The Dispatch : The American Bar Association’s Discriminatory Diversity Push Is Ending—For Now
For more than seven decades, the American Bar Association has been recognized as an authority to accredit law schools. The Department of Education recently recommended revoking that authority, and an independent advisory board will be meeting to discuss the recommendation on September 23. The department's report mostly emphasizes other legal concer ...
Washington Examiner : Women’s birth freedom shouldn’t require a judge’s order
For one Nebraska mother, birth freedom came just in time. After a court granted a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit brought by Pacific Legal Foundation, Nebraska mother Hope Lindstrom was able to give birth at home with the assistance of a certified nurse-midwife on April 26 — the first CNM-assisted home birth in Nebraska history. Th ...
The Center Square : Looking to increase your state’s employment? Reduce regulation
When governors want more jobs, they usually reach for tax credits, development grants, or subsidies for a favored factory. Yet every state already controls a broader and more durable economic-policy lever: its own administrative code. Our new research suggests that cutting state regulatory restrictions by 25 percent is associated with 4.4 percen ...
A Supreme Court preview : PLF cases at the long conference
The Supreme Court formally begins its new fall term with oral arguments on October 5. It will hold its "long conference" the week prior to consider the petitions submitted during its summer recess. This year, the Justices will consider three PLF petitions challenging warrantless surveillance and compelled speech. A lobsterman's fight for his Fourt ...
American Heroes : Lindsay Hoopes fights to save her family’s Napa winery
Lindsay Hoopes never planned to run her family's Napa winery. But when her father became seriously ill, she came home to carry on what he had built. Now she's fighting to save it. In this episode of American Heroes, Lindsay sits down with Kathy Hoekstra to tell the story herself: How a dispute with Napa County over wine tastings and other win ...
239 years later, the Constitution still depends on the people
On September 17, 1787, delegates in Philadelphia signed the finalized U.S. Constitution. Two hundred thirty-nine years later, Constitution Day seems to hit a little harder than it has before. Perhaps it's because we just celebrated America's 250th birthday two months ago. Or maybe it's because we lost constitutional scholar Gordon S. Wood a few wee ...
USA Today : Medicare now covers CBD, but Congress wants to ban it
A new Medicare pilot program covers hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) products to treat certain patients, even as Congress is moving forward with a law that will effectively wipe those same products off the market. The resulting policy quagmire threatens patient access, undermines the work of entrepreneurs and highlights a deeper truth: Hemp alread ...
The Hill : More discrimination among expectant moms is a bad prescription
Weeks before her due date, first-time mother Erica Jimenez sought help with her pregnancy. Yet Jimenez was excluded from California's Black Infant Health Program because she was not the right race. When Jimenez attempted to access the program, a representative told her that the program was not for her and offered to show her other resources. Exc ...
The making of John Locke—and the ideas that made America
America's 250th birthday has provided plenty of reasons to revisit the men and ideas behind the country's Founding. But another birthday passed at the end of August with considerably less fanfare, despite belonging to a man without whom the American experiment might have looked very different. On August 29, 1632, English philosopher John Locke w ...