It’s how things worked when you went to the Cosa Nostra to ask for protection for you and your family in exchange for some portion of your own resources.

The legalists just want to have a big old fight that lands up at the Supreme Court about the unitary executive and big ...

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Much of the major changes President Trump has tried to make in his first few weeks in office have already been halted by the ...

There has been an unbroken string of wins in court against the Trump administration and Musk’s DOGE operation; on birthright ...

A Trump-appointed judge said on Friday that he would freeze the administration’s plan to slash most employees and withdraw ...

Trump cited no such causes. Legal commentators have pointed out the sloppy drafting of some of Trump's first-day executive orders — "shoddy, shoddy lawyering," in the words of Slate's Dahlia Lithwick, ...

As Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern noted at Slate, issuing a stay could raise the potential that Trump is never prosecuted; if Trump wins in November and takes office in January, he could simply ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The problem, as Musk himself has been ...

Michael Steele, former RNC Chairman and Dahlia Lithwick Senior Editor of Slate joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss Donald Trump’s moves to dismantle federal agencies and the ...