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...
Category: Supreme Court
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...
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...
The argument from history doesn’t jive with history
It seems when arguing about our legal system, two things will hold true: a person arguing against capital punishment will bring up the cost associated with it, ...
Amending the constitution, revisited again
Whenever someone calls for amending the Constitution of the United States, we need to look upon their desires with a very, very high level of scrutiny. I’...