Trump's Illegal, Impossible Plan to Teach Twitter a Lesson
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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.
Thank Donald Trump for the belated attempt to enforce the Constitution's separation of powers.
We live in desperate times when the brake on both Democratic socialism and Republican executive-branch abuse is a 78-year-old San Francisco Democrat.
Libertarian Rep. Justin Amash joined with Democrats to oppose the president's power grab.
Bargaining over policy is supposed to be frustrating. That's a feature, not a bug, of limited government.
Under a little-known regulation that dates back to the 1930s, the president has legal power over electronic transmissions.
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A case to watch for both criminal justice reformers and for critics of executive overreach.