2016 Election

President Trump says he wants to “totally destroy” the Johnson Amendment, the provision that denies § 501(c)(3) status to organizations that intervene in campaigns for public office. His comments come one day after two House Republicans introduced the Free…

The banner ad on NYTimes.com is for tickets to Hamilton on Broadway, but the banner headline below makes me think that Thomas Jefferson is the Founding Father whose words are most relevant to our moment:

“Were not this great country already divided into states…

My last post suggested that a campaign contribution to your preferred presidential candidate is a very good investment even though the chance of your money changing the result of the election is very small. The argument relies on the…

In proposing an immediate deduction for business investment, Trump has adopted a play-action fake from the Republican playbook. (Er, I sure hope I got the sports metaphor right.) Trump made the proposal in one line of his Detroit economic speech from last week, and it doesn’t even…

Tim Kaine has been hitting Donald Trump hard for failing to release his tax returns — and fairly so. From Kaine’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention last night:

[D]oes anyone here believe that Donald Trump’s been paying his fair…

President Obama endorsed Hillary Clinton today and said: “I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office.” I’m as much of a Hillary supporter as the next left-of-center law professor in line but . . . really…

A central premise in administrative law is that federal judges lack the democratic legitimacy of executive branch officials. As Justice Scalia put it in City of Arlington v. FCC, “unelected . . . federal judges” are “even less…

The betting website PredictIt now puts the odds of Donald Trump winning the White House this November at 22%. I don’t think that estimate is too far off: Trump…