The company's surrender to Trump's extortion vindicates his strategy of using frivolous litigation and his presidential powers to punish constitutionally protected speech.
In the name of "restoring freedom of speech," FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson wants to override the editorial judgments of social media platforms.
As he shifts his focus away from DOGE, he acknowledges the need for hard choices and congressional action.
A scam that uses AI to “enroll” in community colleges to pocket student aid has skyrocketed in the Golden State and across the nation.
The president has launched a multifaceted crusade against speech that offends him.
The president's lawyers also conflate fraud with defamation, misconstrue the commercial speech doctrine, and assert that false speech is not constitutionally protected.
The cost cutter's current projection of annual "savings" is 85 percent lower than the goal he set two months ago—and even that number can't be trusted.
Journals allegedly written by the government's star witness in 2015 were not authentic, prosecutors now say.
Entitlements are a much bigger expense, but that doesn't mean the waste doesn't matter.
The president's assertion is divorced from reality, and so are the "estimated savings" touted by Elon Musk.
The president's portrayal of journalism he does not like as consumer fraud is legally frivolous and blatantly unconstitutional.
Elon Musk claims to have uncovered massive fraud within Social Security, but those data are already well known and not a major problem.
The DOGE director wildly exaggerates what can be accomplished by tackling "waste, fraud, and abuse" in government spending without new legislation.
The full transcript shows the president's complaints about the editing of the interview are not just wildly hyperbolic and legally groundless. They are demonstrably false.
The company is worried that the president's complaints about a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris could block a pending merger.
In the first volume of his final report, Special Counsel Jack Smith laid out a damning case against the former and future president.
Aside from a felony record that may yet be erased on appeal, the president-elect will face no punishment for trying to conceal his hush payment to Stormy Daniels.
The president-elect frivolously claims that J. Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register owe him damages because of an erroneous preelection poll.
The president-elect's lawsuit against The Des Moines Register is a patently frivolous and constitutionally dubious attempt to intimidate the press.
One in four kids will be the victim of identity theft or fraud. Here's how the government is making it worse.
Despite its enormous budget and vast regulatory powers, the agency has failed to detect major frauds while wasting time and money on relatively useless disclosures.
The spread of conspiracy theories in response to a bruising electoral loss is not only found on the political right.
Narrowly understood, the president-elect's familiar-sounding plan to tackle "massive waste and fraud" may not give us "smaller government" in any meaningful sense.
The Republican presidential candidate argues that CBS and The Washington Post broke the law by covering the election in ways he did not like.
A trucker lost his job because he tested positive for marijuana after consuming a supposedly THC-free CBD tincture.
Contrary to progressive criticism, curtailing bureaucratic power is not about protecting "the wealthy and powerful."
Justice Sonia Sotomayor called the Supreme Court ruling in SEC v. Jarkesy "a power grab." She's right, but in the wrong way.
The decision rejects a system in which the agency imposes civil penalties after investigating people and validating its own allegations.
Just the latest development in the continuing saga of COVID stimulus fraud.
George Norcross III's alleged actions are almost cartoonishly corrupt. But for economic development programs, it's not too far off from business as usual.
Facing an opponent who has been credibly described as a sexual predator, Biden instead emphasizes Trump's cover-up of a consensual encounter.
That take on the former president's New York conviction echoes similarly puzzling claims by many people who should know better.
The lack of a clear rationale for charging Trump with 34 felonies raises a due process issue that is likely to figure in his appeals.
Whatever Trump did after the 2016 presidential election, it seems safe to say that it did not retroactively promote his victory.
There was a glaring mismatch between the charges against the former president and what prosecutors described as the essence of his crime.
The judge said the jurors need not agree about the "unlawful means" that Trump allegedly used to promote his 2016 election.
Closing arguments in the former president's trial highlight the mismatch between the charges and the "election fraud" he supposedly committed.
This week the judge presiding over Trump's trial ruled that jurors do not have to agree on any particular legal theory.
To convert a hush payment into 34 felonies, prosecutors are relying on a chain of assumptions with several weak links.
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