Constitution
Walz’s gun control plan would likely face constitutional challenges
Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz announced on Tuesday plans to hold a special legislative session to introduce new statewide gun control measures, including a ban on "assault weapons." This comes in the wake of…
Who is America?
I take on the most critical question facing the United States today: for whose benefit is the nation being governed? Who should it be? For my answer, I go back to the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, which begins with the…
RFK Jr.’s wild week
This week, editors Katherine Mangu-Ward and Matt Welch are joined by Senior Producer Zach Weissmueller and Senior Editor Robby Soave to unpack RFK Jr.'s tumultuous week at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
On fighting crime with the National Guard, Trump says, he can do ‘anything I want to do’
Testifying in favor of the National Firearms Act in 1934, Attorney General Homer S. Cummings readily conceded that the federal government had "no inherent police powers to go into certain localities and deal with local…
Spare Your Country’s Flag | Power Line
President Trump’s executive order on flag burning has re-ignited an old debate. Conservatives tend to be outraged by symbolic destruction of the flag for political purposes, while liberals defend, if they don’t actually revel…
Is this the Supreme Court’s next big abortion case?
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected an effort by anti-abortion activists to rescind the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, holding that the activists…
Minnesota Can’t Discriminate Against Religious Schools
A federal judge Friday struck down a Minnesota law barring colleges that require statements of faith from a state-funded program. U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel said the law, signed by then-Gov. Tim Walz in 2023,…
Is gay marriage really under threat at the Supreme Court?
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered some stark words of warning this week about the prospects of same-sex marriage surviving over the long term as a constitutional right. "The Supreme Court will hear a…
Trump’s D.C. goon squads are un-American
When President Donald Trump first declared a crime emergency in the nation's capital and sent hundreds of federal law enforcement agents to patrol its streets, this district resident had a hard time taking it too…
Do cops still need a warrant to search your home in an ’emergency’?
You're probably familiar with the old adage that "a man's home is his castle." It's the idea that agents of the state may not lawfully enter your home uninvited for any reason that suits them; rather,…
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