When she was a member of the House of Representatives, Tulsi Gabbard was a fierce defender of personal privacy rights protected by the Fourth Amendment. She consistently opposed permitting federal agents to spy on Americans without search warrants, and she consistently voted against the ...
Luck, the saying goes, is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. That's good luck. What about bad luck? It's the opposite. Bad luck is what happens when lack of preparation meets an ongoing threat. We're watching this play out now as fires tragically turn large swaths of Los ...
Donald J. Trump will be taking the oath of office as the president of the United States on Monday. The newly elected president will take his oath in front of the people. This is the oath that the Constitution of the United States in Article 2 of Section 1 stipulates: “I do solemnly swear (or ...
Something happened in America on Jan. 6 that was remarkable among nations. I am not referring to Jan. 6, 2021, which was not remarkable in many nations of the world where peaceful transfers of power do not happen. I am referring to Jan. 6, 2025, when a presidential candidate who lost an ...
"Donald Trump will be a tyrant!" So my neighbors claim. I live in Manhattan. Feel for me. Yes, Trump says wild things, like riffing about "terminating" parts of the U.S. Constitution. But I don't think he means it. As Joe Rogan said to Trump when candidate Trump came on his show, "You say a ...
The Supreme Court's narrow vote to permit a New York state judge to formally pronounce a practically meaningless sentence on Donald Trump pursuant to a jury verdict convicting him of 34 felonies was hailed by some as promising news, that there remain institutional guardrails constraining the ...
