March supporting the Equal Rights Amendment. (Zelle/Getty) Today President Biden declared that the Equal Rights Amendment, which states that “Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex,” has been duly ratified and is now part of the Constitution. Like Biden, […]
Ticktock for TikTok. Time is running out before a federal law goes into effect banning TikTok, the video-sharing social media app owned by Chinese company ByteDance, from operating within the United States. On Friday, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the law, though some lawmakers are trying to extend the deadline, and President Joe Biden has […]
ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of the popular social media app TikTok, was dealt a defeat by the Supreme Court on Friday. The justices ruled 9–0 that a forced sale of TikTok can proceed. If ByteDance does not agree to sell the app to an American buyer by Sunday, TikTok will be banned on U.S. […]
Author Glenn Ellmers has written a book that asks how Americans Read More Article from Mises Institute Mises InstituteThe Mises Institute’s website is a treasure trove for enthusiasts of Austrian economics, libertarian philosophy, and classical liberalism. Serving as both an educational platform and a research resource, the site offers a vast array of articles, academic […]
Donald Trump has made it clear that he likes the idea of Greenland seceding from Denmark. “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. Of course, the road to a US […]
Three days from the end of his term, President Biden just announced that he has “long believed” the Equal Rights Amendment to be valid law: I have supported the Equal Rights Amendment for more than 50 years, and I have long been clear that no one should be discriminated against based on their sex. We, […]
President Joe Biden today broke his own record for the most commutations issued in a single day, shortening the sentences of nearly 2,500 people who are serving time in federal prisons for nonviolent drug offenses. That brings his total commutations to more than 4,000, which far exceeds the previous record set by Barack Obama, who […]
The majority stated only that its decision was “based on the public record, without reference to the classified evidence the Government filed below,” but Justice Gorsuch’s concurrence in the judgment added: I am pleased that the Court declines to consider the classified evidence the government has submitted to us but shielded from petitioners and th […]
From Justice Gorsuch’s opinion concurring in the judgment (and thus agreeing with the majority’s result without signing on to its reasoning) in TikTok, Inc. v. Garland: We have had a fortnight to resolve, finally and on the merits, a major First Amendment dispute affecting more than 170 million Americans. Briefing finished on January 3, argument […]
Here’s a quick summary of the unsigned majority opinion (called a “per curiam”), joined by all the Justices except Justice Gorsuch (who concurred in the result, but with a different analysis) and (in part) Justice Sotomayor: [1.] The Court expresses some doubt about whether the law triggers First Amendment scrutiny at all. The Court views […]
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