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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 criminal investigations and prosecutions have been opened into : across 2023 he was the subject of four major criminal cases (two federal and two state), one of which produced a historic conv...
Since 2000 and the executive branch have not enacted a permanent expansion of presidential authority under the , but episodic amendments, proposed rewrites, and short‑lived changes have sharpened the ...
Late‑counted absentee and provisional ballots were a real and predictable force in 2024 vote tabulation—concentrated in particular states and governed by state rules—and they operated in familiar “blu...
The has been a sporadically used but consequential statutory doorway for presidents to deploy federal troops on soil — invoked about 30 times across 230 years and most recently in 1992 during the riot...
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...
Congressional investigations and oversight since 2025 have documented allegations that the Trump administration used firing, investigations, and administrative actions to punish perceived political op...
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 ...
and allied civil‑society groups plan a of election results centered on rapid litigation, pre‑emptive state‑law reforms to channel disputes into courts, coordinated legal networks and amicus strategies...
The has been cited repeatedly in recent reporting and institutional analyses as a vector for potential abuse when used to deploy military forces domestically, to advance personal or political aims, or...
The question is not hypothetical: reporting documents an explicit and concrete steps taken by to consolidate power . At the same time, a complex set of institutional constraints—courts, divided federa...