defendant "was found guilty of criminal mischief and domestic violence"—yet the prosecution "presented no evidence that [she] damaged or destroyed the property of another—an essential element of criminal mischief, which was also the predicate offense for the domestic violence charge."
Asking SCOTUS to hear a case is not the same thing as convincing SCOTUS to hear a case.
Texas Rep. Chip Roy joins Nick Gillespie to talk about runaway spending, the uphill battle for health care reform, and where immigration fits into the liberty vs. sovereignty debate.
The 2016 brief defended the understanding of the 14th Amendment that the president wants to overturn.
The Court concludes that limitations on the removal of NLRB Board members and NLRB administrative law judges are both unconstitutional.
"After the lawsuit was filed, Desbordes' [Druski's] counsel sent Plaintiffs' counsel evidence, including debit card records and phone records, showing that it was virtually certain that Desbordes was in Georgia at the time of the alleged rape, and thus could not have participated in the assault." "Yet, at the hearing on the motion for sanctions, Plaintiffs' counsel expressly stated Plaintiffs 'have no desire to dismiss Mr. Desbordes' from the lawsuit."
Foxes, whales, and injustice toward the property claims of aboriginal tribes.
SCOTUS will soon decide.
There are fewer early-term vacancies than one might have expected.
An overview. (Or, what you can learn about property from John Locke and Monty Python's Flying Circus.)
There’s no historical precedent for trying to ration constitutionally protected rights.
A New York Times column on the Supreme Court offers a misleading picture and errant analysis.
A video by the White House corroborates that account, calling into question just how serious the president is about actually addressing crime.
The latest escalation in the showdown between the Trump administration and D.C. elected officials
A rushed attempt to regulate artificial intelligence has left lawmakers scrambling to fix their own mistakes.
The article explains why the policy is unconstitutional, but also why it is unlikely to be challenged in court in the near future.
"How do Defendant's letters interfere with Plaintiffs' authority or ability to administer Oklahoma's public schools?"
for "citing to fabricated, AI-generated cases without verifying the accuracy, or even the existence, of the cases" and "misrepresenting to the Court the origin of the AI-generated cases."
Did they have a point?
The Sixth Circuit wrestles with what it means for a regulation to be "substantially the same" as one disapproved by Congress.
My Cato Institute colleague Walter Olson explains.
My new paper on judicial independence as a constitutional construction.
Younger Americans seem ready to treat the program as a safety net, not a retirement plan.
Glenn Greenwald debates Anna Gorisch on Trump's deportation policies.
The judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit split over whether they should write about the reasons for their splitting over en banc review.
The president is on a record-shattering pace for executive actions.
The words national emergency are not a magic spell that presidents can utter to unlock unlimited legislative powers for themselves.
The federal government has embraced unconstitutional tactics and now wants SCOTUS to do the same.
If Sen. Josh Hawley and the Trump administration want to spare Americans the pain from tariffs, there is a far simpler solution.
It's a drop in the bucket compared to the national debt, but any wasteful government spending should be eliminated.
Can a hotel be guilty of sex trafficking just because it didn't surveil its customers enough?
A bit of cold water on a popular Court "reform" from a justice on the left-wing of the Court
An easy way to avoid the merits in the latest high-stake health care litigation.
A mom who trusted her kids to play outside ended up under repeated investigation.
For years, the president has rightly railed against those oppressive regimes. So why is his administration targeting their victims?
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order against any additional construction at the immigration detention center amid plans to increase the facility’s capacity to 4,000 detainees.
Judge Katsas and Judge Rao disagreed on the reasons, but both agreed that Judge Boasberg overstepped; Judge Pillard dissented.
Using the FBI to track down AWOL Texas Democrats is an unnecessary expansion of federal law enforcement authority.
When the line between public and private is erased, politics is all about special favors. That's gross.
Courts don't need to stretch the ministerial exception to cover every case.
The Constitution requires apportionment to be based on a count of all "persons," excluding only "Indians not taxed."
