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Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage
Two suffragettes watch as Pennsylvania Republican Gov. William Cameron Sproul signs the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed women in America the right to vote. The measure was approved by both houses …
The Second and Sixth Amendments
The U.S. Supreme Court has held—largely on originalist grounds—that the Sixth Amendment right to jury doesn’t apply to “petty” criminal offenses. (The leading case on this is D.C. v. Clawans (1937), …
Kamala Harris Does Not Understand Why the Constitution Should Get in the Way of Her Gun Control Agenda
During last night’s Democratic presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden admonished Sen. Kamala Harris (D–Calif.) for promising to impose new gun controls by executive fiat if Congress fails to …
Andrew Yang Is the Anti–Elizabeth Warren
Andrew Yang got the least amount of speaking time of any candidate on the Democratic primary debate stage last night—less than half of Joe Biden’s. But this son of Taiwanese …
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. Well, hot dog! IJ is headed to the Maryland Court of Appeals, the state’s highest …
The Anti-Slavery Constitution
Tim Sandefur has an excellent column, The Anti-Slavery Constitution, in National Review magazine that is available online. After a lengthy and accurate summary of abolitionist constitutionalism, here is the payoff …
Netflix’s Unbelievable Turns True Crime Story into Fascinating Character Drama
Unbelievable. Available now on Netflix. The teenager has just been raped—for hours—but now it seems her ordeal is only beginning, at the hands of the policemen she called to report the …
Elizabeth Warren Doesn’t Want to Say How She’d Pay for Her Health Care Plan
Elizabeth Warren famously has a plan for everything—everything, that is, except financing the single-payer health care system she says she supports. It’s a telling omission that reveals what happens when …
Vicious Scapegoating Is the Whole Point of Beto O’Rourke’s Gun Grab
So it turns out that the Democrats are coming for your guns. Well, maybe not yours. Not yet, at least. Then again, it is not always obvious which guns Democrats have in …