Issues

If you’re accused of a crime in the United States, Article III of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that you will receive a trial by jury. The Sixth Amendment expanded that right to also guarantee “a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury,” in which you are “confronted with the witnesses against you,” can compel ...

The City of Healdsburg, California, has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed less than two months ago by Jessica Pilling, a local mom represented by Pacific Legal Foundation. Jessica sued the City in September over its “inclusionary housing” ordinance, which tacked a $20,000 fee onto her family’s homebuilding project. The City has now ...

In a small corner of New York State, a family’s quiet, peaceful home was shattered by an unthinkable intrusion. Environmental police stormed in, seized a rescued orphan squirrel named P’Nut, took him away, and put him down. All because his owner allegedly didn’t have the right license. That’s right: In New York you need a & ...

No one disputes that environmental preservation is a laudable goal, but laws that seek to further that goal should contemplate the tradeoffs involved. … ...

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 ...

Lately, the Supreme Court has rewritten the textbooks for the study of regulation, known as administrative law. Most scholars ascribe the legal upheaval to politics, period. They say the Court’s conservative majority is shaping the law in line with its “anti-regulatory” beliefs. The Justices’ values are important, to be sure ...

The Supreme Court will have to recognize our property rights as first-class, not second-class, rights that the government does not get to ‘substantially regulate’ unless our plans explicitly interfere with someone else’s rights. … ...

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. … ...

Using your private property as you see fit for the housing option of your choice is one key to a productive society where free individuals can shape their destinies. … ...