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The best-supported accounting from reporting and advocacy groups places U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spending for calendar/fiscal 2025 at roughly $28.7 billion — with alternate talli...
The Insurrection Act empowers a president to deploy federal military forces and federalize state militias to suppress insurrections, enforce federal law, and protect constitutional rights when ordinar...
’s custody population rose sharply in 2025, hitting record point-in-time levels in December: publicly archived counts show more than 68,400 people detained as of December 14, 2025, and contemporaneous...
No: under current law a president cannot unilaterally cancel or postpone federal elections; multiple legal analyses, court rulings, and longstanding statutes assign election timing and administration ...
The claim that Black Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population and commit 50% of violent crime—the "13/50" statistic—is an oversimplification that does not accurately match FBI reporting or the nua...
The claim that undocumented immigrants are a major source of violence in the United States is not supported by the best available empirical research: multiple national and state-level studies find und...
There is no single authoritative tally that answers “ broken”; publicly available reporting shows multiple criminal indictments, hundreds of civil and constitutional legal challenges to his actions, a...
President Trump has repeatedly attacked judges in public and in court-related rhetoric; recent reporting shows he insulted a federal judge amid litigation over deportation flights and his administrati...
Georgia law assigns counties the ministerial duty to certify local returns, after which the secretary of state must tabulate and certify statewide results, and administrative rules require signed poll...
The Constitution contains no explicit grant of power to declare “martial law,” and that absence shapes multiple legal constraints: Congress controls domestic military deployment through statutes and a...
Yes — a future Supreme Court can reverse an earlier Supreme Court decision, but reversal is uncommon and depends on changing legal, institutional and political factors; the 2024/2025 presidential‑immu...
There is no authoritative, sourced tally in the provided reporting that establishes a definitive count of how many times or his 2017–2021 administration “defied” federal court orders; available materi...
Antifa is not a single, centrally organized group but an ideological constellation—“anti-fascism”—whose adherents range from peaceful counter-protesters to small violent cells; several U.S. administra...
The President does not possess a clear, unchecked constitutional power to unilaterally declare nationwide martial law; by statutes, Supreme Court precedents, and political checks. Historical practice ...
Historically, arrests have overwhelmingly involved noncitizens; administrative arrest powers apply to noncitizens and agency statistics and expert analyses indicate U.S. citizens represent a very smal...
Multiple watchdogs, lawmakers and legal groups say President Trump’s administration has allegedly violated specific constitutional provisions — chiefly the Take Care Clause, the War Powers and Appropr...
Congress has three constitutional and statutory tools most often discussed for curbing or removing presidential emergency authority: impeachment and conviction under Article I (not detailed in the pro...
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 give a simple yes-or-no answer: federal law allows the president to federalize and deploy National Guard units in specific circumstances (invasion, rebellion, or to execute f...
Research assembled by academics and advocacy groups finds that strict photo voter ID laws are associated with reduced turnout among racial and ethnic minorities—studies report declines for Latino turn...