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.
Plus: Seattle labor coalition gives cops the boot, supermarkets are a miracle of modern markets, Klobuchar is the last person to realize she won't be Biden's VP, and more...
The decision is only a temporary reprieve for DACA recipients, and still permits Trump or a future president to repeal the program if he is willing to pay the political price of doing so.
Defying expectations, Roberts joined with the four liberals on the court to rule against the Trump administration's elimination of the program.
Our leaders and institutions are failing us spectacularly. It's up to us to reboot society.
Trump is caught in a trap of his own making.
They’re not likely to succeed, but the real goal is to seize any money he makes.
That uniform rule is different from the policies favored by Donald Trump and House Democrats.
Donald Trump didn't start the protests, but the fires he's stoking will scorch the nation and discredit the conservative movement.
It does not touch qualified immunity or police unions.
The ruling is yet another setback for the administration, though legal battles over sanctuary jurisdictions will continue.
Plus: "Twitter Robespierres," Trump's campaign does a weird flex on a bad poll, and more....
The president’s tariffs have hiked prices and harmed consumers.
There's no evidence to support the claim that 75-year-old Martin Gugino is part of antifa.
In it I explain how to reform a federal law the Supreme Court has interpreted as giving the president nearly unlimited power to ban migrants from entering the United States.
The upheaval over police abuses has damaged America's image in the world, especially coming on the heels of other blows to American "soft power." We can and should do better.
The presidential candidate deserves praise for retreating from his tough-on-crime stance. But let's not forget that his policies contributed to mass incarceration and the police misconduct that people are protesting today.
Plus: Protest updates, Grindr goes woke, Twitter suspends an account for repeating Trump's words, and more...
Police brutality brought Americans into the streets. What would military force do?
The president has said he's willing to deploy active-duty military personnel to cities and states that aren't doing enough to crackdown on street violence.
Princeton political scientist Omar Wasow says violent protests helped Richard Nixon win the presidency in 1968.
Plus: Protest updates, COVID-19 upates, a surge in gun sales, and more...
The president promises penalties he has no power to impose, while the company promises moderation it cannot deliver.
Princeton's Omar Wasow talks about the complicated effects of civil rights demonstrations, police brutality, and racial fears on public policy.
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