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The conservative U.S. Supreme Court increasingly relies on the secretive shadow docket to derail clean air standards and remove guardrails on a Trump White House, but the New York Times managed to nab confidential correspondence from 2016 that provides insight on the furtive court’s effort to dismantle an EPA crackdown on poisonous airborne mercury.“Over five days in the winter of 2016, the justices of the Supreme Court exchanged an extraordinary series of confidential memos about how the court should address an ambitious climate change initiative from President Barack Obama. The debate yielded an order halting the program by a 5-to-4 vote �

President Donald Trump is historically unpopular and his approval ratings are underwater in Arizona and the other six swing states he won in 2024, largely because independent voters have abandoned him. With the mid-terms rapidly approaching, the president came to Phoenix to gin up support for Republicans — not by reaching out to those disaffected voters but instead by rallying the MAGA faithful and calling for Republican Party unity.The rally at a north Phoenix church, hosted by Turning Point USA, brought conservative activists and Trump die-hards together to support a slate of candidates in

The United States Constitution provides two paths for removing a sitting president from office: impeachment and the procedures outlined in the 25th Amendment. Both approaches are being raised again, and with increasing fervor, as ways to bring an early end to Donald Trump’s second term of chaos, incompetence and corruption. Both are clearly warranted, but structural hurdles built into both render them legally infeasible.Instead of looking for a magic bullet in the Constitu

Trump’s domestic agenda is so dystopian it’s hard to believe. Unleashing masked goons onto U.S. streets, building concentration camps, punishing the media, threatening

President Donald Trump was eager to claim victory on a ceasefire deal with Iran, which he unilaterally declared war on a few weeks ago. The historically unpopular president is facing midterm destruction of his party in November and was keen to proclaim success on his explosive war, which has similarly blown U.S. and global fuel prices from the water within the last month. Trump declared at a Friday TPUSA event that Iran has agreed to virtually all of his demands to end its nuclear

Podcasters Danielle Moodie and Wajahat Ali roasted President Donald Trump for crowing about a heavily flawed deal with Iran after first blowing up a superior international pact formed by former President Obama.“This to me is the epitome of whiteness,” said Moodie, speaking on the “re-deal” Trump’s flaunted at a Friday TPUSA event in Phoenix, Arizona. “When I talk about white privilege, when I talk about white supremacy, this is the epitome of this s——. A Black person had already done something super

Airline pilot and former Republican George Poncy says he was furious when he discovered Republican Florida Gov. Ron Desantis planned to slap the name “Donald Trump” on his Palm Beach International Airport.“Well, the guy’s a criminal,” said Poncy, speaking to the Miami New Times about Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records. “I don’t know anything that’s named after a criminal. There’s no Lucky Luciano Bridge or Jeffrey Epstein Highway. It’s insane. It is. It’s not much more complicated than that.”T

Conservative commenter William Kristol says things are looking bad for President Donald Trump and his Republican Party in November, but if things go down in November as voting trends suggest it will still leave in charge a desperate and angry president with staff willing to jettison both the law and self-respect to conduct Trump’s agenda.“If you’re going into a midterm when your party has controlled both the White House and Congress, and that party is joined at the hip to a president who’s losing 29 percent to 49 percent among those who care the most and who are the most likely to vote, your prospects are . . . not good,” said Kristol. “So April’s electoral good news from Hungary could well be followed

Ronald Reagan’s former asst. attorney general tells The American Conservative that it’s time for President Donald Trump to go before his damage to the nation becomes permanent.“Trump has said and done appalling things no other president has dared — not even close,” said attorney Bruce Fein, pointing out that Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) has introduced 13 articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump through House Resolution 1155, “to save the nation from a worse tyranny than provoked July 4, 1776.”Fein ticked down a long list of reasons to jettison Trump, including exploiting the powers of office “for

President Donald Trump delivered the cap to the Turning Point USA event in Phoenix, Arizona, and he had a friendly audience to take his words. This might explain the absence of rolling eyes and questioning looks on a few claims that Trump inflated, played down or made a point not to mention at all due to their controversy.1.The U.S. will march in and take the Iranian nukes that he claimed were obliterated. Months ago, Trump claimed to have “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities — the lingering existence of which he then