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Josh Hawley's Attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson Illustrates the Emotionalism She Criticized: The Senator Argues That Questioning Sex Offender Policies 'Endangers Our Children' Mar. 23, 2022
In a 1996 Harvard Law Review article, Ketanji Brown Jackson, then a law school student, noted the "c... Read More
The TSA's Mask Mandate Is Just As Logical As All Its Other Arbitrary Impositions: The Same Agency That Brought Us Security Theater Continues to Enforce a Rule That Never Made Sense Mar. 16, 2022
The federal rule that requires air travelers to wear face masks, which the Transportation Security A... Read More
Enforcing Abortion Bans Is Much Harder Than Passing Them: The Experience in Texas Shows That Workarounds Pose Daunting Obstacles to Such Laws Mar. 09, 2022
When Texas imposed strict limits on abortion last fall, the number of abortions performed by clinics... Read More
SCOTUS Needs to Clarify the Line Between Doctors and Drug Dealers: Patients Suffer When Physicians Who Prescribe Opioids in Good Faith Can Face Decades in Prison Mar. 02, 2022
Xiulu Ruan, a board-certified Alabama pain specialist, was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison f... Read More
Grabbing Guns Won't Reduce Urban Violence: Firearm Seizures Are Ineffective, and Gun Possession Arrests Are Frequently Unjust Feb. 23, 2022
If you want to reduce gun violence, New York City Mayor Eric Adams thinks, you need to go after guns... Read More
Amir Locke's Death Demonstrates the Recklessness of 'Dynamic Entry' Tactics: Banning 'No-Knock' Search Warrants Is Not Enough to Prevent Lethal Confrontations Between Cops and People Exercising the Right to Armed Self-Defense Feb. 16, 2022
The Minneapolis police officers who killed Amir Locke stormed into the apartment where he was sleepi... Read More
Partisan Politics Cloud the Capitol Riot's Significance: Neither Republicans nor Democrats Can Be Trusted to Give an Honest Account of What Happened That Day Feb. 09, 2022
You may have heard that the Republican National Committee described last year's Capitol riot as "leg... Read More
The CDC's Insistence on 'Universal Masking' in Schools Looks Less Scientific Every Day: That Recommendation, Which Never Had a Firm Basis, Is Even Harder to Justify in the Current Context Feb. 02, 2022
A recent NPR report quotes a Maryland mother who complains that you risk being tarred as "a psychoti... Read More
A Federal Judge's Satirical Opinion Highlights Disrespect for the Second Amendment: After More Than a Decade of Subversion, the Supreme Court Has a Chance to Rectify This Situation Jan. 26, 2022
In one opinion published last week, 9th Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke said Ventura County, Californ... Read More
OSHA's Vaccine Mandate Illustrates the Perils of Reflexively Deferring to Government Experts: The Question for the Supreme Court Was Not Whether the Policy Was Wise but Whether It Was Legal Jan. 19, 2022
When the Supreme Court blocked enforcement of the Biden administration's vaccinate-or-test rule for ... Read More
These Lawsuits Argue That Trump Conspired to Incite the Capitol Riot: Proving That Claim Requires More Than Reckless Rhetoric, Which Is Constitutionally Protected Jan. 12, 2022
After Donald Trump's second impeachment trial ended in acquittal, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCon... Read More
Biden Is Trying to Disguise a General Vaccine Mandate as a Workplace Safety Measure: The Supreme Court Will Ultimately Decide How Convincing That Disguise Is Jan. 05, 2022
Last week, Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden's top infectious disease adviser, said the federal gov... Read More
The Year's Highlights in Blame Shifting: Politicians and Cops Found Creative Ways to Dodge Responsibility in 2021 Dec. 29, 2021
During Donald Trump's second impeachment trial last February, his lawyers argued that he bore no res... Read More
Biden Doubles Down on a Lethal Anti-Drug Strategy: Prohibition Has Driven Opioid-Related Deaths to Record Levels Dec. 22, 2021
For more than a century, the U.S. government has failed to prevent Americans from consuming politica... Read More
Would an Independent Commission Solve the Clemency Backlog? A New Bill Would Transfer the Review of Petitions from the Justice Department to a Presidentially Appointed Board Dec. 15, 2021
When Jimmy Carter became president in 1977, fewer than 500 clemency petitions were pending at the Ju... Read More
She Got Her Car Back More Than 6 Years After Police Seized It: Malinda Harris' Ordeal Shows How Easily the Government Can Take Innocent People's Property Under Civil Forfeiture Laws Dec. 08, 2021
After police in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, took her car, Malinda Harris did not get a chance t... Read More
Can SCOTUS Draw a New Line on Abortion? The 'Viability' Rule Is Arbitrary. So Are the Alternatives. Dec. 01, 2021
For nearly half a century, the Supreme Court has said the Constitution prohibits states from banning... Read More
Legally Irrelevant Considerations Cloud the Debate About Kyle Rittenhouse's Acquittal: The Jury Rightly Concluded That the Prosecution Failed to Prove Its Case Nov. 24, 2021
"I stand by what the jury has concluded," President Joe Biden told reporters on Friday after Kyle Ri... Read More
Two Courts Debunk Widely Accepted Opioid Myths: Undertreatment of Pain Is a Real Problem, and Bona Fide Patients Rarely Become Addicted to Their Medication Nov. 17, 2021
Since 2014, state and local governments have filed thousands of lawsuits against pharmaceutical comp... Read More
New York Treats a Second Amendment Right as a Crime: The Supreme Court Should Reject a Law That Prevents Ordinary People From Carrying Guns for Self-Defense Nov. 10, 2021
Before he was elected mayor of New York City last week, Eric Adams raised some eyebrows by saying he... Read More
