Reason : SCOTUS Said You Can’t Lose Gun Rights for Smoking Pot. But You Could Still Lose a Government License To Work.
In June, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Hemani that the government can't strip your right to possess a firearm just because you smoke marijuana. Yet an old drug conviction could still stop you from waxing eyebrows, cutting hair, or giving massages. Hemani highlights a double standard in constitutional law: Courts roll out th ...
National Review : A Monumental Tug-of-War
Earlier this month, President Trump shrank two national monuments in Utah by 90 percent each, about 3 million acres in all. This is just the latest pull in the endless tug-of-war between presidents over public lands. The regulatory whiplash that has become the only reliable pattern in federal land management makes an elegant case for why the federa ...
Bloomberg Law : Doctors Can’t Be Made to Check Their Judgment at Exam Room Door
The US Supreme Court's 8-1 decision that doctors and therapists don't have to march in lockstep with a state-crafted consensus isn't just a win for the First Amendment rights of practitioners. It's also a win for the First Amendment rights of their patients. We are all better off when our health care professionals can speak their minds. In Ch ...
National Review : The First Amendment Applies to the Doctor’s Office, Too
The First Amendment protects more than our right to criticize our leaders. It also protects our livelihoods, and sometimes even our very lives. A case scheduled to be heard next week before the Supreme Court may decide whether the government can shut off that lifeline. The Court should side with freedom. Free speech saved Jun Abell's life. At 18 ...
Constitution Day 2025 — Let the experiment continue
To be an American means to be both scientist and subject in the grandest political experiment in human history. The American experiment set out to solve a timeless riddle: how do we empower people to govern us without abandoning our individual rights? The American founders' answer was an experiment that had never been tried before: a written consti ...
The Hill : Freedom will keep the city lights shining
The other side of the pond dropped into a brief but sobering relapse into the dark ages. Spain and Portugal suffered a massive electricity shortage in April, plunging them into darkness. It is no coincidence that this occurred only days after the country announced that so-called renewable energy (solar, wind, hydro) had supplied all the country' ...
Can the government ban medical advice? SCOTUS may decide
The First Amendment right to speak includes the oft-forgotten right to listen. Few know it, but this right to receive information hides in the shadow of a controversial case now before the Supreme Court called Chiles v. Salazar. How the Court resolves Chiles will affect the rights of millions of patients to seek and receive medical advice. In Ch ...
We need to sell more federal land
Senator Mike Lee stepped onto a political land mine when he proposed the federal government sell a tiny pinch of the 640 million acres that it owns, most of it west of the Rockies. Politicos from left and right condemned the proposal as a betrayal of a grand heritage. I too have an issue with Senator Lee's proposal: It doesn't go far enough. Not on ...
American Banker : Federal snooping enabled by the Bank Secrecy Act has gone too far
Money talks, and the government listens. Under the Bank Secrecy Act, federal authorities can turn any bank account into a window on our private spending. But that may soon change. A family business in Texas, represented by Pacific Legal Foundation, has just sued to restore financial privacy. The Bank Secrecy Act authorizes the Treasury Departmen ...