Donald Trump makes obscure constitutional law great again. It is easy to rattle off the provisions: the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses, Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, and now the Adjournment Clause. Time and again, Trump does something that implicates one of these seldom-litigated provisions, and almost immediately, people on both sides of the […]
President Trump’s new nominee for Attorney General is Pam Bondi, the former Florida Attorney General. I wrote about Bondi in some detail for my 2013 book, Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare. Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum left office on January 3, 2011. Five months earlier, he had lost the Florida Republican gubernatorial primary to the […]
DOGE details: After a week of speculation, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy wrote in The Wall Street Journal of their plans for what the Department of Government Efficiency will actually look like. “Most legal edicts aren’t laws enacted by Congress but ‘rules and regulations’ promulgated by unelected bureaucrats—tens of thousands of them each year. Most government enforcement […]
Brendan Carr, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to chair the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), wants to “dismantle” what he calls “the censorship cartel.” As Carr defines it, that cartel includes not just Big Tech companies such as Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet (which owns Google) but also NewsGuard, a company that rates the credibility and transparency […]
The Justice Department has ordered the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to suspend most searches of passengers at airports and other mass transit hubs after an independent investigation found DEA task forces weren’t documenting searches and weren’t properly trained, creating a significant risk of constitutional violations and lawsuits. The deputy attorney general directed the DEA on […]
At now-President-elect Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign rallies, attendees would hold “Trump Will Fix It” signs. Here’s hoping the antitrust policy that President Joe Biden excessively politicized is one of those “its.” Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, previously said he believes that Biden’s appointee as chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Lina Khan, has done […]
Jennifer Rubin is a columnist for The Washington Post and commentator for MSNBC. Once upon a time she was considered a conservative writer—indeed, her hiring by The Post in 2010 was met with controversy specifically because the establishment liberal paper had hired a right-leaning blogger. In 2013, WaPo’s former ombudsman wrote an open letter calling […]
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When the Cable News Network (CNN) launched on the evening of June 1, 1980, it was a youthful upstart business. There were just a few hundred employees, and the company was based not in New York or Los Angeles, but in a former country club building on the periphery of Atlanta, Georgia. Cable television itself […]
As a member of Congress, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R–Ore.) teamed up with Vice President Kamala Harris and teachers union bosses to push a proposal that would effectively override state-level reforms to limit the power of public sector unions—like those championed by Republicans in Wisconsin and Florida. That might seem like it would make Chavez-DeRemer an […]