Kanye West No Longer Running for President
Kanye West is now reported to not be running for president. The controversial hip-hop artist and fashion mogul made a very late in the game announcement of the intention of …
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Trump’s Failed Promise To Stop America’s ‘Endless Wars’
Donald Trump’s pitch to “Make America Great Again” included a commitment to rethinking America’s interventionist foreign policy. “After the Cold War, our foreign policy veered badly off course,” then-candidate Trump …
Only 4 NYPD Cops Have Been Disciplined So Far for Violence Against Protesters
Nationwide protests following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police were met, in many cities, by even more police violence. In York City, dozens …
Boeing Exec Resigns Over 1987 Article Arguing Against Women in Combat
Against a backdrop of cancel culture, what is the statute of limitations on being canceled for having once held opinions shared by a large majority of Americans? Boeing’s top communications …
Cash Remains Healthy as the Pandemic Rages
Will the COVID-19 pandemic hasten the abolition of cash? That was certainly the hope of central bankers and politicians who don’t like the uncontrollable nature of physical money. Banknotes and …
Trump Humiliates Jeff Sessions One Last Time
Sessions shows where trusting snakes gets you. There’s a parable President Donald Trump loves to tell, about a woman who trusted a snake. The tale, from the 1968 Al Wilson …
Elementary School Geography Bee Cheating Scandal Leads to Litigation
From Judge Matthew F. Kennelly’s decision Monday in A.J. v. Butler Ill. School Dist. #53 (N.D. Ill.): Rahul Julka and Komal Julka are the parents of two children who, at …
Today in Supreme Court History: July 15, 1819
7/15/1819: John Marshall publishes defense of McCulloch v. Maryland in the Alexandria Gazette under the pseudonym “A Friend of the Constitution.” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNlPD1mtoyI?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the …
Today in Supreme Court History: July 15, 1819
7/15/1819: John Marshall publishes defense of McCulloch v. Maryland in the Alexandria Gazette under the pseudonym “A Friend of the Constitution.” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNlPD1mtoyI?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the …
New draft article: “The Questionable Objectivity of Fourth Amendment Law”
I recently posted a new draft article to SSRN, “The Questionable Objectivity of Fourth Amendment Law,” forthcoming in the Texas Law Review. Here’s the abstract: The Supreme Court often insists …