Well beyond unconstitutional
Recently a New York county decided to ban unvaccinated minors from public places in response to a measles outbreak. And it is so beyond unconstitutional it̵...
Category: Supreme Court
Understand Kavanaugh’s response to the allegations
Now that the nomination is through the Senate Judiciary Committee, let’s look back a moment at the allegations themselves and how they were being made. Fo...
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...
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...
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...