The Evidence
Continuing Reasons why the 25th Amendment is still center stage in a failing presidency.
The White House is preparing to mark America's 250th birthday not with a monument to liberty, but with an unprecedented act of transactional mercy — up to 250 presidential pardons brokered through a lobbying market where the going rate is a million dollars per application. This is no longer an abuse of executive power. It is proof the executive itself has been converted into private currency.
Nine House Republicans have introduced a resolution to repeal the 17th Amendment and hand the choosing of United States senators back to state legislatures. In Kansas, they are already drafting a workaround. Behind them stands a president who has spent the year sabotaging his own party's bills to force through an elections overhaul, and who this spring drew a constitutional fitness inquiry from fifty members of Congress. Read this carefully. It is the same story.
In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the Roberts Court has torn down the last meaningful firewall between political parties and their candidates' bank accounts. The plaintiff was the man now serving as Vice President. The response from the President was a Truth Social victory lap. The dissent used the words "untold harm."
A 927-page financial disclosure. Nine figures in memecoin royalties. A Boeing 747 from Qatar. A prison-stock buying spree that tracked the growth of ICE detention. Every president in modern memory divested. This one is monetizing the office in real time — and the Constitution has a word for it.
A 6-3 Supreme Court ruling that should not have been close reveals a president who tried to unwrite the Fourteenth Amendment by executive fiat — and a White House whose response to losing was to congratulate a foreign dictator on America’s behalf.
A new Quinnipiac University poll released on June 25, 2026 — and quickly amplified by The Independent — finds that a clear majority of the country believes the White House is not telling the truth about an 80-year-old president's physical and mental condition. This is not a scandal about bruised hands. It is a scandal about who is actually running the government, and who Republicans have chosen to defend.
In overturning ninety years of settled precedent, the Supreme Court has handed Donald Trump a presidency without brakes — and made the constitutional case for the 25th Amendment more urgent than the political moment may yet allow it to be.
A new 36-country Pew Research survey of 42,151 adults finds the United States led by the second-least-trusted leader on the world stage. The president's collapse in global confidence is not a vanity metric — it is bleeding into tourism, exports, alliances, and the wallets of ordinary Americans. And it raises a question Congress has begun to ask out loud.
Someone tried to weaponize Michigan's child-welfare system against Pete Buttigieg's four-year-old twins. The White House has yet to condemn it. That silence is not an absence of leadership — it is leadership of a particular kind, and it tells us everything we need to know about the country we are heading into in November.
Connecticut's Chris Murphy did what the country's institutions have largely refused to do — he stood on the floor of the United States Senate and read the ledger of Donald Trump's second term aloud, month by month, deal by deal, pardon by pardon. The question is no longer whether the corruption is real. The question is whether anyone with the constitutional authority to act still cares.
At a Faith & Freedom Coalition gala on Friday, the second-in-line to the presidency told a roomful of donors he is personally running interference for Donald Trump, his family, his Cabinet, and his contributors. He used a phrase usually heard from the witness side of a federal mob trial. He has also taken an oath to the Constitution he is now openly subordinating.
The Trump administration pushed commercial ships through a Strait of Hormuz corridor Iran was never consulted on. Two vessels have been hit in 48 hours. The peace deal is bleeding, Americans are paying at the pump, and a constitutional question that began in April has not gone away.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled this week that journalist Katie Phang has standing to sue the Acting Attorney General, that the Justice Department "conceded" it broke the law, and that the DOJ has until July 2 to release more documents or explain itself. The president who once promised to release everything has spent a year doing the opposite — and a Clinton-appointed judge just said: no more.
Energy prices accounted for over 60% of last month's CPI surge. Behind that number sits a war the president started without Congress, tariffs the Supreme Court already ruled illegal, and a Federal Reserve being bullied to do exactly the wrong thing at the worst possible moment.
A 6–3 majority handed Donald Trump permission to deport more than 356,000 Haitian and Syrian refugees to countries the State Department itself forbids Americans from visiting. The ruling is not a legal technicality. It is a moral failure dressed in robes — and a referendum on what John Roberts has allowed his court to become.