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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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Who Made the Supreme Court King?
In reality, the federal courts aren’t king. The people of the states are.
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Federal Court Nullifies Federal Marijuana Laws Because States Did It First
The impact of state laws legalizing marijuana despite federal prohibition continues to grow and reverberate through the American political system from the bottom up.
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Though the issue here is immigration, the constitutional values underlying the case are more far-reaching.
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Pot Legalization: Obama, SCOTUS Defend Local Control Against GOP Attacks
A surprising turn of events. Article by Ryan McMaken of the Mises Institute
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The Original Meaning of “Legislature” in the Constitution
Under the Constitution – the people of a state can act as the supreme legislative power.
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