The taxes on sound suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns, originally enacted in 1934, were meant to be prohibitive, imposing bans in the guise of raising revenue.
The ban is a bad law. But leaving it on the books and willfully ignoring it sets a potentially more dangerous precedent.
Congress should now turn its attention to abolishing the unnecessary federal education bureaucracy.
Several of the items on the Declaration's list of grievances against King George III also apply to Donald Trump today.
Without Newsom's efforts, major reforms to California's stifling environmental laws would have died on the vine.
Class actions and Administrative Procedure Act claims can achieve much the same result as the nationwide orders that the Supreme Court rejected.
There have likely been hundreds of filings with AI-hallucinated citations in American courts, but this is the first time I've seen a court note that a judge had included such a citation.
Can plaintiffs be sanctioned because they "refused to voluntarily dismiss [a defendant] after reviewing the additional information from his cell phone and bank records" that seems to exonerate him?
The ruling tells an interesting story about how the very body that created a cause of action for victims of federal abuse has since worked to undermine that right.
This is what Washington calls compromise: The House proposes $1, the Senate proposes $2, and somehow, the government ends up spending $3.
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But, notably, the court chose not to rule on the issue of what qualifies as an "invasion."
CAFE standards try to accomplish a reasonable goal but in an ineffective way.
Telling states to pay for a share of the food stamp program makes a lot of sense and would likely reduce fraud.
Vance cast the tie-breaking vote for a bill that will add $4 trillion to the debt. Meanwhile, immigrants are helping to keep the federal government's fiscal house of cards propped up.
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Tellingly, the president avoided defending his dubious interpretation of the 14th Amendment at the Supreme Court.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is considering whether the president properly invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members.
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Now nearly 100 state AI laws will remain in force—and nearly 1,000 more are already waiting in the wings.
Republicans are creating a budgetary loophole that will allow Democrats to pass Medicare for All and pretend it costs almost nothing.
Despite this setback, a coalition of municipalities is challenging the state’s housing program in federal court.
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New laws aimed at protecting kids online won’t work, and could even make things worse. Parents, not politicians, are the best defense against digital dangers.
"So whatever hard to imagine rationalization Haverford might offer for obscuring the content of its actual bias policy—an artifice reminiscent of Dean Wormer's 'double secret probation'—I find the demarcation 'draft' to be of no legal import."
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From minimum wage hikes to bans on cellphones in public schools, here are some of the most ridiculous ways state governments are interfering with Americans’ lives.
The tech and online retail giant will build at least two data centers in the Keystone State but pay no sales taxes on equipment.
The House-passed version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was fiscally irresponsible. The Senate has made the bill worse.
The Supreme Court just declined this morning to consider this issue, but here's how a noted lower court judge analyzed the matter.
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Justice Kavanaugh's Trump v. CASA concurrence appears to reply to Judge Ho.
Justice Kagan said "it just can't be right" that a single court judge can stop a federal policy in its tracks nationwide.
Other countries have taken meaningful steps to address similar challenges. The U.S. has done nothing.
They face severe persecution if deported to Iran.
Two worthwhile commentaries on the Supreme Court's decision to curtail universal injunctions.
A New Deal–era program nearly eradicated the sacred Navajo-Churro sheep—and still reverberates through the Navajo Nation today.
America is slipping steadily down the slippery slope to a surveillance state.
The Supreme Court's decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton weakens the First Amendment rights of adults everywhere.
Democratic critics of the new program overlook the injustice of permanently disarming Americans who pose no threat to public safety.
Marcy Rheintgen was the first person to be arrested for trying to challenge Florida's bathroom bill. The case against her has been tossed out.
The Supreme Court may have reached the wrong result in FCC v. Consumers Research. But ruling emphasizes there are significant constitutional limits to legislative delegation to the executive.
“Federal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch,” declared Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
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