The residents of Boston come from a diverse array of cultural, ethnic, social, and religious backgrounds. To help celebrate and commemorate the City's diversity, Boston allows private groups to fly flags on one of the City's flagpoles next to Boston's City Hall building. The City has allowed a wide array of groups to use the ...
Originally published by The Hill, January 8, 2019. If you want to understand the importance of grassroots volunteers in a democracy, spend some time working political campaigns and party activities at the state and local levels. I experienced this lesson firsthand when I got involved with the Utah Republican Party as a law student. But ...
If you care about issues like free speech and private property rights, keep an eye on the case of Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. Last week, PLF, along with TechFreedom, filed a brief before the Supreme Court in the case, supporting the principle that private property remains private ...
Anyone who's ever been involved in state or local political campaigns and party activities understands the vital importance of grassroots volunteer activity. I experienced this lesson firsthand when I got involved with the Utah Republican Party as a law student. But in Utah, that grassroots model, based on a system of caucuses and conventions, is ...
The Constitution forbids states from passing laws in order to entrench local businesses and exclude free and fair competition. But Texas has worked for decades to protect its local liquor empires by excluding competitors from entering into the state. More than 20 years ago, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals declared that Texas's law which ...
The National Mall and Memorial Parks are "the premier national civic space for public gatherings including First Amendment activities, national celebrations … and national mourning." In these venues, "the constitutional rights of speech and peaceful assembly find their fullest expression." Yet the National Park Service, the federal agency that ad ...
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