Using War to Assault Freedom
Most judges and lawyers agree that the war on drugs in the past 50 years has seriously diminished the right to privacy guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment. Now a small group of legal academics is arguing that the war in Ukraine should be used to diminish property...
Neither Necessary nor Proper
It was sixteen years ago last month that the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Gonzales v. Raich (2005), ruled that the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801) did not exceed the power of Congress under the Commerce Clause as applied to the intrastate cultivation...
Former Prosecutor Whines About “Constitutional Carry” Interfering With His War on Drugs
Police lobbyists fiercely resist virtually every effort to roll back gun control. Why is that? As with most things relating to policing in modern America, it comes back to the “war on drugs.” For instance, the Missouri Sheriffs’ Association aggressively...