A State Joined a Network. That Is Not the Same as Making a Treaty.
California joined a WHO network a day after the country left the WHO. The constitutional objection…
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Less Lethal Is a Category, Not a Rating
A pepper ball carries about thirteen joules. A sponge round carries up to two hundred and…
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The Oath That Counted Was the One Nobody Saw
Sworn in twice in thirteen hours, in an abandoned subway station and then before four thousand…
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Forty Years of a Doctrine the Court Had Already Stopped Using
Forty years of a doctrine that decided who reads an ambiguous statute, and the Court that…
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Two Formats, and the One That Was Abandoned Was Doing Something
Muted microphones, no audience, no notes, and commercial breaks. Every rule reversed something, and the body…
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Eighteen Counts Became One, and the One Is the Part That Lasts
Eighteen counts became one, with time served. Fourteen years of constraint were achieved before any prosecution…
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The Case Was About a Question on a Form, and the Form Is the Thing Worth Reading
Nearly every prohibited category on the federal gun form is documentary. Drug use is not, which…
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The Verdict Sheet Is Two Pages. Everything Difficult Starts Now.
A verdict is the end of a trial and the start of a longer process. What…
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The Tax Rate Is the Point, and Almost Nobody Is Talking About the Tax Rate
An effective federal tax rate above seventy percent, caused by one sentence written in 1982 that…
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The Speaker Was Saved by the Party He Does Not Lead
A speaker kept in place by opposition votes holds all the powers of the office on…