Supreme Court limits scope of obstruction law used in Jan. 6 prosecutions
By KYLE CHENEY and JOSH GERSTEIN About 350 Jan. 6 defendants have faced obstruction charges now thrown into doubt by the court. The Supreme Court has narrowed the scope of a ...
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The Supreme Court’s Decision Overruling Chevron is Important—But Less so than You Might Think
by ILYA SOMIN It won't end the administrative state or even significantly reduce the amount of federal regulation. But it's still a valuable step towards protecting the rule ...
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Supreme Court guts agency power in seismic Chevron ruling
by Jacob Knutson The Supreme Court on Friday curtailed the executive branch's ability to interpret laws it's charged with implementing, giving the judiciary more say in what federal agencies can do. ...
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Timely Lessons About Tyranny from the Father of the Constitution
By: John Whitehead James Madison, often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution,” once predicted that the Bill of Rights would become mere “parchment barrier,” words on paper ...
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No Deal for Gun Control: How the American Revolutionaries Defied the Empire
By: Michael Boldin June 12, 1775 – less than 2 months after Lexington and Concord and the “shot heard ‘round the world,” General Gage made an offer he felt ...
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The Pilgrim Code of 1636: English Charter, Christian Covenant, and Modern Constitution
By: Joe Wolverton, II “As freeborn subjects of the state of England, we hither came endowed with all and singular the privileges belonging to such, in the first place ...
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Free Speech on Trial: Jailed But Re-elected
By: Michael Boldin In a time of political turmoil, when criticism of the government could land you behind bars, Matthew Lyon, a congressman and fierce critic of the Federalist ...
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From Nixon to Biden: How the US Turned Banks into Spy Networks
By: Mike Maharrey “Americans do not have financial privacy, really at all. We have this illusion of financial privacy.” Cato policy analyst Nicholas Anthony summed it up bluntly in an ...
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Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms
By: John Whitehead The spirit of the Constitution, drafted by men who chafed against the heavy-handed tyranny of an imperial ruler, would suggest that one’s home is a fortress, ...
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Sovereignty and Agency
By: Mike Maharrey In the American political system, the people of the several states are sovereign, meaning they hold final or ultimate authority. Power flows from them to the ...
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