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Happy Holidays! My gift to you is this incredibly informative (and perfectly charming) newsletter summing up the past two weeks at the Supreme Court.  TikTok time's up?  The Court announced yesterday that it will hear arguments in TikTok's challenge to a law requiring its China-based parent company to either sell the social media platform or st ...

We (and the Court) are back! Hope everyone had a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. This year I'm grateful that unlike Dayton, OH, my city hasn't criminalized charity… yet. This week the Court heard a highly anticipated case involving a law that bans surgeries, puberty blockers, and other gender affirming care for minors. But before we get to the ...

Thanksgiving is a time when many feel compelled to help those less fortunate. As temperatures drop and families gather for bountiful meals, the contrast with people lacking housing, blankets, warm clothing, and food becomes stark. Yet, in some localities, sharing food or clothing with the homeless without government permission is a punishable offen ...

There's a reason James Carville once quipped, "It's the economy, stupid." The economy is a perpetual concern for people, because it affects their ability to put food on the table and pursue their calling. The economy was also front-and-center in the 2024 presidential election. Both candidates promised to grow the economy and help the economically d ...

Kamala Harris wants an "opportunity economy for black men." Invoking her experience attending civil rights marches as a child, she recently promised to "remove historic barriers" that have prevented "wealth creation, education, employment, earnings, and health." Economic opportunity is an important and underappreciated aspect of the civil rights mo ...

For Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, American lawmaking is more dysfunctional than ever. In their new book Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law, Gorsuch and his coauthor Janie Nitze recount story after story of ordinary Americans who have found themselves ensnared in regulatory nightmares, from a 62-year-old man hauled off to jail for unwi ...

Note: The following is a preview of SCOTUS Scoop, a new biweekly email newsletter from Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Anastasia Boden. During the Supreme Court term, Anastasia will be helping subscribers understand what's happening at the Court, what certain cases mean for liberty, and what exactly the justices are saying.  gravityform id="6 ...

Summer vacation is over for the Supreme Court. On October 7, the Justices will start hearing cases again in a term that is shaping up to be decidedly less exciting than the previous few. Whereas the Court has recently tackled hot-button issues ranging from racial preferences to abortion, the current docket mostly has to do with statutory interpreta ...

On September 17 — 235 years to the day since the Constitution was signed — we celebrate Constitution Day. Or at least some of us will. The precursor to Constitution Day, called, "I am an American Day," used to draw crowds who enthusiastically celebrated with speeches and songs. Nowadays, the holiday largely goes unnoticed. Others use it as an e ...