The Hill : It’s not ‘just’ to erase someone’s home equity
In 2019, Isabella County, Mich., seized Timothy Pung's family home over a disputed tax debt of roughly $2,000. The county sold the house — worth nearly $200,000 — for just $76,000. Months later, the buyer resold it for $195,000. The result was that the Pung family walked away with less than half the market value of their home, due to a small ta ...
Big decisions at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has started releasing the blockbuster opinions everyone's been waiting for. This week brought major decisions on property rights, religious liberty, immigration, and the Second Amendment. Here's what stood out to me. The Pungs live to fight another day The Supreme Court handed down its decision in Pung v. Isabella County, Pacifi ...
The Calm Before the Avalanche
The Calm Before the Avalanche But first… Guys, your new favorite podcast is out! I love a good Supreme Court dissent—so I created a podcast about them. In the first season, we get meta; we talk about America's first great dissent—The Declaration of Independence—through the lens of Supreme Court dissents. We trace the Declaration's pr ...
Let the big cases begin!
Last night I talked with Jesse Weber of NewsNation about the Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which significantly shifted how courts will consider certain claims under the Voting Rights Act. Watch it here. The last oral argument of the term! The Court heard the last oral argument of the term yesterday in M ...
Tariffs, Takings, and Les Mis
Two quick, but important scoops. First, the Court released its opinion in the highly anticipated tariffs case. Second, PLF is back at SCOTUS (baby!). The Tariffs Case: 170 Pages, Six Opinions, One Historic Result Last week the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the tariffs case, and wow. Historic. Nuanced. A 170-page opinion in all, even tho ...
New year, new SCOTUS opinions
The Supreme Court has issued its first handful (or scoop, if you will) of opinions. And it heard oral arguments in one of the most closely watched cases of the term. But first, the bad news. On Monday, the Court rejected six PLF petitions for review: Hierholzer (challenging racial preferences in federal contracting), Lincinio (asking the Court t ...
Why can’t we hold rights violators accountable?
Are you still full from Thanksgiving? Here's a scoop of SCOTUS to go with your leftover mashed potatoes. Why can't we hold rights violators accountable? The Court recently heard arguments in the case of a man whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved—contrary to his religious belief—just before he was released from prison, after prison staff thre ...
Fox News : California restaurants choke on new allergen menu mandate amid compliance concerns and costs
California's restaurants are used to choking down the unpalatable. They've endured prolonged pandemic shutdowns, skyrocketing food costs and the slow exodus of customers fleeing high prices and higher taxes. Now, Sacramento has cooked up another ingredient for entrepreneurial misery: a law that will make California the first state in the nation ...
Guns, drugs, and ghosts of doctrines past
Happy Halloween, SCOTUS lovers. Need a last-minute costume? Don't want to be Taylor "Swift Justice?" Go as "The Dissenter." All black robe, dramatic lace jabot à la RBG, and add fake blood on a scroll for Halloween flair. You are now: "When your dissent was so good, it came back to haunt the majority." Alternatively: Lochner-era Bakery Owner. A ...