As the most momentous Supreme Court term in recent memory comes to a close, are things better or worse for libertarians? Georgetown Law’s Randy Barnett is arguably the most important and influential libertarian legal scholar walking the planet today. Over the years, he’s argued against Obamacare and for medical marijuana in front of the Supreme Court. […]
It’s good to watch your state lose its lead as a school choice innovator not because it’s backsliding, but because other states are making it easier for families to pick education options for their kids. It’s even better when your state reclaims the lead through increased freedom. Last week, my state of Arizona did just […]
In this week’s Reason Roundtable, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and special guest senior editor Damon Root unpack the long-awaited SCOTUS ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade (1973). 1:31: Discussion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization 39:06: “Lightning round” on SCOTUS decisions concerning guns and […]
Yesterday, the Deseret News published my article on last week’s Supreme Court decision in Carson v. Makin, which bars state school choice programs from discriminating against “sectarian” religious schools. This piece is a much-expanded version of some of the points made in my earlier NBC News article about the same case. Thanks to the uproar […]
The First Amendment prohibits the government from “respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” In her dissent yesterday in the school choice case Carson v. Makin, Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused Chief Justice John Roberts of tipping the scales overwhelmingly and unfairly in favor of the Free Exercise Clause. “This Court continues […]
NBC News has just published my article on today’s Supreme Court decision in Carson v. Makin, which bars state school choice programs from discriminating against “sectarian” religious schools. Here is an excerpt: On Tuesday, the Supreme Court struck down a Maine law that excluded most religious private schools from a voucher program that is in […]
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a big win for both school choice and religious liberty advocates in 2020 when it held, in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, that if a state provides educational subsidies that help parents send their children to private schools, the state “cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are […]
Fans of educational freedom in Iowa are doing a victory lap after school choice advocates cleaned up in GOP primaries. The results are a win for those who want families to decide where and how their children learn, and also point to a positive strategy in an otherwise toxic political environment. Amid a storm of […]
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2021–22 term is rapidly coming to a close. By the end of June, the Court is expected to release decisions in a number of high-profile cases that deal with some of the most important and contentious issues in American law and politics. Here are three big cases to watch out for […]