Saying Trump 'Provoked' the Capitol Riot With 'Lies,' Mitch McConnell Tries To Distance His Party From a Dangerous Demagogue
The Senate minority leader sees a grave political risk in failing to repudiate the former president.
The Senate minority leader sees a grave political risk in failing to repudiate the former president.
Obama was also no immigration hero.
Plus: Pelosi wants 9/11-style commission to investigate Capitol attack, MyPillow drama, and more...
The president's final batch of clemency actions includes commutations for dozens of nonviolent drug offenders.
Trump did more than any recent president to pare back regulatory red tape, but the incoming Biden administration is eager to add more.
He fought ISIS and volunteered as a medic for BLM. Now he's been arrested for threats against pro-Trump rioters.
Five reasons why Trump's trade war didn't go the way he thought it would.
Our own house is not in order, and Washington has no business policing the world or forcibly remaking other countries in its own image.
Plus: Biden pushes 8-year path to citizenship, Parler is back, Josh Hawley's book finds new publisher, and more...
Threats of defamation suits have prompted corrective statements on Fox and Newsmax, but My Pillow CEO wants to fight.
American Thinker says its claims about Dominion Voting Systems were "completely false."
A further rejoinder to Josh Blackman and Seth Tillman.
The Constitution's words, history, and structure suggest the best answer is no. He can't plead, "I beg my pardon."
It is often argued that we need to restrict immigration in order to protect democratic institutions. But ethno-nationalist immigration restrictionists are a much bigger threat to those institutions than immigrants.
Judge Michael Luttig thinks a former president cannot be tried in the Senate. The argument is flawed.
Trump has been impeached, but there is still time to put a stronger case before the Senate.
It can be hard to see what's in front of you, especially when you're struggling not to see it.
A rejoinder to Josh Blackman and Seth Tillman.
The First Amendment doesn't come with an exception for "disinformation."
No, says Techdirt's Mike Masnick, but it is cause for expanding Section 230 and building a more decentralized internet.
Something like Wednesday evening's soothing remarks could have made a real difference on the day of the Capitol riot.
Techdirt's founder wants to give end users, not politicians and tech giants, more control over what we can say and see online.
Several House Republicans joined their colleagues across the aisle in the ultimate condemnation of Trump's role on Jan. 6.
Impeachment can only succeed if it has substantial bipartisan support. Here are some ways to help make that happen.
Here is how Mitch McConnell, Mike Pence, Liz Cheney, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley responded to the president's election delusions.
History and precedent both support impeachment trials for former federal officials.
The organization has devolved from skepticism toward government to veneration of politicians.
Impeachment, not the 14th Amendment, is the mechanism for disqualifying Trump from future federal office.
Unlike the cancellation of Josh Hawley’s book, such criminal charges pose a real threat to freedom of speech.
As Mitch McConnell and Liz Cheney break for impeachment, the freshman GOP congressman who succeeded Justin Amash says that Republicans who are "going to vote our conscience tomorrow" expect to be assaulted.
Among many other things, it cites recent writings by VC bloggers Jonathan Adler, Keith Whittington and myself.
GOP leaders who raise this objection to impeachment can help solve the problem through the simple expedient of supporting impeachment themselves.
Law enforcement will have an easier time arresting and prosecuting criminals on Parler than on Telegram.
We need an open digital commons, where individuals maintain ownership of their own identities and where speech is highly resistant to political pressure.
The impeachment article against the president cites a little-discussed section of the 14th Amendment.
The precedents are clear, and Senate could bar Trump from holding future office.
Impeachment, 25th Amendment, or censure? Deplatforming, Section 230, or inclusion? The Reason Roundtable debates.
Dominion Voting Systems, the focus of the former Trump campaign lawyer's conspiracy theory, is seeking $1.3 billion from her for defamation.
Laws against sedition have historically been used by insecure officials to punish critics.
"The question of whether incitement to riot is an impeachable offense is pretty easy," says the Cato Institute's Gene Healy. "Clearly, yes."
The Constitution does not bar such proceedings. And the impeachment process could still serve the valuable purposes of deterring wrongdoing by future presidents and barring Trump from ever holding federal office again.
Trump attorney Kurt Hilbert claimed he had reached settlement agreements with state officials, which was news to them.
Prominent legal scholars who rarely agree on anything else make the case for a swift impeachment process.
Proposals are already being floated for new unnecessary laws and punishments to address the riots.
High government officials don't have a First Amendment right to be protected from firing based on their political views. That applies to presidents facing impeachment no less than other officials.
A response to Joshua Blackman and Seth Tillman
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