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Claims that the 2024 U.S. presidential election was “rigged” have circulated widely, fueled by social and partisan media, lawsuits, and isolated voting-machine and county-level disputes — but mainstre...
Allegations that the 2024 U.S. presidential election was “rigged” appeared in multiple forms — claims about voting machines, noncitizen voters, and localized ballot-count anomalies — but available rep...
Lawyers, legal organizations and advocacy groups have advanced a clustered set of legislative fixes aimed at narrowing presidential authority to deploy federal forces at home: proposals generally seek...
The Authoritarian Threat/Threat to Democracy indexes are expert-driven composite measures that track signals of democratic backsliding; Protect Democracy’s Authoritarian Threat Index currently lists t...
Summer Zervos filed a New York state defamation suit against Donald Trump in January 2017 after he publicly called her allegations of sexual misconduct “lies;” the case survived multiple immunity and ...
There is substantial evidence of democratic erosion and clear warnings from scholars and watchdogs that the United States has moved toward competitive authoritarian tendencies, but the specific claim ...
Donald Trump has repeatedly made statements that reporters, scholars and advocacy groups say amount to praise for authoritarian leaders and methods — for example calling Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and...
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...
Federal law bars bribery and makes obstruction of justice a crime, and multiple legal experts and watchdogs say those statutes can apply when pardons are sold or used to derail investigations . Schola...
There is no single, authoritative count in the available sources for “how many times” the National Guard has been deployed domestically since 2000; reporting and trackers focus on types, trends, and n...
Claims that prosecutions of Donald J. Trump were initiated for political reasons are widely debated in current reporting: watchdog groups, legal analysts and outlets document direct pressure from the ...
Recent policy changes from 2023–2025 — especially the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) implementation and the 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBBA) provisions — tightened work requirements, changed non...
Multiple independent audits and congressional reports have alleged a pattern of legal violations and oversight-avoidance by the Trump administration, centering on removals of inspectors general, retal...
The available reporting does not show a legal concept called “national entry,” so this question as phrased cannot be answered directly from the sources; instead, the statute and expert analyses establ...
The statutes most frequently unlocked by presidential national emergency declarations are a mix of broad economic sanctions authorities—chiefly the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)—...
The president’s authority to protect the country in emergencies rests on a mix of constitutional roles, longstanding statutory delegations, and modern procedures that condition those delegations — not...
The question “Biden military action unauthorized” cannot be answered with a simple yes or no: the Biden administration has repeatedly asserted legal authority to order strikes without a new congressio...
The legal threshold for decertifying an election or imposing penalties over procedural irregularities is narrow: state law governs pre-certification challenges and requires timely, specific proof that...
Nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) and confidential settlement clauses were tools repeatedly deployed around Donald Trump and his enterprises to limit what accusers, staffers and insiders could say publi...
Civil liberties groups have mounted lawsuits and public campaigns challenging recent orders directing the FBI to compile lists of groups labeled “extremist” or “domestic terrorists,” arguing those lis...