D.C. Circuit Upholds Injunction Against Trump's Ballroom
The Constitution assigns control of federal property to Congress, which never approved the president's demolition and replacement of the East Wing.
Congressional Approval
Nancy Pelosi Is the Wrong Namesake for Berkeley's 'Institute for Representative Democracy'
If you want to devote an institute to "strengthening America's democratic institutions," you shouldn't name it for someone who degraded the public's trust in those institutions.
Even If Trump's Ballroom Project Is Illegal, a DOJ Lawyer Says, the Courts Cannot Stop It
The D.C. Circuit is reviewing an injunction issued by a judge who said "no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have."
Congress Declines Again To Rein in Trump's Iran War
Republicans can’t decide whether the war is too early to stop, too late to stop, or nonexistent in the first place.
Trump's War With Iran Is Unjustified and Unpopular
Plus: Congress is reluctant to assert its war powers, the Pentagon brands Anthropic a national security threat, and a listener asks whether regime change is ever morally defensible.
Trump Dares Congress To Take Its War Powers Seriously in Venezuela
The president bet that no one would stop him from land attacks in Venezuela. And Congress hasn’t given him any reason to think otherwise.
White House Proposal To Withhold Back Pay From Federal Workers Is More Rhetoric Than Reform
A new White House budget memo frames shutdown furlough pay withholdings as fiscal restraint, but the budgetary impact is minimal—the greater effect may be expanding executive control over the federal bureaucracy.
Is Biden Teeing Up an Iran War for Trump?
Trump was considered reckless for wanting to start a war at the end of his term. Now, Biden is doing the same.
Abolish the Securities and Exchange Commission
Despite its enormous budget and vast regulatory powers, the agency has failed to detect major frauds while wasting time and money on relatively useless disclosures.
No Troops in Ukraine Without Congressional Approval, Say Lawmakers
Plus: Republican policy priorities, SCOTUS to take same-sex wedding website refusal case, and more...
Rand Paul Presses Mike Pompeo on Iran: 'You Do Not Have Our Permission To Go to War'
Does the Trump administration think it can wage war in Iran without congressional approval? Mike Pompeo won't say.
Your Flight Is Delayed
The frenzied battle to reform American air traffic control
The Deregulator?
Wary libertarian enthusiasm greets Donald Trump's ambitious regulatory reform agenda
DARPA Unveils Latest Military Tech Weapon
Giving presidents the tools they need to wield the power they've already taken.
Nationwide Keystone Pipeline Protests Today as Senate Prepares to Vote Approval
Would add just 1/100th of a degree to man-made warming by 2100
Americans Really Don't Like Their Congresscritters
Fifty-one percent say their own representatives suck.
Polls Say: Democrats Risk a Midterm Beating Over Obamacare
Democrats appear to be in no position to buck the midterm thumping the party in power power usually suffers at the polls.
In Praise of An Unpopular Congress
What's wrong with Congress? Absolutely nothing, that's what.
Congress Gains Popularity as Obama Loses Support
I don't see why we have to like either of them
Nancy Pelosi Most Unpopular Congressional Leader
Also the best-known, which may be a contributing factor
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. Improves Reputation of Congress by Entering Plea Bargain Talks
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) won re-election to Congress while cooling his jets in rehab.
Obama Has Taken the Cult of the Presidency to a Whole New Level
And it doesn't seem he's losing any sleep over what his successors may do with those new powers.
