It felt groundbreaking when Shohei Ohtani did it with the Los Angeles Dodgers over a year ago. By the time Frank Vatrano did it with the Anaheim Ducks earlier this month, it was a certified California trend. Athletes, like everyone else, don’t like paying taxes. California has a top marginal income tax rate of 13.3 […]
Passed in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil 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 papers, books, […]
By the time Arthur Terminiello arrived at Chicago’s West End Woman’s Club on a Thursday evening in February 1946, a hostile crowd that would swell to 1,000 or so protesters had already gathered outside the auditorium. They were outraged by the event at which Terminiello was scheduled to speak: a Christian Veterans of America meeting […]
From Kohls v. Ellison, which I quoted more extensively in an earlier post: To be sure, Attorney General Ellison maintains that his office had no idea that Professor Hancock’s declaration included fake citations, and counsel for the Attorney General sincerely apologized at oral argument for the unintentional fake citations in the Hancock Declaration. The Court takes […]
From today’s order by Laura Provinzino (D. Minn.) in Kohls v. Ellison (see this Nov. 19 post for more): Minnesota law prohibits, under certain circumstances, the dissemination of “deepfakes” with the intent to injure a political candidate or influence the result of an election. Plaintiffs challenge the statute on First Amendment grounds and seek preliminary […]
Most Supreme Court watchers today were focused on the oral argument in the TikTok case, but that’s not all that was going on at One First Street. Today the Supreme Court granted certiorari in three cases: Becerra v. Braidwood Management, Department of Education v. Career Colleges and Schools of Texas, and Commissioner of Internal Revenue […]
Today Judge Merchan issued a sentence against President-Elect Trump, and presumably created a final appealable judgment. But could he? President Trump has tried to remove this case to federal court under the federal officer removal statute. I wrote about the statute here, and Tillman and I explained why the case could not be removed here. […]
The Supreme Court appeared largely—though not entirely—unmoved by arguments that a federal ban on TikTok would violate the First Amendment rights of the app’s millions of American users. During oral arguments before the Court on Friday, the justices seemed inclined to agree with the federal government that a national security rationale was sufficient to force […]
Politicians respond to pressure. If w 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 papers, books, and multimedia content […]
On Wednesday, President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers urged the U.S. Supreme Court to block his sentencing in New York for falsifying business records to conceal his 2016 hush payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Todd Blanche, whom Trump plans to appoint as his deputy attorney general, and D. John Sauer, Trump’s pick for solicitor general, warned […]