Legislative Watch

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Title IX’s Failed Experiment: Why Accommodating Sex Differences Beats Engineered Parity

IntroductionIn 2024, a Tunisian man defeated a Chinese woman for the Olympic women’s boxing gold medal. The spectacle of a biological male pummeling a female athlete shocked many and led to renewed ca...

2026-07-06

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Case Closed? Judicial Watch Investigates Butler Assassination Attempt

In November, the FBI closed its investigation of the attempt by Thomas Crooks to kill President Trump at…The postCase Closed? Judicial Watch Investigates Butler Assassination Attemptappeared first onJ...

2026-07-06

Claremont Institute CRS & CBO Analysis 8/10 ?

The Spirit of (19)76

Many degrees, less patriotic.

2026-07-06

EveryCRSReport CRS & CBO Analysis 7/10 ?

Congressional Authority Over Elections: Key Constitutional Provisions, Federal Statutes, and Supreme Court Rulings

The Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 4, Clause 1) confers upon the states the initial and principal authority to administer "the times, places and manner" of congressional...

2026-07-07

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Proposed ESA Reforms Are Concessions, Not Fixes

Arizona lawmakers may soon be summoned back to the Capitol for a special session to consider a “grand bargain” on Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESAs). If so, they should put the interests of ESA f...

2026-07-06

Claremont Institute CRS & CBO Analysis 8/10 ?

The Future of America and the Claremont Contribution

Reporting from Claremont’s Publius fellowship, where rising young conservatives receive instruction on America’s founding principles from distinguished scholars, President Ryan P. Williams examines th...

2026-07-02

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Ninth Circuit Applies Limited First Amendment Exception to Doctrine of Consular Nonreviewability

On April 30, 2026, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuitissuedan opinion inGonzalez v.U.S.Department of Stateresolvingthe meritsof a constitutional challenge to a State Department d...

2026-07-07

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Restoring Obscenity Regulation in an Internet Age

IntroductionAmericans born after the mid-1990s have lived their entire lives in a world awash with hardcore pornography. Never has so much pornography been so available to so many at so little cost an...

2026-07-06

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Clean Air Act: EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and Repeal

The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Administrator to address pollutants and sources of air pollution "which, in his judgment, cause or contribute … to...

2026-07-07

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Supreme Court Rules Federal Gun Ban Unconstitutional as Applied to Marijuana User

Federal law prohibitsnine categories of individualsfrom possessing firearms or ammunition. One such prohibition,18U.S.C.§922(g)(3), forbids any person "who is an unlawful user of or addicted to anyco...

2026-07-07

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Nationwide Injunctions and Universal Judicial Relief One Year After Trump v. CASA

On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision inTrump v. CASA, Inc., 606 U.S. 831 (2025), imposing new legal limits onnationwideinjunctions—judicial orders that prevent the government f...

2026-07-07

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FY2027 Defense Budget: Funding for Selected Weapon Systems

The second Trump Administration's Department of Defense (DOD) budget request for FY2027 included $1.1 trillion in discretionary funding and $350.0 billion in mandatory funding. (DOD is "using a second...

2026-07-07

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South Sudan

May 1, 2015 – July 6, 2026IF10218 Peace has been elusive in South Sudan, which,with U.S. support, became the world's newest country in 2011. The civil war that erupted there in 2013 featured wides...

2026-07-06

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Trump v. Cook and For-Cause Removal of Federal Reserve Governors

On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court issued its opinion inTrump v. Cookaddressing the scope of astatute limiting the President's ability to removemembers of the Federal Reserve System Board of Governor...

2026-07-06

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Appropriations for Implementation of the Endangered Species Act Since FY2017

The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA;P.L. 93-205, 16 U.S.C. §§1531-1544) aims to conserve species listed as endangered or threatened under the act. Once a species is listed under the ESA, the act...

2026-07-06

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Agentic Artificial Intelligence and Cyberattacks

January 14, 2026 – July 6, 2026IF13151 Agenticmeans autonomous, or independent. Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities are of increasing interest to the U.S. military and to Congress. A...

2026-07-06

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HUD’s FY2025 Continuum of Care Program Competition

December 12, 2025 – July 6, 2026IN12626 The Continuum of Care (CoC) program, administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), is the largest federal grant specifically t...

2026-07-06

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Marriage Penalties and Bonuses in the Federal Tax Code

When a couple marries, their federal income tax payments are likely to be impacted. Marriage may cause a couple's tax payments to increase, resulting in amarriage tax penalty, or decrease, resulting i...

2026-07-02

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FY2026 Defense Budget: Funding for Selected Weapon Systems

February 20, 2026 – July 2, 2026R48860 The second Trump Administration's Department of Defense (DOD) budget request for FY2026 included $848.3 billion in discretionary funding and $113.3 billion i...

2026-07-02

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Electric Vehicle Taxes and the Federal Highway Trust Fund

July 17, 2025 – July 2, 2026IF13064 Policymakers have debated imposing a federal tax on electric vehicles (EVs). Proponents argue that EVs use federally funded roads but do not incur federal fuels...

2026-07-02