Posts by Tom

Lawmakers say federal data-sale rules left out sensitive locations including the White House, Congress and CIA headquarters, showing how commercial surveillance keeps outrunning official safeguards.

A federal judge ordered White House staff to preserve presidential records after DOJ argued the Presidential Records Act was unconstitutional.

Two officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 sued to block a nearly $1.8 billion taxpayer-backed fund they call a political slush fund.

A Justice Department directive barring pending tax claims against Trump and his family turns a private settlement into a public rule-of-law crisis.

A 50-47 Senate procedural vote on Iran war powers exposed the gap between executive war-making and the citizens paying the bill at the pump.

The Supreme Court’s move in a Native American voting-rights case puts the enforcement machinery itself at the center of the fight.

A Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act is already reshaping fights over local maps, school boards and county power.

The Senate parliamentarian’s ruling against a $1 billion White House security-and-ballroom provision is a small procedural story with a larger accountability lesson.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis commuted Tina Peters’s sentence while saying she broke the law and public trust. The backlash shows how election legitimacy and equal justice now collide in every high-profile case.