Walter Olson Number fifteen in our series of occasional roundups on election law and policy: “It sure looks like the Civil Rights Division is trying to do what the Pence-Kobach…
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Michael F. Cannon Blue states are learning that it’s sometimes better if public health doesn’t come from the national government. The New York Times reports: New York and several other…
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Patrick G. Eddington At the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) May 2024 convention, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump told those assembled, “No one will lay a finger on your firearms.” In the…
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Patrick G. Eddington Mike German. (Brennan Center for Justice) This morning, I learned that my dear friend and colleague Mike German had retired from his position as a fellow in…
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A Moat of Crocodiles: How Judicially Confected Doctrines Devoured a Supreme Court Victory
Mike Fox Last spring, in a unanimous decision that could have been a major victory for police accountability, the Supreme Court struck a decisive blow to a deeply flawed legal…
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Jimmy Kimmel, the FCC, and Why Broadcasters Still Have “Junior Varsity” First Amendment Rights
Brent Skorup On a recent podcast with Benny Johnson, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr urged broadcasters to “take action … on Kimmel or there’s going to be additional work for the…
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Colleen Hroncich “That’s insane. I can’t start a school,” Rachel Good, founder of Discovery Learners’ Academy in Chattanooga, TN, initially told her husband. A longtime public school special education teacher,…
Travis Fisher The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released a report on Wednesday declaring that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) most sweeping climate policy—dating back to 2009—is…
While the American people may have been ignorant of the foreign policy history of the 1990s to their detriment, and politicians—whether sincere or not—expressed bewilderment, many understood the direct link…
Thanks to massive economic intervention by South Africa’s government, both crime and poverty are soaring as the society slowly implodes. Police protection is almost nonexistent, so many South Africans are…