Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s newsletter covers: The official launch of Congress’ new YIMBY Caucus. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). A new report on Los Angeles’ slow-as-molasses disbursement of homelessness dollars. But first! We take a look at the […]
The Hanover Police Department brought charges against two Dartmouth College juniors and the Alpha Phi Sorority (APhi) for alcohol-related misdemeanors following the drowning death of Won Jang, a 20-year-old biomedical engineering major, this July. Jang’s death is tragic, but selectively enforcing underage drinking laws against his classmates is inappropriate. Officers of the Hanover Police Department […]
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Okay, so we’re doing this. President-elect Donald Trump says in no uncertain terms that he’ll seek to raise taxes on imports immediately after taking the oath of office. “On January 20, as one of my many first executive orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% tariff on ALL products […]
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An excerpt from FIRE’s memorandum filed last night: Both as applied to Plaintiffs and on its face as to everyone who disseminates lawfully obtained information about sealed arrests, the anti-dissemination statute violates the First Amendment as a presumptively unconstitutional content-based speech restriction that cannot withstand strict scrutiny. Reed v. Town of Gilbert (2015); see also […]
As my last post explained, my new book, Constitutional Symmetry: Judging in a Divided Republic, argues that judges should favor, when possible, constitutional understandings that offer valuable protections on opposite sides of key current divides, instead of just one side. Our current divided and acrimonious politics have produced a perilous tendency to politicize constitutional law […]
That’s a famous line in Federalist No. 51, generally attributed to James Madison—but not quite. The line is actually, in context, But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist […]
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11/26/1829: Justice Bushrod Washington dies. He was President George Washington’s nephew. Justice Bushrod Washington The post Today in Supreme Court History: November 26, 1829 appeared first on Reason.com. Read More Article from Reason.com