Boston Judge Smacked Down for Overruling D.A. Who Tried To Drop 'Straight Pride' Protest Charges
Top justice rules that trying to push a criminal case forward over prosecutors’ objections is a violation of separation of powers.
Top justice rules that trying to push a criminal case forward over prosecutors’ objections is a violation of separation of powers.
Understanding what’s at stake in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia
Cheryl Weimar, 51, is now a quadriplegic after what a lawsuit describes as a "malicious and sadistic beating" by Florida prison guards.
No single spending item is going to solve America's $22 trillion national debt, but every little bit of wasteful spending makes the tough problems more difficult to solve.
Entrepreneur Magatte Wade explains how regulations are keeping Africa poor.
Trump is just who he said he'd be four years ago. By rallying around him, Republicans are choosing to brand themselves in his image.
If the court that hears the cases stands to profit from the fines paid by defendants, that's a violation of the Due Process Clause of the Constitution. The rulings have potential implications for other, similar conflicts of interest in the criminal justice system.
Sen. Chuck Grassley and the Senate Finance Committee will debate two bills this fall aimed at restricting presidential authority to impose tariffs without congressional approval.
Milton Friedman famously observed that "nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program." The rare demise of a government program, it seems, is temporary too.
Even if Trump doesn’t follow through on his bad ideas, the uncertainty is still a drag.
“Modern immunity practice—essentially 'heads government wins, tails plaintiffs lose'—leaves many victims violated but not vindicated."
As law students begin classes over the next few weeks, here are some points I hope they will keep in mind that can help make better use of their time in law school - and beyond (reposted from my 2018 post on this subject).
Yes, in many states, under the "proximate cause" theory of "felony murder."
It’s time for SCOTUS to revisit the "border search exception" to the Fourth Amendment.
Trying to get the government involved in what sort of videos online platforms promote or hide is going to end badly.
Schilling and Trump are alike in attacking immigrants for costing money, while seeking out business subsidies.
"The Second Amendment is not a suicide pact," the senator says, while glossing over the due process issues raised by gun confiscation orders.
Punishing employers is unjust for many of the same reasons as punishing the workers. And doing so harms the workers, too.
Mike Riggs talks with Illinois Policy Institute's Adam Schuster about how to fix the state's pension debt crisis.
Obama denied him clemency. Will Trump set him free?
While the president's mercy might be self-serving, it's not necessarily wrong.
While expressing concern for free speech and privacy, lawmakers are seriously threatening both.
What’s next for the Second Amendment at SCOTUS?
Proposed federal legislation would move overstressed child protection systems in the wrong direction.
Trump makes life miserable for GOP lawmakers—and party leadership only makes it worse.
The bipartisan bill says "using drugs or illegal substances to cause a person to engage in a commercial sex act" or in any kind of labor counts as human trafficking.
Tools exist to modify the incentives for legislative action, and Congress could deploy some of those tools itself to encourage more regular reauthorization and modernization of federal regulatory programs.
Protectionism fails, even for those who were supposed to benefit.
A weekend where a few items are free of sales taxes is a poor substitute for permanent reforms.
As debt soars, federal payments to service the debt will crowd out the government's core spending responsibilities.
The case was brought on the family's behalf by the Institute for Justice, a prominent public interest law firm.
Will the courts ever be willing to curb excessive delegation? If not, could Congress learn to constrain itself?
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In a testy exchange about immigration, the former vice president argued that Trump alone was the problem.
The Supreme Court reined in Auer deference. Will lower court get the message?
The senator leading an anti-tech crusade in Congress is being willfully ignorant of all the ways technology has improved humanity in recent decades.
And it's actually kind of great.
The liberal jurist puts judicial integrity before partisan politics.
Sometimes it is not the breadth of legislative delegation that is a problem, so much as it is the age (and potential obsolescence) of such delegation, and that's something Congress should learn to address.
It's a win for Trump; but only on procedural grounds. The broader legal battle over the wall is far from over.
Members of Congress are well aware of the looming threat of the $22 trillion (and growing) national debt, but seem incapable of doing anything except making it worse.
The island's residents have had enough of a territorial government tainted by corruption and that is seemingly contemptuous of their daily struggles.
Is it possible for Americans to argue about politics and policy without accusing each other of betraying the country?
Trump's 2018 commitment that he would never sign a massive spending deal ever again was fake news.
If lawmakers want to impeach Trump they're going to have to deal with the politics of it all and not use the Justice Department as a shield.
The former special counsel's abridged answers to lawmakers' questions changed few minds.