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If, somehow, Section 301 does authorize this action, it would violate the constitutional nondelegation doctrine, which limits delegation of legislative power to the executive. Tariffs are a specifically enumerated congressional power. While the Supreme Court’s nondelegation precedent is far from completely clear, last year’s decision in FCC v. Consumers’ Research held that delegations of the power to impose taxes and other financial levies must have a clear “floor” and “ceiling” and that “[t]he guidance needed is greater when an agency action will affect the entire national economy than when it addresses a narrow, technical issue” [quotation omitted]. There is no meaningful floor or ceiling under the administration’s approach to Section 301. And the power claimed is clearly one that massively affects the “entire national economy.”

Reason’s Veronique de Ruqy writes about Thomas Piketty.

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit released today said evidence was destroyed or went missing regarding the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos, a federal immigration detainee whose death a medical examiner later ruled a homicide by asphyxiation.

In a new piece for the Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch—author of a criminally misleading and data-torturing article about conscientiousness last year—suggests that “the most recent [birth rate] plunge appears connected with our use of technology.” He notes that in the past 15 years, birth rates have been falling “across different cultures and levels of economic development.” And what unites all these disparate countries? The use of smartphones, of course.

In a declaration filed in federal court, Leo Garcia Venegas said he was parking in front of his house in Silverhill, Alabama, on the morning of May 2 when an unmarked SUV blocked him in. Venegas claimed that before he could hand his Alabama-issued REAL ID to the two federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers who approached him, they pulled him out of the truck he was driving and handcuffed him.

In a declaration filed in federal court, Leo Garcia Venegas said he was parking in front of his house in Silverhill, Alabama, on the morning of May 2 when an unmarked SUV blocked him in. Venegas claimed that before he could hand his Alabama-issued REAL ID to the two federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers who approached him, they pulled him out of the truck he was driving and handcuffed him.

In a declaration filed in federal court, Leo Garcia Venegas said he was parking in front of his house in Silverhill, Alabama, on the morning of May 2 when an unmarked SUV blocked him in. Venegas claimed that before he could hand his Alabama-issued REAL ID to the two federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers who approached him, they pulled him out of the truck he was driving and handcuffed him.

The agents started yelling, Retes says. “Get the fuck out of here!” “Leave!” “Get back in your car!” “Pull over to the side!” “You’re not going to work.” “Work is closed.” Retes asked for a badge number that he could give to his boss when he didn’t show up on time. But that made the agents madder.

The agents started yelling, Retes says. “Get the fuck out of here!” “Leave!” “Get back in your car!” “Pull over to the side!” “You’re not going to work.” “Work is closed.” Retes asked for a badge number that he could give to his boss when he didn’t show up on time. But that made the agents madder.

As he was running for another term in the White House in 2024, President Donald Trump made it clear that he was not a fan of the government’s electronic spying powers contained within the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

As he was running for another term in the White House in 2024, President Donald Trump made it clear that he was not a fan of the government’s electronic spying powers contained within the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

if nothing else wee get power-grid capacity for EVs since oil is burning gas prices.

Rising campus conservative star Kai Schwemmer declares libertarianism his enemy.

The Trump administration’s plan to end drug cartels in Latin America is another interventionist boondoggle.

By the administration’s logic, Iowa is hurting Arizona by producing so much corn. This is a very silly way to think about economic policy.

The problem is not that the government collects too little. It’s that the government spends too much.

Federal officers at Camp East Montana have beaten people for requesting medicine and even placed bets on which detainee would attempt suicide next.

Bryan Getchius was arrested, jailed, and spent seven months on house arrest before eventually being cleared by official lab results.

The ban, which targets guns based on criteria that make little sense, seems vulnerable to a challenge under the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment precedents.

What happens if both political parties come to distrust the Court’s judgment?

The problem is not that the government collects too little. The problem is that the government spends too much.

Although the appendix listed 74 cases with 96 separate violations, Schiltz wrote that the “extent of ICE’s noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understated. This list is confined to orders issued since January 1, 2026, and the list was hurriedly compiled by extraordinarily busy judges.”

Not even 35 years after escaping Soviet-style central planning, Poland has become a capitalist success story.

Last academic year, DIY education grew at nearly three times the average rate it did during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research.