“The $16 trillion in secret bailout loans made by the Fed that the GAO had located in 2011 was only the tip of the iceberg. When the Levy Economics Institute added in other Fed bailout programs that the GAO had not included, the actual tally came to $29 trillion. “While the Fed was secretly conducting […]
The Supreme Court does not hear many cases these days. It is very stingy in granting certiorari, even in cases that present clear circuit splits. This morning’s Order List provides a good example, as the Court denied certiorari in Speech First v. Whitten, which presented the question whether university “bias-response teams” objectively chill students’ speech […]
Vice President J.D. Vance appears to have masterminded a whole blowup between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump: Zelenskyy had been invited to the Oval Office for a press conference related to the signing of a rare earth minerals deal between Ukraine and the United States, through which America could maybe begin to […]
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Back in 2023, I blogged about S.B.B. v. L.B.B., a New Jersey intermediate appellate court case: [T]he plaintiff husband and defendant wife were getting divorced, and the wife claimed that the husband wasn’t giving her a Jewish religious divorce. (The husband “denied withholding the get, claimed he had given the get to the Chief Rabbi […]
An excerpt from Friday’s order by Judge Kathleen Williams (S.D. Fla.) in U.S. v. Martinez: On February 29, 2024, Martinez was indicted on the sole count of transmitting a threat in interstate commerce … after uploading to his private Instagram account a thirty-eight-second recording of him inside his vehicle, pointing a sight-equipped firearm in the […]
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 […]
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 […]
In an editorial this week, the conservative Wall Street Journal chided Jeff Bezos, the owner of the liberal Washington Post, for Bezos’s announcement that henceforth the Post would be standing for “personal liberties and free markets.” The Journal pointed out that Bezos’s phraseology is remarkably similar to that employed by the Journal, which is “free […]