The pardon power should not be used to enable criminal enterprise
Lexington Herald-Leader· 4 days agoThe flurry of Trump pardons has begun. The pardon power must be reinterpreted to prohibit pardon of...
Perspective | No, the Constitution does not allow President Trump to pardon himself
Washington Post· 2 days agoIn fact, such an action would erode foundational legal principles in our republican form of...
Political Scientists Turned a Blind Eye to America’s Democratic Failures
Foreign Policy Magazine· 21 hours agoSuch events do not fit neatly into the categories that conventional political science long used to...
Petitions of the week: Three Second Amendment petitions and a Wiretap Act claim against Facebook -...
SCOTUSblog· 3 days agoThis week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether Facebook plug-ins violate the Wiretap Act and whether the Second Amendment protects ...
Oura Lee Swart
The Times-Journal· 7 hours agoOura Lee Swart was born on 14 June 1936, in the family home on the Northwest Kansas wheat and cattle farm as the 13th of 14 children born to his parents,...
My view: Bringing Truth to our high school
Portland Tribune· 6 days agoOne name stands out on the list of five put forward by the Woodrow Wilson High School renaming committee. The task is finding a name that will endure and...
Prosecutions of "sedition" are rare. That doesn't mean Trump rioters are off the hook.
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This day in history, January 14: President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign...
Chicago Tribune· 5 days agoAlmanacs are full of lists of global and national historic events. But “This Day in History” feature...
This day in history, January 13: Air Florida 737 crashes into Washington, D.C.’s 14th Street Bridge
Chicago Tribune· 6 days agoAlmanacs are full of lists of global and national historic events. But “This Day in History” feature...
Opinion/Payne: Grateful for American federalism
The Providence Journal· 3 days agoIsland Senate. When the president and his team put pressure on certain state election officials to get a favorable outcome, the state officials responded politely and honorably: we cannot accede ...