Trump’s Palantir-Powered Surveillance Is Turning America Into a Digital Prison
Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trumpโsย plan to fuse government power with private surveillance techย to build aย centralized, national citizen databaseย is the final step in transforming America from a constitutional republic into a digital...
Supreme Court (Mostly) Endorses the Unitary Executive
In a brief order in Trump v. Wilcoxย the Supreme Court (6-3) strongly indicated that the President has constitutional power to dismiss officers exercising significant executive power.ย From the unsigned opinion: The Government has applied for a stay of orders from the...
Is Trump Really Cutting the Size of Government?
The Trump administration has fired aboutย 25,000 federal workersย to date. Media and politicians are telling the American people that this is a massiveย โslash and burnโย cut to the federal government. The truth is quite different. The number 25,000 represents only a tiny...