Eliza Collins

Phoenix

Politics Reporter at The Wall Street Journal

Politics reporter @wsj, previously @usatoday @politico.

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Le coup de poing qui a déclenché la guerre de Trump contre les universités américaines

1 week ago | lopinion.fr | Eliza Collins |Douglas Belkin |Tarini Parti |Liz Essley Whyte

The Wall Street Journal La recherche universitaire pourrait se voir privée de milliards de dollars de fonds fédéraux.
The Punch That Launched Trump’s War on American Universities

1 week ago | wsj.com | Eliza Collins |Douglas Belkin |Tarini Parti |Liz Essley Whyte

Harmeet Dhillon, head of the civil-rights division at the Justice Department, wakes up around 6 a.m. and begins her workday scrolling through X, searching for claims of discrimination. A lot of them, Dhillon said, regard universities. After spotting “a list of new horrors,” she said,” I text my deputies, and we assign cases, and we get cranking.”Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
The Punch That Launched Trump’s War on American Universities

1 week ago | wsj.com | Eliza Collins |Douglas Belkin |Tarini Parti |Liz Whyte

Threats to withhold billions in federal research funds to punish campuses grew heated after a 2019 altercation left a man with a black eyePresident Trump on stage at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference with Hayden Williams, right, who was struck in the face while visiting the University of California, Berkeley that year.
Des grâces présidentielles façon Far West sous le second mandat de Trump

3 weeks ago | lopinion.fr | Eliza Collins |Rebecca Ballhaus |Corinne Ramey

The Wall Street Journal Le président américain a chamboulé une procédure judiciaire plutôt simple, et lancé une course à la clémence par l’intermédiaire de lobbyistes et de personnes proches de lui Publié le 14 mai 2025 à 12:34 Eliza Collins, Rebecca Ballhaus et Corinne Ramey « Bitcoin Jesus », de son vrai nom Roger Ver, demande la grâce présidentielle et est prêt à mettre la main à la poche pour l’obtenir.
The Wild West of Presidential Pardons in Trump’s Second Term

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Eliza Collins |Rebecca Ballhaus |Corinne Ramey

Trump has upended a sober legal process, setting off a scramble among those seeking clemency to use lobbyists and personal connections to the presidentBitcoin Jesus was on the hunt for a pardon, and he was willing to pay. Donald Trump had just been elected president for the second time, and allies of the wealthy cryptocurrency investor, whose real name is Roger Ver, saw an opportunity to avoid a possible decadeslong sentence over criminal tax-evasion charges.
The Wild West of Presidential Pardons in Trump’s Second Term

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Eliza Collins |Rebecca Ballhaus |Corinne Ramey

Associates of Ver reached out to at least five lobbyists and lawyers in Trump’s orbit, making extravagant offers of monthly retainers and so-called success fees, payments if a pre-emptive pardon or dismissal of Ver’s case was secured. They offered one lobbyist $5 million, and two others $10 million, according to people familiar with the discussions. At one point, Ver’s associates urged him to pay as much as $30 million for his pardon quest, some of the people said.
AOC Isn’t Ruling Anything Out, Including the White House

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Eliza Collins |Jasmine Li

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) was standing in front of thousands of angry Democrats and urging them to get behind candidates willing to brawl—even if it means unseating members of their own party. “We need a Democratic Party that fights harder for us,” the 35-year-old New Yorker said to applause at a recent rally in battleground Arizona. At another event on her Western tour with Sen.
Can the Only U.S. Highway Measured in Kilometers Survive ‘America First’?

1 month ago | wsj.com | Eliza Collins

I-19, which connects Tucson and Mexico, has run on the metric system since the 1970s. It’s now under review. 34 KM FROM NOGALES, Ariz.— The highway that runs from Tucson, Ariz. to Mexico is about 63 miles long, but that fact won’t do you any good. That’s because I-19 is the only American highway that fully measures distance in kilometers, a relic of a failed effort in the 1970s for the U.S. to adopt the metric system. Some 50 years later, the kilometer countdown remains.
MAHA Turns on RFK Jr. Over Measles Vaccine Stance

1 month ago | wsj.com | Sara Ashley O’Brien |Eliza Collins

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s response to the outbreak has drawn criticism from both serious scientists and his most loyal supportersRobert F. Kennedy Jr. is confronting his first disease outbreak as Health and Human Services secretary. His response to the spread of measles in and beyond Texas has managed to alarm serious scientists while also drawing criticism from his Make America Healthy Again movement.
The Democrats Who Are Fighting—and Winning—Against Trump in Court - tovima.com

1 month ago | tovima.com | Eliza Collins |John McCormick |John Mccormick

As Democrats struggle to find their bearings after President Trump’s return to the White House, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes isn’t looking for common ground like some Democrats in Washington. Her strategy is simple: take him to court. Mayes is one of 23 Democratic attorneys general who are strategizing on a nearly daily basis about how to use the courts to thwart Trump.