Colorado Supreme Court Rules Trump is Ineligible for the Presidency Under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment
The Colorado court got this issue right. The case is now likely headed to the US Supreme Court.
The Colorado court got this issue right. The case is now likely headed to the US Supreme Court.
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Ballots should be counted quickly and accurately.
The former Trump campaign lawyer re-upped his false claims about two Georgia election workers in the middle of a trial aimed at determining the damages he owes them.
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While transgender issues dominated Wednesday's debate, polls suggest that the subject is far from the top of voters' minds.
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Nikki Haley says "Trump was good on trade." What?
"Republicans believe in less government, not more," he said.
"We're going to build a wall...I am not going to sit there and let sex trafficking go unabated," DeSantis said.
The former South Carolina governor can't decide whether she likes corporate subsidies or opposes them on principle.
Americans want choice in education. Politicians need to catch up.
Plus: an unexpected digression into the world of Little Debbie dessert snack cakes.
Turns out subjecting presidential aspirants to libertarian-flavored scrutiny is good for journalism! And sanity.
Too bad that was only a small part of the 90-minute affair.
The article makes the case for disqualification on moral and pragmatic grounds, as well as legal ones.
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Formerly fringe immigration policies have gone mainstream in the Republican Party.
Sohrab Ahmari denounces Argentina's new president as a faux populist. Good for Milei.
The former two-term governor discusses why Florida is attracting more people than any other state in the country.
A D.C. Circuit judge says the government’s defense of the order gives short shrift to "the First Amendment’s vigorous protection of political speech."
The Florida governor is attacking Republican primary rival Nikki Haley over her awful idea to police online speech, but the timing is awkward.
Once you get past the aesthetics, the similarities between Milei and MAGA mostly vanish.
The court ruled against Trump on his strongest arguments, but accepted a weak one.
The results are interesting and suggest weird and significant biases.
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This week's debate was the first signal that the party's next presidential nominee might actually understand the entitlement crisis.
Abortion and the shadow of Donald Trump hobble GOP prospects.
"Land use restrictions are constricting the supply of housing," said Ramaswamy at tonight's GOP presidential debate in Miami.
"We don't quash this with censorship because that creates a worse underbelly," said Ramaswamy.
Sen. Tim Scott: "You actually have to cut off the head of the snake, and the head of the snake is Iran and not simply their proxies."
Why can neither major party find someone who isn't decrepit and disliked?
Pro-zoning candidates in Caroline, New York, won the elections for town supervisor and three seats on the town board.
Voters approved a ballot initiative that will allow possession, home cultivation, and commercial distribution—assuming that state legislators don't interfere.
The "Taxpayers Bill of Rights" requires that the state return excess revenue to taxpayers. A ballot question could change that.
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A plan to have the state take control of Maine's two private electric utility firms has divided the political left.
The conference includes a variety of legal scholars and other experts on different sides of the issue, including VC bloggers Josh Blackman and myself.
Entitlement reform has long been considered a third rail in American politics, but that perspective might be changing.
The former White House chief of staff is one of several former Trump advisers who are cooperating with prosecutors.
Johnson is a relative newcomer to Congress who has never even chaired a committee, and he is a close ally of former President Donald Trump.
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Douglass Mackey's case raised questions about free speech, overcriminalization, and a politicized criminal legal system.