The Latest Trump Gag Order Is Relatively Narrow but Still Raises Constitutional Questions
A federal judge barred the former president from "publicly targeting" witnesses, prosecutors, or court personnel.
A federal judge barred the former president from "publicly targeting" witnesses, prosecutors, or court personnel.
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We don't need better manners, we need a commitment to mutual respect and tolerance, and space to live our lives as we see fit.
Conflating these issues only serves to make the debate over U.S. immigration policy more toxic and stupid than it already is.
District Attorney Fani Willis’ preferred weapon wasn’t designed to be used this way.
Trump is still a runaway favorite, even when using a vote-counting technique that's meant to make it more difficult for unpopular candidates to win elections.
For a brief moment, some Republicans were arguing the disgraced and indicted President should be the next Speaker of the House.
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Away from the speeches of the party's presidential candidates, the Republican Huntington Beach city attorney talked up his efforts to thwart state zoning reforms.
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With a second term, the former president promised to end California's water shortage, clear homeless encampments, and conduct the biggest deportation operation in American history.
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We already have a party that's committed to progressive ideals, do we really need another?
"Our party does face a time for choosing," said the former vice president last night.
It’s highly unlikely that it would pass constitutional muster.
The former president's lawyers argued that even the square footage of his apartment was a "subjective" judgment for which he cannot be held accountable.
Before correcting the record, the former president's spokesman inadvertently implicated him in a federal crime.
Less than 1 percent of American workers are union members in manufacturing jobs. But you'd never know that by watching our politics.
If false beliefs about legality exempt people from Section 3 disqualification, leading Confederates would have been exempt as well.
The former president is right to worry that supporting restrictions on abortion could hurt him in the general election.
Yoel Roth worries about government meddling in content moderation, except when Democrats target "misinformation."
Journalism's in-house critics take a bold stance against attempting journalism, because of Trump.
The former president suggests he was not obliged to obey a subpoena seeking classified records.
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The debate aired on the Mehdi Hasan show.
The opposing view is contrary to the original meaning, and leads to absurd conclusions.
Time to brush off your federal courts outlines.
"If anything is a reprehensible act for a high official in a democracy that deserves retribution, this is a good example," says professor Ilya Somin.
The two alleged racketeers complain that irrelevant evidence concerning distinct, uncoordinated conduct aimed at keeping Donald Trump in office will impair their defense.
I recently did interviews on these topics with Reason TV, the Washington Post, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Rather than posing a national security threat, the growth of China's E.V. industry is an opportunity for global innovation.
Section 3 disqualification is justifiable as a democracy-limiting tool to protect democracy. But there are slippery-slope issues that deserve serious consideration.
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Politicians are throwing laws at the wall and seeing what sticks.
A lawsuit to keep Donald Trump off the Florida primary ballot fails.
Donald Trump's latest argument for protectionism is undermined by the realities of his own trade policies.
This awful idea is increasingly popular on the right, and has been embraced by several GOP presidential candidates.
Election law expert Derek Muller reminds us that we have seen these sorts of claims before.
Special Counsel Jack Smith reportedly is keenly interested in whether the former New York mayor gave Trump legal advice while intoxicated.
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Haters and lovers of the former president can both express their diametrically opposed views with a Trump mug-shot mug.
The paper worries that "social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against political misinformation."
Instead, Donald Trump is proposing a 10-percent automatic tariff on all imports, a trade policy even worse than Biden's.
Mug shots are not taken to humiliate a defendant before they've been convicted. But that's the purpose they widely serve now.