The U.S. is facing a housing affordability crisis, and new data from Realtor.com highlight an often missed contributing factor: millions of empty bedrooms. Census data reveal 31.8 million “excess” bedrooms in American homes—compared to just 4 million in 1970. Overregulation, particularly in zoning and local occupancy laws, is among the culprits. Realtor.com tries to put […]
Wildfires in Greater Los Angeles have claimed at least 25 lives and over 12,000 structures. To help the city rebuild faster, California Gov. Gavin Newsom waived burdensome California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) reviews and Coastal Act requirements for properties damaged and destroyed by the fires. Newsom also declared a state of emergency that triggered various […]
The Biden administration has come to an end not with a bang, nor a whimper—but with a frenzied rush of new regulations, lawsuits, and executive orders. Some are likely to be quickly reversed when the Trump presidency begins next week. Many others will not. The latest in that string of last-second executive actions was a […]
Today, the Court affirmed the D.C. Circuit in TikTok v. Garland. In a fairly short period, the Justices mustered a twenty page per curiam decision. Justice Sotomayor wrote a brief concurrence, in which she disagreed with the Court on burdened protected speech. Justice Gorsuch concurred in judgment, disagreeing with the Court on whether the law […]
When Brittany Watts began bleeding at 21 weeks pregnant, she went to her local hospital seeking help. Instead, she was repeatedly denied treatment. When she miscarried at home, hospital staff accused Watts of deliberately harming her fetus, and Watts was eventually arrested and charged with a felony. While a grand jury later declined to indict […]
Ross Ulbricht was arrested at 29. Now, he’s 40. He faces a double life sentence plus 40 years with no possibility of parole for creating the Silk Road, a dark web drug marketplace that facilitated $1.2 billion in bitcoin-denominated transactions. “I’ll spend the next few decades in this cage. Then, sometime later this century, I’ll […]
California Democrats are incensed at Congressional Republicans’ musings that they might condition federal aid to Los Angeles fire victims on the state making policy changes relating to forest management and water infrastructure. Yet many of California’s own policies, both those on the books pre-disaster and those adopted after the fire, are already at work limiting […]
I am happy to publish this guest post from my frequent co-author Seth Barrett Tillman, which is cross-posted at Seth’s blog. *** If you ask me about whether or not the President has an implied constitutionally-granted power to remove high-level Executive Branch officers subject to his (the President’s) appointment power, my answer is basically that I do not have […]
Let freedom ryng: On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the marketing of 20 Zyn nicotine pouch products, allowing them to be legally sold by tobacco retailers nationwide (barring any additional state and local restrictions). Fellow Zyn users might find the news that the sale of their daily fix is now officially legal […]
From Tuesday’s decision by Chief Judge Richard Myers in Glover v. RDU Airport Authority (E.D.N.C.): Plaintiffs allege that Plaintiff Glover, a rideshare driver who regularly serviced the Raleigh-Durham International Airport (“Airport”), sought assistance from Defendant concerning a male rideshare driver “who had been stalking, harassing, and intimidating her.” One of Defendant’s officers told Plaintiff Glover […]