A Compromise Bill on Domestic Surveillance Reform Aims to Do Just Enough to Shut Trump Up
Privacy activists on the left and the right decry a limp set of proposed changes to the USA Freedom Act.
Privacy activists on the left and the right decry a limp set of proposed changes to the USA Freedom Act.
The USA Freedom Act is about to sunset. Who will decide how and if it will be changed?
The EARN IT is an attack on encryption masquerading as a blow against underage porn.
The Supreme Court weighs abortion regulation in June Medical Services v. Russo.
Mississippi has a reputation for being one of the most obese states in the nation, as well as having one of America's highest incarceration rates. Neither will be improved by treating unlicensed dieticians like serious criminals.
The Senate minority leader threatened two justices by name, and then he lied about it.
A Symposium at The Regulatory Review engages with "Delegation and Time," and the question of whether Congress is capable of addressing nondelegation concerns.
"Companies can simply blacklist California writers and work with writers in other states, and that's exactly what's happening."
A high-profile gun case actually presents meaty questions of administrative law
“Why should courts, charged with the independent and neutral interpretation of the laws Congress has enacted, defer to such bureaucratic pirouetting?”
Today's cert grant is based on the importance of the case, not the quality of the arguments
stemming from a dispute about picketing and open carry.
This inability to agree on the nature of the national interest is endemic not just to the new nationalism, but to all of politics.
An important and thoughtful opinion that potentially invalidates Trump Administration refugee and asylum policies.
The presidential candidate reserves the right to wage unauthorized wars, kill Americans in foreign countries, prosecute journalists, and selectively flout the law.
The legal battle over immigration, federalism, and executive power heats up.
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Shifting the process from the Justice Department to the White House can help eliminate bureaucracy and meddling from prosecutors.
The argument requires several controversial assumptions and leaps of logic.
A congressional battle erupts over how much to reform the soon-to-expire USA Freedom Act—if they reform it at all.
Lynchings are already illegal. But the law would give prosecutors more power—including what amounts to an expansion of the federal death penalty.
Criminal justice reformers say federal prosecutors torpedoed clemency petitions in worthy cases.
Kehinde Wiley's pre-presidential works criticized inequalities and hierarchies of power. His presidential portrait doesn't do the same.
Under New York's rules, licensed pistol and revolver owners were not allowed to leave home with their handguns unless they were traveling to or from a shooting range.
The president remains frankly puzzled by the distinction between can and should.
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She’s nearly three years into a five-year sentence for releasing classified documents showing Russian attempts to hack U.S. election systems.
Other possible legal challenges to Trump's expanded travel ban may be precluded by the Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v. Hawaii. This one is not.
"Each president has more authority than his predecessors."
The real motive for laws like this has nothing to do with scissors and glue. It's all about protectionism.
If Barr is so concerned about the appearance of integrity, why did he insert himself into a high-profile case involving a presidential pal?
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Under the law, prosecutors are supposed to pursue justice and not only seek convictions.
Eight Republicans join the vote, but that's not enough to overrule a likely veto.
Until we start denuding the Oval Office, we will continue getting the royals we deserve.
A real plan or just a "climate messaging exercise"?
"Most of the [indicators] of measuring success are now classified, or we don't collect it," the special inspector general for the Afghanistan reconstruction told a Senate committee.
Paradoxically, in the current moment—a moment Biden helped to create by blocking Bork—being unqualified for the presidency is the best qualification a candidate can have.
From Iowa to impeachment, Biden burnout to Trump triumph, the opposition party had itself a rough 7 days.
What’s at stake in Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could be completely independent of the next occupant of the White House.
After Watergate, Democrats rolled back executive power. Under Trump, they just want to be the ones who get to wield it.
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Until we start denuding the Oval Office, we will continue getting the royals we deserve.
"These people are vicious," Trump said.