A King in Camouflage
Last month, a headline stopped me cold: President Trump had mobilized the California National Guard over the objections of Governor Newsom – and then, federal Marines were being deployed to the streets of Los Angeles. I’ve lived through political theater...
Trump’s Palantir-Powered Surveillance Is Turning America Into a Digital Prison
Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized, national citizen database 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. Wilcox the Supreme Court (6-3) strongly indicated that the President has constitutional power to dismiss officers exercising significant executive power. From the unsigned opinion: The Government has applied for a stay of orders from the...