Chuck Schumer's Trumpian Attack on the Supreme Court Threatens the Judicial Independence That Democrats Claim To Defend
The Senate minority leader threatened two justices by name, and then he lied about it.
The Senate minority leader threatened two justices by name, and then he lied about it.
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Reason's science correspondent explains who is getting infected, how to protect yourself, and why nobody should be freaking out. Yet.
Unraveling panic, policy, and bad metaphors on the Reason Roundtable podcast
“Why should courts, charged with the independent and neutral interpretation of the laws Congress has enacted, defer to such bureaucratic pirouetting?”
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) claims political motivations are delaying federal approval of a plan to charge drivers entering Manhattan a congestion fee.
The argument requires several controversial assumptions and leaps of logic.
No matter how bad the outbreak might turn out to be, politicians will find a way to make it worse.
A congressional battle erupts over how much to reform the soon-to-expire USA Freedom Act—if they reform it at all.
The decision allows the Justice Department to impose immigration enforcement conditions on federal grants to state governments, and goes against numerous other court decisions striking down the exact same policy.
Trump has long complained that libel laws need to be loosened to allow more lawsuits against media outlets.
The New York Times technology reporter is revealing how social media is encouraging individual expression.
Trump's failure to speak out against Modi's reign of lawlessness and terror is an epic abdication of responsibility.
The problems with federal sentencing guidelines are real and troubling, even in cases that do not involve the president’s pals.
But Sanders is also right that America has made some terrible foreign policy mistakes in the past.
Criminal justice reformers say federal prosecutors torpedoed clemency petitions in worthy cases.
The Midwestern moderate isn't alone is fretting about the radicalism of the current Democratic front-runner.
As Sanders steamrolls toward the Democratic nomination, the Reason Roundtable podcast dissects the panic attacks among MSNBC anchors, conservative commie-haters, and the bipartisan establishment elite.
The real resistance is made up of those who refuse to be governed by any of the wannabe rulers.
Individual autonomy is not the cause of our problems and state autonomy is not the solution
Instead of $12.5 billion in new agriculture purchases exports to China this year, the USDA expects less than $4 billion.
When it comes to the trade deficit, policy wonks were right and the president was wrong.
Sinking in the Swamp authors Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng are documenting all the president's grifters for The Daily Beast.
The president remains frankly puzzled by the distinction between can and should.
Instead of destroying the political gatekeepers, we've merely handed the keys to the populists.
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She’s nearly three years into a five-year sentence for releasing classified documents showing Russian attempts to hack U.S. election systems.
"I hope our country will never see the time, when either riches or the want of them will be the leading considerations in the choice of public officers," Adams wrote in 1776.
Barr's big complaint is that the president is so overt with the sleazy pressure.
Other possible legal challenges to Trump's expanded travel ban may be precluded by the Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v. Hawaii. This one is not.
Stephen Moore and Gene Epstein debate whether or not President Trump's Chinese trade policy deserves broad public support.
Federal outlays per person have increased $1,441 since 2016, to a grand total of $14,652 per person.
If Barr is so concerned about the appearance of integrity, why did he insert himself into a high-profile case involving a presidential pal?
Eight Republicans join the vote, but that's not enough to overrule a likely veto.
Until we start denuding the Oval Office, we will continue getting the royals we deserve.
It’s a testament to fiscal irresponsibility.
A prison sentence of seven to nine years is excessive for nonviolent process crimes aimed at concealing legal behavior.
The long, strange, and unfinished trip of a sitcom-writing legend who turned right after the Cold War, co-founded a podcast empire, turned on to psychedelics, and got turned off to politics.
Like Trump before him, Sanders is using establishment disunity to mount an insurgent campaign.
Americans probably don't want a president who will nationalize the means of production, but we're happy to keep electing ones who grow government spending.
The former Massachusetts governor and 2016 Libertarian V.P. candidate gets just 9 percent in his own back yard, will continue to Super Tuesday.
If the president wants voters to take him seriously, he should stop pretending the problem has been solved.
The new lawsuits against the state of New Jersey and King County, Washington have many of the same constitutional flaws as the administration's other efforts to to target sanctuary cities.
The former New York mayor is being called a racist for his former support of searching young minorities without cause.
The president’s plan calls for modest cuts made easy by unlikely growth.
It's a solid budget proposal—too bad it won't go anywhere.