HeyJaredUnder Color of Law with Shan Wu
Under Color of Law with Shan Wu cuts through the noise, fact-checking the spin & uncovering the hidden threads shaping our world. With exclusive insider analysis, it goes beyond the headlines to expose the truth behind today’s legal and political battles.
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Trump Tried to Fire the Press. The Press Fired Back. (opens the original)
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Donald Trump has spent years calling the press his enemy anytime he thinks his coverage isn’t positive enough (which is pretty much always). Last week, he apparently decided arguing with reporters had become too much work, so he banned them, or at least the ones whose views he dislikes.For one brief moment, the plan may even have felt satisfying. No CNN in the White House. No Politico. No MS NOW. Perhaps a quieter press room and a few more questions about how magnificently everything is going.In
SCOTUS – Let them Vote By Mail … For Now (opens the original)
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Good news, America. The Supreme Court has graciously decided that voters may continue using the mail. For now. Democracy has been granted a temporary hall pass, although Justice Alito would apparently like to speak with the principal.President Trump tried to turn the United States Postal Service into a federal bouncer stationed at the door of the ballot box, clipboard in hand, deciding who gets in. The plan was unconstitutional, wildly impractical, and almost guaranteed to create chaos before th
Trump’s Golden Arch Is a Monument to Lawlessness (opens the original)
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Most presidents wait for history to decide whether they deserve a monument.Donald Trump prefers to handle the design himself.Washington is rapidly becoming his personal development portfolio. The East Wing has been demolished for a ballroom. The Reflecting Pool received a rushed renovation that began peeling apart. The Kennedy Center has been renamed and remodeled. Now Trump wants a 250-foot triumphal arch covered in gold ornamentation and positioned beside one of the most significant memorial c
Trump’s Government Has One Job: Protect His Ego (opens the original)
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Donald Trump’s ego may now be the most heavily protected institution in Washington. It has federal prosecutors prepared to turn embarrassment into a criminal case, Cabinet officials willing to defend claims contradicted by their own evidence, government lawyers ready to transform a ballroom into a military complex, and a Supreme Court majority willing to let construction continue without deciding whether it was legal in the first place.When Trump’s Reflecting Pool renovation began peeling apart,
Trump Built 65% of His Ballroom Without Congress. Roberts Just Let Him Keep Going. (opens the original)
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Donald Trump has found a brutally effective way around the rule of law: move faster than it can. He demolished the White House East Wing, began building a $400 million ballroom without congressional approval, and pushed construction to 65% before the courts could meaningfully stop him.When lower courts ruled that the project likely required approval from Congress, Trump did not offer to wait for the legal process. His administration ran to the Supreme Court and argued that stopping now would be
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