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This Thanksgiving, Nourish Our Neighbors would be grateful if Dayton would relinquish its monopoly on kindness and allow its residents to safely and responsibly share food with those in need. … ...

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 ...

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 underappre ...

Gorsuch rightly argues that judges shouldn’t replace policy decisions with their own preferences. But deciding whether something violates a person’s constitutional right is not a policy dispute. … ...

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.    Tomorro ...

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 … ...

Our biggest problems aren’t with the Constitution. They come when government strays from the document’s meaning. … ...

President Joe Biden’s new op-ed in The Washington Post makes the bold argument that, following a constitutional amendment to reverse a recent Supreme Court decision, Congress should pass both Supreme Court term limits and an ethics code to “restore the public’s faith in the judicial system.” According to Biden, the Court ...

In recent years, the page on Pacific Legal Foundation’s website that has drawn the most visitors isn’t about any of our Supreme Court cases or a hotly debated news story. It’s a six-year-old blog post by a former PLF attorney titled “The Declaration of Independence (made easy).” The premise is simple and fantastic: tra ...