…Obviously not. Rather, the fundamental difference in a republic is that the law-giver(s) are himself (themselves) made subject by other office-holders to the laws that they enact or enforce both…

…Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson On this day in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law a new tax law to help fund the United States government during…

…$54,220 for the top 1 percent — and $220,310 for the top one-tenth of 1 percent. The 2017 tax law also widens racial disparities in after-tax income. The law cut…

…medical records is easy for criminal hackers. But obtaining them legally remains a difficult or even impossible task for patients, even though both hospitals and physicians are required by law…

…more fundamental guarantor of prosperity, the rule of law. In Hungary and Russia, the rule of law has been bent and broken, to the benefit of the few, and to…

…elimination. California, perhaps the leader in the anti-plastics crusade, enacted a second bag ban in November to close a loophole in the state’s first such law in 2014. The earlier law made…

…Senate? Since he can’t be impeached and convicted, which requires 2/3’s of the Senate, and as of last July per the Supreme Court he is above the criminal law in…

…the tracks. Read the whole thing. Full disclosure: My wife’s cousin is working at Berkeley now. Fortunately, she’s not at the Law School, or I would worry for her reputation….

…say whether it agrees. The co-chairmen of a bipartisan study group have proposed legislation that would require the president to consult lawmakers before initiating combat lasting longer than a week,…

…of the Constitution is a pre-Civil War, and therefore pre-Reconstruction Amendments, construct. It should be recognized for the machination of constitutional law that it is. So much of Conservative Movement…