What I Saw at the No Kings Rally in New York City
Fully peaceful protesters who hate President Donald Trump with intensity but not much specificity took to the streets on Saturday.
Fully peaceful protesters who hate President Donald Trump with intensity but not much specificity took to the streets on Saturday.
The Argentine president needed a U.S. bailout, and his political adversaries are gaining ground.
The Court of Appeals unanimously refused to stay a trial court ruling against Trump, signaling the judges believe his use of the Guard is illegal.
Until now, the president concedes, interdiction has been "totally ineffective." Blowing up drug boats won't change that reality.
The former Trump administration official is facing a maximum of 180 years in prison.
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This is the second lawsuit challenging the policy, which is both illegal and likely to cause great harm if allowed to stand.
"There was tremendous criminal activity," the president averred, urging unspecified charges against former Special Counsel Jack Smith, former FBI lawyer Andrew Weissmann, and former Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco.
The evidence is clear that we are paying more, U.S. firms have lower margins, and exports are collapsing in flagship industries.
“We have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them,” the Georgia congresswoman said.
The cases give the justices a chance to address a constitutionally dubious policy that disarms peaceful Americans.
It is forthcoming in Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump, (Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone, eds., Oxford University Press).
A guest post by Joshua Braver and John Dehn.
Multiple judges say SCOTUS is going out of its way to grant emergency relief to the president without even bothering to explain why.
The Trump Administration’s threats to revoke broadcasters’ licenses and President Trump’s lawsuits against media companies implicate important, and contested, Supreme Court First Amendment doctrines. Should these actions affect how courts and scholars analyze these doctrines?
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"It's the administrative state and the bureaucrats who are actually populating the rules. They're the ones running most of the government," Tennessee wrestler-turned-mayor Glenn Jacobs tells Reason.
If the courts try to enforce legal limits on the president's military deployments, he can resort to an alarmingly broad statute that gives him more discretion.
Civil servants are normally temporarily furloughed during shutdowns. The White House insists the current funding lapse empowers them to permanently fire workers.
The case is the second in two weeks, with little legal merit, filed by a neophyte prosecutor against a Trump opponent
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Federal troops are also ill-suited to handle local policing issues.
The war in Gaza was already over in January. Trump let it reopen and expand. A ceasefire is good—but it should have happened much earlier.
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As Illinois resists the federal immigration blitz, the Trump administration ups the ante on authoritarian rhetoric.
Novelist Lionel Shriver explains why Americans overinterpret tragedies, compares today’s partisan divisions to the conflicts she witnessed in Northern Ireland, and argues that political manias are driving the country toward destructive extremes.
Shadowy deals and unilateral powers created Florida's notorious immigration detention camp.
In a new Supreme Court term packed with big cases, these disputes stand out.
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut concluded that the president's description of "War ravaged Portland" was "simply untethered to the facts."
Five years after the city’s fiery 2020 protests, Portland is mostly calm. That hasn’t stopped Trump from reviving old battles, fueled by false memories and made-for-TV outrage.
This is the second appellate court ruling against the order. So far, every court that has addressed this issue has ruled the same way.
The case was filed yesterday by a broad coalition of different groups, including a health care provider, education groups, religious organizations, and labor unions.
The president thinks he can transform murder into self-defense by executive fiat.
It will review a panel decision holding that Trump could not invoke this sweeping wartime authority by claiming illegal migration and drug smuggling qualify as an "invasion."
Pfizer wins big in Trump’s new drug discount gimmick.
When the state dictates both the questions science asks and the answers it offers, it converts knowledge into propaganda and health into a matter of politics.
Which version of the chief justice will emerge in the Supreme Court’s newest term?
Judge William Young wrote a book-length order attacking “the problem this President has with the First Amendment.”
The president’s movie tariff proposal faces several legal and logistical challenges to implementation.
Refusing to fund the government is the primary way minority party lawmakers can check the excesses of the executive branch and the majority party.
The prominent originalist legal scholar argues the Constitution does not require that the president have the power to fire executive branch officials.
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The legal rationales for prosecuting James Comey, Adam Schiff, and Letitia James suggest the president is determined to punish them one way or another.
The decision is the most thorough in a line of recent court decisions reaching similar results.
The Department of Homeland Security will retain 95 percent of its employees if the government shuts down and remain funded in large part by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
As ever, be cautious about what you hear from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Plus: Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote a book.
Trump exempted imported chips from his reciprocal tariffs in April. Now he's threatening them with 100 percent rates.