It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
The litigation unleashed by President Trump’s second term, combined with his distortions and lies, is testing the judicial system’s practice of deferring to the executive branch’s determinations about what is true.
The rift appeared as President Trump won support from high-profile tech industry figures, particularly Elon Musk.
In asking the judge to dissolve a temporary restraining order on deportation flights, the Justice Department opened another front in its aggressive pushback to his decisions.
Numerous members of the boards of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were ousted on Monday in an unexpected move.
President Trump and his advisers say his policies may cause short-term pain but will produce big gains over time. Many economists are skeptical of those arguments.
The president said more than 80,000 pages would be disclosed, with no redactions, which he allowed in 2017. An estimated 99 percent of the records are already public.
A bubbling dispute broke into a dramatic standoff that ended with police involvement and the Department of Government Efficiency taking up residence at the independent agency.
A New York Times review of flight data showed that at the time of a federal judge’s order, two flights were in the air, and one had not yet taken off.
The agency faces an air traffic controller shortage and the need to upgrade outdated systems that are critical to its operations.
Small reductions to the federal work force could have an outsize impact.