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Trump’s Venezuela operation captured Maduro, but legal and strategic questions multiply
Read more: Trump’s Venezuela operation captured Maduro, but legal and strategic questions multiplyOn January 3, 2026, U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in a pre-dawn raid on Caracas. While the operation succeeded militarily with no American casualties, it triggered intense legal and strategic debates over congressional authority, international law violations, and Trump’s plan to “run” Venezuela.
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Kelly v. Kobach: A High-Stakes Battle Over Kansas’s Election Fraud Prosecution Authority
Read more: Kelly v. Kobach: A High-Stakes Battle Over Kansas’s Election Fraud Prosecution AuthorityGovernor Laura Kelly challenges Attorney General Kris Kobach’s authority to prosecute election fraud cases in a high-stakes separation of powers dispute before the Kansas Supreme Court. The case asks whether the Legislature can grant the AG criminal prosecution authority or if this unconstitutionally transfers executive power from the Governor.
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Michael Wolff v. Melania Trump Legal Documents Analysis
Read more: Michael Wolff v. Melania Trump Legal Documents AnalysisJournalist Michael Wolff filed a preemptive declaratory judgment action against First Lady Melania Trump after receiving a $1 billion defamation threat over his statements about her alleged connections to Jeffrey Epstein. This comprehensive legal analysis examines the Anti-SLAPP claims, First Amendment defenses, and the high-stakes battle over press freedom and public figure accountability.
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Article Summaries for January 2026
Read more: Article Summaries for January 2026Article Summaries for January 2026
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State Job Openings and Labor Turnover — October 2025
Read more: State Job Openings and Labor Turnover — October 2025The October 2025 state-level labor market data shows modest changes in job openings, hires, and separations across most states, with Alaska, Wyoming, and Montana seeing the most significant increases in job openings rates, while national rates remained largely unchanged despite complications from a federal government shutdown.
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Former Special Counsel Jack Smith Defends Trump Prosecutions in Marathon House Testimony
Read more: Former Special Counsel Jack Smith Defends Trump Prosecutions in Marathon House TestimonyIn a day-long deposition before the House Judiciary Committee, former Special Counsel Jack Smith vigorously defended his decisions to indict Donald Trump, detailing extensive evidence while facing sharp Republican challenges about prosecutorial discretion and congressional phone records.
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Fact-Checking Major Claims from the Trump-Zelenskyy Press Conference
Read more: Fact-Checking Major Claims from the Trump-Zelenskyy Press ConferenceThis fact-checking analysis reveals a pattern common in political rhetoric: leaders make claims that range from substantially accurate (the war’s scale, the nuclear plant’s size) to misleading through oversimplification (characterizing assistance as “given away”) to unverifiable (settling eight wars) to contradicted by documented evidence (wanting Ukraine to succeed while destroying its infrastructure). Understanding these distinctions…
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Trump-Zelenskyy Peace Talks at Mar-a-Lago Show Major Progress on Ukraine War Settlement
Read more: Trump-Zelenskyy Peace Talks at Mar-a-Lago Show Major Progress on Ukraine War SettlementPresident Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy met at Mar-a-Lago on December 28, 2025, reporting major progress toward ending the Russia-Ukraine war. After Trump’s two-and-a-half-hour call with Russian President Putin, both leaders announced the peace framework is ninety to ninety-five percent complete, with US-Ukraine security guarantees one hundred percent agreed and the military dimension fully settled.…
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Critical Evaluation of “The Scandal of the Mar-a-Lago Raid” (Jim Trusty, WSJ)
Read more: Critical Evaluation of “The Scandal of the Mar-a-Lago Raid” (Jim Trusty, WSJ)Jim Trusty’s Wall Street Journal commentary (Dec. 26, 2025) alleges grave misconduct in the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation. Below, we critically evaluate his key claims in five areas, contrasting them with legal precedent and independent analysis.
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Analysis: “The Scandal of the Mar-a-Lago Raid.”
Read more: Analysis: “The Scandal of the Mar-a-Lago Raid.”The opinion piece by Jim Trusty, published in The Wall Street Journal on December 26, 2025, portrays the 2022 FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as a “scandal” marked by government overreach, political motivation, and procedural irregularities. Trusty, a former Trump attorney with Justice Department experience, draws on personal involvement and recently disclosed emails…
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Critical evaluation of Jim Trusty’s Mar-a-Lago claims
Read more: Critical evaluation of Jim Trusty’s Mar-a-Lago claimsJim Trusty’s December 2025 Wall Street Journal opinion piece contains a mix of technically accurate statements, misleading characterizations, and selectively framed narratives. While some claims have factual foundations, the overall picture presented omits critical context that substantially changes the legal and factual picture. This analysis finds that the majority of Trusty’s claims are either misleading,…
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Supreme Court Decision: Trump v. Illinois – National Guard Federalization Case
Read more: Supreme Court Decision: Trump v. Illinois – National Guard Federalization CaseThe Supreme Court denied the Trump administration’s request to deploy federalized National Guard troops in Illinois for immigration enforcement, finding the President likely lacked statutory authority. The decision interprets federal law restricting when Guard forces can be called into domestic service.