D.C. Circuit Upholds the Bump Stock Ban, Saying It Is Consistent With the 'Best Interpretation' of the Law
It is hard to see how, given the contortions required to deliver the unilateral prohibition that Donald Trump demanded.
It is hard to see how, given the contortions required to deliver the unilateral prohibition that Donald Trump demanded.
Regulators imposed the ban based on a highly implausible and counterintuitive reading of federal law.
Implementing policy is supposed to be difficult given that it could affect millions of people’s lives.
If home insulation is a "critical technology item essential to the national defense," then what isn't?
Presidents once treated congressional authorization as a requirement for the U.S. to enter conflicts. What went wrong?
Starbucks has decided the vaccine mandate isn't good for their business
Requiring kids as young as 5 to either get vaccinated or stay home is not as smart or as necessary as de Blasio claims.
The presidency has always been inclined to unilateral power—and many Americans like it that way.
Emergency OSHA rules are frequently struck down by courts.
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The president seems determined to anoint the agency’s director as the nation’s COVID-19 dictator, no matter what the law says.
The state is scheduled to ease its lockdowns on June 15. But Newsom still wants the power to control the terms.
Voters in Pittsburgh banned no-knock police raids and solitary confinement too.
Even during a pandemic, major changes to laws and policies should be funneled through state assemblies.
The agency will be extending its controversial eviction moratorium through the end of June.
If the refusal of lawmakers to enact a president's policies is justification for unilateral executive action, then a slide toward elective monarchy is inevitable.
A newly released OLC opinion asserts the White House can require independent agencies to comply with Executive Orders on regulatory review.
That’s a rare position for modern White House residents, and not necessarily a popular one with the public.
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If only that signaled a broader respect for legal limits on executive power.
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A list of reforms to help restore the rule of law in a post-Trump Washington.
"I know what moral panics look like; they look kind of like this."
Will his blunt self-aggrandizement reinvigorate concerns about presidents who exceed their powers?
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Congress created inspectors general to be watchdogs, but it's too weak-willed to protect those watchdogs from retaliation.
The 1961 speech by President Dwight Eisenhower foreshadowed the current government's response to COVID-19.
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"Presidential emergency action documents” concocted under prior administrations purport to give him such authority, according to a New York Times op-ed.
The presidential candidate reserves the right to wage unauthorized wars, kill Americans in foreign countries, prosecute journalists, and selectively flout the law.
Until we start denuding the Oval Office, we will continue getting the royals we deserve.
Until we start denuding the Oval Office, we will continue getting the royals we deserve.
The former press secretary thinks abiding by the Constitution would be the worst thing for America right now.
"Somehow we've decided that the one job in America that gets the most job protection is the one where you actually get nuclear weapons," says the Cato Institute's Gene Healy.
Americans can lose their jobs for almost anything. Why are we so hesitant to give presidents the boot?
His desperate attempt to stop a grand jury from seeing his tax returns invokes kingly powers that would put the president above the law.
If, at the end of all this, President Mike Pence sits behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, what has been accomplished?
While there may be sound political reasons to let voters decide Trump's fate, there are sound constitutional reasons to clarify the limits of his authority.
The strongest critics of unilateral decisions to attack other countries include Tulsi Gabbard and Bernie Sanders, while Joe Biden thinks anything goes.
The senator and the president she wants to unseat are determined to have their way, regardless of what the law says.
Cory Booker’s plan would unjustly deprive peaceful Americans of the fundamental right to armed self-defense.
The libertarian legal analyst says Trump, like his White House predecessors, has abused executive power in all sorts of ways.
The California senator claims she could impose "near-universal background checks" and close the "boyfriend loophole" without new legislation.
New York cops and the president arbitrarily turn legal products into contraband.
The ban, which took effect this week, usurps congressional authority by rewriting an inconvenient law.
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