John Whitehead

How a President Becomes a Dictator: By Executive Order
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods…

Executive Orders, AI Tyranny, & 42 National Emergencies: Is the Constitution Dead? (Video)
In this interview with Collapse Life, civil liberties attorney John Whitehead reminds us just how we are sleepwalking our way to autocracy – on a road paved with 42 active national emergencies, unchecked executive power, and a $500 billion AI…

Legal Coalition Challenges Trump’s Use Of Executive Orders To Retaliate Against More Law Firms & Erode Checks & Balances
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A broad coalition of legal and civil liberties organizations is once again challenging President Trump’s use of executive orders to retaliate against law firms that he perceives as political opponents, suppress opposition and chill lawful…

Refugee. Dissident. Enemy of the State. Would ICE Have Crucified Jesus?
“Homegrowns are next. The homegrowns. You gotta build about five more places [like the CECOT prison]. It’s not big enough.”—President Trump on his desire to send American citizens to a megaprison in El Salvador, beyond the reach of U.S.…

Wrong Address, Wrong Target, Real Terror: U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear FBI Raid Case
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could determine whether FBI agents can be held accountable for a botched SWAT raid that terrorized an innocent family in the middle of the…

A Financial Coup: How the Deep State Is Using Manufactured Crises to Seize Power
“This is economic sabotage. Whether through malice or incompetence or, more likely, both Trump is isolating the United States on the world stage, tanking the markets, worsening inflation, and burdening working families with the cost of his 18th-century cosplay.…

Legal Coalition Challenges President Trump’s Weaponization Of Executive Orders to Chill Speech, Suppress Dissent, & Erode Checks & Balances
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Denouncing the Trump Administration’s ongoing attempts to suppress dissent and chill lawful First Amendment activity, The Rutherford Institute has joined a broad coalition of eleven legal and civil liberties organizations to challenge President Trump’s use…








