Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Scooter injuries, loyalty oaths, and Canadian barrels.
Scooter injuries, loyalty oaths, and Canadian barrels.
Trump very much deserves to be prosecuted and punished. But the New York case is far more dubious than the other charges likely to be brought against him.
The agency’s new report tells us practically nothing of significance.
In 10 years, the programs' funds will be insolvent. Over the next 30 years, they will run a $116 trillion shortfall.
Philip Esformes' case is a story about what happens when the government violates some of its most basic promises.
It is hard to tell whether these are genuinely different ideologies or two words for the same thing.
The union "has an outsized impact on working families who have no other choice on where to send their children...that power, combined with a mayor who is essentially a wholly owned subsidiary, would make them a dangerous force," says one former Chicago Public Schools executive.
The continuing ambiguity reflects the legal challenges that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg faces in transforming one hush payment into 34 felonies.
Abortion and gerrymandering are likely to be on the court's docket in the near future, and Janet Protasiewicz ran unabashedly to the left on both issues. Is this the best way to decide contentious topics?
Arlington's successful passage of a modest missing middle housing reform bill after an intense debate raises the question of whether YIMBY politics can practically fix the problems it sets out to address.
Alvin Bragg's case against Donald Trump has put the once-obscure position of district attorney into the national spotlight.
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The New York charges look weak, and Americans think they’re politically motivated.
Prosecutors are counting each record misrepresenting the former president's reimbursement of that payment as a separate crime.
Trump is charged with 34 criminal counts connected to the payment of $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 as part of a nondisclosure agreement.
If Congress wants to stave off such far-reaching demands, it should start behaving in ways that inspire more public confidence.
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Disparaging scientists, disappearing warrants, and disgruntled lawyers.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is relying on debatable facts and untested legal theories to transform minor misconduct into a felony.
56 percent agreed that "people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large amount of debt to pay off."
A government big enough to "solve" your minor irritants will do plenty of other stuff you don't like.
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Trump touted his support for sentencing reform as evidence of his "deep compassion," which DeSantis sees as a weakness.
A controversial "good cause" eviction bill that would cap rent increases could be included in a budget bill that must pass by April 1.
Excessive government interference in the market hurts consumers and thwarts policy goals. It also gets in the way of the government itself.
Vernon Smith weighs in on Biden's budget, how government causes inflation, and why bailing out Silicon Valley Bank was a bad idea.
The economic historian and Magatte Wade, Alex Gladstein, Mohamad Machine-Chian, Tony Woodlief, and Tom Palmer are challenging authoritarians everywhere.