Chief executives' illicit motives can render their subordinates' actions unconstitutional. There is good reason for courts to enforce that rule.
The ACLU, another polarizing organization, was willing to defend the NRA in court. That should tell you that some things aren't partisan.
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People should be free to choose how cautious to be. Mask mandates, lockdowns, and closing schools won't stop the virus.
Data show Florida and New York had similar death numbers despite vastly different approaches.
These three gun controls failed in New York, and there is little reason to think they would work elsewhere.
Last year may have been the year of the Cuomosexual, but 2021 rightly disabused people of the notion that New York's governor had their best interests at heart.
He clearly advised former Gov. Andrew Cuomo on how to survive the scandals.
Hochul’s office reports that some 55,400 people have died of the coronavirus in New York, much higher than the 43,400 claimed by Cuomo, who left office Monday.
Andrew Cuomo was a very bad governor. His ability to convince people otherwise during his pandemic press briefings is surely a performance deserving of an Emmy.
Setting aside the harassment claims and the nursing home debacle, the Cuomo administration’s inability to run a minimally functional rent relief program should forever end his reputation as a competent executive.
NY Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says impeachment is not possible once the Governor leaves office.
After allegedly sexually harassing 11 women and issuing nursing home COVID guidance that led to massive outbreaks and huge death tolls, Cuomo is out.
Two rotten politicians demonstrate the sickness of America’s political culture.
"There should be a zero tolerance policy when it comes to sexual harassment," Cuomo tweeted in 2013.
At a time when the student COVID positivity rate in NYC is 0.01%, the governor is spreading fear that school buildings are death traps.
Eric Adams insists on a double standard that lets former cops like him escape the firearm restrictions everyone else has to follow.
New York's new law seems to conflict with a federal statute that protects manufacturers and dealers from liability for gun crimes.
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Theatrical safety checks don't keep people safe—vaccines do.
The CNN host reportedly blamed the governor's troubles on "cancel culture."
Citizens should be able to punish elected officials who have done an extraordinarily bad job rather than be forced to count on elected legislators to do the heavy lifting.
Two governors defined by their differing approaches to COVID-19 are both moving in the same direction.
"Incompetent government kills people," he said in January.
Even during a pandemic, major changes to laws and policies should be funneled through state assemblies.
L.A. teachers win $500 childcare concession, though New York union still holding firm on anti-scientific 2-case rule.
The book, which garnered a $4 million deal and touted Cuomo's purported pandemic-handling competence, may have gotten the governor into hot water.
The law is surprisingly permissive in some ways, but it includes high taxes and other provisions that hurt consumers.
It's too late for health passports to make a difference, but the damage could be immense.
A compromise is now circulating that would establish a market but also allow growing at home.
He should've focused on containing nursing home COVID spread, not getting VIP treatment for penthouse-dwelling Manhattanites (and his own family members).
The Reason Roundtable tackles COVID, Cuomo, and more.
How New York's governor botched early-pandemic guidance to residential care facilities for intellectually disabled adults
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The Reason Roundtable takes on the FDA, Andrew Cuomo, and more.
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The governors of New York and California have botched major aspects of the pandemic response.
Good intentions, bad results.
The New York governor should look to his own state.
No home cultivation? Increased criminal penalties? This is not the way to end a drug war.
Now officials in Chicago and New York are reconsidering their rules.
His original guidance forced hospitals to throw away vaccine doses. That still might happen.
More than 4,100 people died of COVID-19 yesterday across the country, but some New York medical providers are dumping vaccines instead of putting them in people's arms.
The New York governor says hospitals have to increase vaccinations—but there's a catch.
A year into the pandemic, politicians still have not digested the dangers of careless public health measures.
The evidence is limited and mixed, but data from New York, Minnesota, and California suggest that restaurants there account for a small share of infections.
New York quickly reversed its ludicrous bathroom ban following backlash from the hospitality industry and anyone with a little common sense.
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