Our Looming Trillion Dollar Doom
Plus: the unintended consequences of mandating COVID vaccines for students
Plus: the unintended consequences of mandating COVID vaccines for students
The justices robe up for another term.
Political polarization inevitably warps our views of presidential actions, making an even-handed approach all the more crucial.
"We don't actually do finsta," Antigone Davis, Facebook's head of security, explained.
They give an edge to big companies that have no problems accessing capital and whose executives are often well-connected with politicians.
Among Americans who aren't liberal pundits, the debt and deficit rank as major concerns. It's about time Congress noticed.
Plus: Government shutdown, demographic diversity in rural America, and more...
"We are not eager—more the reverse—to print a new permission slip for entering the home without a warrant," declared Justice Kagan in Lange v. California.
Repealing the cap on the SALT deduction would overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest households in America.
A Wall Street Journal report shows that federal judges do not always recuse when cases implicate their financial holdings.
Democrats are now relying on the same "dynamic scoring" technique they've previously criticized.
There’s no clean way this applies to the pandemic.
Why is registration for involuntary servitude still a thing?
With minimal debate, Selective Service was doubled in a "must-pass" $778 billion defense bill.
A conservative law professor advised Donald Trump that Mike Pence could unilaterally overturn the 2020 election.
The Keeping Renters Safe Act would give bureaucrats a blank check to ban evictions during future outbreaks.
"There really is no overarching federal strategy to guide the government’s efforts to improve Americans’ diets," says a new government report, which indicates that overlap in initiatives is creating waste.
Plus: ACLU rewrites Ruth Bader Ginsburg, theaters sue over NYC vaccine passports, and more...
Justices have mostly demurred on the question of whether anti-discrimination laws trump religious freedom.
A new Government Accountability Office report offers a useful lesson about the often unseen, human costs of making forms more difficult to fill out.
"If you would have told me when I was 12 years old, I would run this organization, I would have said you were crazy."
We’re on our way to having to ask for permission to go about our daily lives.
The Washington Post columnist says President Joe Biden isn't a progressive but "will go where the [Democratic] party goes, and the party is being driven by other people."
The problem isn’t the GOP or Senate rules. It’s that Democrats can’t agree amongst themselves.
And, within those policies deemed "carbon pricing," a carbon tax is preferable to cap-and-trade.
Plus: The link between college and moral absolutism, environmental activists vs. Facebook, and more...
Despite what the media and politicians have said, that isn't how this works.
The same logic would apply to Orthodox Jewish women, and to men who wear religious headgear,
The expulsions, ordered by the CDC for the supposed purpose of stopping the spread of Covid-19, are illegal for much the same reasons as was the CDC eviction moratorium recently struck down by the Supreme Court.
The law's "vagueness permits those in power to weaponize its enforcement against any group who wishes to express any message that the government disapproves of," Judge Mark Eaton Walker warns.
“The Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized the authority of the United States...to seek equitable relief to vindicate various federal interests and constitutional guarantees.”
Free speech and occupational licensing collide.
Biden's plan will raise taxes on individuals earning as little as $30,000 annually by 2027, but that's just a trick to make the overall cost of the bill look lower than it really is.
Plus: "The endless catastrophe of Rikers Island," studies link luxury rentals and affordable housing, and more...
Judge Paul Bonin profited from making defendants wear ankle monitors. The victims can't sue.
The Justice continues his media book tour without commenting on his potential retirement.
A broad standard with no exceptions better serves his goals, but it will be harder to defend in court.
A precedent allowing federal officers to be held civilly liable for constitutional rights violations has come under fire.
A new analysis projects that private capital, wages, and America's GDP will fall over the next three decades if Congress passes the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. But at least government debt will grow!
Plus: Vaccine mandates are popular, Texas versus free speech, and more...
An interesting exploration of what happens when high courts are evenly divided.
The presidency has always been inclined to unilateral power—and many Americans like it that way.
Exploring the legal issues raised by another of the Biden Administration's newly announced COVID policies.
Why legal challenges to the new rule are more likely to focus on the details than on broad challenges to OSHA's authority.
Some parts are both good policy and legally unproblematic. Others - particularly the mandate imposed on private employers - are legally dubious and would set a dangerous precedent if upheld by courts.
OSHA has rarely used this option, which avoids the usual rule-making process, and most challenges to such edicts have been successful.