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Ron DeSantis Dangerously Blurs the Line Between State and Private Action: Whether the Putative Target Is the 'Biomedical Security State,' Wokeness, 'Big Tech Censors' or Chinese Communists, the Presidential Candidate's Grandstanding Poses a Clear Threat t May. 31, 2023
Ron DeSantis, who officially launched his presidential campaign last week, presents himself as a cha... Read More
The Perils of 'Rule by Indefinite Emergency Edict': Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Highlights a Vital Lesson From the COVID-19 Pandemic May. 24, 2023
On March 15, 2020, two days after then-President Donald Trump declared a national COVID-19 emergency... Read More
Trump's Disregard for the Rule of Law Is at Least as Bad as Biden's: The Former President Reminds Us That Claiming Unbridled Executive Power Is a Bipartisan Tendency May. 17, 2023
Sometime this month or next, the Supreme Court is expected to tell President Joe Biden that he can't... Read More
The Allen Massacre Underlines the False Promise of 'Universal Background Checks': Mass Shooters Typically Do Not Have Disqualifying Records, and Restrictions on Private Gun Sales Are Widely Flouted May. 10, 2023
After the mass shooting that killed eight people at a shopping mall in Allen, Texas, last Saturday, ... Read More
Greg Abbott's Pardon Promise Ignores the Shakiness of Daniel Perry's Self-Defense Claim: A Texas Jury Unanimously Rejected Perry's Assertion That Garrett Foster Pointed a Rifle at Him Apr. 26, 2023
This month, a Texas jury found Army Sgt. Daniel Perry guilty of murdering Garrett Foster, a proteste... Read More
Cornell's President Defends Free Speech Against Illiberal Impulses: Martha Pollack Rejects the Pernicious Premise That Universities Should Protect Students From Offensive Ideas Apr. 19, 2023
The last time I spoke at Cornell University, the turnout was tiny but attentive. Conservative commen... Read More
It's Hard to See Who Was Victimized by Trump's 34 Alleged Felonies: The New York Case Against the Former President Is Morally Dubious as Well as Legally Shaky Apr. 12, 2023
Since the New York indictment of Donald Trump was unsealed last week, critics across the political s... Read More
Restraining Orders Do Not Prove That People Are 'Dangerous': The Biden Administration Is Defending a Federal Law That Disarms Americans Based on 'Boilerplate Language' in Orders That Judges Routinely Grant Apr. 05, 2023
Three decades ago, Congress enacted a law that seemed commonsensical: It prohibits gun possession by... Read More
The Israeli Fight Over Judicial Review Highlights the Dangers of Unconstrained Democracy: Opponents of the Proposed Reforms Are Right That Unlimited Majority Rule Is a Recipe for Tyranny Mar. 29, 2023
This week, in response to mass demonstrations and a nascent general strike, Israeli Prime Minister B... Read More
The Crusade Against 'Malinformation' Explicitly Targets Inconvenient Truths: The Legal Challenge to Censorship by Proxy Highlights Covert Government Manipulation of Online Speech Mar. 22, 2023
Last month, I noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had repeatedly exaggerated t... Read More
Louisville Police Abuses Show Civil Liberties Are Meaningless Without Accountability: Supervisors and Judges Tolerated Outrageous Constitutional Violations, Including Illegal Searches and Brutal Assaults Mar. 15, 2023
The form that Louisville, Kentucky, police officers use when they seek search warrants includes a li... Read More
Biden's Attack on 'Ghost Guns' Fits a Pattern of Lawless Firearm Regulation: The President and His Predecessor Both Tried to Impose Gun Control by Executive Fiat Mar. 08, 2023
During his 2022 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden promised he would "keep doing everyt... Read More
How SCOTUS Promoted Pernicious Myths About Sex Offender Registries: 20 Years Ago, the Justices Deemed Registration Preventive Rather Than Punitive Mar. 01, 2023
This Sunday marks the 20th anniversary of Smith v. Doe, a Supreme Court decision that approved retro... Read More
Lou Dobbs Is the Main Obstacle to Fox's Defamation Defense: The Fox Business Host Stood Out As a Champion of the Baroque Conspiracy Theory That Implicated Dominion Voting Systems in Election Fraud Feb. 22, 2023
After the 2020 presidential election, Fox News helped promote what Rupert Murdoch, chairman of its p... Read More
The Perils of Trying to Curtail Hazily Defined 'Disinformation': The Global Disinformation Index's Controversial Ratings Illustrate the Challenge of Deciding Which Speech Belongs in That Category Feb. 15, 2023
NewsGuard, a service that rates adherence to basic principles of good journalism, gives my employer,... Read More
A Scientific Review Shows the CDC Grossly Exaggerated the Evidence Supporting Mask Mandates: The Analysis Found That Wearing Masks in Public 'Probably Makes Little or No Difference' Feb. 08, 2023
After questioning the value of general mask wearing early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for ... Read More
Russian Propaganda Has Succeeded in Persuading Credulous Americans That It Poses a Grave Threat to Democracy: Alarmists Are Unfazed by the Lack of Evidence That 'Foreign Influence Campaigns' Have Affected Public Opinion or Voting Behavior Feb. 01, 2023
A widely cited list of Twitter users who were described as "Russian bots" included "a bunch of legit... Read More
The IRS Serves Its 'Customers' by Terrifying Them: A $2.1 Million Penalty for Failing to File a Form on Time Reveals the Agency's True Nature Jan. 25, 2023
As tax season begins, the IRS is making a show of using its newly expanded budget to improve the age... Read More
The Hazards of Holding YouTube Liable for Promoting Terrorism: A Supreme Court Case Illustrates the Potential Costs of Making It Easier to Sue Social Media Platforms Over User-Generated Content Jan. 18, 2023
Every day, people around the world post about 720,000 hours of new content on YouTube — 500 ho... Read More
The 3rd Circuit Considers Whether Nonviolent Crimes Justify the Loss of Second Amendment Rights: Because of a Misdemeanor Welfare Fraud Conviction, Bryan Range Is No Longer Allowed to Own Guns Jan. 11, 2023
Back in 1995, Bryan Range pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining $2,458 in food stamps by misrepre... Read More
