Beginning in late February, President Donald Trump has issued a series of executive orders aimed at punishing major law firms for representing clients and advocating causes he does not like. The penalties include revoking lawyers’ security clearances, restricting their access to federal buildings and officials, canceling federal contracts with the targeted firms, and scrutinizing other […]
(NA) A bipartisan group of prominent legal scholars and former government officials have filed an amicus brief supporting the lawsuit against Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, recently filed by the Liberty Justice Center and myself, on behalf of five US businesses severely harmed by the policy. The brief unites big-name constitutional law scholars across the […]
President Donald Trump and his administration continued to assault the concept of due process this week, with Trump claiming that undocumented immigrants shouldn’t be entitled to appearances before judges prior to deportation. “I hope we get cooperation from the courts, because we have thousands of people that are ready to go out and you can’t […]
“Climate change will make earth a living hell!” claims popular astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson. I don’t believe him. The media say, “All Arctic ice will soon melt away! Polar bears are dying off! Global warming causes food shortages!” Bunk, bunk, bunk. They are addicted to scaring us. My new video covers four more myths about […]
Regular readers will remember my blogging (Parts 1 and 2) about the cert petition I filed in Georgia Ass’n of Club Executives v. Georgia, where we raised a First Amendment challenge to a state tax on adult entertainment establishments, and about the amicus brief supporting the cert petition filed by the Foundation for Individual Rights […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) won its second major antitrust case against Google on Thursday. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia will now consider remedies for Google’s conduct, including divestiture from Google Ad Manager. Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, who issued the opinion for the District Court in U.S. v. Google, found […]
President Donald Trump’s trade war is causing economic problems for American manufacturers, farmers, energy producers, big box stores, small businesses, investors, and consumers. But there is one industry that’s prospering due to tariffs: Lobbying firms in Washington, D.C. Lobbying expenditures on trade issues were a staggering 277 percent higher in the first quarter of 2025 than […]
On April 21, the Department of Education announced that it would resume collections on defaulted federal student loans, making a clear break from student loan policy under President Joe Biden, who consistently worked to forgive or pause federal student loan payments even as he faced legal defeat. “American taxpayers will no longer be forced to […]
In an ideal world, teenagers would not be engaging in risky sexual activity and would not be catching sexually transmitted infections (STIs). But we do not live in an ideal world. And young people are often dumb. The best we can hope for is that when some young people make bad decisions, these will not […]
Jeffrey Singer, a Cato Institute fellow and longtime surgeon, argues that government overreach in health care undermines patient autonomy, which should be the guiding principle in medical decision making. Drawing from historical examples and personal experience, he critiques licensing laws, the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) drug approval monopoly, and Certificate of Need (CON) regulations […]