The Attorney General Defends Civil Liberties Against Overreaching COVID-19 Control Measures
While denying Donald Trump's dictatorial impulses, William Barr notes that public health emergencies do not give governments unlimited powers.
While denying Donald Trump's dictatorial impulses, William Barr notes that public health emergencies do not give governments unlimited powers.
It will not protect American jobs or health during this pandemic.
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The White House announced a temporary suspension of tariff payments as a way to stimulate the American economy, but the relief will not apply to tariffs on steel, aluminum, or imports from China.
The article explains why the coronavirus crisis does not justify weakening constitutional limits on federal government power.
The gatherings are ill-advised but understandable given the harms of government-enforced shutdowns.
An emergency room doctor talks about working the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
The inability of the federal government, and the president specifically, to deliver reliable and consistent information to the American public will make economic recovery more difficult.
"A national shutdown is not a sustainable long-term situation," Trump said Thursday evening. "We are not opening all at once, but one careful step at a time."
"The best available evidence does not support the use of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19."
The president contemplates a sweeping exercise of executive authority.
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It's not the politicians who have the power to reopen America, or at least the parts that are now closed. It's individuals, families, businesses, and religious congregations.
"We have deep concerns whether America's generosity has been put to the best use possible."
The president has a history of asserting powers he does not actually have.
Don't let states and cities get away with onerous rules that in no way help to contain COVID-19.
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The president again insisted that the federal government can open the country by fiat. It cannot.
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The lawsuit is the latest in a string of frivolous suits the president's reelection campaign has filed against media outlets.
They ignored early warning signs and pretended that everything would be OK.
"Presidential emergency action documents” concocted under prior administrations purport to give him such authority, according to a New York Times op-ed.
"We found no pattern of sexual misconduct by Biden, beyond hugs, kisses and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable."
The Dispatch senior editor on the value of liberalism and the problems with the new nationalist right
U.S. and Canada are supposed to agree to cut 5 million barrels
The president's daily press briefings are disturbing because of what they reveal, not what they obscure.
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Glenn Fine was abruptly removed from his post without explanation.
President Donald Trump, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi all agree that a fourth spending bill will happen in April but are haggling over the cost.
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The group's petition "would dangerously curtail the freedom of the press embodied in the First Amendment."
The problems with the federal response to COVID-19 go far beyond Donald Trump and deep into bureaucratic inertia.
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Q&A with Duke's Michael C. Munger, who also believes that big cities will see rationing and that higher education will never be the same.
The president also cannot reopen the country whenever he pleases.
The Duke economist and political scientist discusses the response to COVID-19, the coming recession, and the end of higher ed as we know it.
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Anyone who wants to restrict free speech should contemplate what it would be like if your enemy gets to choose what gets said.
The real action in the coming months lies between those two extremes.
The Kentucky congressman who insisted Congress record its vote on history's biggest spending bill is unapologetic and outspoken about limited government.
The Kentucky Republican took on Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi to fight against the $2 trillion coronavirus spending package. He's just getting started.
Carter Page was not an anomaly.
States have so far taken the lead in battling the coronavirus, and there is some merit to this decentralized approach, which fits the original meaning of the Constitution. But it also has flaws, and there is still a good chance the crisis will ultimately lead to an expansion of federal power.
"They always overshoot," Anthony Fauci says. "Generally, the reality is somewhere in the middle."
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We need to be careful, but we also need people to bring food from fields to our tables