Mission Drift, Political Appointments, and the People Who Pay the Price   Campaign Briefing: Decoupling Partisan Politics from Governance 2028 Presidential Campaign of Martin A. Ginsburg, RN March 31, 2026     I. Agencies Don't Fail All at Once The dramatic failures — the ones that make the front page and prompt congressional hearings — are usually not the beginning of the story. They are the end of it. The visible collapse is almost always the culmination of a long, quiet sl

Why the Federal Government Cannot Penalize Voters for Postal Transit Time When It Does Not Impose That Penalty on Taxpayers, Litigants, or Prisoners   A Constitutional and Statutory Analysis of Watson v. Republican National Committee, No. 24-1260 (U.S. oral argument scheduled March 23, 2026)   Prepared by the Ginsburg 2028 Presidential Campaign Full Disclosure: The Candidate is NOT an attorney; In Fact - he has never even auditioned to play one even in Community Theater. Mart

Who Made Me — No. 1   2028 Presidential Campaign of Martin A. Ginsburg, RN March 30, 2026       I was twelve years old when someone first taught me to think. His name was Butch. He was my football coach — he put me on the offensive line and the defensive line, wherever he thought I'd do the team the most good — and he was also a firefighter paramedic, which meant that by the time I was thirteen I could read a lethal cardiac arrhythmia on a strip. He taught me because it was s

Where Political Saturation Has Made the Mission Fragile — and What We Do About It   Campaign Briefing: Decoupling Partisan Politics from Governance 2028 Presidential Campaign of Martin A. Ginsburg, RN March 30, 2026       I. Not All Agencies Are Created Equal We have spent the past week describing the problem of political appointments in operational roles. Today we get specific. Because not all federal departments are equally exposed to this problem — and the ones that are mo

The Three-Phase Legislative Strategy for Making Career Government Permanent   Campaign Briefing: Decoupling Partisan Politics from Governance 2028 Presidential Campaign of Martin A. Ginsburg, RN March 27, 2026       I. Executive Orders Are Not Enough Any president can issue an executive order converting political positions to career service. The next president can reverse it on Day One. We have watched this happen — on issue after issue, administration after administration —

The Audit Framework for Identifying Which Appointments Should Be Career Positions   Campaign Briefing: Decoupling Partisan Politics from Governance 2028 Presidential Campaign of Martin A. Ginsburg, RN March 26, 2026     I. Good Intentions Without Good Process Go Nowhere Yesterday we described the goal: convert operational federal positions from political appointments to career civil service, where the work demands expertise rather than loyalty. Today we describe the method. A

In 1994, John Kruk showed up to Philadelphia Phillies spring training wearing a t-shirt. He had just had surgery. Testicular cancer — one testicle removed. He came back anyway, ahead of schedule, against the advice of ownership, and he walked into camp wearing a shirt that read: "If you don't let me play, I'm gonna take my ball and go home." It is one of the great moments in the history of American defiance. A man who had every reason to be bitter chose to be funny instead, a

Converting Political Appointments to Career Service Where They Were Never Meant to Be Political   Campaign Briefing: Decoupling Partisan Politics from Governance 2028 Presidential Campaign of Martin A. Ginsburg, RN March 25, 2026     I. A Simple Truth About How Government Works Not every job in the federal government is a political job. Most of them never should have been. There are more than 1,200 positions in the federal government that currently require a presidential appo

Why the Courts Must Be Freed from the Political Appointment Game   Campaign Briefing: Decoupling Partisan Politics from Governance 2028 Presidential Campaign of Martin A. Ginsburg, RN March 24, 2026      I. The Courts Were Built for This Moment — If We Let Them Do Their Job There is a reason the Founders gave federal judges lifetime tenure. They understood something about human nature: that a judge who fears being removed will not judge fairly. They wanted courts that could s

Domestic and International Review  •  Week of March 23, 2026 Martin Alan Ginsburg, RN    •   presrun2028.net    •   For Candidate Review Source outlets this issue: NPR • PBS NewsHour • NBC News • CBS News • CNN • Al Jazeera • Axios • Bloomberg • CNBC • Time • The Marshall Project • Just Security • Common Dreams • Roll Call • Times of Israel • Democracy Now • BCA Research • Brookings Institution • IEA Citation format: All factual claims are cited inline. Each citation includes

A Note Before We Begin Who Made Me — Preface   Campaign Briefing: An Afternoon Post 2028 Presidential Campaign of Martin A. Ginsburg, RN       The stories in this series are mine. The lessons are real. The details are the way I remember them. These pieces will appear once or twice a week to help others understand how I cam to believe what I do about government, humanity, and being who I hope to be. I want to be clear about what that means. Some of these memories are thirty ye

Not the Party, Not the Donor, Not the Deal   Campaign Briefing: Decoupling Partisan Politics from Governance 2028 Presidential Campaign of Martin A. Ginsburg, RN March 23, 2026       I. This Is Where Trust Begins — or Ends Every time a president names someone to a federal post, the country is watching. Not always consciously. But watching. Because those appointments are a signal — a declaration of who the president really works for. Too many of those signals, for too long, ha

There Is No Box The Heart of This Campaign     I. Where It Came From From an early age, when people said "you really think outside the box,” the natural response was: what box? Who built it? Why does it have to stay? The compliment concealed a concession — it assumed the box was real, fixed, and authoritative, and that the best anyone could do was work around its edges. That assumption never sat right. The full story of where this thinking began is told in the March 10, 2026

2028 Presidential Campaign of Martin A. Ginsburg, RN   March 20, 2026   The President and Congress are not two separate governments. They are two branches of one government — designed by people who had lived under a king and who were very determined not to replicate that experience. They are designed to work together, to check each other, and ultimately to produce law that reflects the considered judgment of both the executive and the legislative. That design has been under s

CAMPAIGN COMMENTARY — GINSBURG 2028 March 17, 2026 There is a particular kind of lesson that arrives not as instruction but as consequence. We are watching one play out in real time in the Strait of Hormuz — and by the time this post is published, the administration has already moved through an entire arc of the lesson in a single news cycle. The Situation With the Iran war entering its third week, Israel said it plans for at least three more weeks of war, while President Tru

2028 Presidential Campaign of Martin A. Ginsburg, RN   March 19, 2026   There is a word that gets used as an insult in contemporary political discourse: bureaucrat. It is meant to conjure an image of someone who pushes paper, avoids responsibility, and obstructs the legitimate work of elected officials. It is meant to suggest that the permanent workforce of the federal government is the problem rather than the instrument through which our work, as a self-governing people, act

What the Oil Market Owes You — And Why You Rarely Collect A Policy & Civic Education Paper Published March 2026  |    Executive Summary When the world price of oil rises, American drivers pay more at the pump within days. When the world price of oil falls by the same amount, drivers wait weeks — sometimes months — to see relief. The gap between those two speeds is not accidental. It is not explained by supply chains. It has been measured, documented, and confirmed in peer-rev

2028 Presidential Campaign of Martin A. Ginsburg, RN   March 18, 2026   Government costs money. That is not a complaint — it is a fact, and this campaign accepts it. Roads cost money. Courts cost money. A military that keeps the country safe costs money. The question is not whether government is expensive. The question is whether what we are spending produces what we said it would. On that question, the current Congress has a great deal to answer for. I. What We Are Actually

How a Federal Agency Is Being Turned Against the Press Ginsburg 2028 | presrun2028.net | March 2026     I.  The Charge This country has heard a great deal, over the past six years, about the weaponization of the federal government — about agencies of the executive branch being turned from their lawful purposes toward the service of political ends. We have watched it happen to the Department of Justice. We have watched it happen to the IRS. We have watched it happen to the re

2028 Presidential Campaign of Martin A. Ginsburg, RN   March 17, 2026   Yesterday we talked about Humphrey and the long work of moral persuasion. Today we turn to the man who taught this campaign what it means to hold the line — not because holding it is easy, but because the alternative is to become something you no longer recognize. John McCain was not a saint. He was a fighter who decided, at some point in a North Vietnamese prison cell, that there are things more importan