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Judicial Rubber-Stamping of Warrants Can Be Deadly: Lethal Drug Raids in Louisville and Houston Were Based on Fishy Police Affidavits That Turned Out to Be Fraudulent Aug. 10, 2022
According to a federal indictment unsealed last week, Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT and aspiring... Read More
Democrats Don't Care Whether Banning 'Assault Weapons' Is Constitutional: Even While Conceding That the Rifles They Want to Ban Are Commonly Used for Lawful Purposes, They Refuse to Grapple With the Implications Aug. 03, 2022
A week before the House of Representatives approved a ban on "assault weapons," a federal judge in D... Read More
Chuck Schumer Learned Nothing From the Failure of Pot Legalization in California: The Senate Majority Leader's Marijuana Bill Would Pile on More Taxes and Regulations, Despite Years of Complaints About the Barriers They Create Jul. 27, 2022
During the next year, California officials said last week, the state expects to seize "more than $1 ... Read More
A New Gun Law Reflects the Worst Instincts of Both Parties: The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Increases the Penalties for Violating Arbitrary Firearm Bans Jul. 20, 2022
Until last month, someone with a felony record who obtained a gun was committing a federal crime pun... Read More
Politicians Defy the Supreme Court's Ruling on the Right To Bear Arms: Several States Are Retaining Subjective Criteria for Carry Permits or Imposing New Restrictions on Gun Possession Jul. 13, 2022
After the Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms last month, some states promptly complied with... Read More
The FDA Perversely Seeks to Make Both Cigarettes and Harm-Reducing Alternatives Less Appealing: The Agency's Policies Would Boost the Black Market and Smoking-Related Deaths Jul. 06, 2022
The Food and Drug Administration wants to prevent smoking-related deaths by making cigarettes less a... Read More
Maximalists Threaten a Federalist Compromise on Abortion: National Legislation and Extraterritorial Application of State Laws Are Inconsistent With the Local Leeway That the Constitution Protects Jun. 29, 2022
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last week, it ostensibly freed states to regulate abor... Read More
SCOTUS Again Upholds Double Prosecution and Punishment for the Same Crime: Unsatisfied by the Outcome of One Case, the Feds Secured a Much More Severe Penalty the Second Time Around Jun. 22, 2022
The federal government prosecuted Merle Denezpi twice for the same crime. It also punished him twice... Read More
'Red Flag' Laws Require a Tricky Balance: If Congress Decides To Encourage Them, It Should Not Overlook the Importance of Due Process Protections Jun. 15, 2022
It is easy to understand the bipartisan appeal of a policy that promises to reduce gun violence by t... Read More
Would These Four Gun Controls Prevent Mass Shootings? An Analysis of Such Crimes Suggests the President's Policy Prescriptions Are Unlikely to Have a Meaningful Impact Jun. 08, 2022
The New York Times reckons that four gun control measures Congress is considering "might have change... Read More
Politicians Should Resist the Urge to 'Do Anything' in Response to School Shootings: While That Impulse Is Understandable, It Can Lead to Policies That Do More Harm Than Good Jun. 01, 2022
After a gunman murdered 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last we... Read More
Commonly Touted Policies Are Ill-suited To Stopping Mass Shooters: These Three Gun Controls Failed in New York, and There Is Little Reason To Think They Would Work Elsewhere May. 25, 2022
"In New York," former Gov. Andrew Cuomo bragged on Sunday, "we passed the best (gun control) laws in... Read More
New York's Governor Wants to 'Silence' Constitutionally Protected Speech: In Response to the Buffalo Massacre, Kathy Hochul Invoked a Hoary Analogy to Justify Censorship May. 18, 2022
When politicians echo Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' famous observation about "shouting 'fire' in a ... Read More
Public Opinion About Abortion Is Complex and Sometimes Confused: Americans Cannot Be Neatly Divided Into Two Sides, and They Do Not Necessarily Understand the Implications of Roe v. Wade May. 11, 2022
A Fox News poll completed last week, the day before Politico published a draft majority opinion indi... Read More
The Biden Administration Sees Free Speech as a Public Menace: The Alarm Aroused by the Disinformation Governance Board Is Understandable Given the Administration's Broader Assault on Messages It Considers Dangerous May. 04, 2022
The Department of Homeland Security is dismayed by the uproar over its new Disinformation Governance... Read More
Anthony Fauci Thinks Scientific Expertise Trumps the Rule of Law: The President's COVID-19 Adviser Embodies the Arrogance of Technocrats Who Are Sure They Know What's Best for Us Apr. 27, 2022
Anthony Fauci was "surprised and disappointed" by last week's ruling against the mask mandate for tr... Read More
Even If the CDC's Mask Mandate Made Sense, That Would Not Make It Legal: The Decision Against the Rule Hinged on Whether the Agency Had the Power It Asserted Apr. 20, 2022
Did you know that the federal judge who vacated the federal mask mandate for airline and public tran... Read More
A Federal Jury Delivers a Rebuke of FBI Entrapment: The Agency's Tactics Doomed the Prosecution of Defendants Who Allegedly Planned to Kidnap Michigan's Governor Apr. 13, 2022
"Through confidential sources, undercover agents, and clandestine recordings," the Justice Departmen... Read More
When Will Democrats Get Serious About Repealing Pot Prohibition? Instead of Building on Republican Support for Federalism, They Seem Determined to Alienate Potential Allies Apr. 06, 2022
When Republicans who oppose federal marijuana prohibition vote against your legalization bill, you p... Read More
Handgun Carry Permits Transform a Right Into a Privilege: The Argument for Loosening Restrictions on Armed Self-Defense Goes Beyond the Measurable Impact on Public Safety Mar. 30, 2022
As of last week, 24 states have decided to let law-abiding adults carry handguns in public without a... Read More
