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Congressional Black Caucus chair: Trump’s Comey indictment a ‘slippery slope into authoritarianism’ Dek: Political reaction to the indictment of former FBI director James Comey is largely split along ...

In the registration-to-confiscation scenario, only the latter two mechanisms seem fairly plausible to me; in other scenarios, others may be more plausible. And there are of course mechanisms that may ...

Dana Bash presses Greg Bovino about video analysis that appears to contradict DHS account of fatal shooting of Alex Pretti ...

[For the last month, I've been serializing my 2003 Harvard Law Review article, The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope, and I'm finishing it up this week.] This awareness, of course, is part of why ...