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Counting lawsuits against presidents depends on what you count. Ballotpedia reports 133 multistate suits were filed against the Biden administration through his full term (multistate = two or more sta...
The Supreme Court’s July 2024 decision in Trump v. United States holds that former presidents have absolute immunity for "core" constitutional functions and presumptive immunity for other official act...
Barnes v. Felix is a 2025 U.S. Supreme Court decision that rejected the Fifth Circuit’s narrow “moment-of-threat” rule and reaffirmed that Fourth Amendment excessive-force claims must be judged by the...
Federal courts during and after the Obama administration blocked or limited several high-profile Obama-era executive actions — notably immigration directives like DACA/DAPA and other agency rules — wi...
The Supreme Court’s major immunity ruling held that presidents enjoy absolute criminal immunity for acts that are “core” or “official” executive functions and a form of presumptive immunity for other ...
The Constitution does not itself define “natural‑born citizen”; Article II simply requires “No Person except a natural born Citizen … shall be eligible” for the presidency . Because the text is silent...
The provided reporting does not identify any journalists or news organizations that have independently verified documentary evidence tied to “Riley’s” claims beyond a recorded audio; the material in t...
The Supreme Court did rule on presidential immunity in the 2024–25 litigation often called Trump v. United States, issuing a decision that, according to multiple legal analyses, grants a former Presid...
ICE’s statutory mandate and published policies make clear that the agency’s routine authority is to arrest and detain non-citizens for immigration proceedings or removal, not to deport lawful U.S. cit...
Courts have not produced a clean, across-the-board doctrine excusing religious objections to digital or photo ID mandates: federal law favors neutral, generally applicable ID rules while RFRA can prot...
The Constitution expressly limits the president’s clemency power to “Offences against the United States” and excludes cases of impeachment (Art. II, §2) — meaning federal, not state, crimes and not im...
The Supreme Court recently took up presidential-immunity questions most prominently in Trump v. United States, a case stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of former President Donald T...
In 1787–1788 the framers debated a “natural born citizen” rule but left its text unexplained; John Jay’s July 25, 1787 letter proposing a birth‑based bar influenced the final clause and James Madison ...
The Constitution requires the president to be a “natural born Citizen” (Article II, Section 1, Clause 5) and otherwise sets minimums of 35 years of age and 14 years’ U.S. residency . The Constitution ...
The Constitution requires the president be a “natural born Citizen,” but the text does not define that term and the Supreme Court has never definitively ruled on whether being born inside U.S. territo...
Recent presidents have faced a mix of civil, criminal, ethics and defamation claims, but the mix and intensity vary sharply: ’s presidency has been the target of a large volume of multistate and regul...
ICE enforcement practices have generated multiple constitutional challenges, including First Amendment suits alleging retaliatory targeting of immigrant advocates and challenges tied to access-to-cour...
Federal appellate courts—most prominently the Ninth and the Seventh Circuits—have in recent years reversed or curtailed district-court orders attacking ICE detainer practices, doing so on a mix of pro...
The Supreme Court’s July 1, 2024 decision in Trump v. United States created a three-tier framework: absolute immunity for some “core” presidential acts (the Court said Trump is absolutely immune for d...
Federal law gives debtors limited tools to shield assets in bankruptcy, but available sources do not describe a clean path for Donald Trump to discharge or erase civil judgments through federal bankru...