The MAGA Trump Right and the Greenwald Left want to undo Section 702, which must be renewed this year. Normies in both parties shouldn’t let them.
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Posted inLaw and Justice
Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices Solves a Lot of Problems
It eases the damage from the GOP’s stolen seats, assures an even distribution among presidents, and gives the geriatric court new blood.
Posted inPolitics
How Debt Ceiling Brinksmanship Jeopardizes U.S. Power
An American-created financial crisis would be a gift to autocrats everywhere.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Conservative Justices and the “Major Questions” Hustle
Conservative jurists demand “textualism” to get what they want, except when a statute’s words thwart their desired goal. But by using a new trick, they break their own rules. That’s how they blew up the EPA’s Clean Power Rule and may soon eviscerate Biden’s student loan relief.
Posted inPolitics
Thirteenth Amendment Abortion Rights and the Job of a Judge
Critics on the left and right pounced on a jurist for hearing arguments about whether the Civil War-era amendment provides a right to abortion. Here’s why they’re wrong.
Posted inPolitics
Joe Biden Broke His 2020 Pledge on Fracking. Good.
The president was right to promote fracking on public lands. The technique for extracting natural gas reduces reliance on dirty coal, builds a bridge to a renewable energy future, and hurts Putin.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
How to Stop the Drug Companies from Hiking Prices for Covid Vaccines
The drug companies got rich during the pandemic through massive government subsidies. Now, they want to raise the price of lifesaving treatment. Fostering competition could keep costs down.
Posted inPolitics
China’s War for Hearts and Minds
Far from being an unstoppable juggernaut, Beijing’s global media campaign to promote its interests has had uneven results. Consider China’s efforts to sway Malaysia.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
After the East Palestine, Ohio, Train Disaster, Why Approve More Rail Monopolies?
The accident highlights railroad consolidation just as a little-known agency considers a mammoth $31 billion merger.
Posted inPolitics
Pence to Trump: I Just Can’t Quit You
The special counsel demands that he testify but the former veep refuses—on dubious legal grounds—to fully break with the man who would have let him hang.
