Hiring Formerly Incarcerated People Is Good, Actually
Some conservative media outlets and politicians lambast the practice. But if you care about public safety, that opposition doesn't make sense.
Some conservative media outlets and politicians lambast the practice. But if you care about public safety, that opposition doesn't make sense.
The former president's legal team notably did not endorse his claim that he automatically declassified everything he took with him.
"Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax," says the former president, who insists that nothing at Mar-a-Lago was actually classified.
The current and former presidents offer dueling but equally apocalyptic takes on this fall’s elections.
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Sixth post in the symposium on the National Constitution Center "Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy" project. Edward Foley of Team Progressive highlights some points of agreement between the three reports.
The current president becomes what he criticizes by delegitimizing opposition.
"One of the things that the left and right have in common is an awareness that our government has essentially been co-opted by corporate power," says the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist.
Like Trump's policy, it's an illegal usurpation of Congress' power of the purse under a dubious emergency power pretext.
The president's attack on the "extreme ideology" of "MAGA Republicans" elides the tension between majority rule and individual freedom.
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From student debt cancellation to green subsidies, the White House is giving handouts paid for by hardworking lower-wage Americans.
That failure adds to the evidence that Trump or his representatives obstructed the FBI's investigation.
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There are still lingering questions about the former president's criminal liability and the threat posed by the documents he kept.
We still know almost nothing about their contents, which is relevant in assessing the decision to search Mar-a-Lago.
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Although U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart is inclined to unseal the document, redactions demanded by the Justice Department could make it hard to understand.
But it's hard to believe conservatives who wanted to lock up their political opponents and opposed police-accountability measures are acting out of principle rather than partisanship.
Reinforcing the FBI's suspicions was the whole point of that document, which is likely to remain sealed.
Whatever threat it may have posed, the trove of government documents seized by the FBI does not reflect well on the former president's judgment.
While she was ultimately felled for criticizing Trump's lies, Cheney was also a poor candidate.
The contest for Wyoming's House seat poses no obvious upsides for libertarians.
The law has been abused to prosecute citizens for reasons other than spying. But there are better examples than Trump to highlight problems.
Tax collectors and federal cops have always been rotten to the core.
The former president thought his 2016 opponent should go to prison for recklessly endangering national security.
After the former president dismissed the allegation as a "hoax," multiple sources now report that investigators found top secret and classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
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As the response to the Mar-a-Lago raid illustrates, Republicans are inconsistent in the other direction.
Garland said the move was in the name of transparency, as part of his pledge that the Justice Department would "speak through its work."
It is hard to see how, given the contortions required to deliver the unilateral prohibition that Donald Trump demanded.
The former president may be a hypocrite, but at least he knows his own rights.
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Regulators imposed the ban based on a highly implausible and counterintuitive reading of federal law.
Michigan's 3rd district has produced two consecutive freedom-oriented Republican lawmakers. Tuesday's results ensure that there won't be a third.
Political scientist David Leal explains why conservatives should reject efforts to compel states and localities to help enforce federal laws these jurisdictions oppose.
If election denial is an existential threat to the country, why are Democrats boosting John Gibbs?
The larger, louder half of Penn & Teller on Donald Trump, COVID, masks, vaccines, mandates, and what comes next for freedom.
The larger, louder half of Penn & Teller talks masks, vaccines, compassion, Bob Dylan, and much, much more.
Implementing policy is supposed to be difficult given that it could affect millions of people’s lives.
The bipartisan Senate bill would be a major improvement over the status quo, and has attracted widespread support from experts in the field.
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America’s experiment with strongman politics may turn out to be blessedly brief.
Former President Trump's attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election relied on three potential pressure points. This bill addresses all three.
"The kind of values I've always embraced are heard more on Fox than on CNN and MSNBC, where they're not welcome."
''The kind of values I've always embraced are heard more on Fox than on CNN and MSNBC," says the Pulitzer Prize–winning progressive journalist.