City Council Should Bring Public Accountability to Police Surveillance
The city of Lexington sued me because I asked some questions about its surveillance technology. It sounds crazy, but in effect, that’s what happened.
Details
It’s Up to Us to Protect Our Gun Rights
Gun owners need to stop depending on courts, legislatures, and even citizen initiatives to uphold their rights.
Details
Why the Supreme Court Does What the Pentagon Wants
In 1961, President Eisenhower issued a stark warning to the American people.
Details
Why “Precedent” Is a Bad Measure of a Law’s Worth
Whenever the Supreme Court’s end-of-the-term “announcement season” comes around, I am reminded of the importance of handling precedent correctly under a Constitution that is supposed to remain “the supreme law of the land.”
Details
Anti-Commandeering: An overview of five major Supreme Court cases
The basis for what is now known as the legal doctrine of “anti-commandeering” was the advice of James Madison, writing in Federalist #46.
Details
Bill Bradley, Call Your Bookie
The beauty of the Union is that no two states are alike and we can all get ourselves to states where the laws are more to our liking.
Details
Supreme Court’s Sports Gambling Opinion is a Rare and Major Win for the Tenth Amendment
SCOTUS on the federal act, “A more direct affront to state sovereignty is not easy to imagine.”
Details
An Unconstitutional “Gun to the Head”
Withholding federal highway funds from the state of California over its so-called “sanctuary state” policies would violate the Constitution and modern Supreme Court precedent.
DetailsConstitution 101: The Judiciary and Judicial Review
If the judiciary maintains the sole authority to determine the powers of the federal government, the federal government becomes effectively unlimited.
Details
Who Made the Supreme Court King?
In reality, the federal courts aren’t king. The people of the states are.
Details
What Can We Do About Legal Realism and Its Promotion of Judicial Activism?
The first thing to remember is that the problem centers in specific institutions
DetailsJudicial activism: Here’s a core reason for it you’ve never heard about
our problem is not how the law works most of the time, but how it works in federal tribunals and in the state supreme courts. That is where judicial activism occurs.
Details
