One Cheer for Stephen Breyer
Breyer led the charge against the court packers, denouncing them as shortsighted ideologues who threatened both judicial independence and bedrock liberal values.
Breyer led the charge against the court packers, denouncing them as shortsighted ideologues who threatened both judicial independence and bedrock liberal values.
Dutch officials are updating zoning laws to allow homes that are fixed to the shore but rise and fall with the water.
Though voters simultaneously approved initiatives aimed at legalizing both recreational and medical use of marijuana, Amendment A got quickly tied up in court.
For years, experts warned that any given hurricane or heat wave cannot be attributed to long-term changes in average temperatures. But it turns out that climatologists and meteorologists sometimes can establish such causal relationships.
When you plug your phone into your car to listen to your favorite band or podcast, you give police a way to rummage around in your personal data without a warrant.
With inflation running above 7 percent, we are experiencing the strongest price pressures in nearly 40 years.
Perhaps our culture is accidentally creating PTSD by expecting it, assuming that no one could possibly emerge from a trauma psychologically intact.
For years, immigration restrictionists have borrowed arguments from the environmentalist fringe to make their case against allowing immigration to developed nations.
Since the 1960s, planners have convinced many state and regional governments to limit the physical spread of urban areas.
The state's tax commissioner claims NASCAR owes Ohio more than $549,000 in unpaid taxes merely because the state's residents watched NASCAR races on television.
When bed-and-breakfast owner Robert Boule asked Border Patrol agents, who were questioning a guest, to leave his property, an agent pushed him to the ground.
The issue has never been a lack of funds for infrastructure; it's that the money frequently ends up getting spent on something else via a highly politicized decision-making process.
Taxpayers will pay the tab for spruced-up bridges and rebuilt freeways, doubling down on a worrying trend.
In November, the Supreme Court declined to consider an ACLU petition arguing that the public has a First Amendment right to see the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's classified decisions.
"Think long and hard," Breyer warns would-be court packers, "before embodying those changes in law."
Both rulings emphasized that opioids have legitimate medical uses and concluded that drug companies could not be held responsible for abuse of their products.
It should not matter whether would-be ayahuasca drinkers sincerely believe in shamanism or simply believe they will derive mental health benefits from the experience.
A virtual collection of 10 artworks made by Ulbricht at various stages of his life was worth $6.3 million at the time of sale.
The Glasgow Declaration's empty platitudes confirm that China will not be hectored by the U.S. into making any significant changes to its climate policies.
Why do so many people seem eager to fret and impose emergency measures even as COVID-19 becomes endemic and restrictions take a growing toll?
Trump's pandemic travel bans received vastly different media treatment than Biden's.
The Handspring Puppet Company and Good Chance Theatre sought to raise awareness of refugee rights while celebrating human migration.
"We can't even do the things we want to on our own property that aren't even hurting anyone."
If you make the government feel too dangerous, a corrective bloc of voters will pour cold water on your face.
Though state laws in both places have not yet adapted, consumers of "entheogenic" plants and fungi are now less likely to be arrested and prosecuted in the two cities.
Researchers are making great progress overcoming the problems that have long plagued attempts at xenotransplantation.
In an August ruling, Washington's Supreme Court found that a homeless plaintiff's truck qualified as his homestead.
Biden presented himself as the immigration antithesis of Trump, but such promises have not been kept.
The Fed may soon get serious about hitting the monetary brakes to slow the economy.
Children forced to Zoom into school ended up with suboptimal immune systems—the opposite of herd immunity.
If Taiwan became embroiled in a protracted military engagement with China, global supply-chain turmoil would ensue.
It's easy for many people to see the harm that guns are involved in every day in America, but much harder for them to see the harm that gun prohibition causes.
If it is upheld, state legislators easily could use the strategy embodied in S.B. 8 to attack other rights the Supreme Court has recognized.
"The First Amendment was never intended to curtail speech and debate within legislative bodies."
Hungary's brand of nationalism generates not just cronyist domestic policy but tawdry foreign policy as well.
After his flight, Shatner told Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, "I hope I never recover from this."
There are about 200,000 "Documented Dreamers" who were brought to the U.S. legally by parents who obtained work or student visas. Some now face deportation.
The lawsuit could be a bellwether of how federal agencies must handle a burgeoning private space industry.
Are Medicare's fiscal problems even worse than the headline numbers suggest?
In 2021, the institutional rot and dysfunction at Rikers Island cascaded into a full-blown catastrophe.
Policy makers are acting as if saving the lives of smokers via harm-reducing alternatives counts for nothing.
After doing the jobs of teacher, coach, and cafeteria monitor for more than a year, many parents resented being told to sit down and shut up.
China sees the value in a digital currency, but only if the CCP has full control of it.
Conflict with Russia has been an ever-present threat in the three decades since Georgia broke away from the collapsing Soviet Union.
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