Trump's Attempts To Undo the Election Won't Work
The president's rhetoric and his campaign's actions are corrosive, but even the most powerful man on the planet can't control America's diffuse election system.
The president's rhetoric and his campaign's actions are corrosive, but even the most powerful man on the planet can't control America's diffuse election system.
The incoming administration opposes the death penalty, but the Justice Department has three more executions planned this year.
But what one side likes, the other side hates. There's no way Twitter and Facebook can appease them both.
If Trump isn’t interested, maybe the Biden administration could get started with a few acts of mercy.
The senators warned that the Court might have to be "restructured" if it did not reach the conclusion they preferred in a Second Amendment case.
"It's time that we start thinking about reining in the powers that we've let slip to this institution," says the Cato Institute's Gene Healy.
As the Biden-Harris campaign transitions to the Biden-Harris transition, they announce who will help staff the administration.
Hazel tells angry partisans "Give me your tears. They are delicious." He campaigned against lockdowns and for peace, and earned nearly twice the number of votes in Georgia as L.P. presidential pick Jo Jorgensen.
Trump claimed the power to issue a national eviction moratorium during COVID. Could that pave the way for the mask mandates Biden clearly wants?
President-elect Joe Biden has promised to fully reinstate DACA. But such a move will surely be challenged in court. Here's an easy way to reduce the risk that such challenges might succeed.
When must claimants raise appointments-clause challenges?
No, we're not talking about the presidency.
There are at least 11 trillion reasons to be very scared about what comes next.
A GOP Senate could act as a powerful check on a Biden administration.
Reason's roundup of state races and ballot initiatives
It's been a good night for incumbents.
Republicans rode an electoral wave in 2010 and used that perch to draw favorable congressional districts in many states. Will Democrats have the same opportunity after this year?
The surveillance whistleblower has a child on the way and little sign a pardon is forthcoming.
In an age of parties run by extremists, the next majority is just an election away, explains political scientist Morris P. Fiorina.
It is easy for originalists to reject challenges to court-packing; but the non-originalist arguments should be spelled out
California's COVID-19 business closures have turned Ghost Golf into a shadow of its former self. Its owner is now suing the governor for the right to reopen.
America's meat supply has been hammered by COVID-19 outbreaks at many of the nation's largest meat processing plants, but Congress can solve this by reducing onerous regulations.
Why people continue to trust government officials is a mystery.
Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey faced the music. The tune is becoming familiar.
Whether Trump or Biden wins, the Stanford political scientist says "unstable majorities" will persist in the coming decade.
The Supreme Court weighs police shootings and unreasonable seizures in Torres v. Madrid.
Plus: Unrest and looting in Philadelphia after the police shoot and kill a black man, Trump supporters stranded in Omaha, Biden faces new corruption allegations, and more...
There's no precedent for a recusal, but there's also no precedent for the current situation.
The Supreme Court nominee weighs in on a famous case.
Perhaps Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht ought to read more history, starting with the speeches of the late Rep. John Bingham.
A Supreme Court Preview panel that focuses on administrative law.
All five cases were recommended to the White House by commutation recipient Alice Marie Johnson.
Advancing laws that further libertarian objectives, no matter who champions them, looks like the surer route to our preferred ends.
"This is probably not about persuading each other unless something really dramatic happens," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R–S.C.)
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Sens. John Cornyn and Ben Sasse have spoken out sharply against Trump's policies and character as the election nears.
The implications of this move are as yet unclear.
The House Intelligence Committee is mulling ways to stop an "infodemic." Is this really a task we want the government to tackle?
As a professor, Judge Barrett expressed a skepticism of Executive Power that is uncommon among Republican nominees.
The accusation is often made. But it simply isn't true.
The Judicial Conference is recommending additional judges for what is already the largest
Bonus fact: The majority opinion was written by a male judge, joined by three female judges (one of them a former sexual assault prosecutor). The dissent was written by a male judge.
The filibuster is not inherently a tool of oppression simply because segregationist politicians in the 1950s and '60s found it useful.
A burst of recent scholarship exploring the Originalist case for and against the nondelegation doctrine.
Americans likely learned very little about her judicial philosophy.