Freedom of Speech Doesn’t Mean What Trump’s Lawyers Want It to Mean
The First Amendment does not limit the removal and disqualification powers conferred on Congress by the Constitution.
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How One Supreme Court Decision Increased Discrimination Against LGBTQ Couples
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Lots of People Are Disqualified From Becoming President
Prohibiting Trump from running again is no outlandish measure, but an expressly constitutional remedy.
To Try a President
Should Richard Nixon have faced criminal prosecution? A never-before-published article from 1974, written by a leading legal scholar, offers answers that speak to the present.
Employers’ Vaccine Mandates Are Representative of America’s Failed Approach to Public Health
We can’t rely on the private sector to protect the common good.
The Great Free-Speech Reversal
Liberals once believed that private corporations have far too much power over the flow of ideas and information in today’s society. Now it’s conservatives who are worried.
The Senate Trial Will Test Whether Republicans Care Even About Themselves
The whole American government is premised on the idea that politicians will act in their own interests. A Senate that won’t protect itself from attack can’t protect the country.
Don’t Move On Just Yet
Could a truth and reconciliation commission help the country heal?
America Desperately Needs a New Age of Moral Leadership
Following Trump’s intensely polarizing presidency, Biden’s message of decency, truth, constitutional integrity, and care for one another is more imperative than ever.
How to Break the Demagogue Cycle
The Senate must convict Trump in order to disqualify him from ever holding public office again.