Rule By Executive Order Is Also Bad When Trump Does It
The cause of small government is not served by following Barack Obama’s example and asserting dubious new powers for the president’s pen and phone.
Donald Trump Sells Out The Right On Guns
Just as the anti-gun media narrative on school shootings was falling apart, Donald Trump held a televised summit with lawmakers and revived it.
Judge Blocks Trump Immigration Order, Saying Borders Are Unconstitutional
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson wrote in an order that suspended the latest version of the president’s travel ban that it ‘plainly discriminates based on nationality.’
Trump’s Executive Moves Have Strengthened Checks And Balances
Say what you will about Donald Trump — and there’s plenty to say — but he may be the first president in memory to actively limit his own branch’s power.
Rescinding DACA Is The Right Thing To Do
Political theater or not, DACA is probably unconstitutional. Something the pretend-defenders of law and order might want to remember.
Supreme Court Partially Lifts Injunctions Against Trump’s Travel Ban
The Supreme Court has substantially upheld a significant part of the executive power by which President Trump’s immigration order was issued.
Top 10 Wins And Failures Of President Trump’s First 5 Months
Many are still seeking to understand this unpredictable president—what he’s accomplished, how he’s failed, and the hard truths both sides refuse to admit.
Obama Stuck America With Bad Paris Deal, And Trump Should Get Us Out Like He Promised
Obama’s Paris climate legacy lived by his pen and should die by Trump’s.
Why Democrats Won’t Take Yes For An Answer On Comey
Last Tuesday night, President Trump gave Democrats what they wanted and, boy, did they ever hate it.
Trump’s Travel Ban Has Nothing To Do With The First Amendment
The furor over Trump’s executive order on immigration isn’t about the Constitution. It’s about liberals’ contempt for Trump.
Trump’s Religious Liberty Order Preserves An Unequal Legal Climate
The religious liberty of people of faith and the rights of LGBT individuals can be protected at the same time. There is no reason protection cannot accommodate all Americans equally.
How Trump’s Executive Order Can Fix Ronald Reagan’s Education Failure
The Trump administration can better its odds of ending the monopolies at the root of widespread public dissatisfaction with schools and their indoctrination of American kids.
The Sanctuary Cities Decision Is A Bad Ruling About A Bad Policy, But Still Good Law
No one doubts that the federal government has jurisdiction over immigration. Whether they can force the states to help them enforce immigration laws is another matter.
The Sanctuary Cities Ruling Is Much Ado About Nothing
This seems to be all just one more episode of Trumpian signaling or, as the court narrated, using a ‘bully pulpit to highlight a changed approach to immigration enforcement’ in the future.
Our 100-Day Obsession Only Makes The Presidency More Powerful
For all his condemnations of Obama’s energetic presidency, Trump feels pressured to be just as energetic, or more so, in the first 100 days of his own.
Why You Shouldn’t Cheer Every Time Courts Do What You Want
How increasingly letting states and citizens sue to stop laws and regulations they don’t like, such as President Trump’s immigration order, can politicize courts and end self-government.
Barack Obama Welcomes You To Donald Trump’s Imperial Presidency
The president can lay aside Congress and multiple Supreme Court rulings because he now has the power to simply choose which laws to enforce and which to ignore.
Trump Follows Obama Rule Of Selective Non-Enforcement, Gets Opposite Treatment
President Trump follows in President Obama’s path of not enforcing Obamacare’s requirement that people disclose their compliance. Nobody cared when Obama did it, but they care now.
Trump’s Immigration Order Exploited Vulnerable People For Political Gain
Refugees are already subject to extreme vetting, and refugees are much less likely than the general American population to commits acts of violence.
Authoritarianism Is Not Confined To One Political Party
None of Barack Obama’s wrongdoings absolve President Donald Trump of his. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t point them out.
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