Don't Criminalize Election Lies
The damage caused by election lies is not worth abandoning free speech traditions.
The damage caused by election lies is not worth abandoning free speech traditions.
A ruling in a dispute over emails sought by the January 6 committee agrees that Trump's actions likely violated two federal laws.
A year and a half after the New York Post broke the story, the Times says it has "authenticated" the messages it previously deemed suspect.
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The decision allows Smartmatic to proceed with its defamation lawsuit against Fox, two anchors, and Rudy Giuliani.
A Supreme Court ruling restoring Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capital sentence and a congressional logjam makes it clear that only he can keep his campaign promise.
The platform punished The Hill's morning show, Rising, for showing a clip of Trump speaking.
The former Trump campaign lawyer, who is fighting sanctions against her, says the claims she made in her Michigan lawsuit "perhaps" were true.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats can be trusted to give an honest account of what happened that day.
By saying the quiet part loud, the former president should spur Congress into action.
The North Carolina congressman's opponents argue that the 14th Amendment disqualifies him from seeking reelection.
Things are getting so bad for Democrats that some are starting to wish for Hillary Clinton to return to politics. Yikes.
This is the first time that participants in the Capitol riot have been charged with sedition.
Proving that claim requires more than reckless rhetoric, which is constitutionally protected.
There are good reasons to think polls grossly exaggerate the number of Americans who support political violence.
Ignorance and bias played a major role in the attack on the Capitol and in the continuing belief of many Republicans that Biden didn't really win the 2020 election. The issue is part of the broader problem of political ignorance and bias, which is by no means confined to any one side of the political spectrum.
The Capitol riot was awful, but it shouldn't serve as an excuse to violate civil liberties.
There are not many subjects on which Professors McConnell, Pildes, Foley and Smith agree.
For decades, libertarians have focused on illiberalism coming from the political left. But authoritarianism has taken root among many conservatives across the world.
Will the Supreme Court step in?
The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled that the ballot initiative violated the "single subject" rule for constitutional amendments.
A federal magistrate judge in Colorado orders two attorneys to pay over $180K in fees to cover defendants' legal costs.
A panel of the court will hear Trump’s challenge to the release of material on an expedited basis.
The former presidential candidate talks about UBI, race relations, ranked-choice voting, his new political party Forward, and how "the duopoly is killing us."
Congress prepares to assert its investigative authority.
President Trump is telling former aides to assert executive privilege to frustrate the congressional investigation of January 6.
A conservative law professor advised Donald Trump that Mike Pence could unilaterally overturn the 2020 election.
An audacious last-minute attempt to undo the results of the 2020 election.
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A federal judge concluded that Powell and eight other pro-Trump lawyers who challenged Michigan's election results made frivolous arguments and treated evidence recklessly.
Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, Howard Kleinhendler must pay legal fees, attend CLEs, and face potential further punishment.
Their study found that Twitter's efforts to police Donald Trump's false election fraud claims were ineffective and may even have backfired.
Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Mike Lindell can still beat Dominion Voting Systems in court by showing that their accusations were true.
Another bad day for the Kraken team of lawyers.
The attorneys failed to make reasonable efforts to verify their allegations. Will the Kraken lawyers be next?
Live-and-let-live political types are stuck between cultists and totalitarians.
Former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell says the sheer volume of the affidavits she collected shows she exercised due diligence.
The suspension is based on "demonstrably false and misleading statements" that Giuliani made as Donald Trump's lawyer.
An interesting report by Jonathan Karl on how and when AG William Barr rejected President Trump's absurd election fraud claims.
Those who pushed Kraken claims are beginning to face consequences.
A report issued by the State Senate's Oversight Committee conclude Kraken claims are a myth.
The former Trump campaign lawyer plans to defeat defamation lawsuits by showing "what actually happened."
The university investigated a law school student for mocking the Federalist Society, putting his diploma on hold until yesterday.
From Mitch McConnell's perspective, an independent commission can only mean trouble.
By stripping her of her leadership position, House Republicans proved her point.
The main qualification of Cheney's likely replacement as chair of the House Republican Conference is her willingness to indulge Donald Trump's election fantasy.
The former Trump campaign lawyer insists her allegations about systematic voting fraud were not "statements of fact."