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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
A felony conviction in the United States can result in loss of voting rights for millions, but the scope and duration of that disenfranchisement vary dramatically by state and over time; recent analys...
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...
The Insurrection Act has been used in the United States on roughly 30 separate occasions, but sources differ on how many presidents have formally invoked it: several reputable references count 15 pres...
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...
Debate over Supreme Court reform in 2024–2025 centers on three recurring proposals: expand the Court’s size (“court‑packing”), impose term limits, and adopt a binding ethics code; advocacy groups and ...
Congressional and state votes on the Nineteenth Amendment split sharply along regional lines: historians and legal analysts say Southern Democrats were the principal organized opposition in Congress a...
The Insurrection Act authorizes the president to deploy federal armed forces and federalize National Guard units to suppress insurrections, enforce federal authority, or assist civilian authorities wh...