All Guns Should Be “Undetectable” to the Government
The Second Amendment’s text isn’t hard to read, and it takes all sorts of legal somersaults to get around the “shall not be infringed” part. So, it is confusing and ...
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The Limited Scope of the Full Faith and Credit Clause
Article IV, Section 1 of the Constitution requires every state to give “full faith and credit” to public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other state. This rather obscure ...
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What Brett Kavanaugh’s Previous Hearings Tell Us About His Judicial Philosophy
Hours after President Donald Trump announced his nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said: “The American people deserve to know what ...
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Reforming Independent Counsels
Over the years, I have been exploring different ways that the institution of an independent (or special) counsel can be reformed. See, e.g. here and here. On the one hand, ...
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The Propriety of Presidential Impeachments, Past and Present
Yesterday, as part of my series of posts about taking seriously the constitutional power of impeachment, I reviewed briefly what I have said in the past about impeachment of federal ...
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Impeaching Judges: Some Preliminary and Prior Thoughts
I am in the midst of a series of posts about the constitutional power of impeachment. I began outlining my overall thesis: that the power of impeachment is, as a ...
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Don’t Blame the Constitution for Your Loss of Liberty
Some people want to blame the intrusive, overreaching federal government we have today on the Constitution. Many cite a quote fro 19th-century anarchist Lysander Spooner drive home their point: “But ...
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The Best and Worst States for Sound Money
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (July 12, 2018) – Utah, Texas, and Wyoming round out the top three most sound money-friendly states in the U.S., according to the 2018 Sound Money Index, released ...
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