Trump's Continuing Commentary on Criminal Cases Reflects His Disdain for the Rule of Law

After publicly criticizing President Donald Trump's habitual commentary on federal criminal cases, Attorney General William Barr reportedly is...

Bloomberg's Constitutionally Oblivious Gun Battles

Michael Bloomberg has been taking flak from progressives lately because of his longstanding, enthusiastic support for New York City's "stop, question,...

Michael Bloomberg's Constitutional Blinders

Michael Bloomberg has been taking flak from progressives lately because of his longstanding, enthusiastic support for New York City's "stop, question,...

American Heart Association Journal Finally Retracts Study Implying That E-Cigarettes Cause Heart Attacks Before People Use Them

Eight months after the Journal of the American Heart Association published a study implying that e-cigarettes magically cause heart attacks before...

Virginia's Thwarted 'Assault Firearm' Ban Illustrates the Folly of Trying to Distinguish Between Good and Evil Guns

Democrats in Virginia, after taking control of the state legislature last year, are delivering on their promise of new gun control laws. So far they...

Houston D.A. Doubles the Scope of Her Case Review Following a Deadly Drug Raid Based on a Phony Affidavit

Harris County District Judge Kelli Johnson last week declared Steven Mallet, who served 10 months in jail after he was arrested for selling crack...

Even Without Trump's Tweets, the Attorney General's Intervention on Roger Stone's Behalf Would Have Looked Bad

Is Attorney General William Barr defending the independence and integrity of the Justice Department, or is he just trying to quell the controversy...

The Government Says These Men Have No Recourse Against FBI Agents Who Used the 'No Fly' List To Punish Them

The FBI first approached Muhammad Tanvir, a permanent U.S. resident who was born in Pakistan, in February 2007, and asked him to inform on fellow...

Roger Stone Deserves a Lighter Sentence, but Not Because He Is Trump's Buddy

This week President Donald Trump and his appointees at the Justice Department intervened in the sentencing of Roger Stone, a longtime Trump crony who...

Tackling 'Very Unfair' Drug Penalties Could Help Trump Win

Donald Trump, who ran for president in 2016 on a "law and order" platform borrowed from Richard Nixon, is running for re-election as a criminal...

New Data Suggest Florida Cops Have Broad Power to Take Away People's Second Amendment Rights

A new report on Florida's "red flag" law claims Broward County's experience with gun confiscation orders confirms that they prevent suicides and...

6th Circuit: This Man Can Sue the Cop Who Arrested Him for Defending His Daughter Against a Feral Cat

After a neighbor called 911 and falsely reported that Dwain Barton had killed a cat, a local police officer charged through a screen door into the...

8 Months Later, This Journal Still Hasn't Corrected Its Study Implying That E-Cigarettes Magically Cause Heart Attacks Before People Use Them

E-cigarettes are so dangerous, according to a study published by the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA), that they can reach back in...

Did Republicans Buy the Argument That Impeachment Requires a Crime?

To no one's surprise, the Republican-controlled Senate voted today against removing President Donald Trump from office based on the articles of...

On Marijuana, Sanders Promises the Impossible, While Bloomberg Promises More of the Same

Michael Bloomberg, who as mayor of New York City presided over a dramatic surge in pot possession busts and last year called legalizing cannabis...

Good and Bad Reasons for Acquitting Trump

Marco Rubio's widely mocked justification for acquitting Donald Trump, which conspicuously avoided condemning or approving the president's conduct,...

Good and Bad Reasons for Acquitting Trump

Marco Rubio's widely mocked justification for acquitting Donald Trump, which conspicuously avoided condemning or approving the president's conduct,...

Judge Finds That the Houston Narcotics Officer Whose Lies Killed a Couple in 2019 Framed Another Suspect in 2008

When Houston narcotics officer Gerald Goines arrested Otis Mallet in 2008, he described a crack cocaine purchase in which Mallet retrieved the drug...

Does Trump's Super Bowl Ad Signal More Progress on Sentencing Reform?

Donald Trump's presidential campaign, like Michael Bloomberg's, sponsored a Super Bowl ad featuring a black woman. In Bloomberg's case, the woman was...

Michael Bloomberg's Claim About 'Children' Killed by 'Gun Violence' Is Off by 73%

Michael Bloomberg's Super Bowl ad, which presents the Democratic presidential contender as a brave advocate of public safety who is not afraid to take...

The Real Problem With Alan Dershowitz's Position on Quid Pro Quos and Impeachment

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, one of the attorneys representing Donald Trump in his Senate trial, complains that his critics are...

Does the Drop in Opioid-Related Deaths Mean the Crackdown on Pain Pills Is Finally Working?

Opioid-related deaths in the United States, which had been rising steadily since 1999, fell slightly in 2018, from 47,600 to 46,802, according to the...

DOJ Intervention Dramatically, Irrationally, and Unconstitutionally Increases the Penalty Faced by a Woman Accused of Slapping Jews

Over the course of eight minutes early in the morning on December 27, according to a federal indictment unsealed yesterday, a 30-year-old woman named...

Republican Senators Say the Truth Is Irrelevant in Evaluating the Gravity of Trump's Misconduct

Donald Trump's lawyers have vigorously disputed the facts alleged in the articles of impeachment against him. But their fallback, bottom-line...

Virginia's Pending 'Red Flag' Law Includes Improvements but Still Falls Short of Due Process

The Virginia legislature is on the verge of approving a bill that would authorize court orders prohibiting people from possessing firearms when they...

Panic About Peaceful Protest Reveals Gun Controllers' Bigotry

After a gun rights rally in Richmond came and went last week without the "violence, rioting, and insurrection" predicted by Virginia Gov. Ralph...

Panic About Peaceful Protest Reveals Gun Controllers' Bigotry: Erroneous Predictions of Violence at the Richmond Rally Conflated Civil Libertarians With Militant Racists

After a gun rights rally in Richmond came and went last week without the "violence, rioting, and insurrection" predicted by Virginia Gov. Ralph...

If Investigating Joe Biden Was Perfectly Legitimate, Why Deny a Quid Pro Quo?

In his upcoming memoir, The New York Times reports, former National Security Adviser John Bolton says Donald Trump explicitly drew a connection...

Trump Lawyer Alan Dershowitz Abandons His Position That Impeachment Requires a Crime

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, a member of Donald Trump's legal team who has argued that "abuse of power" and "obstruction of Congress"...

Why Do Critics of Harsh Drug Penalties Support Them When the Drug Is Fentanyl?

People Rarely Die After Using Opioids Prescribed for Them

Although prescription pain medication is commonly blamed for the "opioid epidemic," such drugs play a small and shrinking role in deaths involving...

The Senate Can (but Probably Won't) Fill the Gaps in the Case for a Ukraine Quid Pro Quo

Donald Trump's lawyers argue that the Senate should insist on proof beyond a reasonable doubt in deciding whether to convict him of the charges...

Donald Trump's Costanza Defense

"Was that wrong?" George Costanza asks in a 1991 episode of Seinfeld after his boss confronts him with a report that "you and the cleaning woman have...

Colorado Judge Rejects Petition for a Gun Confiscation Order Against a Police Officer

A Colorado judge yesterday rejected a woman's petition for a court order that would disarm the police officer who killed her son in 2017—a shooting...

Does Letting Police Enter Your House Give Them Permission To Wreck It?

When Shaniz West agreed to let police enter her house so they could arrest her former boyfriend, she had no idea she was consenting to a barrage of...

Grand Jury Backs Murder Charges Against Houston Cop Who Lied to Justify a Deadly Drug Raid

"Because officers lied, people died," Harris County, Texas, District Attorney Kim Ogg said today at a press conference where she announced a grand...

New CDC Report Highlights the Risks of Black-Market THC Vapes

According to a new report on the sources of cannabis products used by patients with vaping-related lung injuries, 84 percent said they had obtained...

War Worries Transcend Trump

Matt Gaetz's campaign website features press quotes describing the Florida Republican as "Trump's best buddy," "Trump's ultimate defender," and "the...

War Worries Transcend Trump: Even the President's Buddies Understand the Threat Posed by the Unconstrained Use of Military Force

Matt Gaetz's campaign website features press quotes describing the Florida Republican as "Trump's best buddy," "Trump's ultimate defender," and "the...

Dismissing Her Political Opponents As Mentally Ill, Yale Psychiatrist Diagnoses Alan Dershowitz

Yale forensic psychiatrist Bandy Lee, who famously diagnosed Donald Trump with narcissistic personality disorder, is now suggesting that Harvard law...

How Truth Became a Casualty of the War on Smoking

The Rediscovery of Tobacco: Smoking, Vaping, and the Creative Destruction of the Cigarette , by Jacob Grier, Kindle Direct, 267 pages, $14.99 The...

Rudy Giuliani Wants the Supreme Court To Nullify Trump's 'Unconstitutional' Impeachment

Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's personal lawyer, argues in a Daily Caller column that the Supreme Court should block the president's Senate trial by...

New Mexico Medical Marijuana Supplier Wins First Amendment Challenge to the State Fair's Absurdly Broad Censorship

New Mexico officials have agreed to settle a First Amendment lawsuit challenging ridiculously broad and picayune restrictions on a medical marijuana...

New Evidence From Canada and the U.S. Suggests That Legalizing Marijuana Leads to Less Drinking

One of the most important issues for people worried about the consequences of marijuana legalization is the extent to which cannabis serves as a...

Are We Experiencing a Nationwide 'Anti-Semitism Crisis'?

"We're facing an anti-Semitism crisis, and not just in this city," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio declared on Sunday. "It's happening across our...

Are We Experiencing a Nationwide 'Anti-Semitism Crisis'? Hate Crime Data Suggest That Claim Is Overblown

"We're facing an anti-Semitism crisis, and not just in this city," New York Mayor Bill de Blasio declared on Sunday. "It's happening across our...

Who Poses the Greater Threat to Peace: An Impetuous President or 'Experienced Advisers' Who Are Disastrously Wrong?

"The moment we all feared is likely upon us," Sen. Chris Murphy (D–Conn.) warned after the American drone attack that killed Iranian military...

Fiscal Analysis of Colorado's New 'Red Flag' Law Assumes Gun Confiscation Orders Will Be Granted 95% of the Time

The Colorado legislature's official fiscal analysis of that state's new "red flag" law, which took effect this week, projects that police and "family...

FDA Announces Ban on Flavored E-Cigarette Cartridges, Exempting E-Liquids Used in Refillable Vapes

Today the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officially announced its new restrictions on flavored e-cigarettes. As expected, the policy applies to...

Although Cannabis Consumers Who Own Firearms Are Federal Felons, Illinois Says They Can Keep Their Guns

Cannabis consumers in Illinois, where state-licensed marijuana dispensaries started serving recreational customers yesterday, will pay more in taxes...