U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service attempts to designate private property in Louisiana as “critical habitat”.
Tags: Environment, environmental bureaucracy, regulations, Supreme Court
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service attempts to designate private property in Louisiana as “critical habitat”.
Tags: Environment, environmental bureaucracy, regulations, Supreme Court
I just returned to the United States after a short-term teaching stint at European University in Tbilisi, Georgia. It seems I’ve arrived home on the tail end of a controversy over the venerable Marbury v. Madison decision. According to luminaries at the Washington Post, anyone who questions the greatness of Marbury is a “crackpot”...
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Tags: Anti-Federalists, Federalists, James Madison, John Marshall, judicial review, judicial supremacy, Marbury, Matthew Whitaker, popular sovereignty, Supreme Court, Thomas Jefferson
Kavanaugh’s appointment sparks hope for rolling back the administrative state.
Tags: administrative state, Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford, executive overreach, Executive power, Justice Kavanaugh, Supreme Court, Supreme Court nomination
Judge blocks executive orders aimed at making it easier to remove employees for poor performance or misconduct.
Tags: government accountability, public employee unions, public employees, Supreme Court
National effort to inform union members of their opt-out rights.
Tags: Civil Liberties, Education, Free Market, Liberty, National Employee Freedom Week, Personal Liberty, Supreme Court, unions
Government employee unions can no longer confiscate money from independent workers.
Tags: government employee unions, Janus v. AFSCME, Supreme Court
This decision limits the power of organized labor and gives greater freedom to individual workers.
Tags: collective bargaining, First Amendment, Janus, Liberty, Riight to Work, Supreme Court, unions
This was the right result in this case, but the Court has done little to provide meaningful guidance as free exercise and free speech clash with public accommodation statutes making sexual orientation a protected classification.
Tags: bakers, Bill of Rights, First Amendment, free speech, gay marriage, homosexuality, masterpiececake shop, Property Rights, religious freedom, Supreme Court
On May 3, The Wall Street Journal posted a short op-ed I wrote on the Trinity Lutheran case. (Sorry, but the op-ed is behind a pay wall; however, here is a blog post that gives some background to the case and my first impressions.) Professor Michael Stokes Paulsen, alleging I was “wrong on every...
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Tags: Antifederalists, Constitution, Equal Protection Clause, Federalism, Federalist Papers, First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Jefferson, Michael Stokes Paulson, Missouri, National Review, Neil Gorsuch, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, trinity lutheran, William Watkins
There has not been a Protestant on the Supreme Court since Justice John Paul Stevens retired in 2010. There has not been a Protestant nominated since 1990 when George W. Bush called upon David Souter. Right now there are five Roman Catholics and three Jews. Neil Gorsuch, according to the Washington Post, belongs to St....
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Tags: Antonin Scalia, ClaranceThomas, Neil Gorsuch, Protestant, Roman Catholic, Supreme Court