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The Supreme Court’s Unanimous Religious Freedom Ruling Explained 0
- CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court
- June 20, 2025
The media claim that there is a firm 6-3 Supreme Court is untrue, as demonstrated by this freedom of religion case.
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Denver’s budget mess—the cost of “progressive” policies 0
- CONSTITUTION, TABOR
- June 16, 2025
Here’s the political lesson, Colorado: Socialist and other leftist policies screw things up. Free market policies make life good. It seems to be a law of nature, like gravitation.
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SCOTUS Nixes Discrimination Against Heterosexuals and White Males 0
- CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court
- June 16, 2025
The Supreme Court ruled against requiring members of “majority groups” to bear a higher burden to prove illegal discrimination.
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Are President Trump’s Tariff Orders Constitutional?0
- CONSTITUTION
- June 13, 2025
The fundamental problem with the President’s tariff orders is not that he interpreted the law too expansively. It is that the law may be unconstitutional.
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The Supreme Court’s ‘Ghost Gun’ Case: Judicial Amendment by ‘Interpretation’0
- CONSTITUTION, Supreme Court
- June 12, 2025
Courts and commentators sometimes try to change a law by adopting unusual methods of intepretation
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House Bill 1335: Colorado’s sweetheart tax credits breaking the bank 0
- FISCAL
- June 9, 2025
Governor Polis recently signed into law a Joint Budget Committee (JBC) sponsored bill that changes the availability of two of the state’s most significant tax credits. House Bill 25-1335 was prompted by a pair of cautious forecasts conducted by the Legislative Council Staff (LCS) and the Governor’s Office of State Planning and Budgeting (OSPB) in
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