Donnie has always been a lunatic
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In a first-of-its-kind resolution under the New York Voting Rights Act, Newburgh, NY will use proportional ranked choice voting to elect its Town Council.
Read more ⬇️ #RankedChoiceVoting
“The death penalty is increasingly used not as a punishment for the ‘worst of the worst,’ but as a pretrial pressure mechanism to keep defendants jailed for years and force them into submission.” @foxmike90.bsky.social @cato.org #law
I will miss Kristi Noem's inimitable constitutional insights, as when, asked by Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H. at a Senate hearing to define "habeas corpus," she replied, "Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."
24 states led by Oregon just filed first lawsuit challenging Trump's massive and illegal Section 122 tariffs. See my post for more, including why lawsuit deserves to prevail: reason.com/volokh/2026/...
According to election administrators and investigators, confirmed cases of unlawful voting are vanishingly rare. In a new Cato Podcast episode, Walter Olson and Stephen Richer explore how voter roll audits work and what the evidence reveals about the scale of the problem.
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“we do not believe this action is legally sound, and we see no choice but to challenge it in court.”
Florida Gov. DeSantis issued an order barring Muslim advocacy group CAIR or "any person known to have provided material support or resources" to CAIR from receiving any contract or benefit from Florida state or local governments. A court just struck that down, notes Eugene Volokh, who concurs.
President Trump "may soon deputize banks as immigration agents....to force banks to collect citizenship information from customers, new and old.
"In other words, your bank may soon call asking you to show your papers if this executive order goes through." [@David_J_Bier and Nick Anthony, Cato]
"We enact criminal laws that make victims out of the very people they are enacted to save."
Matthew P. Cavedon, Director of Cato's Project on Criminal Justice, on the cruel compassion of American criminal law.
Some Maryland lawmakers are intent on strengthening further the state's certificate-of-need (CON) laws in health care, even though the harmful effects of these laws on consumers are well documented. Maryland already has some of the nation's worst and most anti-competitive CON laws.
My thoughts on today's US Court of International Trade ruling ordering refunds of all IEEPA tariffs ruled illegal by Supreme Court in Learning Resources decision: reason.com/volokh/2026/...
Ballot security is a good thing, but unlawful voting Is a tiny problem in America today. New Cato podcast with me and colleague Stephen Richer, former Maricopa County recorder, on why MAGA claims of substantial voting fraud -- impersonation, non-citizen, or whatever -- keep not panning out.
“Ice St.” and “W. All Saints St.” signs at intersection in Frederick, Maryland.
ICE gets crosswise with All Saints (Frederick, Maryland).
Trump funding cutoffs often blatantly target opponents, or even whole states that voted against him. Even while losing scads of cases, he's "proceeded undeterred," returning again and again to the theme that his adversaries aren't entitled to the services of the federal government they pay taxes to.
"The law firm community is now on notice that the administration is fully prepared to deploy clearly unlawful strategies that cannot be sustained in the courts but will [nonetheless] achieve some part of the president’s purposes." Those purposes include chilling representation of his adversaries.
"legalizing share repurchases increased investment by 8.0–9.8 percent among public firms … [and] improved public companies’ access to equity capital." www.cato.org/blog/should-...
Cato Institute scholar Ilya Somin argues that the attack on Iran is clearly large enough to constitute a war. “That means it just as obviously requires congressional authorization. Trump didn’t get any—in fact, he did not even try to do so.”
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"Chagos amounts to one of those rare cases where Trump may break something that actually deserves to be broken." Well argued piece by David Frum👇 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
A female agent wearing a gaiter-style mask rolled down the window, leaned out — and addressed Emily by name.
"She yelled, 'Emily, Emily, we're going to take you home!' Then she looked at her phone and she recited my home address," she says.
"Maryland College Republicans hosting White Supremacist" [@briangriffiths.bsky.social, The Duckpin]
Congressional Democrats' proposals to rein in ICE and Border Patrol are fine as far as they go, but so long as they refuse to make federal agents accountable in court for unconstitutional conduct, "these 'reforms' remain mere suggestions" [@foxmike90.bsky.social, Cato]
On birthright citizenship, "the revisionist case is still wrong, and the conventional wisdom is still right. If one wants to defend the Trump executive order, one would be best served by arguing that the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment is not dispositive." [@kewhittington.bsky.social]
Raskin: “Based on what you know today, were Renée Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists?”
Noem: “There's ongoing investigations…I would think you would want there to still be investigations going into these situations.”
Raskin: “You stated [your] conclusion 2 hours after they were killed."
NEW: More evidence that those who tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election are working with Trump administration officials to set the rules for the 2026 midterms. @dougbockclark.bsky.social
New Democracy Summer initiative led by Wesleyan President MIchael Roth. (As a longtime member of the Wesleyan family through marriage, I've been inspired to see the college doing so much to meet the moment.)
