Don’t Follow China’s Example on COVID-19
The media tell us China “beat coronavirus.” I don’t believe it. The Chinese government lies. Derrek Scissors of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) argues that they’ve underreported the number of …
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rejects Takings Challenge to Coronavirus Shutdown Order
As co-blogger Eugene Volokh points out, yesterday the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected a takings challenge to the governor’s coronavirus shutdown order. In Friends of Danny DeVito v. Wolf, the Court …
Penn. S. Ct. Rejects Free Speech Challenge to Shutdown
From the majority in Friends of Danny DeVito v. Wolf, handed down yesterday (the three-Justice partial dissent expressed no opinion on this): DeVito Committee [a political campaign committee] argues the …
Penn. S. Ct. Rejects Takings Challenge to Governor’s Shutdown Order
The case is Friends of Danny DeVito v. Wolf, handed down yesterday; it deals with several different challenges, but I thought it would be best to blog about them separately. …
Judge Jim Gray Thinks the Libertarian Party Needs Pragmatism, ‘Stature’ for 2020 Presidential Run
Judge James Gray, famous for speaking out against the drug war while serving as an Orange County Superior Court judge in 1992, and who was the vice-presidential nominee on the …
Market-Based Social Distancing Regulation
When governments end lockdowns, they must determine what set of rules to impose. For example, governments must decide whether some types of businesses must remain closed, whether the maximum number …
Trump Can Encourage States to Lift Their COVID-19 Lockdowns, but He Can’t Decree That Outcome
Donald Trump has a history of asserting powers he does not actually have, including the power to loosen state libel laws, the power to punish broadcasters who offend him, the …
Boston Restaurants Want To Sell Groceries. Bureaucrats Say No Way.
When Irene Li started selling select grocery items at Mei Mei, the Boston restaurant she co-founded, she assumed she was providing a public service. “When I drive to work every …
The Eleventh Circuit Concludes That Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida Victims Had No Rights Under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act.
Today in a divided 2-1 decision, the 11th Circuit rejected a petition for crime victims in the Jeffrey Epstein case, filed by Florida crime victims’ attorney Brad Edwards and me. …
New York Times Editor Excuses Paper’s Slow Tara Reade Coverage: ‘Kavanaugh Was a Running, Hot Story.’
New York Times media columnist Ben Smith asked his boss—Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet—to explain why it took the paper 19 days to acknowledge Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation against Joe …