From skeptic to champion, President Donald Trump is reshaping the nation’s digital asset agenda from the ground up, pleasing die-hard bitcoin and meme coin investors and ruffling the feathers of enforcement hawks who think he’s engaging in flagrant self-dealing. He once warned that cryptocurrencies “seemed like a scam” and were “based on thin air” and accused them of enabling criminal activity. Today, Trump says he’s been a “big crypto fan” from the beginning and is overseeing the most...

President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign against the country’s elite law firms has sent shock waves through Washington. Defenders of the effort say that’s a good thing. Trump’s threatened or actual executive orders stripping Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Paul Weiss, and other firms of government access, absent pledges from the firms to devote resources to cases deemed acceptable by the Trump administration, have drawn fierce criticism from much of the legal community. Critics...

Former President Joe Biden spent four years suing Republican-led states over border crackdowns that defied his federal policy. Now, President Donald Trump is turning the tables — taking sanctuary states and cities to court in an attempt to force compliance with his own federal immigration enforcement. Last week, the Trump administration filed a lawsuit against Illinois, Chicago, and Cook County, challenging local laws that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities. The...