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The Claremont Institute tried to respond to critics of faculty member John Eastman and fell flat on its face.

Federal Judge Knocks Down “The Resistance” on CFPB Power Grab Updated November 29, 2017 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was created by the Obama Administration under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The CFPB was designed to be independent of government: it didn’t depend on Congress for funding—it could extract funds directly from the Federal Reserve. And, though it was part of the Executive, the president had little control...

AP Photo/John Minchillo On Tuesday, the Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss the criminal complaint filed against defendant Christopher Kelly on January 20, 2021. Kelly was charged in connection with the January 6 protests on Capitol Hill. There are several issues worth commenting on here. First, Kelly has never been indicted by a grand jury even though there have been grand jury indictments handed down as soon as the week following the protests. Kelly was charged by way of a crimina...

AP Photo/Patrick Semansky More than five months have now passed since the January 6 protests, and the prosecution of hundreds of protesters in dozens of criminal cases filed in the District Court for the District of Columbia are well underway. Like many legal commentators on the conservative side, I expressed some reservations early on with regard to the stridency with which early criminal complaints filed in connection with some of the prosecutions described the events of January 6.  The desc...

The Harvard Law Record We live in a post-constitutional universe. We have been reversing course since the American Revolution when George Washington turned aside a crown in favor of a Republic and Thomas Paine preached in Common Sense: “For so in absolute governments the King is the law, so in free countries the law ought to be king.” The President of the United States is now crowned with vastly more unchecked power than the tyranny King George III exercised over our forefathers which p...

The process of reservation of seats will be decided afresh in the three-tier panchayat polls to be held in Uttar Pradesh, an official said on Tuesday. The state cabinet, at a meeting, gave its nod to promulgate the Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Raj (Reservation and Allotment of Places and Posts) (Twelfth Amendment) Rules, 2021, clearing the way for deciding the procedure of reservation of seats in line with a high court decision, a government spokesperson said. At a virtual meeting of the state ca...

News Analysis After more than a month, Mike Pence broke his silence on the events of Jan. 6, ...

What really happened on January 6 evening? At 2.24 pm on January 6, Trump had tweeted that then-vice president Mike Pence didnt have the courage to overturn the results of the presidential election. He tweeted: "Mike Pence didnt have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!".  It mu...

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Why the military should educate its members about the Constitution Chris Dalton February 10 National Guard Master Sgt. George Roachs holds up a pamphlet of the U.S. Constitution on Jan. 17, 2021, in Washington. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Every American service member takes an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States.” The oath is not to the country, the government, or the flag. It is to the Constitution. But precious few service members truly know what th...