The Dark Underbelly of Equity Based Thinking
Also: What we learned from impeachment.
Also: What we learned from impeachment.
The unfolding legal saga of City of Hayward v. Stoddard-Nunez
Does the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizures include the right to be free from an unreasonable attempted seizure?
A 2000 OLC memo suggests the answer is "yes."
Presidents aren't saints. They aren't monarchs. They aren't celebrities. And they aren't your friends.
The Senate minority leader's triangulation does not bode well for the GOP's ability to stand for something other than a personality cult.
Whether the reality-show-star-turned-first-president-to-be-impeached-twice has a future in American politics, however, sadly remains an open question.
The outcome shows that it is almost impossible to convict a president in an era of severe polarization. But Trump's second impeachment still served some useful purposes..
The 33-year-old lawmaker, who occupies Justin Amash's old seat, on how his party needs to reclaim the mantle of limited government, capitalism, and individualism.
The first-in-the-nation tax is an expensive and regressive policy that's also possibly unconstitutional.
He betrayed his oath and duties as president by hesitating to intervene and refusing to unambiguously condemn the violence.
Kim Ogg ran for district attorney as a criminal justice reformer. Maybe she should think about what that entails.
The plan would redistribute wealth, create distortions, and grow government.
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He gets to the right answer, but botched the execution.
Why didn't Cuomo and De Blasio build a decent, user-friendly website?
The 33-year-old successor to Justin Amash's House seat says his party has abandoned limited government, economic freedom, and individualism.
No amount of parsing can obscure his responsibility for the deadly attack on the Capitol.
The former President's attorneys repeatedly (mis)cite the work of Professor Brian Kalt on late impeachments.
He is on firmer ground in arguing that the Senate does not have the authority to try a former president, although that issue is highly contested.
The letter was signed by some 170 legal scholars across the political spectrum, including several VC bloggers.
Fourth Amendment advocates prevail in Wingate v. Fulford.
The op ed, published today, explains why the First Amendment doesn't protect Trump against impeachment and conviction for his role in the attack on the Capitol.
Alas, the precedent for partisan votes on impeachment was set before Donald Trump.
This is probably not what Lyndon B. Johnson had in mind.
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Under fire for endorsing wacky conspiracy theories, the Georgia representative blames the internet.
Why Republican Senators can vote on the merits of Trump's impeachment even if they believe the Seante has no power to impeach ex-officers.
The Georgia representative has embraced nearly every crazy conspiracy theory that is popular on the right.
Senate Democrats will now take (partial) control of the Senate chamber.
The reconciliation process exists for a reason. Discarding it for political expediency should be viewed with skepticism.
There are plausible arguments on both sides of the debate.
They also argue that the Senate has no authority to try a former president.
The House brief does a solid job of laying out the case against Trump. The defense brief is far less impressive.
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Biden has also moved quickly to remove some oversight that limited the growth of the regulatory state.
If the refusal of lawmakers to enact a president's policies is justification for unilateral executive action, then a slide toward elective monarchy is inevitable.
Abolishing the filibuster will make it even harder for the Senate to function.
While many prominent constitutional scholars think trying a former president is perfectly legal, the dissenters make some points that are worth considering.
The New York governor should look to his own state.
Now is the time to act.
The controversy over Trump’s pardons and commutations highlights longstanding problems with clemency.
Authorities "shall destroy the videos unlawfully obtained through the surveillance of the Orchids of Asia Day Spa," a federal judge says.
If passed, new laws will give parents more control over how their education dollars are spent.
Out with the CDC and teachers unions, in with school choice for everyone.
An interesting question of institutional norms