Hungary's Viktor Orbán consolidates power, Harvard's Adrian Vermeule fantasizes about wielding it, and many of those who oppose authoritarian conservativism beg Donald Trump to close the country down.
“The federal government forgot the Tenth Amendment and the structure of the Constitution itself.”
Lawmakers are peddling restrictions on self-defense and other rights to a frightened public.
Plus: "Netflix for 3-D guns," viral authoritarianism, COVID-19 behind bars, and more…
They were mocked for sounding the alarm. Now they're the ones providing the solutions.
Takeout and delivery orders are the only thing keeping the state's 115 craft breweries afloat during the coronavirus outbreak.
Plus: civic dynamism on display, Justice Department embraces home detainment of federal prisoners, and more...
The agency's emphasis on caution over speed led to needless suffering and loss of life long before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Much about the COVID-19 outbreak has been unprecedented and historic, but until now it's been difficult to quantify exactly how serious a blow the virus would deal to the U.S. economy.
Plus: COVID-19 in prisons and jails, Trump campaign threatens TV stations, state disparities in new coronavirus cases, and more...
Politicians are merely using COVID-19 to push for policies they already wanted.
Restrictions have been loosened to help ramp up production.
Kansas “will not wholly exonerate a defendant on the ground that his illness prevented him from recognizing his criminal act as morally wrong.”
Religious liberty, public health, and the police powers of the states
Thought during an epidemic from a defender of freedom
The coronavirus upends business as usual at SCOTUS.
The new bill takes aim at internet freedom and privacy under the pretense of saving kids.
Weighing the state and local response to COVID-19
Politicians of both major parties are using COVID-19 to advance their pre-existing policy agendas.
Adjudication Outside Article III (part two)
Historian Amity Shlaes on the good intentions and bad results of LBJ's war on poverty
She was imprisoned for a year as she resisted a grand jury's investigation of WikiLeaks.
Fatal police shootings and the Fourth Amendment
Some Republican senators are working hard to get Trump behind stronger fixes.
Privacy activists on the left and the right decry a limp set of proposed changes to the USA Freedom Act.
The USA Freedom Act is about to sunset. Who will decide how and if it will be changed?
The EARN IT is an attack on encryption masquerading as a blow against underage porn.
The Supreme Court weighs abortion regulation in June Medical Services v. Russo.
Mississippi has a reputation for being one of the most obese states in the nation, as well as having one of America's highest incarceration rates. Neither will be improved by treating unlicensed dieticians like serious criminals.
The Senate minority leader threatened two justices by name, and then he lied about it.
A Symposium at The Regulatory Review engages with "Delegation and Time," and the question of whether Congress is capable of addressing nondelegation concerns.
"Companies can simply blacklist California writers and work with writers in other states, and that's exactly what's happening."
A high-profile gun case actually presents meaty questions of administrative law
“Why should courts, charged with the independent and neutral interpretation of the laws Congress has enacted, defer to such bureaucratic pirouetting?”
Today's cert grant is based on the importance of the case, not the quality of the arguments
stemming from a dispute about picketing and open carry.
This inability to agree on the nature of the national interest is endemic not just to the new nationalism, but to all of politics.
An important and thoughtful opinion that potentially invalidates Trump Administration refugee and asylum policies.
The presidential candidate reserves the right to wage unauthorized wars, kill Americans in foreign countries, prosecute journalists, and selectively flout the law.
The legal battle over immigration, federalism, and executive power heats up.
Plus: Who's using Clearview AI?, court rules against Joe Arpaio, and more...
Shifting the process from the Justice Department to the White House can help eliminate bureaucracy and meddling from prosecutors.
The argument requires several controversial assumptions and leaps of logic.
A congressional battle erupts over how much to reform the soon-to-expire USA Freedom Act—if they reform it at all.
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