Jason Willick

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If the Treasury Department has to start choosing which bills to pay, its ability to pick winners and losers could end up putting pressure on the House GOP.

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Those charged with enforcing federal law seem to thrill at finding new ways to prosecute the politically unsympathetic. The Supreme Court is reining them in.

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A U.S. congressman recently floated an idea on how to deter China from invading Taiwan. It didn't go over well in Taipei.

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Americans have grown used to congressional gridlock, followed by presidential power-grabs. Democracy’s foremost institution, Congress, is becoming marginalized.

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Foisting a compliance bureaucracy on the justices has a sheen of ethical idealism, but this is ruthless politics, targeting a conservative court.

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A grim constant in Republican presidential politics is the persistence of the death penalty as an issue, even as its use has dramatically faded.

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The DOJ's use of the "obstruction of an official proceeding" statute invites the exercise of raw power. With luck, the Supreme Court will intervene.

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If state institutions start to appear ineffectual, the balance of power will tend to shift toward Washington.

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The phrase, now echoing in progressive circles, could be used to justify any prosecution, no matter how poorly predicated, selective or malicious.