Why Do Democrats Keep Backing the Trumpiest Candidate?
In Maryland, the Democratic Governors Association spent more than seven figures boosting the same candidate favored by former President Trump.
In Maryland, the Democratic Governors Association spent more than seven figures boosting the same candidate favored by former President Trump.
Joe Selvaggi of the Pioneer Instituted interviewed about the report on the 2020 election, authored by a group of conservative legal luminaries.
The contents of the report may well prove the Trump Administration tried to deceive the courts.
The authors include big-name conservative former federal judges Michael Luttig and Michael McConnell, former Bush Solicitor General Ted Olson, and others.
Though morally responsible for the attack on the Capitol and unfit for office, he’s protected by the First Amendment from legal liability.
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"If government is big enough to give you anything, it's big enough to take everything away from you."
It would signal that the transportation future involves decentralization and rapid change rather than Washington-style command-and-control.
The "waiver" opens the door for Bannon to testify before the congressional January 6 Committee. But former presidents are not entitled to executive privilege, and especially not when it comes to testimony by private citizens.
The project includes reports by conservative, libertarian, and progressive teams. I am coauthor of the Team Libertarian report.
The ruling likely allows end of a cruel policy - but also reinforces broad presidential control over immigration.
Scrapping the policy is an important step in restoring a fair asylum-seeking process.
The former president's recklessness is beyond dispute, but that is not enough to convict him while respecting the First Amendment.
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The intruders created plenty of mayhem, but it was a farcical coup attempt doomed from the start.
The L.P. just held its most-momentous convention in years. Here's what is next for the third-largest political party in the country.
Most of those open to evidence already know that Trump tried to reverse the outcome of an election he legitimately lost. Reaching the rest is likely to be extremely difficult, at best.
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Under Biden, Trump, and Obama, government federal spending almost doubled.
After winning its two highest-ever presidential vote percentages in 2016 and 2020, the Libertarian Party was taken over by activists embarrassed by those campaigns. Will they attract more votes?
Republicans have thrived since Ronald Reagan granted amnesty to 2.7 million mostly Mexican illegal immigrants in 1986.
A new White House policy faces one of the most malignant foreign policy objections: that it's not a magic wand for regime change.
The Hereticon organizer on deplatforming, tribalism, and why tech dudes and journalists are natural enemies
Several studies have found that the vast majority of costs incurred by increased corporate taxes are passed along to workers in the form of lower wages.
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How Stewart Rhodes went from denouncing authoritarianism to urging an authoritarian crackdown
Protectionist policies stymie trade and make Americans poorer.
It may not be a successful strategy in general elections, but it's still deeply unnerving.
In the American right, populism has always been lurking in the shadows.
The Stanford professor and Great Barrington Declaration coauthor stands up to COVID-19 autocrats and disastrous lockdowns by following the science.
Donald Trump's staying power and the decline of fusionism are on full display in this primary race.
The president's $5.8 trillion budget shows he wants more of the same government spending that is already sending prices through the roof.
The policy caused immense suffering, in exchange for meager public health benefits, if any at all. Its history undercuts the case for granting broad powers and judicial deference to the CDC.
A ruling in a dispute over emails sought by the January 6 committee agrees that Trump's actions likely violated two federal laws.
The eviction moratorium and Title 42 "public health" expulsion cases have many parallels that may have been ignored because of their differing ideological valence. Both strengthen the case for nondeferential judicial review of the exercise of emergency powers.
The president is running from his own hefty contributions to record gas prices and inflation.
Countries insulating themselves against future sanctions may block trade that lifted billions from misery.
A year and a half after the New York Post broke the story, the Times says it has "authenticated" the messages it previously deemed suspect.
The court ruled the CDC can continue to use its public health power to expel migrants, but not to countries where they are likely to face persecution or torture.
The decision allows Smartmatic to proceed with its defamation lawsuit against Fox, two anchors, and Rudy Giuliani.
When governments can de-bank you, you are not really free.
We must face the reality that the debt does matter.
The platform punished The Hill's morning show, Rising, for showing a clip of Trump speaking.
"If I do my job right, you should barely know I'm here."
From the CDC to the FDA, there are too many missteps to list.
The suit deserves to fail for much the same reasons as Trump-era attacks on immigration sanctuaries.
Joe Biden is just the latest president to tinker with USCIS's mission statement. Watch his deeds, not his words.