Reason : Are Warrantless Phone Searches at the Border Constitutional? The Supreme Court May Soon Decide.
George Anibowei, a U.S. citizen, is a Texas-based immigration attorney with many clients battling the Department of Homeland Security. Border agents have searched his phone at least five times without a warrant as he returned to the United States. In the first search, agents copied the phone's entire contents, including his confidential communic ...
Washington Examiner : Let Congress, not presidents, decide the future of public lands
President Donald Trump's decision to shrink Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has reignited a familiar fight over public lands. But it also raises a more fundamental question: if it is troubling for one president to shrink a national monument unilaterally, why was it not just as troubling for a previous president to create one span ...
The Docket : November 6, 2026
The Docket is PLF's weekly newsletter covering the cases, clients, and policy battles shaping the future of liberty in America. You can catch up on last week's Docket here and subscribe below to receive future editions in your inbox. An Arizona agency's cage-free egg mandate is ruled invalid and unenforceable; a new episode of Ame ...
Eco-friendly entrepreneur fights to sell biodegradable boat wrap in Minnesota
Every spring in Jamestown, Rhode Island, boat owners tear off the plastic coverings that sheltered their vessels through the winter and toss them into dumpsters. Within weeks, the boats are back on the water. The plastic heads to a landfill, where it will sit for centuries. Simon Milne, an entrepreneur and sailor himself, watched the waste pile ...
National Review : Congress Seeks a Shot Clock on the Permitting Fast Lane
Congress is on the verge of fixing one of the strangest defects in federal permitting: an environmental review designed to be fast that has no time limitation. Introduced on September 30, the Senate's new Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA) would, among many other permitting changes, impose a one-year deadline on federal permi ...
Real Clear Energy : Permitting Reform Could Be a Victory for the Environment
America has the seventh-largest known unmined copper reserves in the world. Those reserves alone could meet current U.S. demand for more than two decades, supplying the copper needed for electricity, buildings, and other critical infrastructure. Yet we still import 57% of the copper we use—much of it from Chile. American environmentalism often ...
Free to Flourish : Fall Recap
Free to Flourish is PLF's Environment and Natural Resources quarterly newsletter. If you agree that a better world is possible through liberty—that a thriving environment and free individuals are not in conflict—subscribe below to follow along. Welcome back to another edition of Free to Flourish. The past few months have bee ...
American Heroes : A farmer’s fight to care for his own land
How do you keep a family farm alive when the government won't let you manage the water that's ruining your soil? For North Dakota farmer Cody Peterson, that question hits hard every time he drives past farmland left barren by salt buildup. "I can't even take care of my ground," he says. Cody's family has farmed in LaMoure County for th ...
Scalia’s least favorite monster
First Scoop: In honor of Halloween, our favorite spooky Supreme Court quote Like some ghoul in a late-night horror movie that repeatedly sits up in its grave and shuffles abroad, after being repeatedly killed and buried, Lemon stalks our Establishment Clause jurisprudence once again, frightening the little children and school attorneys of ...