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National security policy and the role of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in resolving disputes related to national security.
’s proposed ballroom has not been judicially halted as of the latest reporting; the has filed suit seeking a preliminary injunction, a federal judge has signaled skepticism of the administration’s leg...
A coalition of 153 House Democrats joined Republicans to pass H.R. 7006, but the record supplied in the reporting shows few direct, on-the-record defenses from those Democrats to constituents or campa...
Guantánamo Bay is a U.S. naval base site that has housed a military detention facility since January 11, 2002, becoming the signature locus of post‑9/11 indefinite detention, rendition and torture all...
Several authors of Project 2025 now occupy senior roles in the federal government: Russell Vought is serving as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Brendan Carr is leading the Federal Com...
The Epstein Files Transparency Act mandates the public release of unclassified Justice Department materials connected to Jeffrey Epstein while explicitly carving out narrow categories that may be reda...
deputy chief of staff for policy is a senior aide whose official responsibilities center on coordinating, implementing and overseeing presidential policy as delegated by the chief of staff, and ensuri...
The Freedom of Information Act () gives the public a statutory right to request federal records, but that right is sharply qualified where personnel or medical files and law‑enforcement materials are ...
in recent jurisprudence have treated allegations that mass-targeting actions were politically motivated with a mix of skepticism and pragmatic relief: judges often demand concrete proof of discriminat...
Department of Homeland Security and ICE require formal background investigations, suitability determinations, and—where applicable—eligibility for a Secret clearance; hiring materials show criminal hi...
The Epstein Files Transparency Act required the Attorney General to publish, within 30 days of the law’s enactment, all unclassified Department of Justice records, documents, communications and invest...
Civil‑liberties groups have mounted immediate legal and administrative pushback against DHS’s expanded biometric entry‑exit rule, filing litigation and organizing class actions while lodging formal pu...
The contested materials tied to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell comprise sprawling FBI and U.S. Attorney investigative files, grand‑jury materials, photos, emails, flight logs, tax and custody r...
U.S. and many allied export controls treat high‑protection body armor and true CBRN‑rated gas mask filters as sensitive dual‑use or defense items, subject to licensing, classification under ECCNs or I...
Ex parte Milligan decisively constrained the reach of martial law by holding that military tribunals cannot try civilians where civilian courts are open and operating, reasserting constitutional safeg...
Since its creation in 2003, ICE inherited and fused investigative customs work with interior immigration enforcement, turning anti-smuggling into a core but contested part of a dual mission: Homeland ...
The 9/11 Commission concluded that failures of information sharing—between the CIA, the FBI, and other agencies—were central to the missed warning signs before September 11, 2001, and it made concrete...
German authorities treat "document forgery" as a broad criminal concept that criminalizes creating, altering or using falsified documents with intent to deceive; anyone who uses a forged document can ...
The Speech or Debate Clause shields senators from being "questioned in any other Place" for acts that are integral to the legislative process, a constitutional protection designed to preserve legislat...
The Trump administration sharply narrowed both refugee resettlement and asylum access through lower presidential refugee ceilings, travel bans and executive orders that halted processing and redirecte...