No one ever starts a business with the intent to fail. But thanks to Farmville, North Carolina's new food truck regulations, one man's burgeoning business stands in jeopardy. It takes a great deal of courage to leave your established career and follow your bliss, but that is exactly what Mark Shirley did. For years, Mark ...
For the entirety of Elizabeth Riddick's life, her mother Renee has been her rock. Whether she was supporting Elizabeth through her divorce or helping her purchase a home in Malibu, California, Renee has been there for her daughter through thick and thin. When Renee, now 82, began to develop severe health issues, Elizabeth sprang into ...
While Minnesota is often called the land of 10,000 lakes, local governments today treat it as the land of 10,000 takes. Between 2014 and 2020, Minnesota counties took thousands of homes and millions of dollars in savings from residents struggling to pay their tax bills. This was unjust and unconstitutional. Consider the story of Ms. ...
Elections end, but T-shirts can live forever. Until last week, Texas law prohibited voters from wearing an Obama or Reagan T-shirt in polling places, even when neither past president was on a present ballot. In fact, the law prohibited voters from wearing anything that an election worker deemed "electioneering" for or against any candidate, politic ...
The free, non-harmful, and productive use of private property is a cornerstone of the American Dream. And proper regulation, to prevent harmful uses of property, is consistent with this principle. But government agencies too often abuse their regulatory authority. They issue compliance orders, drag landowners through seemingly endless administrativ ...
Have you ever wondered what happens when a lame duck president appoints someone to a position that extends into the next president's term? Typically, once the new president takes office, he can remove appointees of past administrations and replace them with people he believes will advance the policy agenda of the White House. But what ...
The Supreme Court convenes today for the start of its October 2021 term, in person for the first time since March 2020, when the pandemic drove the justices to — literally — phone it in. This year, the court has some blockbuster cases, both on its docket and in the cert petition pipeline. Here are ...
During the tour to promote his new book, The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer voiced his opposition to court packing. In an interview with NPR, Breyer bashed the idea of Congress "packing" the Court with extra seats in an attempt to change the ideological direction of ...
In a recent Wall Street Journal column on structural racism, Bill McGurn argues that "if ever there were a structure systemically keeping African-Americans from getting ahead, it would surely be America's big city public-school systems." He's right. But the problem extends much further—from the very worst public schools to some of the very best. ...
The government really doesn't like losing in court. But instead of accepting and enforcing the court's decision, it often tries to justify ignoring the broader implications of a ruling, by applying it only to the case at hand. Back in March, Pacific Legal Foundation struck a major blow to the Centers for Disease Control and ...
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