Law & Government
Hoover Webinar with Orin Kerr on His “The Digital Fourth Amendment”
Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA School of Law.…
SCOTUS probably won’t put any new limits on warrantless home searches
The Fourth Amendment protects "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." When it comes to a person's home, that generally…
SCOTUS keeps issuing emergency orders in Trump’s favor
The New York Times published a big story over the past weekend featuring anonymous quotes from multiple federal judges who are worried about how the U.S. Supreme Court is seemingly going out of its way to grant emergency…
Knox County’s Glenn Jacobs defends Donald Trump
Glenn Jacobs, better known to wrestling fans as "Kane," has spent the past seven years as the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee. While many politicians tend to become free spenders the longer they are in office,…
Trump indicts Letitia James in a case similar to her suit against him
This week, federal prosecutors brought charges against another one of President Donald Trump's political enemies. After interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan secured a grand jury…
Amy Coney Barrett is right to reject ‘common good constitutionalism’
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has been out on tour lately promoting her interesting yet flawed new book, Listening to the Law. During a recent interview with National Review's Dan McLaughlin, Barrett made a…
Industry-controlled licensing boards are legalized cartels
Occupational licensing laws—those mandates that workers in hundreds of professions obtain a license before earning a living—lock people out of jobs while failing to make services any better. The problem isn't just the…
Chief Justice Burger Set the Stage for the Originalist Revolution
My co-blogger Josh Blackman has an interesting post, observing that the current Roberts Court has largely left Warren Court precedents in place, while often undoing Burger Court precedents. Blackman's argument is…
Ohio accidentally excludes most major porn platforms from anti-porn law
Remember when people used to say "Epic FAIL"? I'm sorry, but there's no other way to describe Ohio's new age verification law, which took effect on September 30. A variation on a mandate that's…
Could this be the best government shutdown ever?
Here we go again. As I write, politicians are trying to gin up a new panic over a looming "government shutdown." We've seen this before as Democrats and Republicans play chicken over their clashing funding…
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