Ken Thomas
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first heard May 2025
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But that ran into opposition from a group of Indiana state senators, which led to the president engineering primary challenges against the Republican incumbents.
In the short term, this is good news for the White House.
Trump will still need to overcome slumping approval ratings and
and concerns from voters over inflation and rising gas prices.
Those will be key to the November midterm elections, when Republicans won't have Trump on the ballot, but will be defending majorities in both the House and the Senate.
But Tuesday's primaries show that despite these headwinds, Trump is still in command of his Republican base, and Republican lawmakers who oppose him
run the risk of seeing an end to their political careers.
WSJ What’s News · Trump Told Attack on Iran Wouldn’t Guarantee Collapse of Regime · 15 Jan 2026
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It's a law from 1807 that allows the president to use the military for civilian law enforcement purposes on U.S.
soil under a narrow set of circumstances.
It's been used a few dozen times in our nation's history, but it's been exceedingly rare in modern history.
We saw it used in the 1960s during the Civil Rights Movement, but we have not seen it used since 1992 to deal with the civil unrest in the Los Angeles area.
after the acquittal of four police officers and the beating of Rodney King.
Now, it's important to note that President George H.W.
Bush did this at the request of California's governor at the time, Pete Wilson.
I think you would see opponents argue that he is fabricating an insurrection when it doesn't exist.
I think you would also see legal opponents make the case that this is constituting an abuse of power or a bad faith effort to try to suppress dissent for political reasons, not to try to enforce federal law or to protect civil rights.
The key thing here is that this has been used in our country's history, but not recently.
And so any legal challenge would be plowing through new ground here.
There's just a real fear among some in Congress that this is an attempt by the executive branch to run roughshod over the legislative branch.
Well, the controversy really stems from this push by the Trump administration to basically clean house within the Library of Congress. As you mentioned, President Trump fired Carla Hayden. She has been the librarian of Congress for the last nine years. And then they also moved to remove some of her deputies as well, including the person who runs the U.S.
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