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Available reporting does not establish a proven, widespread practice of paying anti-ICE protesters; assertions that demonstrators were being paid come from political leaders, preliminary federal probe...
The President can issue executive orders directing agencies to identify and attempt to withhold federal funds from jurisdictions labeled “sanctuary,” but longstanding constitutional limits, prior cour...
The President cannot unilaterally override an ordinary state governor’s control of that state’s National Guard in routine circumstances; governors command their Guards unless the federal government fe...
The claim that : satellite records and multiple scientific assessments show no net increase in solar output since the late 1970s while global temperatures have risen sharply, and the observed vertical...
There is no reliable, mainstream evidence that the President has converted to Judaism; contemporary reporting documents claims and satire suggesting he might be converting, but authoritative sources i...
The President’s notification to the Gang of Eight is legally required under the War Powers framework and politically consequential, but it is neither a straightforward determinant of battlefield succe...
The President can National Guard personnel under 10 U.S.C. § 12406 in specified circumstances, but the statute embeds a role for governors that courts and legal analysts interpret variably — sometimes...
Congressional appropriations and presidential action are the two levers most likely to change, delay or override the White House’s 2026 pay plan: the President’s alternative plan (a 1% across‑the‑boar...
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...
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...
OPM typically publishes final GS pay tables and any special rate tables for the coming year in late calendar year — usually December — with effective dates in January (for 2026 OPM and reporting antic...
The Constitution vests civilian control of the military in the President as Commander in Chief and gives Congress the power to declare war and raise and support forces; statutes and DoD practice place...
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...
Congress is the only federal actor with the constitutional authority to set the date for choosing presidential electors and therefore to change the day of the presidential election; the President alon...
The President can federalize state National Guard forces under several statutory and constitutional authorities without a governor’s consent, most prominently the Insurrection Act (sections 251–253) a...
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 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...
The authority to order and direct U.S. military forces flows from the President as Commander‑in‑Chief through the Secretary of Defense to combatant commanders; the Joint Chiefs of Staff are senior adv...
The president holds very broad constitutional and statutory authority to declassify national security information, but that authority is constrained in practice by executive orders, agency equities, a...
The Constitution requires Congress to assemble at least once each year, and the 20th Amendment fixed the standard convening date at ; the President can summon or adjourn Congress only on extraordinary...