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President Donald Trump delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, February 24, 2026. (Pool photo by Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

Judges: Trump is a threat to rule of law

Garrett Owen
The entrance of Angola Prison, Louisiana. The Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South" and "The Farm" is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. (Giles Clarke/Getty Images)

Louisiana's Jim Crow juries still linger

Richard A. Webster - ProPublica
Ahead of today's nationwide scheduled protests, Gov. Ron DeSantis reminds Florida drivers that it's legal to drive through crowds of protesters if they fear for their lives. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“No Kings” protests test FL protest law

CK Smith
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is sworn in to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing for U.S. Attorney General in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Bondi's “shocking” strategy will cost

Sabrina Haake
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Pam Bondi, former Florida Attorney General, speaks during a press conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump will target all Americans' rights

Chauncey DeVega
Three-months old baby bonobo Nakarla (L) plays with its mother Ukela on March 19, 2008 at the zoo in Frankfurt/M. (THOMAS LOHNES/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)

Do talking animals deserve human rights?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press after signing two executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's revenge tour takes another blow

Natalie Chandler
A student holds up a sign against banning CRT as members of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School Board meet in Placentia, California, on March 23, 2022. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

MAGA is the pushback to public education

Chauncey DeVega
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Donald Trump and a school classroom full of kids (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Literacy crisis becomes democracy crisis

Chauncey DeVega
Visitors walk past the iconic Olympic rings at the United States Olympic Center in Colorado Springs during a tour of the facility. (Glenn Asakawa/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

New legal battle behind sports scandals

Irvin Muchnick
U.S. President Donald Trump holds an executive order establishing the Energy Dominance Council led by Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum in the Oval Office at the White House on February 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump's First Law: There is no law

Andrew O'Hehir
Donald Trump | The U.S. Supreme Court Building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's constitutional crisis strategy

Chauncey DeVega
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump's shock and awe versus the courts

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump VS the US Constitution (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Does the Constitution apply to Trump?

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump smiles at the crowd during the National Guard Association of the United States' 146th General Conference & Exhibition at Huntington Place Convention Center on August 26, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan. (Emily Elconin/Getty Images)

Trump as "protector": It's an old story

Jacqueline Beatty
Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb speaks during a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump at Desert Diamond Arena on August 23, 2024 in Glendale, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

Unpacking the far right's sheriff myth

Paul Rosenberg
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Trump judge gives right big labor win

Russell Payne
Carlos Watson speaks onstage during OZY FEST 2018 at Rumsey Playfield, Central Park on July 21, 2018 in New York City. (Matthew Eisman/Getty Images for Ozy Media)

Crazy NYC grifter case — with zero Trump

Eugene S. Robinson
Kamala Harris | US Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Kamala can fight SCOTUS — and win

Paul Rosenberg
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (Leah Millis-Pool/Getty Images)

How John Roberts gutted voting rights

David Daley
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Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Antonin Scalia within a John Trumbell painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"Originalism": White supremacy in robes

Paul Rosenberg
Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and John Eastman (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump is lethal to MAGA's legal careers

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump and Jared Kushner (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's new campaign strategy: horror

Chauncey DeVega
Former US President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, on May 14, 2024. (JUSTIN LANE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

"Not an open-and-shut case"

Chauncey DeVega
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