Tag: Rule of law
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White House Preservation Laws and Regulations: How They’re Applied
The White House preservation framework has evolved from crisis-driven interventions (Truman) to institutionalized protection (Kennedy) to ongoing debates about presidential authority versus historical stewardship (Trump ballroom).
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Trump’s Federal Prosecutions: An Unprecedented Legal Confrontation
The federal prosecutions of Donald Trump represented the most significant test of presidential accountability in American history, yet concluded without resolution of the underlying legal questions.
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Driscoll, Jr. et al. v. Patel et al.
Summary of the court case Driscoll, Jr. et al. v. Patel et al. (filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, September 2025).
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Trump’s Executive Power Deconstruction
The assertion that decades of bipartisan executive orders created an authoritarian control mechanism fundamentally misrepresents how U.S. emergency powers actually work. While these authorities are substantial and raise legitimate constitutional concerns, they operate within legal boundaries established by Congress and subject to judicial review – not as tools for overriding other branches of government.
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For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump
Three prominent attorneys call on the legal profession to defend the Constitution and the rule of law by resisting President Trump’s executive orders targeting law firms that have opposed him.
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Trump’s Fate Belongs in the Hands of 12 Ordinary Citizens
This article, penned by Jesse Wegman on August 27, 2023, for The New York Times, delves into the significance of the jury system in the American democratic process.
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Power of Kansas cities to take property may be expanded
A bill working its way through the Kansas Legislature will give cities additional means to seize property.
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Rebuilding liberty without permission
A forthcoming book by Charles Murray holds an intriguing idea as to how Americans can reassert liberty: Civil disobedience. Make the federal government an “insurable hazard.”
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For Wichita’s Longwell, flipping in the face of an election
Campaign season provides an opportunity to see just how malleable candidates’ positions can be, leaving us to wonder if some have any firm and guiding principles.
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Who decides? When it comes to planning, is it the people, the politicians, or the bureaucrats?
I firmly believe that local government’s role is to provide a firm rule of law where there is a level playing field in it with clear rules for everyone to build their future for themselves and their families. This is the very limited role of government for a free people in a liberty loving society,…
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Blubaugh, Mayor vote for licenses for undocumented workers to drive to their illegal jobs
The Wichita city council voted to recommend that the Kansas Legislature create drivers permits for undocumented workers so they could drive to their jobs.
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The Overcriminalization of America
Overcriminalization has led to the mass incarceration of those ensnared by our criminal justice system, even though such imprisonment does not always enhance public safety, write Charles G. Koch and Mark V. Holden.