And it allows presidents to legislate, a recipe for everexpanding federal and executive power.

Including the line ‘China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong’ discredits any piece of writing that discusses civil liberties and the rule of law.

Just because significant restrictions on our day-to-day lives are warranted doesn’t mean it’s a free-for-all for government coercion.

It would be both smart politics and good governance to update the list of SCOTUS contenders. When a vacancy emerges, whether before or after the election, who will be considered?

Democrats and Republicans may shame the United States for not featuring yet another welfare state program, but they ignore that Canada’s taxes to fund subsidies to parents of newborns cost working families dearly.

Executive agencies are on notice that it’s no longer ‘anything goes’ when they rewrite their own rules, that judges will hold their feet to the statutory fire.

The court reached the correct result, but the mish-mash of opinions leaves Establishment Clause jurisprudence in the muddled state it’s been for decades.

By preventing President Trump from firing Robert Mueller, Don McGahn prevented a political crisis that would’ve made the Russia-collusion narrative seem like a jaywalking allegation.

It’s important that lawmakers get national cannabis policy right, which means respecting each state’s prerogative to handle its own policy and allowing interstate marijuana trade.

In the feud between President Trump and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, both are wrong. Judges aren’t partisan hacks, but they do have different approaches to jurisprudence.

Brett Kavanaugh takes his seat amid debates about the Supreme Court’s ‘legitimacy,’ with substantial portions of the population thinking he’s a rapist.

Libertarians aren’t going to agree with Kavanaugh on everything—we don’t agree on everything ourselves!—but he’s a big step forward for constitutional liberty.

My wife simply can’t take nearly a week off work to complete the mandatory training Virginia social services is contemplating for parents who want to help at their kids’ preschool.

Despite the brouhaha and suspenseful plot twists, the president went with what can in this context be called the conventional conservative choice.

There is literally nothing in his record that justifies the smears and demagoguery he’s about to face.

The food fight over Masterpiece Cakeshop shows how pivotal the next Supreme Court vacancy will be.

On the cases with less political valence the justices can ‘nerd out’ on legal theories and reveal their jurisprudential minds when they know their decisions won’t make the front pages.

A protestor’s sign put it, ‘Rule of law = white supremacy, violence against [people of color], violence against immigrants.’ These were law students protesting the rule of law.

Luckily, the festival delivered again, with a disorienting mix of trendy tech panels and sweaty queues to nowhere.

Everyone always tries to draw larger geopolitical conclusions from the Olympics, but it’s really just about the sports.