California's COVID-19 Shutdown Was Driven by Science. Until It Suddenly Wasn't.
It's great that Gov. Gavin Newsom is finally looking at costs and benefits. But don't kid yourself. None of it has anything to do with "science."
It's great that Gov. Gavin Newsom is finally looking at costs and benefits. But don't kid yourself. None of it has anything to do with "science."
A president who can attach his own new conditions to federal grants to states could use that power to undermine state autonomy on many issues - especially now that federal spending has been massively expanded during the coronavirus crisis.
Congress created inspectors general to be watchdogs, but it's too weak-willed to protect those watchdogs from retaliation.
There is a difference between reporting facts that make the president uncomfortable and manufacturing facts to fit a preconceived view of him.
There was a potentially pivotal exchange in today's Supreme Court oral argument over the House subpoenas seeking the President's financial records.
An abuse of power that doesn't violate federal fraud statutes can still be an impeachable offense - and still violate other criminal law.
The 1961 speech by President Dwight Eisenhower foreshadowed the current government's response to COVID-19.
Why does it matter is a federal agency is independent of Presidential control? Ask the Department of Defense.
In an interview, the freshly-minted presidential candidate talks abortion, the "spoiler" charge, and Joe Biden's flip-flopping, while insisting that 2020 is a "winnable race."
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While denying Donald Trump's dictatorial impulses, William Barr notes that public health emergencies do not give governments unlimited powers.
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The president contemplates a sweeping exercise of executive authority.
It's not the politicians who have the power to reopen America, or at least the parts that are now closed. It's individuals, families, businesses, and religious congregations.
The president has a history of asserting powers he does not actually have.
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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.
Hungary's Viktor Orbán consolidates power, Harvard's Adrian Vermeule fantasizes about wielding it, and many of those who oppose authoritarian conservativism beg Donald Trump to close the country down.
Takeout and delivery orders are the only thing keeping the state's 115 craft breweries afloat during the coronavirus outbreak.
Thought during an epidemic from a defender of freedom
“Why should courts, charged with the independent and neutral interpretation of the laws Congress has enacted, defer to such bureaucratic pirouetting?”
This inability to agree on the nature of the national interest is endemic not just to the new nationalism, but to all of politics.
The presidential candidate reserves the right to wage unauthorized wars, kill Americans in foreign countries, prosecute journalists, and selectively flout the law.
The legal battle over immigration, federalism, and executive power heats up.
Shifting the process from the Justice Department to the White House can help eliminate bureaucracy and meddling from prosecutors.
The argument requires several controversial assumptions and leaps of logic.
Criminal justice reformers say federal prosecutors torpedoed clemency petitions in worthy cases.
Kehinde Wiley's pre-presidential works criticized inequalities and hierarchies of power. His presidential portrait doesn't do the same.
The president remains frankly puzzled by the distinction between can and should.
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She’s nearly three years into a five-year sentence for releasing classified documents showing Russian attempts to hack U.S. election systems.
Other possible legal challenges to Trump's expanded travel ban may be precluded by the Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v. Hawaii. This one is not.
If Barr is so concerned about the appearance of integrity, why did he insert himself into a high-profile case involving a presidential pal?
Until we start denuding the Oval Office, we will continue getting the royals we deserve.
After Watergate, Democrats rolled back executive power. Under Trump, they just want to be the ones who get to wield it.
Until we start denuding the Oval Office, we will continue getting the royals we deserve.
The president promised to protect Medicare and Social Security, America's biggest entitlement programs.
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Republicans should think twice before endorsing the dangerous myth that impeachment requires a criminal violation.
American manufacturing has been in a recession for the past year.
But he'll have to do more than coast on a few commendable pardons if he wants to prove he's serious.
President Donald Trump's schizophrenic approach to foreign policy was on full display during his State of the Union address tonight.
In his State of the Union address, the president promised to give an opportunity scholarship to a specific child who needed one.
From Clinton's cockiness to Reagan's contrition to Nixon's defiance, three different models for Donald Trump
The Reason Roundtable podcast grapples with a news week so packed it makes Manhattan look like Kansas
The courts may not strike it down. But it remains both illegal and deeply unjust.
While Trump will almost certainly be acquitted within the next few days, impeachment might still damage him politically. And the long-term impact of this process will likely take a long time to unfold.