Selection effects all the way down

The Trump administration has taken actions to withheld billions of dollars in contracts from Harvard University unless that institution both adopts governance structures approved by the administration...

At the heart of the First Amendment lies a simple rule: the government may not impose its preferred viewpoint on private parties.

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.

An expert panel will discuss these and related developments as well as their implications for the Fourth Amendment rights of Americans.

In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), the Supreme Court suspended federal preclearance restrictions on changes to election laws in several states with a history of

Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears

The Trump administration is breaking a fundamental promise of political impartiality.

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Chelsea Follett's new history shows how wretched life was before the industrial revolution, but our escape from it began long before the steam engine.

A legal realignment has been underway for some years now, in that legal views once associated with the right are now being espoused by the left, and vice versa.

Rick H. links to the Reuters story about a federal district court finding a ban on alien voting unconstitutional. The underlying opinion is here. Back in 2013 (!), I wondered whether this statute migh...

The Pentagon’s new tungsten stake looks like a golden share.

Part 2 of What People Really Care About When They’re Mad About Immigration

The Senate slinks into recess undermining the power of the purse, the Post’s nothingburger on member per diems, a model presentation on MCPs

Newsom vetoed a bill (Assembly Bill 1383) that would have obliterated one of Jerry Brown's signature legislative victories: pension reform.

The People who adopted the Constitution knew that money damages were available from those who wronged them, even if they worked for the federal government. The People of today, heirs of that tradition...

The groups and their ideology are awful. But Virginia's policy violates the First Amendment.

Kennedy is suddenly bullish on artificial intelligence—so we asked some AI assistants to rate his vaccine claims.

Trump is defying Congress and robbing the American people to build it.

The state’s attorney general demanded access to company records to examine how the newspaper’s board oversees editorial standards amid claims of anti-Israel bias.

The escalating trade war between the United States and Canada also means an escalating trade war with one of Maryland’s biggest trading partners, with the state sending $2.2 billion in goods north in ...

In a recent speech, he decried a situation where "everything is an emergency."

House Democrats say officials may have illegally misused public funds to pay for president’s ‘narcissistic ego trips’

The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.

Federal prosecutors charged 15 people with conspiracy, painting their political speech, protest activity, and alleged antifa ties as evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

"I think courts are going to be very suspicious of how broad this is," one Minnesota lawyer tells Reason.

The ruling poses a more fundamental constitutional question: When Congress protects federal elections, where does regulation of the election process end and federal control over voter qualifications b...

UC Davis Law professor Vikram David Amar and Illinois Law professor Jason Mazzone discuss three recent California legislative measures aimed at federal law enforcement: a “converse-1983” civil rights....

Fascinating.