“USPS’ plan was unwise, unlawful, and a threat to the millions of voters who rely on mailed ballots to participate in our democracy,” said one case litigant. In a ruling hailed by democracy defenders, a federal court on Wednesday halted the US Postal Service’s implementation of President Donald Trump’s March executive order targeting mail-in ballots as […]
“The Trump administration is putting the logo of a semi-private, partisan entity, which is widely reported to be corrupt, on the Social Security cards of newborn babies.” As the Social Security Administration’s unveiling Thursday of a 250th anniversary commemorative Social Security card coincided with a congressional report on President Donald Trump’s use of the semiquincentennial to […]
“The intense escalation of corporate spending we are now seeing shows that it is well past time for salvaging American democracy to be treated with the urgency that it deserves.” NEW @Public_Citizen report: Corporations have already spent $517 million on the 2026 midterms. That’s more corporate money than any previous election cycle — and […]
One journalist said that “this is like the epitome of personalist rule—turning this into an imperial, dictatorial display of self-glorification.” As the desolate debacle of President Donald Trump’s “Great American State Fair” continues against a backdrop of an empty National Mall and Shrek-green Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, criticism of the president’s plans for his […]