Did Redistricting Reform Fail in Ohio?
Ohio's supposed reforms left lawmakers in charge of the mapmaking process, and a gerrymandered map was the predictable result.
Ohio's supposed reforms left lawmakers in charge of the mapmaking process, and a gerrymandered map was the predictable result.
Another contribution to recent scholarship on whether the Nondelegation Doctrine is properly rooted in the Constitution's original meaning and founding era understandings.
Without judicial review, liberals confronting a Republican-controlled legislature will have no opportunity to seek constitutional redress in federal court.
While the rule is set to go into effect this weekend, companies are scrambling to figure out how to cover or reimburse people for the tests.
The crux of the argument is the distinction "between occupational risk and risk more generally."
Assorted observations on yesterday's opinions, what they mean, and what comes next.
Gaetz has introduced a bill nullifying D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's order requiring people to be vaccinated to visit bars, restaurants, gyms, and other indoor venues.
Using "we" implies a collective responsibility, creates the false impression that most people are on board, and hints that we'll share equally in the benefits.
By divided votes, the justices entered stayed t the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard and stayed the lower court injunctions against the mandate that Medicare and Medicaid service providers require their employees to get vaccinated.
Both parties want to kill the filibuster when they are in the majority, and that's exactly why it needs to stick around.
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Senate Democrats should avoid taking the easy, undemocratic way out.
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Proving that claim requires more than reckless rhetoric, which is constitutionally protected.
If Democrats' voting rights bills are blocked, Biden says, "we have no choice but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster."
Does it matter that the year Congress enacted the Occupational Safety and Health Act was as proximate to the Spanish Flu as to today?
in part because he is a citizen of Kuwait, “where ‘sexual activity outside of marriage goes against religious and cultural values’ and ‘sexual relations outside of marriage are illegal"?
Shrink the federal waistline for healthier communities.
Most of the justices appear to be skeptical of the argument that the agency has the power it is asserting.
An old strategy that’s worked for Democrats before may work again.
The panel rejects the argument that the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act allows the federal government to require vaccination for nearly one-fifth of the American workforce.
Yes, says a federal court, partly because this particular challenge (to a policy “which only allowed religious exemptions for those individuals who are members of organized religions whose teachings entirely forbid vaccinations”) appears to be purely legal in nature.
Experts across the political spectrum support ways to forestall future efforts to use Congress to overturn presidential election results.
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If it is upheld, state legislators easily could use the strategy embodied in S.B. 8 to attack other rights the Supreme Court has recognized.
Alarmed by unilateral COVID-19 restrictions, states are imposing new limits on executive authority.
Rogel Aguilera-Mederos faced harsh punishment under the state’s mandatory minimum sentences for insisting on the right to a trial.
Stranger still, the leading drug policy reform organization supported Schumer's obstruction.
Too Many (Government) Dollars Are Chasing Too Few Goods.
"The First Amendment was never intended to curtail speech and debate within legislative bodies."
That's the issue raised by a newly filed federal lawsuit.
The new Eaton Award from the University of Chicago Federalist Society: This year's topic is "Does originalism still work?"
"You know what else is used for nefarious activities?"
The octogenarian columnist has a lot to say about happiness and history in the United States.
Politicians attack dollar-backed cryptocurrencies called “stablecoins” and the decentralized finance it enables
The argument hinges largely on what makes an emergency standard "necessary."
Time to stop pretending
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The Biden Administration is off to a fast start nominating and appointing federal judges, but will this continue?
The question of whether to stay the BIden Administration rule requiring large employers to mandate vaccinations or testing is now before the Supreme Court.