Writing in The Federalist this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio brags that he is protecting freedom of speech by ending his department’s misbegotten crusade against “disinformation.” Yet Rubio is simultaneously undermining freedom of speech by targeting anti-Israel activists for deportation because he deems their opinions harmful to U.S. foreign policy interests. More generally, Rubio’s ringing […]
“If it is known that authorities have power to coerce, few people will wait for actual coercion,” economist Friedrich Hayek wrote in the 1956 foreword to his 1944 classic, The Road to Serfdom. Hayek’s insight could be the Rosetta Stone for understanding the Trump administration’s censorship zealotry. On March 25, six masked federal agents seized a […]
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on April 2 instituting tariffs on a wide range of countries. ( Andrew Leyden/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom) Today, the Liberty Justice Center and I filed a motion for a preliminary injunction, temporary restraining order, and summary judgment in our case challenging Donald Trump’s massive “Liberation Day” tariffs. The motion sets out […]
Trump just released over 10,000 previously classified RFK assassination files—and America is buzzing. In this Free-form Friday episode of America’s Untold Stories, Mark Groubert and Eric Hunley break down what’s inside the documents, why the MLK Jr. family opposes further releases, and whether these revelation Read More Article from LewRockwell
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. New on the Short Circuit podcast: The eternal return of a qualified immunity case plus the long shadow of Judge Bork’s VHS rentals. Come for the D.C. Circuit smackdown of a NEPA challenge to […]
Western Europe has been at peace for the past 80 years. Unfort Read More Article from Mises Institute
President Donald Trump last week announced new plans for a $1 trillion defense budget in 2026. Trump bragged about his big plans for spending ever larger amounts of taxpayer funds, stating at a meeting with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu that “We’re going to be approving a budget, and I’m proud to say, actually, the biggest one we’ve ever […]
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate who died this past Sunday, spent the better part of his literary career novelizing the history of Latin America. It’s curious, then, that when he reflected on Latin America’s traumatic past in a 1995 essay for Reason, Llosa diagnosed its root cause as an excess of […]
This afternoon, I filed a motion for the Boeing 737 MAX crashes victims’ families whom I represent in the criminal case against Boeing. As readers of the blog will recall from my earlier posts (e.g., here, here, and here), Boeing previously agreed to plead guilty to the charge of conspiring to defraud the FAA in […]
Libertarians support patients who need access to pain relief Libertarian Party Read More Article from “libertarian” – Google News