Unlimited power
The power of the Presidential pardon is in the news. Apparently Robert Mueller has tasked one of his advisors to research “every legal precedent and limit...
Category: Supreme Court
Legislating from the bench
Recently I got into an online argument — surprise, I know! — over the Controlled Substances Act and the extent of Congress’s interstate and in...
Misinterpreting the Supreme Court
Nowhere in the Constitution can it be construed that the government is disallowed completely from giving any kind of money to religious organizations or institu...
Supreme Court declares debt buyers immune to FDCPA
In all the years I’ve been writing on debt and debt collections in the United States, I and everyone else who has written on the topic has had the same pr...
Revisiting the Fourth Amendment and passwords
After posting the previous article, I decided to dig around a little more to see where the idea originated that passwords are protected by the Fifth Amendment a...
Chicago Sun-Times gets it horribly wrong
Article: Stop Congress from trashing Illinois’ concealed gun protections Hard-left liberals are vehemently anti-Second Amendment. And since Illinois is largely ...
Advice and consent and…. rape?
I wish I was making this up… Over on Facebook a group called Americans Against the Republican Party posted this image: And this is the comment I left: Wit...
Limiting the exercise of rights, and the risks of freedom
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitu...
Concluding the Supreme Court’s 2014 term
One thing that continually amazes me and pisses me off is how seemingly intelligent people can argue that more freedom is somehow a *bad* thing… And IR...
An exchange established by the state
In the currently-pending case of King v. Burwell before the Supreme Court of the United States, many keep misconstruing the portion of the bill that is up for d...