House Republicans Want Permanent Tax Cuts They Can't Pay For
GOP legislators released their "Tax Reform 2.0" proposal, which aims to make last year's tax cuts permanent, adding trillions to the $21 trillion debt.
Latest
Prison Rape Reports Are Rising
After national reporting standards were implemented, substantiated sexual assault claims rose by 63 percent.
Houses Passes Private Property Rights Protection Act - But Celebration is Premature
The eminent domain reform bill is the same legislation that has passed the House three previous times since 2005. Each time, it died in the Senate without ever coming to a vote.
School District Provides $25K + Apology to Student Barred from Wearing "Trump Border Wall" T-Shirt
A follow-up to the May federal court decision holding that the school district's actions violated the First Amendment.
George Will Is Worried About 'The Big Flinch'—And You Should Be Too!: Podcast
Americans are recoiling "against the churning of an open society, against the spontaneous order that is the alternative to statism." That ain't gonna end well.
Trump's Border Wall Is Destroying Land, Livelihoods, and Butterflies in the Rio Grande
"You may learn about eminent domain, but until you are in the crosshairs of the government, you don't understand how it really works."
Trump's Border Wall Is Destroying Land, Livelihoods, and Butterflies in the Rio Grande
"You may learn about eminent domain, but until you are in the crosshairs of the government, you don't understand how it really works."
Appeals Court Orders Broward County Sheriff to Release School Shooting Footage
Many believe the footage will show what sheriffs were doing outside during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.
Twitter Sucks Because We Suck. Don't Blame @Jack
If social media feels like a cesspool, don't go swimming.
Cleveland City Councilman Got Order Requiring Two Citizen Critics to Stay 500 Feet Away from Him
Yet the order (narrowed on appeal to 50 feet, but still unconstitutional) seems to have been based on pretty normal -- if acrimonious -- local political debate. We're asking the Ohio Supreme Court to review the decision upholding it.
Jeff Sessions, Head Federal Prosecutor, Remembers That Due Process Exists
Nice to see that the nation's top law enforcement officer is aware of "innocent until proven guilty."
Justice Kagan Laments Partisan Confirmation Conflict
Political conflict over judicial confirmations may be harmful for the courts.
Jim Jordan Says He's Running for Speaker of the House
The Ohio Republican is running despite allegations that he ignored sexual abuse claims as an assistant coach at Ohio State.
Body Cam Shows Chicago Police Officer Shooting a Man in the Back
Maurice Granton's family says the video shows that the shooting was unjustified.
Amazon Facial Recognition Confuses Members of Congress with Criminals
The ACLU stunt is intended to warn against using tech to identify suspects.
Trump's Soybean 'Deal' With the E.U. Is Actually Pretty Insignificant
Europe already imports soybeans for free, and the European market isn't big enough to make up for China anyway.
Trump Says 'Shadow-Banning' Conservatives on Twitter Is 'Illegal,' Promises Investigation
Trump used Twitter to blast Twitter for allegedly censoring several prominent conservative leaders.
Liberty Makes Us Unfree, Says the ACLU
The government wouldn't abuse us if we'd stop making it upset, according to the one-time civil liberties advocacy group.
'Police Lied' About Stormy Daniels Sting, Says Whistleblower: Reason Roundup
Plus: Rod Rosenstein impeachment bid "embarrassing for everybody," says Napolitano, and more details about separation of migrant parents and kids by ICE
Does the 13th Amendment's Ban on Slavery and Involuntary Servitude Give Congress the Power to Ban Hate Crimes?
Metcalf v. United States gives the Supreme Court the opportunity to decide.
Can Border Agents Search Your Phone Without a Warrant?
The requirement to get a warrant may not apply when an American citizen is returning home from abroad and U.S. border officials want to search the contents of that person's phone.
Pull the U.S. Out of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Stop subsidizing crony capitalism abroad with taxpayer dollars.
Why Trump Supporters Will Regret His Trade War
Trump's trade policies will slow growth, destroy jobs, and raise consumer prices.
"Emoluments" Suit Against Trump Can Proceed
Are we all about to get a look - finally! - at Trump's tax returns?
Ross Ulbricht's Murder-for-Hire Charges Dropped by U.S. Attorney
While the Silk Road founder's reputation has already been sullied by the untried accusations, the feds give up on those charges after Supreme Court declines to hear Ulbricht's appeal on his original conviction and sentencing.
Did We Just Dodge a Trade War With Europe?
It's too soon to call this a truce in the trade war. But we may have a temporary ceasefire.
Clemency Recipient Alice Johnson: 'I Don't Feel I Was Denied or Delayed. I Was Destined For This.'
Alice Marie Johnson's life sentence for a first-time drug offense was commuted by Trump. Now she's speaking out against mandatory minimums.
At Turning Point USA's Summit for Conservative Teens, Dave Rubin Said He Was Gay Married—and the Crowd Cheered
"I'm gay married. You people don't care about that, do you?" They did not.
Idiots on the European Court of Justice Rule Modern Gene-Edited Crops Must Be Overregulated
"A backward step, not progress"
Twitter 'Shadow Bans' Affect Some Conservative Leaders but Not Their Liberal Counterparts
Devin Nunes gets the Richard Spencer treatment.
Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Eliminate Cash Bail
"Our destructive and unjust cash bail process is part of our broken criminal justice system and must be ended."
Harvard's Richard Fallon wins the 2019 Cooley Book Prize
Georgetown Law's Center for the Constitution Announces $50,000 Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize Winner
Department of Veterans Affairs
The V.A. Has a New Boss, But Will He Fix the Agency's Problems?
New chief Robert Wilkie is in a position to tackle the agency's bureaucratic mismanagement. Will he?
The Dead Can Vote (At Least on the Ninth Circuit) (Updated)
A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit casts a decisive vote four months after his death
Pipeline Company Hit With $40 Million Retroactive Tax After Applying for Tariff Exemption
Unsurprisingly, the bureaucratic, cronyist process for getting an exemption is not in fact protecting American steel jobs.
A Woman Regrets Her Trump Vote After ICE Deports Her Daughter-In-Law
"I've always been proud to be an American. But now I'm ashamed."
Report: DMV Worker Sleeps 3 Hours a Day at Work for 3+ Years, Keeps Job
Her supervisors have been aware of the problem for a while.
Is the Right to Bear Arms Limited to Guns in Plain Sight?
The 9th Circuit has endorsed a distinction that does not jibe very well with modern attitudes.
A Summer-of-Snitches Subversion: City Helps Teen Rather Than Shut Down Unlicensed Hot Dog Stand
When he grows up and gets that food truck, though, he'll probably have a very different experience.
Tech Workers Don't Eat at Enough Local Restaurants? Better Ban Workplace Cafeterias!
A bill in San Francisco would prohibit new office spaces from having cafeterias on site.
Rep. Thomas Massie on Shakedowns, Cronyism—and Why He's Sticking With the GOP
"I didn't come to Washington to make friends."
Rep. Thomas Massie on Shakedowns, Cronyism—and Why He's Sticking With the GOP
"I didn't come to Washington to make friends."
A Chicago Tribune Columnist Thinks Helping Opioid Users Is 'Accommodating' Them
It's time to stop punishing people for their addictions.
