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This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—September 7

2000—Nearly two years after Florida voters vote, 73% to 27%, to amend the state constitution to require that Florida’s ban on “cruel or unusual punishment”…

Taking Venezuela’s Oil: If America Becomes a Rogue, the Future Is Dark

Undermining the rule of law and a relatively free market will have long-term ramifications.

Elite Formation Is Fueling the Socialist Project

America’s institutions are overproducing ambitious young people hungry for consequence. The DSA is exploiting...

Labor Day Is a Triumph of Capitalism

Socialism doesn’t protect the dignity of individual workers — the free market does.

We Should Call It ‘Economic Growth Day’

At best, organized labor ratified improvements in living standards that were already enabled by...

Trump wants the Postal Service to radically overhaul mail voting. But ballots are already going out.

President Donald Trump’s controversial demands for the Postal Service to overhaul and monitor millions of mail ballots hit another snag on Friday, when North...

Judge Rakoff and the Reference Manual

It’s natural to think oneself on the side of the angels.

On the Suppression of KSM’s Coerced Confessions in the 9/11 Case

Again the gnawing question: what to do about terrorists who should be executed when it may be impossible to try them?

Vance’s Scoreboard

It’s not clear to me that Vance’s statement is especially supportable.

Bernie’s Total and Complete Shutdown of Everything

AI is only the latest target of the senator’s hostility to innovation.

Trump’s Mail-In Ballot Rules Return to the Supreme Court — but the Actual Dispute Is Missing

The Court will be presented with a kabuki dispute over a power the USPS isn’t claiming, even after the president ordered it to claim...

Revolutionary Bloodlust, Ghoulish Satisfaction

Another senseless murder elicits a depraved reaction.

Lindsay Clancy Case: Judge Leans Toward Mistrial, Allows Defense to Appeal

After 40 hours of deliberation, the jury failed to reach a verdict, with one lone holdout in disagreement.

Catholic Health-Care Providers Sue Illinois over Physician-Assisted Suicide Law

‘As Catholics, we oppose efforts to undermine human dignity by pushing our brothers and sisters toward suicide,’ one plaintiff said.

Sen. Fetterman’s rivals smell blood after unflattering reporting

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman's potential 2028 Democratic primary challengers aim to take advantage of a Wall Street Journal article accusing him of ignoring his job duties.

Weaponization report: Richmond FBI ‘revolt’ followed rebuke over Catholic memo

July 2023 was a soul-searching month for the FBI's field office in Richmond, Virginia. The office's analysts didn't like the way the Washington headquarters treated them and would eventually need therapeutic counseling, a new Justice Department report says.

Trump says he will stop trade with certain countries if the Fed doesn’t lower interest rates

President Trump says the Federal Reserve must lower interest rates or else he will cut off trade with countries that sell a ton of goods to the U.S. but don't buy as much from American producers.

Ex-Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer contributed to ‘toxic’ work environment, says IG report

Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer ran a department where staff drank on duty, cried through public dressing-downs and were dispatched to organize her closet and pick up her dry cleaning, according to a new report from the Labor Department's Office of the Inspector General.

Trump casts his presidential legacy in gold and marble

President Trump is reshaping the White House and the nation's capital at a blistering pace, cementing a physical legacy as he faces his final years in power after dominating U.S. politics for a decade.

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