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[ad_1] Jonathan Goldstein, Adjunct Professor at University of Pennsylvania Law School, has published a comprehensive analysis of the power of Congress to “grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water,” U.S. Const., Art. I, § 8, cl. 11.  Historically, this meant that private citizens could possess cannon and ships and could wage war at sea on enemies approved by Congress. “You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed,” President Joe Biden quipped in 2022.  Well, actually you could, and you still can.  Cannon were never restricted until included in the…

[ad_1] The Trump administration should have stood its ground in its earlier effort to zero out the failed Great Society program. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The perverse incentives for presidents to use military force. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Why Much of America Soured on Israel [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] How Occupy Wall Street Explains Politics Today [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] AstraZeneca can’t be held liable for injuries sustained by a woman who participated in the drugmaker’s COVID-19 vaccine trial, a federal appeals court ruled last week. However, it will be up to a lower court to decide if the company waived its legal immunity by having trial participants sign a consent form promising the drugmaker would pay participants’ medical expenses if the vaccine caused injury or illness. AstraZeneca can’t be held liable for injuries sustained by a woman who participated in the drugmaker’s COVID-19 vaccine trial, a federal appeals court ruled last week. However, it will be up to a lower court…

[ad_1] The second Trump Administration has pursued an aggressive deregulatory agenda, with a particular focus on environmental regulation. From day one the Administration has sought to roll back regulatory burdens and curtail the regulatory reach of administrative agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency in particular. With a few notable exceptions, these deregulatory efforts have relied upon presidential unilateralism–a combination of executive orders, presidential directives, and agency actions that lack legislative support. In this regard, the Trump Administration has built upon–and dialed up– the degree of presidential unilateralism we have come to expect in the twenty-first century. One consequence of this approach…

[ad_1] Third party/independent trial balloon season started three months early last Wednesday when the popular conspiratorial podcaster Tucker Carlson released his 10 principles for saving America, right after having been urged by a group of MAGA exiles—including Rep. Thomas Massie (R—Ky.) and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R–Ga.)—to run for president. “Both parties have colluded against the population to make their lives better and our lives worse,” Carlson said, sounding very much like the guy who told the Columbia Journalism Review last month that “there’s going to be a third party, and I’m going to do everything I can to…

[ad_1] Paramount Skydance is escalating its legal battle with California. CEO David Ellison has threatened to move the company’s operations in the Golden State to a more friendly locale unless the state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, agrees to settle its antitrust lawsuit challenging Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc., by the start of October, Puck reported on Tuesday. As part of the reshuffle, Paramount would move its Los Angeles headquarters first, before beginning a five-year plan to relocate its studio jobs. The company currently has about 17,600 employees worldwide, thousands of whom are based in California. Those…

[ad_1] Jake Johnson Common Dreams Peggy Flanagan, Minnesota’s lieutenant governor, won her state’s Democratic primary for the US Senate on Tuesday by an overwhelming margin, defeating US Rep. Angie Craig and outside groups that spent tens of millions of dollars trying to influence the race. “For months now, I have been telling you that this campaign was about the many vs. the money,” Flanagan said in her victory speech. “Well, guess what? The many just won.” Flanagan’s platform includes Medicare for All, expanding Social Security, and dismantling Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after federal agents unleashed by the Trump administration killed two people in Minnesota earlier this year. Flanagan was…