Issues

Nearly 40 years ago, Congress enacted the Food Security Act of 1985, a comprehensive bill about farming. Included in this bill were wetland conservation provisions that govern how farmers must treat wetlands on their property. Despite the name of the bill, these provisions—colloquially known as “Swampbuster”—threaten food security b ...

This article originally appeared in the American Bar Association’s Supreme Court Preview. The Supreme Court’s October Term 2023 likely will be remembered in history books as a turning point for the constitutional separation of powers. Rulings in Loper Bright v. Raimondo, Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, a ...

Lawmakers across the country are proposing reparations to black Americans for slavery and America’s history of racial discrimination. Proposals have included direct cash payments, grants, formal apologies from the government, and government programs with race-based eligibility.  Because certain reparations proposals would inevitably advantag ...

There are a few things everyone should be able to agree on when it comes to the government. First, our government should answer to the People—not the other way around. Second, federal agencies should always have to conform to the laws Congress enacted. And third, there must always be limits on an agency’s power to … ...

When siblings Mary Beth and John Tinker were just 13 and 15 years old, they found themselves at the center of a major Supreme Court case. The Court’s 1969 ruling would later be remembered as a groundbreaking decision that affirmed the First Amendment rights of students, regardless of age. Mary Beth, John, and their four … ...

In the 2023 case Tyler v. Hennepin County, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Pacific Legal Foundation client Geraldine Tyler and declared home equity theft unconstitutional. But what happens to other past victims of home equity theft—should they be compensated? The win in the Tyler case automatically applied retroactively to others who fou ...

The regulatory leviathan has wrapped its tentacles around a faith-based radio and TV network on the West Coast, as the Federal Communications Commission underhandedly pressures Perry Atkinson into adopting race- and sex-conscious hiring practices. Perry embarked on a mission when he sold his house in 1983, bought a 1,000-watt radio station in Medfo ...

Scotty Hunter and his friends developed a passion for craft brews in college. A chemical engineering major at Ohio University, Scotty started engineering his own brews during college and found he was pretty good at it. He even started a campus home brew club to showcase his and others’ creations. That club still thrives on … ...

Good news for property rights, individual liberty, and the sport of falconry: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals says falconers’ lawsuit against a California regulation can proceed. Five years ago, master falconer Peter Stavrianoudakis and several others filed a lawsuit challenging the regulation, which requires falconers to sign an agreement ...