States now are the check on presidential overreach

[J_William_Ryan]

1. "in 2025 was the role states played in checking federal overreach"

Democratic states supplied the friction to slow the Trump regime’s power grab; Republican opposition was rare.

Indeed, it was red states that rolled over along with a feckless Republican Congress.

And again, the hypocrisy of Republicans was on full display, supposed advocates of states’ rights, Republicans who did nothing to oppose a Republican president’s attack on the states, Republicans who cheered Trump’s attacks on Democratic states.