Ilya Shapiro Guest-Blogging About "Lawless: The Miseducation of America's Elites"

Ilya Shapiro Guest-Blogging About “Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites”

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I’m delighted to report that Ilya Shapiro (Manhattan Institute) will be guest-blogging this week about this new book of his. From the publisher’s summary: In the past, Columbia Law School produced leaders like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Now it produces window-smashing activists. When protestors at Columbia broke into a build­ing and created illegal encampments, the student-led Columbia Law Review demanded that finals be canceled because of “distress.” At Stanford, chanting activists, egged on by an […]

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Second Amendment Roundup: The Court Should Grant Cert in Snope

Second Amendment Roundup: The Court Should Grant Cert in Snope

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Four Second Amendment petitions were distributed for the Court’s conference on Friday January 10.  I just posted on the merits of these cases.  A dramatic development has just occurred showing the dire need for the Court to clarify its jurisprudence in this area.  The best case to do so is Snope v. Brown, which concerns whether Maryland may ban semiautomatic rifles that are in common use for lawful purposes. Here’s the urgency.  Yet another state, Colorado, is about […]

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Despite 2024 Setbacks, Drug Policy Is Still on a Long-Term Trend Toward Reform

Despite 2024 Setbacks, Drug Policy Is Still on a Long-Term Trend Toward Reform

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In 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022, voters approved a raft of drug policy reforms. They included legalization of recreational marijuana in 11 states, authorization of medical use in eight, decriminalization of low-level drug possession in Oregon, approval of “psilocybin service centers” in the same state, and decriminalization of five naturally occurring psychedelics in Colorado. The 2024 election results were a 
different story. Legalization of recreational marijuana lost in Florida, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Nebraska voters overwhelmingly approved medical marijuana, but a pending legal challenge may prevent implementation of […]

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Congress Might Make Election Law an Early Priority

Congress Might Make Election Law an Early Priority

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Walter Olson According to multiple reports, Republicans “plan to move quickly” to move election legislation early in the new Congress. Supporters of constitutional liberty should watch closely to make sure that such legislation is shorn of the punitive enforcement provisions and unrealistic timelines that riddled last year’s Republican bill on citizenship verification, and that it does not let the federal government draw unto itself too much discretionary regulatory power over local election administration. Reports AP: The main legislation that […]

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Lawsuit Challenges Vermont Climate Program

Lawsuit Challenges Vermont Climate Program

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute sued the state of Vermont in federal court last week over its Climate Superfund Act. The plaintiffs argue that the law violates both the U.S. Constitution and the federal Clean Air Act. If they prevail, other state superfunds, such as New York’s, are likely to face similar challenges. Vermont’s law, which passed through both chambers of the state legislature with overwhelming support, fines domestic energy producers to fund a […]

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