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Greg Weiner is a contributing editor of Law and Liberty, associate professor of political science at Assumption College, and most recently the author of American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He tweets at @GregWeiner1.
The Emoluments Folly
Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC. Oct. 6, 2016 (W. Scott McGill / Shutterstock.com)Restoring Judicial Impeachment
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Still from The Sandlot (Twentieth Century Fox)Greg Weiner Responds to His Critics
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 20: U.S. President Donald Trump celebrates Congress passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on the South Lawn of the White House. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)More Responses
Trump’s biggest triumphs for liberty are in the area of regulation and taxes.
If there were a Cult of Trump, his supporters wouldn't criticize him. They do--oftener and in more serious ways than George W. Bush's fans criticized him.
Those who fear that the good ideas Trump champions will be tainted by his unsavory character are not thinking politically.
The Constitutionalism of Caprice
The Price of Trump: Year One Reflections on an Unconventional Presidency
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 20: U.S. President Donald Trump celebrates Congress passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on the South Lawn of the White House. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Responses
Trump’s biggest triumphs for liberty are in the area of regulation and taxes.
If there were a Cult of Trump, his supporters wouldn't criticize him. They do--oftener and in more serious ways than George W. Bush's fans criticized him.
Those who fear that the good ideas Trump champions will be tainted by his unsavory character are not thinking politically.
Nothing about Trump's lying or vulgarity has contributed to his policy successes.
The Art of the Constitutional Body Check
President Trump, whose reflex for pugnacity has its uses, threw a vicious and entirely fair constitutional body check when he named OMB Director Mick Mulvaney acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It is exactly how constitutional conflicts are supposed to be resolved: power checking power.
Publius’ Conservative Values
Late last month, constitutionalists marked the publication 230 years ago of Federalist 1 with reveries about Publius’ call for Americans to rise to the occasion and show the world that governments could be founded on “reflection and choice” rather than “accident and force.”
Campaign Reform and the Purpose of the First Amendment
A commemoration of the Constitution calls for impertinent arguments. Mine is this: Our campaign-finance regime ought to be as unregulated as possible, but not for the reasons commonly supposed.
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