and use force as part of their statutory powers, but that authority is tightly framed by departmental policies, constitutional limits, and in...
There is a sustained claim from the Trump administration and allied officials that some anti-ICE demonstrators in Minnesota are “paid agitators” or “professional agitators,” but the reporting provided...
ICE agents have statutory authority to make warrantless arrests for immigration violations and, in limited circumstances, for certain criminal offenses—especially when the offense occurs in the office...
Two authoritative but differing tallies describe the nonfatal toll on officers from the January 6, 2021, attack: union and contemporaneous reporting put the figure at about , while a Government Accoun...
Current law permits Americans to hold dual citizenship; Senator Bernie Moreno’s new “Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025” would force dual nationals to choose or be treated as having relinquished U.S. c...
U.S. federal law treats CSAM—legally called “child pornography”—as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a person under 18; possession, production, and distribution are federal c...
Prosecutors must show that defendants used force, threats of force, physical obstruction, property damage, or intentional intimidation that injured or interfered with worshippers’ ability to exercise ...
No credible, verifiable evidence has been produced showing widespread fraud that changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election; multiple courts, the Department of Justice, major news inve...
The analyses provided indicate that the Trump administration has been formally accused of ignoring or circumventing court orders in roughly in which judges issued substantive rulings, based on reviews...
The president can direct executive agencies to identify and try to withhold federal funds from jurisdictions labeled “sanctuary,” and administrations have used executive orders and agency directives t...
Statutes of limitations, claims of presidential immunity, and classification rules all create legal and practical barriers to using the newly mandated “Epstein files” to open or win prosecutions or ci...
Yes—federal law gives ICE officers broad authority to make arrests and, under Attorney General–prescribed regulations, to carry firearms while performing immigration-enforcement duties , but that auth...
Federal and state entities have publicly released sizable batches of Epstein-related materials since 2020: Congress and its committees have published tens of thousands of pages and photos from Epstein...
The federal legal framework fixes the date for federal elections and supplies both criminal and civil tools that Congress, the Justice Department, and the courts can use to push back against improper ...
Israel’s statutory minimum marriage age is , following a 2013 amendment that aligned the marriage age with the age of majority and introduced criminal penalties and stricter judicial review for except...
The core claims divide into two sets: critics argue Trump’s prosecutions were politically motivated because of prosecutors’ prior statements, campaign promises, or ties to opponents; supporters of the...
No credible record shows Barack Obama was ever formally charged with a crime during or after his presidency. Recent 2025 political actions have sought investigations and grand juries into Obama-era of...
The U.S. Constitution does not include a blanket amendment that says “the president is to protect our country”; instead, multiple provisions and statutes define presidential duties for national defens...
The U.S. government uses a mix of executive orders, presidential memoranda, and interagency processes to label individuals or organizations as terrorists, centering on whether they have committed or p...