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After Congress denied him most of the funding he requested for a border wall last week, President Trump declared a national emergency, thereby invoking power to shift funds that were originally appro… |
Until late last week, the Supreme Court was preparing to hear oral argument in a case presenting the question whether Federal District Judge Jesse Furman erred by ordering discovery outside of the ad… |
A recent New York Times article disclosed details of Facebook’s global effort to block hate speech and other ostensibly offensive content. As the article explains, Facebook has good reason to worry t… |
In the wake of a Supreme Court ruling in a Michigan land dispute earlier this year, I explained in a column for this site that the non-ideological divisions between the justices on display in the cas… |
The Department of Education (typically abbreviated as ED) recently issued a notice of proposed rulemaking regarding Title IX, the federal statute that forbids educational institutions receiving feder… |
One week ago, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned at the “request” of President Donald Trump, who wasted no time in designating Matthew Whitaker as Acting Attorney General, pending the nominat… |
Last week, USA Today published an op-ed by Donald Trump in which the president attacked Democratic proposals to create a system of Medicare for All. Despite using complete sentences and correct spell… |