More Hypocrisy from the “Enforce the Law” Crowd
They claim the feds have to “enforce the law” unless it’s a policy they don’t support.
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Massive 2019 NDAA Signed, and Trump’s Signing Statement: Good Morning Liberty 08-15-18
On this episode of Good Morning Liberty, host Michael Boldin (follow) discusses the NDAA for 2019, signed this week by Pres. Trump. In a signing statement, the president referenced around 3 dozen sections as unconstitutional, but signed it anyway.
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Podcast: Cult of Personality
In this episode of Thoughts from Maharrey Head, I talk about how politics in America has devolved into a ridiculous cult of personality.
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People With Bad Constitutional Foundations End Up with Bad Constitutional Opinions
A lot of people seem to believe Pres. Donald Trump is some kind of limited government constitutionalist. He’s not.
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Constitutionally the President Can’t Make “Executive Agreements” with Other Countries
Pres. Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reached a preliminary agreement to “denuclearize the Korean peninsula” during a historic summit in Singapore. But pundits and talking heads have missed a crucial fact in the midst of all the analysis. The president cannot constitutionally make any kind of legally-binding agreement without the advice and consent of the Senate.
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Can the President Pardon Himself?
it would be different if the framers had used different language — e.g., “The President may pardon offenses.” But that’s not the language, and a textualist/originalist should take the language seriously.
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Trump’s Disastrous Syria Attack
Over the weekend, President Trump celebrated firing more than 100 missiles into Syria by Tweeting, “Mission Accomplished!” They say if you cannot learn from history you are condemned to repeat it. So I guess we are repeating it.
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The President and Syria, Again (Again)
To “declare war” in eighteenth-century terms included “declaring” by taking military action as well as by issuing a proclamation, and even relatively small armed conflicts with foreign nations were considered “war.”
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First the Budget, Then More Federal Gun Control
Today, Jeff Sessions issued a statement announcing that the DOJ is officially putting together regulations to ban bump stocks.
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