Trump Promised a Balanced Budget. Don't Believe It.
It's great to have presidents talking about the need for a balanced budget, but Republicans are backing a plan that will increase borrowing.
It's great to have presidents talking about the need for a balanced budget, but Republicans are backing a plan that will increase borrowing.
Plus: Democrat disruptions, Columbia University scrutinized by the feds, and more...
A smaller government with a more powerful set of unaccountable executive officials is unlikely to be much of a win for liberty.
Making policy and passing laws is supposed to be difficult and should be left to the messy channels established by the Constitution.
A discussion of whether and when the Supreme Court might overturn Humphrey's Executor v. United States.
If the Department of Government Efficiency goes about this the wrong way, we could be left with both a presidency on steroids and no meaningful reduction in government.
President Donald Trump's pardon of the Silk Road creator is a rare moment of reprieve in an era of relentless government expansion.
The originalist case for a unitary executive falls apart in an era when many of the powers wielded by the executive branch were not originally supposed to be federal powers in the first place.
A district court judge has concluded that President Trump cannot remove the head of the Office of Special Counsel without cause. Supreme Court review is inevitable.
The presidential adviser's lack of formal authority complicates his cost-cutting mission.
A former Afghan intelligence officer who worked alongside U.S. forces sought safety in America. Now, under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, his parole has been revoked, and he’s been detained without explanation.
The president is positioning himself to have much greater control over a smaller, enfeebled federal bureaucracy.
The move effectively retcons J.D. Vance's claim that legal Haitian immigrants were actually here illegally.
How well-intentioned laws created new cultural conflicts—and eroded personal liberty
Plus: The Democratic Party's insecurities, protesting Trump via interpretive dance, the Yosemite locksmith, and more...
There's little question that Trump is taking the concept of the imperial presidency to its apogee.
His position is grounded in concerns about the separation of powers that presidents of both major parties have raised for many years.
In Captain America: Brave New World, a power-hungry president makes reckless choices and withholds vital information—but even he looks competent compared to Biden and Trump.
Vice President J.D. Vance believes presidents can ignore the courts in some situations. Are we heading for a constitutional crisis?
Federal judges in Washington and Maryland say the president's attack on birthright citizenship flouts the 14th Amendment and 127 years of judicial precedent.
Stanford economist John Cochrane discusses DOGE, tariffs, and what it will take to prevent a debt crisis.
The full transcript shows the president's complaints about the editing of the interview are not just wildly hyperbolic and legally groundless. They are demonstrably false.
At his confirmation hearing, the president's pick to run the nation's leading law enforcement agency ran away from his record as a MAGA zealot.
Recent Supreme Court precedent suggests such challenges might prevail, though success is not guaranteed.
The company is worried that the president's complaints about a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris could block a pending merger.
Reviving the Monroe Doctrine and 19th century Republican adventurism is not a shortcut to peace.
In four years, Biden issued regulations costing an estimated $1.8 trillion, by far the highest total in American history.
Extending the deadline gives TikTok a temporary lifeline, but the real issue—government overreach in tech and speech regulation—still needs a congressional fix.
Demographer Julia Gelatt of the Migration Policy Institute joins Just Asking Questions to discuss the likely effects of the president's executive orders on immigration.
Trump signed two executive orders expanding federal funding of school choice while banning "radical indoctrination" in federally funded schools.
Firing members of "independent" agencies would seem to set up a direct challenge to a longstanding precedent.
Jack Goldsmith offers his analysis.
The executive order contradicts the 14th Amendment and 127 years of judicial precedent.
The article explains why the order is unconstitutional and why letting it stand would be very dangerous, including for the civil liberties of US citizens.
A law passed in 2022 requires the president to give Congress a "substantive rationale" for removing inspectors general. Trump has not done that.
But at least he restored respect for a tariff-loving predecessor by renaming a mountain.
Former Rep. Justin Amash explains why President Donald Trump's interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment is wrong.
The past three administrations have tried to limit gain-of-function research. The second Trump administration might be the first one to be successful at doing so.
“I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is,” said Judge John C. Coughenour.
They are allied countries with which the U.S. has a trade deal (a deal negotiated by Trump, no less), but presidential emergency powers are nearly limitless.
Like many of his other "Day 1" decrees, the order seems more concerned with scoring points in the culture war than advancing sensible policy.
The Fraternal Order of Police mistakenly thought that the president "supports our law enforcement officers" and "has our backs."
The dawn of a new golden age?
We have too much rule by decree by whoever currently holds the office of president and a pen.
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