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The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States created a mixed immunity rule: absolute immunity for some “core” presidential functions, presumptive immunity for official acts at the “outer per...
Donald Trump has been the subject of multiple constitutional challenges and political sanctions, and courts and judges have found specific actions of his administration or statements unlawful or likel...
The Supreme Court has repeatedly treated the presidential pardon power as limited to "offenses against the United States" and therefore not a vehicle to clear state-law crimes; foundational cases cite...
No lower court has definitively stripped former President Donald Trump of all presidential immunity in a particular criminal case; the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in Trump v. United States created a...
The Supreme Court’s immunity ruling and subsequent prosecutorial decisions have effectively paused or ended most of the criminal exposure President Trump faced — federal charges tied to classified doc...
The Constitution requires a decennial “actual enumeration” but does not list a detailed methodology or a long definitional list of who counts beyond “persons” or “people”; the 14th Amendment’s phrase ...
As of the dates reflected in the supplied analyses through October 15, 2025, ; reporting and legal summaries indicate convictions remain in place while higher‑court decisions on presidential immunity ...
Governors generally can refuse a presidential request to deploy Guard forces under Title 32 — the governor is the authority to order Guard duty — but the federal government can federalize Guard troops...
Only Congress — not the President — has clear constitutional authority to change the date of federal general elections; states also control many timing mechanics for how they choose electors . The Sup...
Legal analysts, commentators and post‑Jan. 6 investigations disagree on whether Donald Trump’s conduct on January 6, 2021 meets the constitutional crime of treason; several former prosecutors and scho...
Available reporting shows several high‑profile legal challenges to actions by President Donald Trump that lower courts have deemed unconstitutional and several Supreme Court decisions addressing limit...
The Fourth Amendment protects non-citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures, but the scope of that protection narrows at and near the international border because courts recognize a longstandin...
The President’s constitutional pardon power is broad but textually confined to “Offenses against the United States,” meaning federal crimes and certain D.C. and military convictions; it does not reach...
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 ...
The $2,000 “Trump giveaway” rumor traces back to public posts by former President Donald Trump on Truth Social in which he pledged a funded by tariff revenue, a claim widely reported by multiple outle...
The Supreme Court has consistently treated the presidential pardon power as ; the Constitution confines the President’s clemency to “offenses against the United States,” while state-level pardons rema...
DEI efforts surged after the 2020 racial-justice protests and produced new programs, offices, scholarships and recruitment practices intended to increase enrollment and support for underrepresented st...
The President can, on his own, declare a national emergency under statutes like the National Emergencies Act (NEA) and unlock a wide array of statutory authorities without prior congressional approval...