Biden correctly recognizes he doesn't have the authority to impose a general national mask mandate. The same reasoning shows the nationwide eviction ban is also illegal.
The cult of the imperial U.S. presidency has come to feel like a national religion.
On his first day as president, Biden will end both of Trump's travel ban policies. It's a big step in the right direction, though more remains to be done.
Obama was also no immigration hero.
The president acknowledges that there are limits to executive power, even during a public health emergency.
Trump did more than any recent president to pare back regulatory red tape, but the incoming Biden administration is eager to add more.
Government grows in response to a crisis.
Plus: Biden pushes 8-year path to citizenship, Parler is back, Josh Hawley's book finds new publisher, and more...
He's laid out a five-point plan to speed up getting COVID-19 vaccinations to more Americans.
Eviction bans were enacted as an emergency public health measure. They’re quickly becoming a permanent policy.
Frightening events create openings for attacks on civil liberties.
On the brighter side, Biden wants 100 million vaccinations in 100 days and will push for immediate school reopenings.
No, says Techdirt's Mike Masnick, but it is cause for expanding Section 230 and building a more decentralized internet.
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.
New gun owners are unlikely to embrace disarmament schemes from a government they distrust.
Trump said the "Save America March" would be peaceful, but his apocalyptic rhetoric had predictable consequences.
The Biden administration has just delivered its first disappointment to criminal justice reform advocates.
The vice president can no longer avoid acknowledging Joe Biden's victory.
The incoming president can bring some much-needed professional diversity to the federal bench.
The president seems completely sincere, and he surrounds himself with advisers who reinforce his self-flattering fantasy.
To alleviate "deep distrust of our democratic processes," the Texas senator is leading a doomed challenge to Joe Biden's electoral votes.
Lin Wood's bizarre charges give you a sense of the advisers Trump is consulting as he continues to insist that he won the presidential election.
After a slight drop in 2018, fatalities involving opioids jumped last year, setting a new record that is apt to be broken this year.
Maybe voters were repelled by the very traits he has been vividly displaying since the election.
Louis Gohmert asserts a previously overlooked power to decide which electoral votes will be counted.
The Trump-friendly paper says the president should stop "cheering for an undemocratic coup" and focus on the GOP's political interests.
Pandemics are like margin calls, exposing in a moment the pre-existing weakness of various positions and institutions.
Trump thinks the judiciary cannot be trusted to reveal the massive fraud that he says denied him a second term.
Federal judges have been underwhelmed by the former Trump campaign lawyer's evidence of massive election fraud.
Eric Coomer says the claim that he bragged about fixing the election during an "antifa conference call" provoked a torrent of abuse and death threats.
Campaign promises about green energy often obscure real-world constraints.
A new book holds valuable lessons for the president-elect.
That’s a rare position for modern White House residents, and not necessarily a popular one with the public.
A new book documents that newcomers revitalize beliefs in hard work, property rights, and the rule of law.
The president's advisers reportedly pushed back vigorously against his ideas.
Joe Biden’s choice for agriculture secretary is more of the same.
Parsing issues at the intersection of current affairs and the world's largest religious denomination is no easy task.
Sen. Ron Johnson, a Trump ally, now concedes there is no credible evidence to support the president's fanciful conspiracy theory.
A new book, Wretched Refuse?, documents that newcomers not only increase economic activity but often revitalize faith in free market, limited-government institutions.
The strategy of lodging objections under the Electoral Count Act has been tried before, but it has never succeeded.
Plus: Trump slashes showerhead regulations, Ross Ulbricht might get a pardon, Tom Cruise is the latest COVID scold, and more...
Given the conspicuous lack of credible evidence, the president's charges can be accepted only as a matter of faith.
The president and his diehard allies in Congress continue to insist the election was stolen.
What to say to a political party that keeps trying to overturn the results of an election?
The New York governor should be disqualified from the U.S. attorney general job, even without a #MeToo-ing.
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