The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is off to a decent start in making initial cuts in federal waste and overall cost and—importantly—normalizing the reality that reducing government expenditures is a good thing. But if the DOGE is to live up to its avowed mission of making the bloated federal government even slightly affordable, at […]
3/3/2019: Schenck v. United States decided. The post Today in Supreme Court History: March Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to destination for libertarians seeking cogent analysis, investigative reporting, and thought-provoking commentary. Championing the principles of individual freedom, limited government, and free markets, the site offers a diverse range […]
In a 1999 Hoover Institution interview, economist Milton Friedman was asked which federal agencies he would abolish. As host Peter Robinson rattled off the Cabinet list, Friedman gave a blunt verdict on most: “Abolish.” Departments of Agriculture and Commerce? “Abolish.” Education and Energy? “Abolish.” Housing and Urban Development? Gone. Labor? Gone. Transportation? Gone. Even Veterans […]
“I’ve had my youth, and I know you must take away my middle years, but please leave me my old age. Please leave a small light at the end of the tunnel.” In 2015, with his sentencing hearing looming, Ross Ulbricht begged for a glimmer of hope. Today, at age 40, he is free. On […]
Last week, I started blogging about my new article Expressive Discrimination: Universities’ First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action, just published by the Florida Law Review. In these days of federal attacks on private DEI, maybe some private universities might find this useful as a strategy for fighting back against the Trump Administration! If you want […]
A grand jury in Cullman County, Alabama, has indicted Hanceville Police Chief Jason Marlin on for failure to report ethics violations and tampering with evidence. It also indicted three of the department’s officers on multiple charges including computer ta Read More Article from Reason.com Reason MagazineThe Reason Magazine website is a go-to destination for libertarians […]
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(NA) Much of the litigation surrounding the new Trump administration turns in part on “unitary executive” theory – the idea that the president should have near-total control over the executive branch of government. As I explained in a 2018 post on this topic, unitary executive theory is one of the few issues on which I […]
For nearly four years, there was a never-ending drumbeat about how the Fifth Circuit was an existential threat to the rule of law. Yet, over the past two months or so, it has gotten very quiet. That giant sucking sound you hear, as Ross Perot might have said, is all of the cases flooding north […]
During the American Revolutionary War, France made the strategic decision to assist the fledgling United States. A primary, if not motivating factor, was that France sought to weaken its adversary Great Britain. In effect, the American Revolutionary War became something of a proxy conflict between Great Britain and France. I’m not sure the French monarch […]