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Jackie Calmes

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National columnist, LATimes. Ex-NYT & WSJ in DC, covering White House, Congresses & campaigns. Author of "Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party & Its Capture of the Court." Mom....On Threads: jkcalmes

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Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 21h

Column: Trump wasn't at this week's celebration of Alan Greenspan's life, nor was he ever mentioned. Yet what was mourned was the loss in Trump's Washington of the sense of public service, expertise and willingness to compromise that Greenspan represented. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: A visit to Greenspan's Washington and the era of getting things done

The former Fed chair, 'a devout Republican,' was famous for consulting smart Democrats and obscure experts. The antithesis of modern policymaking.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Column: Trump might not look smaller, but he is. To world leaders and more and more Americans (including Republicans), he's shrunk to a cartoon figure, posting his comic-like word balloons on Truth Social at all hours or bloviating for the cameras by day. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump's lost his star power, at home and abroad

His appearance at the U.N. only underscored how far he has retreated from global leadership.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Column: Trump's promised $5K to each US adult captures just about all that's wrong with this president: Lying. Fiscal irresponsibility. Trashing GOP principles. Seat-of-his-pants policy idiocy. And the bubble of incompetent yay-sayers that enables it. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump loves to throw around taxpayers' money

Even without his reckless promise to buy off every American adult with $5,000, he was on track to break his first-term record for adding to the unsustainable U.S. debt.

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Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Column: Sadly, 25 years after 9/11, Trump has the US mired again in a Mideast war against a nation—Iran—that was the real winner of the prior needless war in Iraq, Iran's old rival. This after he's purged the US counterterrorism defenses built since 9/11. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Instead of learning, Trump doubles down on Bush's post-9/11 mistakes

Like President George W. Bush did, President Trump wages war ahead of midterm elections and makes false claims of success to win voters. The trouble is, Trump does so against Americans’ memories of Bu...

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 07/09/2026

This is truly unhinged. I don’t want to hear “oh, it’s just Trump being Trump” or he’s “trolling” Republicans cannot keep shrugging this off. Congress, the Cabinet + everyone around him has a responsibility to stop enabling this dangerous behavior and start asking whether he is fit to hold office.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Column: This is the oddest midterm elections year of the many I’ve covered. Trump acts as if he were trying to make Republicans lose—and give Democrats control of Congress—even as he works (gerrymandering, curbing mail ballots) to rig the election for the GOP. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump is turning off voters while trying to skew the election for the GOP

Just one thing is certain: chaos on some level. That’s Trump’s trademark and yet another reason voters increasingly dislike him.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Column: Dolly’s death hits all the harder for coming when that other faux-blond 80-year-old is (mis)leading our country and messing with our minds daily. A colleague's license plate reads "WWDD"—What Would Dolly Do? If only Trump lived by those words. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: What would Dolly do? Trump should learn from her life and legacy

We say “there will never be another Dolly Parton” with regret. To say the same about Trump is, for many Americans, a relief.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Column: Better late than never, Democrats are melding the inequitable economy AND Trump's self-dealing corruption into a two-pronged cudgel against him, and by extension Republicans on the midterm ballots. Every week he provides more material for the ads. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump's reputation for corruption is doing Democrats' work for them

The president is campaigning against Republicans by enriching himself while in office.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Column: Even as Trump and Hegseth's purges and blocked promotions of senior military officers disproportionately target women and minorities, the faces of the fallen in Trump's war of choice show that the same groups are disproportionately the casualties. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Hegseth is purging people of color. Trump's war is killing them

Suddenly we have a new measure of how much women and minorities (and immigrants) contribute to protecting America: the casualty toll in Trump’s war against Iran.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Column: Thanks to the Supreme Court, Trump is free as of this week to mount mass deportations in earnest, after ending protections for 1.3m immigrants. These aren't "the worst of the worst." They're essential workers. It's a moral AND economic travesty. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: The nonsense of deporting immigrants who came legally and do much-needed work

The U.S. is losing millions of essential workers as President Trump enacts his campaign's stupidest ideas.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Column: Trump's TV reality shows ended long ago but he's still creating his own false reality as president—denying his 2020 loss, fudging war-casualty numbers, blaming nonexistent vandals for his Reflecting Pool mess and so much more. And his ratings suck. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump is still playing a reality-TV role

Rarely has the president's recasting of reality to fit his chosen narrative been so evident on varied fronts — and so grotesque — as in recent days.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Column: For months, Sen. Mark Warner has been on a tear to warn Americans of Trump's designs to disrupt the midterm elections. If Warner—the self-described "radical centrist" and intel expert—has fears, so should we all. As he says, "remain vigilant." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump's undermining of U.S. elections is not a simple partisan issue

The president’s dud of a prime-time speech, during which he baselessly called U.S. elections “catastrophically short” of being safe, only confirmed many people's fears.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Column: ICE's death toll under Trump, by shootings and deaths in detention, has mounted without a single agent being held accountable. One way to send him a message: Press the Senate (eyeing you, Susan Collins) to reject Todd Blanche as attorney general. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Send Trump a message that the ICE killings have consequences

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) could block confirmation of the president's personal lawyer to be the next attorney general.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Column: Trump, channeling McCarthyite mentor Roy Cohn, now sees commies everywhere among Democrats, and migrants. The irony: his actions—billions for government stakes in private companies and veto power over their actions—makes him look like the commie. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump decries 'communism' while his government takes ownership of companies

As former Republicans recently said, 'Trump is the closest we’ve ever come to communism.'

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Column: The Supreme Court's complicity with Trump, with few exceptions, in further empowering him and future presidents should trigger a countermovement from voters and Congress (one not under Trump's thumb) to rebalance the balance of powers. Start now. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: The Supreme Court failed the test posed by Trump

The conservative justices seem willfully obtuse about this executive's autocratic impulses.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Column: In AG nominee Todd Blanche, Trump's found his Roy Cohn. The Epstein coverup, prosecuting Trump enemies, Jan. 6 thugs fund, Trump tax immunity, scores of judges calling out government lawyers for misconduct. To "liberated" GOP senators: Bust Blanche. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Don't let Trump empower Todd Blanche, his modern-day Roy Cohn

Trump has created a small caucus of Republicans who feel they no longer owe him anything. Those lawmakers could block the president's attorney general nominee.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Column: For Saturday's World Refugee Day, Trump weighed having to the White House white South Africans—virtually the only people he allows into the US as refugees. That he'd fete such a racist policy says it all about his shameless normalization of racism. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: In the land of immigrants, Trump's refugee policy is overt racism

The administration has ushered in an overtly racist refugee policy. Our country should be better than this.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Column: The noxious irony of Trump’s imperial D.C. building spree is that it’s underway even as he continues a decade-plus teardown of the metaphorical foundations of democracy: trust in free and fair elections. Irony #2: He's the real danger to elections. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump is stealing Americans' faith in elections

The U.S.'s election systems are secure and fair, but that's harder for many to believe after a decade of lies from the president.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Column: For the nation's 250th birthday, its capital is a scarred mess, thanks to Trump. Yet by his vanity projects and other, worse abuses of power, the wannabe king has inadvertently sparked a Spirit of '26 among revolted Americans. Cue the fireworks. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: As we approach July 4, the capital is, fittingly, a mess

The adulatory banners and ego-driven construction projects hardly send the message appropriate for a people who renounced a king.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Column: A week later, too many Democrats still obsess over how the party screwed up an autopsy about how the party screwed up the '24 election. Yes, party chair Ken Martin should go, but forget '24, focus on '26, then let the '28 race to (re)define the party begin. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Enough navel-gazing, Democrats. Focus on the future

The party's advantage in these midterm elections is entirely thanks to Trump’s and Republicans’ own unpopularity.

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Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Column: Trump, by his humiliating failure to cut a nuclear deal with Iran, has caused a new, more positive look at Obama's multinational 2015 pact, the JCPOA, that Trump ended and still calls the "worst deal ever." He'd be happy to get JCPOA Lite. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Obama's strong terms curbed Iran. Trump struggles to secure even a weak deal

Since 2018, the president's actions have allowed Iran to rebuild its nuclear program. Now he is in a quagmire of his own creation.

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Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Column: However the Trump-Xi summit ends, Trump entered as perhaps the weakest president in six decades of U.S.-China relations, his weakness—and thus America's— self-inflicted. He's eroded our technological, clean energy, military and reputational edge. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump surrendered to China before he even landed there

The president has humiliated himself by sacrificing the U.S. economy and U.S. military readiness, handing victories to our geopolitical rival.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Column: Who won election in 2020? Was the Capitol attacked on Jan. 6, 2021? Can Trump have a third term? Only Trump, and his lickspittles, get it wrong. Alas, that includes his nominees to be federal judges. They fail the test of judicial independence. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump's judicial nominees are fact-challenged and unfit

Wannabe federal judges are going along with the president's delusions for the sake of their careers. That should be disqualifying for a judge.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Column: Trump is so drunk with power, so cocooned in a bubble of bootlickers, he gives no sign of altering the behavior and policies repelling ever more Americans, including his voters. So take heart in his record low polls. Trumpism likely ends with him. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Americans aren't buying Trump's schtick anymore

A growing majority of Americans see Trump as a cartoonish caricature of himself. And that includes some of his own voters.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Column: It's a measure of Trump’s lost credibility, after years of lies, that once-close allies suggest his two assassination attempts were faked. Less extremely, foreign leaders, CEOs and many Americans dismiss his BS. It's karma, but it's destabilizing. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Even Trump's base doesn't believe him anymore

People who once stood behind the president's most favored conspiracy theories (birtherism) are now promoting theories in which he is the deceiver (Butler assassination attempt).

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Column: For all the achievements Trump claims—ending eight wars in a year!—here’s a real one: Despite promises to balance the budget ("overnight"), he's on a path to break his own record for the most debt in one term, $8.4 trillion. Where's the outrage? www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Pay attention to the deficit, even if Trump won’t

President Trump said he would balance the federal budget "overnight." In reality, debt is now approaching the highest level in U.S. history.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Column: Amid Trump's insane comments, it was Karoline Leavitt's remark that really unsettled me: “Only the President knows where things stand and what he will do." Impeachment and the 25th Amendment aren't realistic. The only check: A Democratic majority in Congress. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: We're stuck with an unchecked mad king until January

America has a president who lately has piled on the evidence that he is mentally unstable, unfit for the office.

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Lisa Fung @lisafung.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

‘The fight for the symbolic and architectural integrity of the White House is of a piece with the broader fight against the lawless, self-aggrandizing impunity with which Trump approaches everything’ Via @jackiecalmes.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Given everything in the news, why care about the White House demolition?

In a nation founded on ideals, after throwing off a king, the idea of a people’s house that’s not palatial is one worth protecting.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Column: For months, Trump's White House desecration has upset me to tears, but I'd check myself: What's a building when he's tearing up lives? Well, I decided, this is more than a building. It's a symbol--of the nation, and of all that's wrong the resident. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Given everything in the news, why care about the White House demolition?

In a nation founded on ideals, after throwing off a king, the idea of a people’s house that’s not palatial is one worth protecting.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Column: Make America Safe Again? Trump’s Iran war risks retaliatory terrorist strikes in the US, experts warn--a threat that's higher because he sacked counterterrorism hands who had any role in investigating him and reassigned others to deportations work. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump's recklessness endangers the nation

He gutted counterterrorism in the U.S. government and then started a war with Iran, a notorious state sponsor of terrorism.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Column: Yes, Trump has broken his vow not to start foreign wars. What’s worse is than in the major theaters of foreign policy—the Mideast, Europe and Asia—he's led along by foreign leaders. And Netanyahu, Putin and Xi do not have U.S. interests at heart. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: On Iran, Russia and China, Trump's weakness for strongmen explains his foreign policy

There is no Trump doctrine because this president is highly suggestible by authoritarians such as Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Column: Days after the Supreme Court all but begged Congress to take back power Trump has usurped, Republican lawmakers at his State of the Union speech only seemed poised to give away more. All the more reason voters should take away the Capitol keys in November. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump's address to Congress trumpets how he usurps Congress

Even just days after his own conservative Supreme Court reprimanded him for trying to take over lawmakers' role, the president was unashamed of his power grabs.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Column--America's quandary in Trump times: Ex-presidents and retired commanders who could speak out in unison are so constrained by their devotion to norms that they won’t confront a president who’s shattering norms and laws that are democracy's foundation. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden, please speak out against Trump

Presidents who could speak truth to power are so constrained by their devotion to norms that they won’t confront a president who’s shattering the norms of this democracy daily.

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Lisa Fung @lisafung.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

‘How is it… that kids can get into such trouble for their behavior, accept responsibility and make amends, but the president of the United States does not and will not?’ Via @jackiecalmes.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: If he had any other job, Trump would have been fired by now

We’re stuck with a president who daily models behavior that we don’t accept in our schools and workplaces.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Column: After Trump's racist post about the Obamas, a daughter called: How does he get away with behavior that kids in school get punished for? Or adults in any job? Good question. Daily he offends. If only Congress or the Supreme Court would be his H.R. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: If he had any other job, Trump would have been fired by now

We’re stuck with a president who daily models behavior that we don’t accept in our schools and workplaces.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Column: To all who're daily distressed by some Trump outrage, you're not alone. “Every day there’s something insane happening,” said a Texas independent in the red district that just elected a Democrat. Misery has company. And company's coming in November. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Misery has plenty of company in Trump's second term

Republicans are quaking ahead of the midterms as Trump says or does something each day to keep alive the disgust so many Americans share for him.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Column: Enough with laying blame on Noem, Miller and Bovino for the feds' deadly, terroristic tactics in Minneapolis and elsewhere. This is Trump’s paramilitary. These are his advisers. These are his policies. Don't let him pass the buck this time. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump imagines the buck will never stop with him

As Republicans object to this lawless administration, they should keep their focus on holding the boss accountable.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Column: All of Trump's gilt defiling the White House, his name on the Kennedy Center--those can be easily undone. The same can’t be said for the damage he's done in just a year to the US character and rule of law at home, or its alliances and reputation globally. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: It will be a long road back after Trump's reign of destruction

He has already devastated the credibility of American law enforcement and the military, not to mention our nation's standing around the world.

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One Domino Away @onedominoaway.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Robert Yates, Essay No. 15, Mar 20, 1788 “The president, with his immense powers, may easily become the tyrant of America." onedominoaway.com/broken-shack... An Old Whig, Open Letter Oct 27, 1787 “The president of the United States… will be in reality more like a monarch than any king in Europe.”

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Broken Shackles: The Rise of the Imperial Presidency (1776–2025) The Study of Article 2 Section 3's Take Care Clause... "Faithfully"

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Lisa Fung @lisafung.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

‘It’s Americans’ bad fortune that such a man as Trump, a wannabe king, is the presider in chief for the yearlong commemorations of the rebellion that ultimately threw off a real king who’d met protesters with force and retribution.’ Via @jackiecalmes.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump celebrates our nation's founding while imitating tyrant King George III

The Declaration of Independence faulted the king for sending 'swarms of Officers to harrass our people' and protecting the agents 'from punishment for any Murders which they should commit.' Sound fami...

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Column: Trump's conflicting takes on protest in Iran and the US is especially gross in the 250th year of the Declaration of Independence. Its indictments of King George have parallels today. Like, he “sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people.” www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump celebrates our nation's founding while imitating tyrant King George III

The Declaration of Independence faulted the king for sending 'swarms of Officers to harrass our people' and protecting the agents 'from punishment for any Murders which they should commit.' Sound fami...

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Column: Who knew that by “America First,” President Trump meant all of the Americas? With the Donroe Doctrine--Might makes right--the wannabe king turns out to be a wannabe emperor of an entire hemisphere. While exacerbating, not fixing, problems at home. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump's 626 overseas strikes aren't 'America First.' What's his real agenda?

The president who promised domestic solutions has instead inserted the U.S. into many other nations' conflicts, most recently Venezuela's. Why?

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Column: Trump's most potent '24 campaign ad delivered a punch line with real punch: “Kamala Harris is for they/them. President Trump is for you.” In 2025, the self-aggrandizing president only lived by the first-person pronouns: me, myself and I. A review. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump's motto in 2025? 'Me, myself and I'

To an extent that’s shocked even critics long convinced of his sociopathic narcissism, the president has fashioned a government that’s of Trump, by Trump and for Trump.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Column: A man told a Salvation Army bell-ringer at the grocery, “Because you said ‘Merry Christmas’ and not ‘Happy Holidays,’ I’m giving you money. America’s back!” It's a mindset Trump stokes. Such kind wishes aren't political--unless you want them to be. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: 'Happy holidays' is how we embrace the Christmas spirit of generosity

There is no 'war on Christmas,' so our season's greetings are not political statements. Unless you want them to be.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Column: There is a Santa Claus, and light in the dark. Susie Wiles' candor on Trump 2.0 in Vanity Fair is a Christmas-Hanukkah gift. Along with Trump's sliming of Rob Reiner, voters got the clearest mirror yet to the ugliness that is Trump. Happy 2026. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Some truth leaked out of the White House

Damning candor from Trump's chief of staff, along with the president's own embarrassing rant against Rob Reiner, show the crumbling of this administration.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Column: Even as the Supreme Court this week signaled it will end regulatory agencies' independence, Trump's interference in the fight over Warner Bros. Discovery showed what the future holds: Presidents picking winners and losers, politics over expertise. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Signs of the regulatory apocalypse

Trump announced that he would 'be involved' in deciding which company is allowed to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. The Supreme Court signaled an end to regulatory agencies' independence.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Column: First Trump fired the lawyers, Months on, the storylines around him are tangled in a knotty mess of lawlessness, hypocrisy & war crimes: killings at sea of supposed drug-runners, retribution for critics, yet a pardon for an ex-narco-state leader. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Now it's clear why Trump got rid of the top military lawyers

People who know and enforce the law would have been inconvenient during the president's undeclared war in the Pacific and the Caribbean.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Column: Today family comes first, but give thanks too for an independent judiciary, for the many federal judges, including Trump picks, who've withstood harassment and death threats to hold the wannabe king and his toadying turkeys to account. Examples: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Be thankful for the judges upholding the law

On immigration alone, more than 100 federal judges — including many Trump appointees — have ruled that the administration’s actions violated civil rights or were otherwise illegal.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Column: Presidents of both parties have abused the pardon power but Trump's corruption and perversion of the rule of law surpasses them, making reform a national imperative: Amend the Constitution to repeal the unchecked power or give Congress a veto. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Instead of addressing injustice, pardons now pervert justice

Across the political spectrum, Americans are disgusted with how presidents have abused the pardon power for personal and political benefit.

Jackie Calmes @jackiecalmes.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Column: A defensive Trump has been flailing, pinballing dumb ideas--$2,000 rebates and debt payoffs with nonexistent "trillions" from tariffs, 50-year mortgages, ending Obamacare. Policy ignorance has been a defining trait, but this knee-jerk junk is nuts. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Column: Trump's improv approach to policymaking doesn't actually make policy

On social media and in interviews, the president has been blurting out proposals that are news even to the advisors who should be vetting them first.