Saying Trump 'Provoked' the Capitol Riot With 'Lies,' Mitch McConnell Tries To Distance His Party From a Dangerous Demagogue
The Senate minority leader sees a grave political risk in failing to repudiate the former president.
The Senate minority leader sees a grave political risk in failing to repudiate the former president.
Both Hawley's "national conservatism" and similar ideas prevalent in many quarters on the left threaten free speech and liberty more generally.
Let people join with the like-minded to reject officials and laws that don’t suit them and to construct systems that do.
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Threats of defamation suits have prompted corrective statements on Fox and Newsmax, but My Pillow CEO wants to fight.
The s-word doesn't actually play too well with most voters.
American Thinker says its claims about Dominion Voting Systems were "completely false."
My recently published article on the NCC project outlines several important areas of agreement between conservative, libertarian, and progressive participants.
As long as there have been American elections, foreign powers have sought to influence them.
No, says Techdirt's Mike Masnick, but it is cause for expanding Section 230 and building a more decentralized internet.
During the last few election cycles, a wave of well-funded progressive candidates have run for prosecutor's offices in major cities. This time, quite a few reform-minded D.A.s won.
Something like Wednesday evening's soothing remarks could have made a real difference on the day of the Capitol riot.
Several House Republicans joined their colleagues across the aisle in the ultimate condemnation of Trump's role on Jan. 6.
Here is how Mitch McConnell, Mike Pence, Liz Cheney, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley responded to the president's election delusions.
History and precedent both support impeachment trials for former federal officials.
The organization has devolved from skepticism toward government to veneration of politicians.
Unlike the cancellation of Josh Hawley’s book, such criminal charges pose a real threat to freedom of speech.
We need an open digital commons, where individuals maintain ownership of their own identities and where speech is highly resistant to political pressure.
The impeachment article against the president cites a little-discussed section of the 14th Amendment.
Dominion Voting Systems, the focus of the former Trump campaign lawyer's conspiracy theory, is seeking $1.3 billion from her for defamation.
Laws against sedition have historically been used by insecure officials to punish critics.
The lawmakers who passed A.B. 5 ignored the many benefits of contractor status.
Trump attorney Kurt Hilbert claimed he had reached settlement agreements with state officials, which was news to them.
Now more than ever, it’s important to separate feelings of anger from the needs of justice.
Under federal law, incitement to riot does not include "advocacy of ideas" or "expression of belief" unless it endorses violence, which Trump did not do.
Trump deserves to be remembered for what his words and actions have shown him to be.
Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is force. We could use a little less of that, please.
Condemns “violence, lawlessness, and mayhem” by his supporters at the Capitol.
The senator is a performer and nothing more.
Instead of coming for campus speakers, they came for the symbolic heart of democratic self-governance.
When people are no longer willing to lose at the polls, it’s time to make elections less important.
Cruz plunged into the constitutional abyss while Rand Paul stepped back, refusing to sacrifice democracy and the rule of law.
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The usually rote process was marred by President Donald Trump's conspiracy theories and a Republican attempt to thwart the outcome, but the result is now official.
The president's weak pleading has done little to mollify demonstrators currently storming the Capitol.
Trump said the "Save America March" would be peaceful, but his apocalyptic rhetoric had predictable consequences.
The warning came a bit too late.
“This is banana republic crap we’re watching happen right now.”
What I saw from the grounds of the U.S. Capitol building.
Pence had been presiding over the tally of Electoral College votes before rioters broke into the Capitol Building, forcing him to flee.
Wild scenes are unfolding at the U.S. Capitol, which is now on lockdown amid clashes between pro-Trump protestors and police.
The Biden administration has just delivered its first disappointment to criminal justice reform advocates.
"When I started my blog," says journalist Yoani Sánchez, "it was like an exorcism of something that was inside of me."
The vice president can no longer avoid acknowledging Joe Biden's victory.
When one party controls both Congress and the White House, the result is never a reduction in the size or cost of government.
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