Can the President Pardon Himself?
Most presidential pardons — indeed all pardons that President Donald Trump has issued — have been for specific crimes of which the subject of the pardon has already been charged and convicted. Yet, Trump, never one to be restrained by precedent, has let it be hinted...
You Should Barely Know the Federal Government Exists
Thomas Jefferson called the Tenth Amendment “The foundation of the Constitution.” “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” This tells us the...
What’s Next? Nullify! And then Nullify Some More
This is last night’s Tenther newsletter, which everyone in the nullification movement gets daily or weekly. Be one of them. An elective despotism was not the government we fought for -Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1784) As I write this, it’s...