Jo Jorgensen Is 'Fine' With Filling SCOTUS Vacancy Before Election
"If it were me, I would certainly put my nominee forth," Jorgensen says. Partisan bickering over the confirmation process is just "politics as usual."
"If it were me, I would certainly put my nominee forth," Jorgensen says. Partisan bickering over the confirmation process is just "politics as usual."
Lindsey Graham just dodged a third-party bullet, but there are a handful of other tossup Senate races where third-party candidates could exceed the major candidates' margin.
"Do we have a president yet?" we laughed.
Like Trump's presidency, the debate destroyed unfounded respect for the people who rule us.
Trump is right that police unions support him more than Biden. That doesn't speak as well of the president as he thinks.
Biden's refusal to address court packing in the first presidential debate reflects his lack of concrete positions.
President Trump accepts the scientific findings about climate change "to an extent."
The author of the new book Transcend updates Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs for an era of pandemics, racial strife, and extreme polarization.
After the trainwreck that was the first Biden-Trump debate, some people will likely call for future debates to be canceled. America needs the exact opposite.
Both sides in the debate about face masks make claims that are not justified by the scientific evidence.
Biden spun the Supreme Court's role in health care. Trump dodged, distracted, and bullied. It was an unproductive slugfest.
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How former slaves built an autonomous, self-sufficient, and nearly stateless society in the mountains of Haiti, and how they lost it
Chris Wallace asked both candidates on Tuesday night if they would urge "supporters to stay calm during this extended period, not to engage in any civil unrest." Trump rejected the premise.
The president renewed his attack that a Biden presidency would wipe out the suburbs. Biden accused Trump of racist dog whistles.
Joe Biden has said plenty of regrettable things about criminal justice, but that wasn't one of them.
Leaders of the organization reportedly see this as tacit approval.
Though the presidential debate was pure chaos, Trump destroyed Biden on the question of reopening the economy.
Supreme Court term limits are a good idea. But they must be enacted by constitutional amendment, not by statute.
The U.S. tax code should be front and center.
While establishmentarians continue to push two-party conformity, there remains little evidence that other parties are having any sort of "spoiler" effect.
Major-party politicians avoid tax simplification almost as aggressively as the rich avoid taxation, argue the Reason Roundtable panelists.
The Libertarian presidential nominee is polling at 5 percent. Who are her followers?
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If confirmed, she would cement a strong 6-3 conservative majority.
Two constitutional rights plus one outside catalyst do not equal one constitutional wrong.
Trump's garbled response probably wasn't a sign he's planning to subvert the election. But it was a failure of presidential competence.
President Luis Lacalle Pou's defense of free market capitalism—extremely rare in Latin America—is no coronavirus fluke.
The idea has a lot of merit. But it will be hard to enact, and probably won't do much to end partisan conflict over Supreme Court appointments.
The Libertarian presidential nominee won't win but is upbeat about Gen Z and protests against lockdowns and police violence.
Voting for Libertarian, Green, or independent candidates will not mean “throwing your vote away.”
Peace will come only from leaving other people alone on the condition that they do the same for us.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death elevates a familiar health care policy dynamic to the foreground of the election.
If so, Republicans, Democrats, the state legislature, the state Supreme Court, and Gov. Tom Wolf will all share the blame.
The fight to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg reveals a long-degraded political culture.
The Big Apple is practically a black hole of overpolicing and regulation.
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What's next for SCOTUS?
Her death creates a vacancy on the Supreme Court just weeks before the presidential election and is likely to spark a major political fight.
If only that signaled a broader respect for legal limits on executive power.
I coauthored it with Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy.
A November ballot initiative would pit minority communities against each other.
Is it too much to ask for a presidential candidate who cares about America's fiscal health and respects the limits of his office?