Judge David Carter rightly rejected a Department of Justice bid to halt California ballots, refusing to let executive overreach substitute administrative whim for statutory command.
The federal government manufactured an eleventh-hour crisis to upend California's election, but an appellate panel properly insisted that procedural rules still apply.
By threatening local officials over flawed voter lists, Bill Essayli and federal prosecutors are using fear to sabotage democratic participation before midterms.
The sheer scale of it—the $110 billion proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount Skydance—is staggering, a monument to the latest wave of media consolidation.
The modern American media landscape is proving that even storied institutions—Paramount, Warner Bros., and the state attorneys general themselves—are incapable of separating…
The core promise of any functioning democracy is that its institutions exist to support its citizens, not to police them into submission. Yet, what we are seeing in Washington suggests otherwise.