Jeffrey A. Singer In 2019, Colorado lawmakers reduced possession of up to four grams of most controlled substances to a misdemeanor. Distribution or sale of controlled substances remained felonies. The law took effect as the fentanyl wave was making its way across the country, from east to west, and shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic caused a spike in alcohol and illicit drug use and fentanyl-related overdose deaths. The increase in overdose deaths, some of which were featured in local and national news reports, caused […]
Interoperability issues could make the US think twice about intervening in the EU’s support against Russia. “Trump Is Unlikely To Pull All US Troops Out Of Central Europe Or Abandon NATO’s Article 5”, but he’s definitely “Pivoting (back) to Asia” in order to more muscularly contain China, which will have consequences for European security. Although Russia has no intent to attack NATO countries, many of these same countries sincerely fear that it does, which leads to them formulating […]
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Everyone’s talking about the effects of the tariffs, but no one’s stepping back and asking the obvious question: why the hell is the market this fragile to begin with? If free trade actually worked the way it’s pitched, where tariffs only hurt the country imposing them, then that pain should be isolated. One country, even one as massive as the U.S., pulling a lever shouldn’t cause global whiplash. But this one […]
Yesterday, I expressed frustration how the Court narrowly construed, and indeed reimagined, the record in Bondi v. VanDerStock. Worse still, the Court applied Salerno to reject a facial challenge to a regulation. This move amply rehabilitates Chevron. And why did the Court do this? In my jaundiced view, the Justices were looking for a narrow way to reverse the Fifth Circuit. Another day, another reversal of the Fifth Circuit. This time, the Court unanimously reversed the en banc Fifth Circuit in […]
Here’s what to know,” insisted the New York Times Adam Nagourney in a lead editorial the day the JFK files dropped. “Oswald still did it.” If there was such a thing as a Confirmation Bias Olympics, Nagourney would have earned the right to represent the U.S. Reviewing and dismissing 64,000 pages of National Archives material in fewer than 24 hours is no small accomplishment even by the standards of the New York Times. As opinion writer David Wallace-Wells reminded his readers a week later, the Times decides […]
I will grouse a bit more about VanDerStock. If our case was such a loser, it should have been easy enough for the Court to reject all of our arguments, and find the government had the best reading of the statute. That was the upshot of Loper Bright. Instead, for reasons that continue to confound me, Justice Gorsuch of all people decided to extend the Salerno standard to administrative challenges, thus greenlighting for the government a doctrine far more […]
Em artigo publicado na Edição 262 da Revista Oeste, o jornalista Carlo Cauti critica o programa Crédito do Trabalhador, lançado pelo governo de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva nas últimas semanas. Para Cauti, o Executivo maquia como benefício uma medida que transfere risco e ônus ao próprio trabalhador para beneficiar o sistema bancário e a estratégia eleitoral do governo. “Na prática, o governo autorizou os bancos a pegarem como garantia os recursos acumulados pelos trabalhadores para conceder empréstimos aos mesmos […]