A National Guard officer will testify that the June 1 clearing of protesters outside the White House was "an unnecessary escalation of the use of force" and "deeply disturbing."
Plus: Gun groups for black Americans are growing, a promising new study on opening schools, and more...
The president has ditched a promising, free market-influenced revamp of Obama-era fair housing regulations in favor of a legally dubious new rule that's heavy on local control.
Trump sics his border police on Americans: We are all immigrants now
A president from a party supposedly committed to restraining the federal government is now sending enforcers to cities over local objections.
Thanks to him, there will be no escaping accusations by the left that states' rights are merely a ruse to protect white power.
Data from Yelp shows that the long-term economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic is only starting to be realized. And federal unemployment data shows layoffs are climbing again.
Plus: "learning pods" are an unfair target, COVID-19 reinfections are unlikely, and more...
American voters know what's up.
The lawsuit raises a variety of important issues, including a nondelegation challenge. It could turn out to be a very significant case.
Whitmer's argument is short on facts and legal reasoning.
The president’s heavy-handed response to protests against police brutality belies his promise of "law and order."
Cases per 1,000 tests are rising in the majority of states.
The Reason Roundtable talks Portland, policing, federalism, coronavirus, and the perennially dumb discourse.
From the torching of an Elk statue to clandestine raids by federal officers, it's like a bizarro episode of Portlandia
The "haters demographic" broke strongly in Trump's favor in 2016, but this time the group is younger, more liberal, and more likely to vote for Biden.
The Fifth Column podcaster on racial identity, cancel culture, libertarianism, and Trump vs. Biden
He has added strong anti-abortion and anti-vaccine views to his public profile, and said it was racist to think blacks needed to vote Democrat.
"The best aspect of the Trump foreign policy is that he has revealed the mind of the foreign policy establishment," says historian Thaddeus Russell. "The worst part... he's a mass murderer just like the rest of them."
Plus: White House drops student deportation plans, Breonna Taylor protesters arrested, Josh Hawley's fake rescue mission, and more...
Two centuries of precedents say the president is not immune from judicial process.
The Reason Roundtable weighs in on the latest coronavirus policy debate.
The ruling is at odds with decisions by four other circuits and could be headed to the Supreme Court - unless Biden wins the election and reverses administration policy.
An analysis finds that Trump is both more stingy and more self-serving than his predecessors in how he has used the pardon power to date
Protectionism is now infecting the GOP to a degree that may be difficult to eradicate when the Trump era ends.
Stone was set to report to federal prison to serve 40 months for lying to Congress and witness tampering.
The article critiques the majority decision, and outlines a better way to limit Congress' subpoena power.
Vance strikes me as compelling and correct. Mazars creates a complex and unwieldy balancing test.
The Supreme Court weighs the legality of subpoenaing Trump’s financial records.
The Supreme Court rejected Donald Trump's claims of immunity, but reaffirmed limits on investigatory powers, and ruled in favor of Native American tribal claims against Oklahoma.
The Trump administration is using the pandemic to rid the country of foreigners
We know now that young kids aren't particularly susceptible to catch, transmit, or suffer from Covid-19. Time to give them (and their parents) a break.
The Reason Roundtable podcast has some helpful suggestions for the summer of 2020.
Debt held by the public equals about 100 percent of GDP. That's hurting growth and will fuel a major crisis.
The president's criticism of the 2015 AFFH rule is an implicit attack on his own housing reforms.
The Souls of Yellow Folk author says a new "elite consensus" fixated on racial outrage is forming and may destroy our ability to function.
Given the current context of the race and the pandemic, Biden's specific plans likely don't matter so much as the impression that he at least has a plan.
The president’s accidental vision of a war-free second term.
The article explains why these policies, which made made America more closed to immigration than at any previous time in history, are both harmful and a dangerous executive power grab.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals acknowledged that the plaintiff's Eighth Amendment rights were violated.
Majority 2–1 opinion says prosecutors, not judges, have the discretion to drop the case against the former Trump aide.
Testing provides clarity and critically useful evidence about the spread of the disease that the president doesn’t seem to want.
The 24-year-old real estate investor Madison Cawthorn also won his primary over Trump-backed businesswoman Lynda Bennett.
The legal doctrine frequently allows police officers to violate your rights without fear of civil liability.
Banning foreign workers will result in the outsourcing of jobs from America.
Donald Trump has rewritten much of U.S. immigration law from the Oval Office, without congressional oversight or public debate.
From Forrest to Roosevelt, Confederates to Cervantes, Washington to Whittier, a discussion of iconography politics on The Reason Roundtable.
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