All posts tagged "Operation Metro Surge"

A former Reagan administration official and a conservative thinker argued that President Donald Trump has already lost his biggest second-term fight.

In a Saturday guest essay for The New York Times, former Reagan and Bush official Peter Wehner and Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, argued that Trump has already failed to remake America. The two conservatives even spotted the key moment when Trump's power began to fall apart.

Wehner and Rauch called the promise to remake American society the most sweeping goal that Trump and his allies carried into the second Trump administration. The two conservatives wrote that Trump reshaped the presidency but failed at the larger goal he and his allies carried into a second term....

A former prosecutor flagged that the "most powerful" legal weapon that states have against President Donald Trump is "now in play."

Former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman wrote in a Friday piece for his Talking Feds Substack that a judge's recent rebuke against the Trump administration has opened the door for states to rely on the "anti-commandeering principle," a 10th Amendment doctrine.

"The anti-commandeering principle has been lying in wait. It is now in play," Litman wrote. "It should be picked up widely and immediately, by lawyers and by states pushing back against every variant of the administration's coercion campaign."...