The brief filed by Univ. of Texas law professor Sanford Levinson and myself explains why the Trump administration's efforts to exclude undocumented immigrants from the apportionment count for allocating seats in the House of Representatives goes against the text and original meaning of the Constitution.
Trump's hope that state legislatures will replace Democratic presidential electors with Republican electors will be dashed.
The legal doctrine is a free pass for rampant government abuse.
Post-election conspiracy-mongering demonstrates the limits of "libertarian populism."
"Keeping kids out of the classroom will make recovering from the pandemic harder in the long term."
The president's rhetoric and his campaign's actions are corrosive, but even the most powerful man on the planet can't control America's diffuse election system.
For some, Trump’s troop drawdowns are too fast and too much. In reality, they’re too little and way too late.
The prospects of a new Congress and a new Administration justifies delaying the case.
The incoming administration opposes the death penalty, but the Justice Department has three more executions planned this year.
The fabulism that is inseparable from Trumpism can conjure up "millions" of stolen votes as easily as "more than a MILLION" protesters.
This is not your older brother's "Libertarian Moment," caution Reason Roundtable podcasters.
Trump's campaign officials and attorneys are peddling this nonsense with help from credulous Fox News hosts, but their theories don't stand up to scrutiny.
The president’s increasingly desperate legal filings won’t change the ultimate result of the 2020 election.
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The president still insists the election was stolen by a vast criminal conspiracy.
If Trump isn’t interested, maybe the Biden administration could get started with a few acts of mercy.
American farmers and consumers deserve freer trade.
Just about everyone—conservatives, progressives, libertarians—should be glad to say goodbye to this cruel approach to immigration policy.
The president managed to generate controversy, however, with remarks about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
No, we don’t need someone to “take command of the national supply chain for essential equipment, medications, and protective gear.”
Trump is a wannabe despot, but let's not pretend the other side is flawless.
"It's time that we start thinking about reining in the powers that we've let slip to this institution," says the Cato Institute's Gene Healy.
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If the Latino vote is to determine America’s future, it might help both parties to look southward and attempt to understand the people they want to sway on their own terms.
You might finally be able to buy a dishwasher that gets the job done, unless Joe Biden changes the rules again.
Let’s not let fears of “Trump loyalists” overshadow positive outcomes.
Even if the GOP's complaints are valid, they do not prove a vast anti-Trump conspiracy.
No, late-arriving mail-in ballots won't swing the election's outcome. No, Joe Biden's vote totals in suburban Philadelphia aren't suspiciously high.
Trump rallied his base, but could not convince Libertarians and Greens to come his way
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The Secretary of State places himself among the ranks of Republican officials willing to humor, but not quite endorse, Trump's claims that he in fact won the election.
If he had focused more on economic growth, Trump would have made even more headway with Hispanics
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Trump claimed the power to issue a national eviction moratorium during COVID. Could that pave the way for the mask mandates Biden clearly wants?
President-elect Joe Biden has promised to fully reinstate DACA. But such a move will surely be challenged in court. Here's an easy way to reduce the risk that such challenges might succeed.
Also, maybe not! Previewing divided government and incoming vaccines on the Reason Roundtable podcast.
Unfortunately, COVID, COVID, COVID this winter is unlikely to be Fake News.
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The nefarious scheme evidently includes Republican officials and Trump-friendly news outlets.
Like almost every newly elected president, Joe Biden claims he has a mandate. But does he? And should we care?
All major news organizations are now reporting that Biden has won enough Electoral College votes, even as Trump mounts potential legal challenges.
The president promised to save suburbanites' neighborhoods from a wave of new housing development. They voted against him anyway.
There are at least 11 trillion reasons to be very scared about what comes next.
The only person he needs to convince is himself.
A Biden presidency and a GOP Senate could keep the left out of power for years.
