The Dangers Of Trump's Secret Executive Powers

The pandemic may leave Americans vulnerable to emergency powers they've never even heard of and can't access.

How Trump's Proposed Radical Expansion of Executive Power Will ...

A second Trump administration threatens to use executive authority to further limit First Amendment freedoms, surveil Americans and ...

Trump's Hidden Powers | Brennan Center for Justice

A vast array of obscure presidential powers spans everything from the military to criminal law, and some are ripe for abuse. They need to be re-examined.

Trump Will Take Unilateral Presidential Powers to a New Level

With Donald Trump's reelection, the slide toward a dangerously empowered president has reached a moment of reckoning, particularly when it comes ...

Ex-Trump Aides Fear Second Term Crisis | TIME

Trump aides previously blocked him from seeing the full Doomsday Book, which lists extraordinary powers a President might use after a ...

The 'Emergency Powers' Risk of a Second Trump Presidency | WIRED

Every US president has the ability to invoke “emergency powers” that could give an authoritarian leader the ability to censor the internet, ...

Trump's not-so-secret plans for unprecedented power : NPR

Former President Donald Trump and his allies are preparing for an aggressive expansion of his powers should he take back the White House.

Chronicling Trump's 10 worst abuses of power | CNN Politics

Former President Donald Trump flouted the limits of presidential power unlike any of his recent predecessors, leaving behind a legacy of ...

If Trump wins, he could weaponize U.S. spy services against his ...

Donald Trump could turn America's spy services into weapons of “retribution” against domestic political opponents, skew intelligence findings in favor of ...

Why Legal Experts Are Worried About a Second Trump Presidency

As a candidate for president once again, Donald Trump could not be clearer about his plans to use the Justice Department to seek revenge ...

The intensifying threat of Donald Trump's emoluments - CREW

Donald Trump will violate the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses if he serves as president and fails to divest from his businesses.

'Virtually dictatorial': Trump has 'secret' powers nobody knows about ...

Emergency documents leave Americans vulnerable to far-reaching executive authority, legal analysts and government watchdogs warn.

Why Trump's prosecution for keeping secret documents is lawful ...

A former national security staffer, now a scholar of secrecy law, says criticisms of Trump's federal indictment for hoarding classified ...

Project 2025 Would Destroy the U.S. System of Checks and ...

Far-right extremists have a plan to shatter democracy's guardrails, giving presidents almost unlimited power to implement policies that will ...

Trump issues threats to prosecute political rivals - NPR

An NPR investigation has found that since 2022, Trump has repeatedly threatened to investigate, prosecute, jail or otherwise punish his ...

Trump's dangerous expansion of executive war powers - Politico

For decades, Congress has relinquished its constitutional role in declaring war. But Trump is taking it to new extremes.

The doctrine of executive privilege has become a danger to ...

Former President Donald Trump was just about to experience a consequence Friday when federal courts once again stepped in to delay his day ...

Trump Has Emergency Powers We Aren't Allowed to Know About

When President Trump declared emergencies on March 13 under both the Stafford Act and the National Emergencies Act, he boasted, “I have the ...

The Strangest Thing About Trump's Approach to Presidential Power

Donald Trump's take on executive power is peculiar, but not merely because he's reaching for more of it. Expanding presidential prerogatives ...

How much security does Donald Trump get? - BBC

About 300 agents are assigned to the sitting president and vice-president, compared to the 90 to 100 who protect a former president.