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Federal courts have put temporary or permanent blocks on multiple Trump administration executive actions in 2025 — including injunctions or stays against a passport sex-entry policy, parts of an elect...
The White House asserts that the East Wing demolition and proposed ballroom are , and officials say the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) does not permit or review demolition — only vertical...
The three documents provided for analysis contain about the Osama bin Laden raid or any congressional notification tied to it, so they cannot establish a timeline or corroborate claims about those eve...
The National Park Service (NPS) holds stewardship and management responsibilities for President’s Park, which includes segments of the White House grounds used for public access, ceremonies, and lands...
The East Wing of the White House has been demolished as part of a privately funded construction program to build a new, large White House Ballroom; this demolition was announced by the White House in ...
The President has a statutory exemption that allows the White House to bypass the National Historic Preservation Act’s Section 106 review, meaning . Past presidents have voluntarily used planning revi...
Publicly known subterranean infrastructure exists immediately adjacent to the White House — most notably a 761-foot tunnel linking the White House East Wing and the Treasury Building — and a President...
A U.S. district judge, Sara L. Ellis, imposed sweeping restrictions on federal immigration agents’ use of tear gas, pepper balls and other crowd‑control measures in Chicago after finding evidence that...
The Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on electronic surveillance has evolved from a trespass-based rule that allowed warrantless wiretaps to a privacy-focused doctrine that often requires warrants for mod...
Federal courts did not produce a definitive, adversarial ruling that settled whether the President exceeded constitutional authority in the 2011 Libya intervention; instead the legal question was liti...
White House event budgets are treated as part of the federal budget and fall under standard federal financial reporting and auditing frameworks administered by OMB and audited by GAO, but the sources ...
The clearest, repeatable finding across the provided materials is that , covering personnel, entertainment, and related residence expenses. That figure appears in multiple analyses and a 2024/2025 rep...
Federal courts have repeatedly intervened to stop executive actions that freeze or redirect appropriated funds, ordering agencies to resume disbursements in narrow cases; those interventions do not, i...
The president can initiate changes to the White House and direct executive branch operations, but involving federal agencies, preservation bodies, and Congress through funding and statutory authoritie...
The Ninth Circuit’s recent detainer-era jurisprudence has constrained ICE’s ability to rely on warrantless, database-only detainers by requiring probable cause and a neutral magistrate review for cont...
U.S. courts have repeatedly allowed prosecutions of foreign leaders accused of narcotics offenses to proceed, treating claims of head-of-state immunity and forcible extraterritorial capture narrowly a...
The United States has historically distinguished between formal terrorist designations for foreign organizations and investigative classifications for domestic violent extremists: federal law and prac...
Courts have split: lower federal judges and some appeals panels have at times rejected or limited First Amendment defenses tied to actions by or policies of the Trump administration, while other court...
U.S. intelligence agencies and the FBI investigated Russian interference in 2016 and treated the Steele dossier as “raw” and largely uncorroborated reporting rather than a finished intelligence produc...
The Supreme Court’s recent emergency decision allowed federal immigration agents in Los Angeles to resume stops that a lower court had limited — effectively permitting agents to consider race and othe...