constitution
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Law and Government
Dems are talking about censuring Trump, but what does that mean?
As the appetite for impeachment wanes, Democrats are talking again about censuring Donald Trump. This isn't a fresh idea. Eight…
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Law and Government
Is Beto O’Rourke unusually naïve or deliberately deceptive?
Possibly the only thing O’Rourke has accomplished is to keep alive the impression American gun owners have that Beto is…
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Law and Government
Is everything ‘commerce’ that Congress can restrict?
Spiders and their fate lack any qualitative relationship to interstate commerce.
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Media
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: ‘If It wasn’t in Constitution, Electoral College ‘would be unconstitutional’
Whatever Joe Biden has, it's apparently contagious. Speaking in front of a live studio audience yesterday, MSNBC's Chris Hayes said…
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Law and Government
The upside of the New York Times’s ‘1619 Project’
Can the truth start marching on again?
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Law and Government
Despite conservative majority in SCOTUS, liberal justices still notching victories
Each of the conservative justices crossed over to form a 5-4 majority with the liberal bloc at least once. A…
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Politics
VIDEO: Obama confuses Constitution with Declaration of Independence
Shades of his presidency, during which when Barack Obama wasn’t lying (remember “If you like your doctor, you can keep…
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Law and Government
Bernie Sanders’s plan to give a terrorist killer the right to vote fails on many fronts
Being affected by government policies does not give people the right to vote on them. If it did, the whole…
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Politics
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Education
AAUP official attacks academic freedom
The First Amendment guarantees ‘freedom of speech,’ not freedom ‘from’ speech. The AAUP seems to have forgotten this, in its…
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Law and Government
Four American institutions the Democrats want to abolish
What do the Senate and the Supreme Court have in common? Yes, quite obviously, they are both parts of the…
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Law and Government
Beto O’Rourke wonders if the Constitution still works
‘Does this still work?’ O’Rourke asked the reporter. ‘Can an empire like ours with military presence in over 170 countries…
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Law and Government
Ocasio-Cortez misquotes Constitution, threatens to run for president
The Constitution — a document Ocasio-Cortez clearly is unfamiliar with — does not say ‘he’ cannot run: It says ‘any…
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Law and Government
In this SCOTUS case, it’s Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor against the rest
Gorsuch and Sotomayor have been active together both on and off the bench in recent weeks. The pair appeared on CBS…
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Law and Government
American Legion asks Supreme Court to protect cross-shaped war memorial
The Peace Cross, they say, thus evokes distant battlefield cemeteries of the sort described in John McCrae’s poem ‘In Flanders…
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Law and Government
Portland, Ore., police refused to come to aid of ICE agents who called 911, agents say
The National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council, a union representing ICE employees, wrote a cease-and-desist letter to Mayor Ted Wheeler, asking him to…
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Law and Government
Baseless fearmongering about autocracy
When the White House orders federal agencies to comply with a Supreme Court decision, that's not a sign of dictatorship…
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Media
Quote of the Day: Rewrite the Constitution, have another president take over right now
At least Barnicle recognizes the existence of the Constitution, even if he's a little unclear on the amendment process, which involves…
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Law and Government
Suppose Trump just went ahead and declared Brett Kavanaugh a Supreme Court justice
There is no clause in the Constitution that 'says the Senate must vote on, let alone confirm, a President's nominee.'
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Law and Government
Texas and 6 other states are suing to end DACA
The Texas-led lawsuit is not an attempt to litigate the judges' decisions regarding the Trump administration but to get a ruling…
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Religion
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Politics
Clinton appointee dismisses lawsuit claiming Trump violated Constitution’s emoluments clause
'Nothing in the text or the history of the emoluments clauses suggests that the framers intended these provisions to protect…
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Economy
States and fed go mano a mano over control of the burgeoning iGaming industry
Currently, a textbook example the Tenth Amendment is happening in numerous states as they consider legalizing online gambling to help…
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Law and Government
Trump lands his biggest opportunity for a judicial appointment since Gorsuch
Another judicial chance for Trump
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