U.S. merchandise trade deficit with China hit record in 2015

U.S. merchandise trade deficit with China hit record in 2015

(CNSNews.com) – The merchandise trade deficit that the United States ran with China in 2015 hit a record high of $365,694,000,000, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

"The deficit with China increased $22.6 billion to $365.7 billion in 2015," the BEA said in a press release. "Exports decreased $7.5 billion to $116.2 billion and imports increased $15.1 billion to $481.9 billion."

On Justice Scalia and the loss of originalism
Constitution

On Justice Scalia and the loss of originalism

Joseph Tortelli

In the last half century, the Constitution of the United States has had no more powerful defender than Justice Antonin Scalia. On the bench and off, he has consistently spoken for the principles of jurisprudence most often called originalism and sometimes called textualism.

Scalia's goal was to interpret the Constitution and its Amendments as close to their original meaning as possible. Holding restraint and humility as essential characteristics of the judicial temperament, he insisted that judges refrain from foisting their own policy preferences upon the American people.

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