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Maybe deficits do matter after all | Bruce Ledewitz
What lesson should Democrats learn from their shellacking on Nov. 2? As observers noted, losses by the party in power often follow in off-year
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America won’t find God. But we might find something else | Bruce Ledewitz
Ross Douthat does not understand the meaning of the Death of God. Bruce Ledewitz (Capital-Star file) The New York Times columnist recently wrote a
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What to do about the coming crisis in the Rule of Law | Bruce Ledewitz
The Association of American Law Schools—known by all law professors as the AALS—is holding a conference in May to propose reforms suggested by
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Lawmakers, Wolf need to clarify Pa.’s mail-in voting law before 2022 | Bruce Ledewitz
Here’s a scenario you never saw coming. Bruce Ledewitz (Capital-Star file) U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-16th District, might have won his post-2020
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We have to defeat the myth of the stolen election. We risk destroying our democracy if we don’t | Bruce Ledewitz
House Impeachment managers called it The Big Lie. The insurrection on Jan. 6 was a response to it. Former President Donald Trump promoted it
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The San Francisco school board’s vote removing Lincoln’s, Washington’s names was was wrong. Here’s why | Bruce Ledewitz
On Jan. 26, the San Francisco Board of Education voted 6-1 to rename 44 schools, removing many historical names, including George Washington and
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Pa. Senate Republicans need to seat Sen. Jim Brewster | Bruce Ledewitz
The refusal of the state Senate’s Republican majority to seat Democrat Jim Brewster after his election victory in the 45th District makes no legal
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What will a post-Trump U.S. Supreme Court look like? It might not be all that bad for liberals | Bruce Ledewitz
Liberals have reason to be wary of the conservative, six-justice majority that now dominates the U.S. Supreme Court. Bruce Ledewitz (Capital-Star
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The Electoral College is dangerously vulnerable to manipulation. It’s time to fix it | Bruce Ledewitz
This must be the worst moment in American history to propose reforming the Electoral College rather than abolishing it. Bruce Ledewitz (Capital-Star
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We need independent judicial review. We don’t need the filibuster. Let’s get rid of it | Bruce Ledewitz
It may seem inconsistent that someone like me, who strongly opposes court packing, to urge the abolition of the filibuster in the Senate. Bruce
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The one religious question that Amy Coney Barrett shouldn’t have to answer | Bruce Ledewitz
Why would it be religious bigotry to ask Judge Amy Barrett about her religious commitments at her Supreme Court confirmation hearings? Bruce Ledewitz
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McConnell’s lust to control the Supreme Court could destroy it | Bruce Ledewitz
When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016, it was early a presidential election year. As history records, President Barack
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Political tribalism is trumping accountability. That’s bad for democracy | Bruce Ledewitz
The term “one-issue voter” is outdated. Bruce Ledewitz (Capital-Star file) It used to refer to voters who cared so much about an issue that they
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N.Y.’s James is right to go after the NRA for fraud and malfeasance. Seeking to dissolve it is a step too far | Bruce Ledewitz
The remedy of dissolution sought in a lawsuit by New York Attorney General Letitia James against the National Rifle Association is one of the gravest