As the Supreme Court now considers whether Trump can take over the Federal Reserve, we lose either way.
Executive Power
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Right-Wing Legal Movement Made Trump a King
John Roberts turned the presidency into a kingship, and the first president to govern under this ruling has compressed a solid millennium or two of monarchical misrule into a mere ten months.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Big Tech Poised to Win Immunity Shield From State AI Regulation
The Trump administration is readying an executive order preempting constraints on AI. It could become a much more wide-ranging deregulatory tool.
Posted inPolitics
Rule by Deal
Donald Trump engages in ad hoc agreements with individual companies and governments to expand his power. Some observers have described these actions as a new “economic nationalism”—but that term fails to explain what makes this administration’s decision-making unique.
Posted inTAP
Supreme Court Poised to Defy Trump on Tariffs
Most of the conservative justices seemed skeptical of the argument that the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, which allows a president in an emergency to “regulate importation and exportation,” confers worldwide, unlimited tariff authority.
Posted inPolitics
Democrats Offer a (Partial) No Kings Budget
Provisions in the counteroffer to a continuing resolution would prevent illegal withholding of funds and partisan budget cuts.
Posted inPolitics
What Would a No Kings Budget Look Like?
Democrats are publicly conditioning a budget agreement on health care changes. But they also have powerful options to arrest the slide to authoritarianism.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Trump Attempts to Take Over Fed
It won’t work, but it sure will rattle the economy.
Posted inTAP
The Smaller Trump Outrages
Today on TAP: In Trump’s march to dictatorship, the lesser outrages almost get lost. His presidency signals the cheapening of America.
Posted inLaw and Justice
A Federal Appellate Court Finds the NLRB to Be Unconstitutional
And just like that, it frees Elon Musk—and any fellow employers—to violate whatever rights their workers thought they enjoyed.
