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Congress
Posted inLaw and Justice
The CFPB Ruling Strikes a Blow for Governing
Instead of giving in to cynicism, Congress created an agency to protect consumers. The Supreme Court declined to overrule it.
Posted inTAP
This Week on ‘Ask the Supremes’: Do Menendez and Cuellar Have Congressional Immunity?
Today on TAP: If there’s presidential immunity, why not congressional?
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Real Entitlement Crisis: Good Reporting Is in Short Supply
The preferred journals of the power elite peddle the myth of pending Social Security catastrophe, which is catastrophically wrong.
Posted inPolitics
Money Misses the Mark in Maryland
Despite spending $62 million of his own fortune on the Democratic Senate primary, Rep. David Trone lost last night to county executive Angela Alsobrooks.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Republican Court Rulings Keep Helping Republicans Win Elections
A redistricting case from Louisiana that could get resolved today illustrates the way conservative judges handle voting rights cases with their thumbs on the scale.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Is Denis McDonough a Slow Reader?
The VA secretary’s professed ignorance about a report he commissioned describing an ‘existential threat’ to his agency is alarming.
Posted inPolitics
Will Maryland’s Democrats Pick a Corporate Monopolist as Their Senate Candidate?
They’ll let us know by Tuesday night (unless the count takes longer).
Posted inPolitics
AIPAC Running Field Organizing in Maryland House Race
Paid ads for Sarah Kelly Elfreth are just the tip of the iceberg in Maryland’s Third Congressional District.
